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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of Today's Hindu News Paper dated 16th November 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Azzurri, fading: on the crisis in Italian football"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The last resort: on Thomas Chandy's resignation"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Azzurri, fading: on the crisis in Italian football"
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Overhaul - to completely change a system in order to make it work more effectively
- Play-off - an extra game that is played to decide the winner after a game or series of games ends with an equal score
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Quadrennial - happening every four years
- Extravaganza - a large and impressive celebration or event
- Legendary - very famous or well known for a long time
- Coveted - strongly desired by many
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Outwit - to gain an advantage over someone, especially by using a clever or dishonest trick
- Reigning - being the most recent winner of a competition
- Astounding - extremely surprising or shocking
- Stagnant - not growing or developing
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Dearth - a situation in which there is not enough of something
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Unblemished - without any faults or mistakes to spoil your reputation, record, or character
- Adept - skilful at doing something
- Turbulence - a confusing or uncontrolled situation
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The last resort: on Thomas Chandy's resignation"
- Last resort - used for saying that you will do something only after trying everything else to solve a problem
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Stricture - a criticism
- Inexplicable - impossible to explain
- Dither - to be unable to make a decision about something
- Embarrassing - making you feel nervous, ashamed, or stupid
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Encroachment - the act of gradually taking away someone else's rights, or taking control of someone's time, work, etc
- Propriety - behaviour that follows accepted social or moral standards
- Virtually - used for emphasizing that a statement is almost completely true
- Reprimand - to tell someone officially and in a serious way that something they have done is wrong
- Tiding over - to help someone to work or operate normally through a difficult period
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Nose-in-the-air - with an attitude that shows that you think you are better than other people
- Head-in-the-sand - to ignore a problem or an unpleasant situation and hope that it will disappear
- Under a cloud - with your reputation damaged because you may have done something wrong
- Paddy land - a field of rice growing in water
- Rivulet - a small stream of liquid
- Shocker - something shocking
- Allied - if something is allied to or with something else, it is connected with it or working together with it
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Portfolio - a particular job or area of responsibility of a member of a government
- Pave the way - to create a situation that makes it possible or easier for something to happen
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Amid - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Deft - skilful, clever, or quick
- Manoeuvre - a movement or set of movements needing skill and care
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