English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Transit gambit: on e-way bill mechanism for transport of goods"
- Transit - the activity or process of moving someone or something from one place to another
- Gambit - a clever action in a game or other situation that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk
- Ease - to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc
- Grapple with - to try hard to understand a difficult idea or to solve a difficult problem
- Anxious - worried because you think something bad might happen
- Roll-out - to introduce a new product or service
- Pan out - if a situation pans out in a particular way, it develops in that way
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Consignment - an amount of goods that are delivered
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Integrated - to combine two or more things in order to become more effective
- Interim - temporary
- Differing - different from each other or from someone or something else
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Inter-State - existing or taking place between states
- Intra-State - existing or happening within one state
- Exempt - allowed to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Designated - marked, separated, or given a name for a particular purpose
- Intercept - to stop, catch, or take control of someone or something before they can get to the place they are going to
- Conveyance - a vehicle
- Staggered - very surprised and shocked
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Inflow - an amount of something such as money or goods that comes into a place
- Plummet - if something such as an amount, rate, or value plummets, it suddenly becomes much lower
- Substantive - large in amount, degree, or strength
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want, or the amount that you lack
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Invoice - a document giving details of goods or services that someone has bought and must pay for
- Evasion - the practice of avoiding doing something that you should do
- Bump up - to increase something
- Plugging - to fill a hole so that nothing can get through it
- Glitch - a small and sudden problem
- Nervousness - feeling excited and worried, or slightly afraid
- Onerous - something that is onerous is something that you dislike or worry about because it is very difficult to deal with
- For instance - for example
- Robust - strong and successful
- Exception - someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list or that does not behave in the expected way
- Amid - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Run-off - an extra competition or election to decide the winner, because the leading competitors have finished equal
- Juncture - a particular point in time
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
- Thanks to somebody / something - because of someone or something
- Fallout - the unpleasant results or effects of an action or event
- Reform - to make an improvement, especially by changing a person's behaviour or the structure of something
- Prominence - the state of being important or well known
- Commodity - a substance or product that can be traded, bought, or sold
- Boom - a period of sudden economic growth, especially one that results in a lot of money being made
- Romp home - to win something such as a race or competition very easily
- Pollster - a person who does opinion polls
- Robust - strong and successful
- Meagre - (of amounts or numbers) very small or not enough
- Ascribe something to someone / something - to consider something to be caused, created, or owned by someone or something
- Ticklish - a ticklish situation is one that needs to be dealt with carefully
- Magnate - a person who is very rich and successful in business or industry
- Enact - to put something into action, especially to make something law
- Sizeable - large
- Splinter group - a small organization, typically a political party, that has broken away from a larger one
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time, or a government that is formed in this way
- Manoeuvre - a cleverly planned action that is intended to get an advantage
- Prevailing - existing in a particular place or at a particular time
- Mining - the industry or activity of removing substances such as coal or metal from the ground by digging
- Lobby - an action such as a protest or meeting which is intended to influence politicians
- Capitalise - to supply money to a business so that it can develop or operate as it should
- Export - to send goods to another country for sale
- Walk a tightrope - if you walk/tread a tightrope, you have to deal with a difficult situation, especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action
- Upwardly mobile - moving or able to move to a higher social class, for example by becoming richer
- Consolidation - the action or process of making something stronger or more solid
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote
- Mired - to be involved in a difficult situation, especially for a long period of time
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Plummet - to fall very quickly and suddenly
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