English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Two States — on CPI (M)'s draft resolution"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Two States — on CPI (M)'s draft resolution"
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Adopt - to decide to start using a particular idea, plan, or method
- Privileged - having advantages and opportunities that other people do not have
- Compelling - interesting or exciting enough to keep your attention completely
- Backed - supported
- Survival - the fact or state of continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Mobilisation - to organize or prepare something, such as a group of people, for a purpose
- Fare - used for saying how well or how badly someone does something
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- In accordance with - in a way that follows a rule, system, or someone’s wishes
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Constrained - behaving in a way that is very controlled and not natural
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Locked down — on U.S. shutdown"
- Shutdown - a closure of a factory or system, typically a temporary closure due to a fault or for maintenance
- Republican - someone who believes that Northern Ireland should join with the Republic of Ireland to form a single country and should no longer be part of the UK
- Democrat - someone who supports democracy as a political system
- Federal - a federal country or system is one in which individual states make their own laws, but a national government is responsible for areas such as defence and foreign policy
- Furlough - a period of time during which someone is allowed to be away from a job or the armed forces
- Revenue - income from business activities or taxes
- Macroeconomic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced, especially in relation to the time, money, and workers needed to produce them
- Cessation - an end to something
- Seismic - causing a very great change in a situation
- Inescapable - impossible to avoid or ignore
- Congressional - relating to the US Congress
- Dysfunction - a failure to work well
- Stemming from - to be caused by something
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Politicking - political activity by someone who is only interested in doing things for their own advantage, not in helping other people
- Looming - if something unpleasant or difficult looms, it seems likely to happen soon
- Hardline - strict
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Clemency - a decision not to punish someone severely, made by someone in a position of authority
- Revoke - to officially say that something is no longer legal, for example a law or a document
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Deportation - to force someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Rattle - to make someone feel nervous or angry
- Stopgap - a person or thing that provides a temporary solution
- Contingent - a group of people representing a place, organization etc at a meeting or event
- Law-abiding - someone who is law-abiding obeys the law
- Overshadowing - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Anniversary - a date when you celebrate something that happened in a previous year that is important to you
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Obstructionism - the act of intentionally stopping or slowing down an official process
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Regardless - without being affected or influenced by someone or something
- Transcend - to become free of negative attitudes, thoughts, or feelings that limit what you can achieve
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Bias - to influence someone’s opinions, decisions etc so that they behave or think in an unfair way
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
