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February 21, 2018

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary - 21st February 2018

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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 21st February 2018. Happy reading :)

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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A deeper malady: on PNB fraud case"
  • Malady - a serious problem within a society or organization
  • Fraud - the crime of obtaining money from someone by tricking them
  • Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
  • Breakdown - a situation in which something has failed or is beginning to fail
  • Supervisory - having or relating to the role of observing and directing an activity or a person
  • Barely - used for emphasizing that something happened only a very short time before something else
  • Scam - a dishonest plan, especially for getting money
  • Wilful - done deliberately in order to cause damage or harm
  • Default - to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that you legally have to do
  • Surface - to become known or obvious after being hidden
  • Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
  • Consortium - an organization of several businesses or banks joining together as a group for a shared purpose
  • Siphon off - to move money from one bank account to another, especially illegally or dishonestly
  • Disburse - to pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose
  • Avail - to obtain or use something
  • Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
  • Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
  • Complicit - involved in or knowing about something bad that happens
  • Remedial - intended to improve or correct something
  • Bypass -  to avoid dealing with someone or something
  • Tier - one of several levels in an organization or system
  • Malfeasance - illegal actions
  • In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
  • Oblivious - not noticing something, or not knowing about it
  • Unconscionable - morally unacceptable
  • Determine - to officially decide something
  • Vested with something - officially able to do something
  • Keep an eye on - to look after someone or something
  • Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
  • Corrective action - corrective action is intended to make a bad situation better
  • Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
  • Infuse - to give someone or something a particular quality
  • Professionalism - the qualities and skills that someone with a professional job is expected to have
  • Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
  • Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
  • Intent - the intention to do something
  • Empowering - to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something
  • Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
  • Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
  • Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
  • Lapse - a short or temporary period when you fail or forget to do something in the right way
  • Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
  • Salutary - causing improvement of behaviour or character
  • Otherwise - used after an order or suggestion to show what the result will be if you do not follow that order or suggestion
  • Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
  • Mass - a large quantity or number
  • Campaigning - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
  • Bring about - to make something happen, especially to cause changes in a situation
  • Common-sense - the ability to use good judgment and make sensible decisions
  • Survivor - someone or something that still exists after an event that could have killed or destroyed them
  • Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
  • Applaud - to praise a decision, action, idea etc
  • Undaunted - determined and not afraid to continue doing something, even though it might be difficult
  • Lethal - very dangerous and able to kill you
  • Overlaid with something - something that is overlaid with something has a particular quality added to it that influences its character
  • Myriad - a very large number of something
  • Devastating - causing a lot of harm or damage
  • Tearful - crying, or feeling as if you want to cry
  • Moot - to suggest something as a subject for discussion
  • See off -  to deal successfully with someone or something
  • Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
  • Parting gift - a gift given when someone is leaving
  • Loophole - something that has been left out of a law or legal document that people can use to avoid obeying it
  • Nullify - to make something lose its legal effect
  • Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
  • Lobby - to try to persuade a politician, the government, or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed
  • Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
  • Prioritise - to decide in what order you should do things, based on how important or urgent they are
  • Sizeable - fairly large
  • A drop in the ocean - a very small amount that will not have much effect
  • Immense - extremely large
  • Mobilise - if you mobilize a group of people, or if they mobilize, they come together in order to achieve something
  • Tyranny - cruel and unfair treatment by someone in a position of power
  • Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
  • Racial - relating to someone’s race
  • Diversity - the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place
  • Baseline - a quantity, value, or fact used as a standard for measuring other quantities, values, or facts
  • At heart - used for saying what someone’s basic character is
  • Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
  • Juncture - a stage in a process or activity
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