English Vocabulary from
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Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Timely recognition: on the Moody's upgrade"
- Upgrade - to improve the quality of a service or product
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Sovereign - an old unit of money in the form of a gold coin worth one pound
- Notch - an imaginary point or position in a system of comparing values, where a higher position is better and a lower position is worse
- Enormous - very large in size or quantity
- Logjam - a situation in which one problem is stopping anything else from being done
- Mounting - increasing, especially in a way that makes a situation worse
- Insolvency - the state of not having enough money to pay debts, buy goods, etc
- Bankruptcy - a situation in which a person or business officially admits that they have no money and cannot pay what they owe
- Enhancing - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced
- Stimulating - encouraging or arousing interest or enthusiasm
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Conjunction - a combination of two or more things
- Indices - plural of inex
- Intraday - during a particular day
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Constraint - something that limits your freedom to do what you want
- Peer - someone who belongs to the same social or professional group as another
- Mainstream - to make ideas, methods, or people become accepted by most people
- Macro-economic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Slippage - a situation in which something is delayed or not achieved when it should be
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Waiver - an official statement or document that says a right, claim, or law can be officially ignored or given up
- Teething issues - minor issues that a new company, project, product etc may have in the beginning
- Alluring - attractive in an exciting way
- Populism - politics that represents the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Notwithstanding - despite something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "An absurd canvas: on Padmavati"
- Absurd - completely stupid, unreasonable
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Vigilante - someone who tries to catch and punish criminals by themselves, without waiting for the police
- Coalition - a temporary union of different groups who agree to work together to achieve a shared aim
- Period - a particular amount of time in history
- Self-styled - used for saying what type of person someone claims to be
- Notion - an opinion or belief, especially one that is wrong or silly
- Distortion - a change that makes something no longer true or accurate
- Disrupt - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Buckle down - to start working hard and seriously
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Harping on something - to keep talking or complaining about something in a way that makes people bored or annoyed
- Fiction - a report, story, or explanation that is not true
- Tacitly - in a way that is understood or implied without being directly stated
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
- Delineate - to describe something very exactly
- Intemperate - unreasonable and showing a lack of control
- Vandalise - to deliberately damage or destroy things, especially public property
- Well-being - the satisfactory state that someone or something should be in
- Counselling - advice that you give someone
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Lush - expensive
- Distort - to change something such as information so that it is no longer true or accurate
- Accuracy - the ability to do something in an accurate way
- Infringement - the action of breaking the terms of a law, agreement, etc
- Longstanding - having existed for a long time
- Invader - an army or country that uses force to enter and take control of another country
- Patriarchal - a patriarchal society, system, organization etc is one in which men have all or most of the power and influence
- Dutifully - carefully
- Circumscribe - to limit something such as power, rights, or opportunities
- Fuel - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Regressive - relating to behaviour that is not responsible or controlled
- Intolerant - not willing to accept behaviour, beliefs, or opinions that are different from your own
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