English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Win without the shine: on BJP's win in Gujarat and Himachal"
- Bragging rights - a feeling of being happy and proud that supporters of a team have when their team has won a victory over another team
- Plenty - a large amount of something, or a large number of things or people, usually more than enough
- Principal - main
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- On the face of it - used for saying that something appears to be true but might not be true when you have examined it in more detail
- Slim - narrow
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Centrepiece - the most important object or decoration in a particular place
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Launch pad - a special area from which spacecraft or missiles are sent into the sky
- Ambition - something that you very much want to do, usually something that is difficult to achieve
- Held out (hold out) - to continue to defend yourself against an enemy or attack without being defeated
- Desperately - very much
- Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Fortunes - luck, especially good luck
- Admittedly - used when you are agreeing that something is true, especially unwillingly
- Swathe - a large number of people, or a large amount of something
- Palpable - if a mood or feeling is palpable, it is so strong that you seem to feel it physically yourself
- Agrarian - relating to or involving farming or farmers
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Commensurate - intended to be suitable for the quality, status, or value of someone or something
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Dividend - a share of the profits
- Stronghold - a place where the majority of people have the same political or religious beliefs
- Vigilante - someone who tries to catch and punish criminals by themselves, without waiting for the police
- Probably - used for saying that you think something is likely
- Cohesive - combining well to form a strong well-organized unit
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Ignominy - a situation where you feel embarrassed and lose other people’s respect
- Alternated between - if someone or something alternates between two things, they keep changing between them
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Vigour - mental energy, enthusiasm, and determination
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Flawed - spoiled by something such as a fault or mark, or lacking something
- Roll-out - to introduce a new product or service
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Dented - to have a bad effect on something
- Trader - someone who buys and sells things
- Middle class - a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are neither very rich nor very poor
- Heart-stopper - something so frightening
- Reality check - if you tell someone that they need a reality check, you want them to consider the true situation instead of the way they want it to be
- Remote - far away from other cities, towns
- Decisive - able to make choices or decide what to do quickly and confidently
- Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Emblematic - generally accepted as being a symbol of a quality, idea, or principle
- Uphold - to show that you support something such as an idea by what you say or do
- Abominable - extremely bad, offensive, or unpleasant
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Significant - very important
- Cynical about - someone who is cynical expects things not to be successful or useful
- Incur - to experience something unpleasant as a result of something that you have done
- Wrath - very great anger
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Render - to officially announce a judgment or decision
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Departure from - something new and different
- Tardy - slow to do something
- Perfunctory - done without much effort or interest
- Deposition - a formal written statement by a witness that is read out in a court because the witness cannot be present at the court
- Eyewitness - someone who has seen something happen, especially a crime or an accident
- Survivor - someone or something that still exists after an event that could have killed or destroyed them
- Murderous - likely to kill someone, or intending to kill someone
- Intimate - relating to very private or personal things
- Antipathy - a strong feeling of not liking someone or something
- Slain - murdered
- Testify - to make a statement about something that you saw, know, or experienced, usually in a court of law
- Fortitude - a brave and determined attitude
- Bestow - to give something as an honour or present
- Outcry - an angry expression of protest or shock by a lot of people
- Condign - appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved
- Discomfiting - to make someone feel embarrassed
- Convict - to prove in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Ruthless - willing to make other people suffer so that you can achieve your aims
- Unwavering - strong and steady despite opposition or other problems
- Reflexive - a reflexive movement or action is one that you do without thinking
- Mitigating circumstances - facts that help to explain a crime or mistake and make it seem less bad
- Aggravating - making a crime worse
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
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