English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Affirmative vote: on US' move on Jerusalem"
- Affirmative - relating to a statement that shows agreement or says "yes"
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
- Merely - only / just
- Abstain - to not do something
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- Ambassador - a senior official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country there
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Defy - to refuse to obey someone or something
- Named and shamed - to publicly say that a person, group, or business has done something wrong
- Aid - money, food, or other help that an organization or government gives to a country or area where people need it
- Exact - doing things very carefully
- Revenge - something that you do to hurt or punish someone because they have hurt you or someone else
- Derision - the opinion that someone or something is stupid, unimportant, or useless
- Envoy - an official who represents their country in another country, with a rank below an ambassador
- Epithet - a word or phrase that describes the main quality of someone or something
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Churlish - impolite and unfriendly, especially towards someone who does not deserve to be treated in this way
- Bully - to frighten or hurt someone who is smaller or weaker than you
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Acknowledge - to know or recognize that someone or something is important
- Mandate - the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action
- Uphold - to show that you support something such as an idea by what you say or do
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Unilateral - done or decided by one country, group, or person, often without considering what other countries etc think or want
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Doublespeak - a way of saying things that makes it impossible for people to understand, used by people in official positions when they want to hide the truth
- Affirm - to state that something is true or that you agree with it, especially in public
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Contour - a way in which something varies
- Speculation - ideas or discussion about why something has happened or what might happen
- In the face of something - in a situation where you have to deal with something unpleasant or difficult
- Impending - an impending event or situation, especially an unpleasant one, is one that will happen very soon
- Dilute - to make something less strong or effective
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Missing the pulse: on policies for farmers"
- Investor - a person or organization that invests money
- Predictability - the state of knowing what something is like, when something will happen, etc
- Coherence - the state of being reasonable and sensible
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Read into - to find an extra meaning in someone’s words or actions that is not obvious or does not exist
- Slap on - to add something as an extra cost
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Pulses - seeds that you can cook and eat, for example beans, peas
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Stockpile - a large collection of things that may be neede
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Upsurge - a sudden increase in something
- Disaggregate - to separate something into separate parts
- Cool off - if sales, prices etc cool off, they become lower
- Moderation - a reduction in the amount or strength of something
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Reflexive - a reflexive movement or action is one that you do without thinking
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Warrant - a reason for doing something
- Counterproductive - having the opposite result to the one you intended
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Pact - an agreement between two or more people or organizations in which they promise to do something
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Prop up - to stop something from falling
- Curb - to control or limit something
- Consumption - the act of using, eating, or drinking something
- Hiking - increasing
- Duty - a tax that you must pay on something that you buy, or on something that you bring into one country from another country
- Better-off - in a better situation
- Accumulate - to get more and more of something over a period of time
- Devise - to invent a method of doing something
- Shore up - to support or improve an organization, agreement, or system that is not working effectively or that is likely to fail
- Stirring up - to make someone / something upset
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Cultivate - to develop a friendship or relationship with someone, usually in order to get an advantage from it
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