English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 7th January 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "On triple talaq bill: Re-examine the Bill"
- Re-examine - to look at or think about something carefully again
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Sabotage - to intentionally prevent the success of a plan or action
- Appraisal - an opinion about how successful, effective etc someone or something is
- Legislation - a law, or a set of laws
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Abhorrent - if something is abhorrent to you, you dislike it very much, usually because you think it is immoral
- Impermissible - not allowed to be done by a law or rule
- Resorting to - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Offending - causing a problem, or breaking a rule
- Proportionality - correct or suitable in size, amount, or degree when considered in relation to something else
- Breach - a failure to follow a law or rule
- Contradiction - a difference in two or more statements, ideas, stories etc that makes it impossible for both or all of them to be true
- Pronouncing - saying
- Mandate - to order someone to do something
- Subsistence - the ability to stay alive when you do not have much food or money
- Allowance - an amount of money that someone receives regularly, in order to pay for the things they need
- Cognizable - within the jurisdiction of a court
- Instant - immediate
- Subsist - to exist
- Custody - the legal right to look after a child
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you
- Lacunae - an absent part / empty space
- Sustenance - a way of supporting yourself, for example by earning money
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Reprise - to do something again
- Scupper - to spoil someone’s plans or hopes of success
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Hasty- done in a hurry because you do not have much time
- Commotion - noise and confused activity
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Craft - to make or produce something skilfully
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Evidence of fragility: on underwhelming growth estimates"
- Evidence - facts or physical signs that help to prove something
- Fragility - the quality of being easily broken or damaged
- Underwhelming - not exciting, not impressive, or disappointing
- Amid - surrounded by things or people
- Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Gross domestic product (GDP) - the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year, except for income received from money invested in other countries
- Precisely - clearly / exactly
- Headwind - a wind that blows in the opposite direction to the one in which you are moving
- Dampening - to make something less strong
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Exclude - to deliberately not include something
- Forestry - the science of caring for forests, and the trees and other plants that grow in them
- Decelerate - to happen or make something happen more slowly
- Provisional - intended to be temporary, and likely to be changed when other arrangements are made
- Vulnerable - easily damaged by something negative or harmful
- Unravel - if a process or project unravels, it begins to fail
- Traction - the degree to which a new idea, product etc is accepted
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Vigour - energy, enthusiasm, and determination
- Sizeable - fairly large
- Aggregate - total
- Posit - to say that something is true or that something should be accepted as true
- Marginal - very small
- Contraction - the process of becoming smaller
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Hovering around - to be at or near a particular level without changing much
- Barrel - a unit for measuring crude oil
- Inflationary - relating to or likely to cause an increase in prices
- Bank on - to depend on something happening or on someone doing something
- Unclog - to clear something by removing something that is blocking it
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Rebound - to return to a better level or position
