English Vocabulary from
sponsored links
Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the HINDU News Paper
- Adultery - sex that takes place between a married person and someone who is not their husband or wife
- Reconsider - to think again about a decision or opinion and decide if you want to change it
- Long overdue - if something is long overdue, it should have been done before now
- Prosecute - to officially accuse someone of a crime and ask a court of law to judge them
- Discriminate - to treat someone unfairly because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Unconstitutional - not allowed or not legal according to the constitution (set of official rules or principles) of a particular country or organization
- Observe - to make a written or spoken comment about someone or something
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Archaic - old and no longer used
- Liable - legally responsible for causing damage or injury, so that you have to pay something or be punished
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Absolve - to state officially that someone is free of any blame or responsibility in a particular matter
- Gender neutrality - policies or ideas that seek to avoid or remove obvious distinctions between males and females
- Consent - permission to do something
- Connivance - the act of doing something illegal or immoral, especially by knowing that something bad is happening and allowing it to continue
- Subordination - the fact of having less power or authority than someone else
- Create a dent in something - to reduce the amount of something
- Emphasise - to give particular importance or attention to something
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Author - the person who is responsible for something
- Discriminatory - treating a particular group of people unfairly because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Disloyal - not loyal to someone who you have a close relationship with or to an organization that you belong to
- Spouse - a husband, or a wife
- Matrimonial - relating to marriage
- Aggrieved - feeling angry and unhappy because you think you have been treated in an unfair way
- Culpability - deserving to be blamed or considered responsible for something bad
- Implicit - not stated directly, but expressed in the way that someone behaves, or understood from what they are saying
- Subordination - the fact of having less power or authority than someone else
- Merely - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Posit - to say that something is true or that something should be accepted as true
- Consensual - agreed to by all the people involved
- Archaic - old and no longer used
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Era - a period of time that has a particular quality or character
- Repeal - to state officially that a law no longer has legal authority and has ended
- Incarceration - to put someone in prison
- Travesty - a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it should be or because it seems very unfair
- Empowering - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Ambit - the range within which something, especially a rule or law, is effective or has power
- Dispense with - to no longer use someone or something because you no longer want or need them
- Statute - a law passed by a government and formally written down
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "IS was ?: On Islamic State’s defeat"
- Territory - an area of land controlled by a particular country, leader, or army
- Fleeing - to escape from a dangerous situation or place very quickly
- Regrouping - to prepare to make a new attempt to achieve something after having failed or been stopped
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Cautious - careful to avoid problems or danger
- Gradualist - slow
- Troops - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Suburb - an area or town near a large city but away from its centre, where there are many houses, especially for middle-class people
- Offensive - used for attacking
- Capturing - to catch someone so that they become your prisoner
- Militia - a group of ordinary people who are trained as soldiers to fight in an emergency
- Liberated - behaving in the way that you want and not accepting traditional rules about behaviour
- Arguable - if something is arguable, you are not completely certain whether it is true or correct
- Ousting - to remove someone from a position of power, especially in order to take that position
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Accomplishment - something difficult that you succeed in doing, especially after working hard over a period of time
- Simplistic - treating something in a way that makes it seem much simpler than it really is
- Conclude - to decide that something is true after looking at all the evidence you have
- Rid of - make someone or something free of an unwanted person or thing
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Heal - to make or become well again
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- War-stricken - affected by war
- Alienated - feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
- Autonomous - an autonomous state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Drift - o move somewhere slowly as though you do not know where you are going
- Anarchy - a situation in which there is no government or no social control in a country
- Breeding ground - a situation or place in which bad things can easily begin to develop
- Footing - a firm position for your feet on a surface, especially one that is difficult to stand on or walk across
- For instance - for example
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Rivalry - a situation in which people, teams, businesses etc compete with one another
- Regroup - to prepare to make a new attempt to achieve something after having failed or been stopped
- Reach out - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them
- Disaffected - a disaffected member of a group or organization no longer feels any loyalty towards it
- Resurrection - act of making something exist again or of starting to use something again after it has disappeared
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
0 Responses:
Post a Comment