English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic : "Promise and delivery: on Union Budget 2018"
- Bridge the gap - to reduce the differences that separate two things or groups
- Construe - to understand the meaning of something in a particular way
- Tug-of-war - a situation in which two people or groups try in a very determined way to get something that they want
- Populism - politics that represents the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Prudence - the state of being careful in the way you make decisions or spend money so that you avoid unnecessary risks
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Prevail - to be the strongest influence or element in a situation
- Table - to suggest formally in a meeting something that you would like everyone to discuss
- Upper hand - control or an advantage over a person or situation
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Exceptional - extremely good or impressive in a way that is unusual
- Buoyancy - the ability of a company, financial institution, or economy to be successful again after a difficult period
- Disinvestment - the act of taking money out of a particular country, industry, or business, and investing it somewhere else
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want, or the amount that you lack
- Mop-up - to finish something by dealing with a few final details
- Dividend - a share of the profits of a company, paid once or twice a year to the people who own the company’s shares
- Ease off - to start to treat someone / something less severely
- Consolidation - the action or process of making something stronger or more solid
- 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
- Peg - to keep prices, salaries, or the amount of something at a particular level, often in relation to something else
- Prepare the ground for something - to do things that make it possible or easier for something to happen or for someone to do something
- Deviation - a difference in the usual or expected way of doing something
- War chest - money that a political party or a business has available to spend on something such as an election campaign or a business deal
- Unerring - exact and accurate
- Root cause - the basic cause of something
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Unremunerative - bringing little or no profit or income
- Ameliorate - to improve something, or to make it less severe
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Rely - to depend on or trust someone or something
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Materialise - to happen or to become real
- Assert - to state firmly that something is true
- Modest - fairly small, especially when compared with other things of the same type
- Fool-proof - a foolproof method, plan, or system is so well designed that it cannot go wrong or is certain to succeed
- Moot - to suggest something as a subject for discussion
- Modality - a particular way of doing or experiencing something
- Tyranny - the power that something has to control people’s lives and the way that they behave
- Ambitious - an ambitious plan, aim, or attempt is difficult and will need a lot of effort to succeed
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Bankroll - to provide the money for something
- Grandiose - intended to achieve something important or difficult, but unlikely to be successful because of not being sensible
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Overwhelming - very great or very large
- Outcome - the possible or likely result of something
- Alleviate - to make something less severe or serious
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Mere - only / just
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Bankroll - to provide the money for something
- Outlay - the amount of money that you must spend in order to buy something or to start a new business or project
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Frugal - spending very little money and only on things that are really necessary
- Belie - to seem to show that a promise, hope, statement etc is not true
- Reimbursement - to give someone the same amount of money that they have spent
- Clamour - an urgent request for something by a lot of people
- Across-the-board - involving everyone or everything in a place or situation
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- Slash - to reduce something by a large amount
- Salariat - salaried white-collar workers
- Offset - to balance the effect of something, with the result that there is no advantage or disadvantage
- Payout - a large amount of money paid to someone
- Vexatious - making you feel annoyed, confused, or worried
- Vulnerable - easily damaged by something negative or harmful
- Dwindle - to become gradually less or smaller over a period of time until almost nothing remains
- Risk-averse - opposed to taking risks, or only willing to take small risks
- Dampen - to make something less strong
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Affluent - rich enough to buy things for pleasure
- Modest - fairly small, especially when compared with other things of the same type
- Levy - an amount of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax
- Half-hearted - done with no real interest or enthusiasm
- Constraint - something that limits your freedom to do what you want
- Stabilise - to reach a state where there are no longer any major changes or problems
- Welfare - help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have enough money
