English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Of faith and fever: On T.N.’s dengue epidemic"
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
- Unproven - not proved to be useful, safe, or capable of doing something
- Remedy - a cure for pain or a minor illness
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Concoction - something that is made or produced by putting several things or features together
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Taker - someone who accepts or wants something that is offered
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Ingredient - one of the substances that are combined to make something
- Potency - the strength of a medicine, drug, or chemical
- Inhibit - to make it difficult for a process to start or continue in a normal way
- Symptom - a sign that someone has an illness
- Respiratory - relating to the process of breathing air in and out
- Tract - a group of organs and tubes that work together in your body
- Innumerable - too many to be counted
- Placebo - a substance that is not medicine but that a patient who is taking it believes is medicine, and so they get better
- Massive - very large in amount or degree
- Scant - very little, or not enough
- Evidentiary - providing or relating to evidence
- Allopath - a name for traditional and ordinary medicine
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- In the face of something - in a situation where you have to deal with something unpleasant or difficult
- Misconstrue - to understand something wrongly
- Supplement - to add something extra in order to improve something
- Haemorrhagic - relating to a large flow of blood from a damaged blood vessel
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Replicability - the quality of being able to be exactly copied or reproduced
- Laypeople - people who are not trained in or does not have a detailed knowledge of a particular subject
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "New kid on the bloc: On Austria polls"
- Pull off - to succeed in doing something that is difficult
- Audacious - done with extreme confidence, despite difficulties, risks, or the negative attitudes of other people
- Chancellor - the leader of the government in some countries, for example Germany and Austria
- Take the reins - take the control
- Whiz kid - a young person who is very intelligent or very successful
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Reaffirm - to formally and officially state something again
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Spill-over - to spread to other areas
- Cohort - a friend or supporter
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Alarming - frightening or worrying
- Populism - politics that represents the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Foothold - a position from which you can improve your status or become more successful in an organization, profession, or market
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Capitalise - to sell something you own for money that you need
- Influx - a large number of people or things coming to a particular place
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Forefront - a leading or important position
- Prohibition - a law or rule that stops people from doing something
- Strain - pressure caused by a difficult situation
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Fanning - to blow air at a fire to make it burn more strongly
- Exclusionist - a person favouring the exclusion of someone or something from a place, group
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