English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Desert defeat: on Congress victory in Rajasthan"
- Victory - the fact of winning a competition or battle, or an occasion when someone wins
- Bipoll - an election held in a single political constituency to fill a vacancy arising during a government's term of office
- A host of - a large number of something
- Civic - relating to a town or city, especially to its government and public activities
- Grievance - a complaint about being treated in an unfair way
- Livelihood - something such as your work that provides the money that you need to live
- Jolt - to shock someone so that they suddenly change what they are doing or thinking
- Pay the price for something - to have to deal with the bad effects of something that you have done
- Imperious - behaving in a proud and confident way that shows you expect to be obeyed
- Alienate - to make someone dislike you, or not want to help or support you
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Pan - all
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Mere - only / just
- Blip - a minor problem
- Motley - consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together
- Erosion - the gradual reduction or destruction of something important
- Write off - to decide that someone or something will not succeed and so to stop giving them your attention and energy
- Scrape through - to succeed in doing something, but not in a very impressive way
- Run-up - to make something very quickly
- Verdict - an opinion that you have or a decision that you make
- Vindication - the action of clearing someone of blame or suspicion
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Jaded - no longer enthusiastic or excited about things, especially because you have been disappointed by your many experiences of them
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Collapse - to suddenly fail or stop existing
- Compensation - money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Get cracking: on implementing 'Modicare'"
- Roadmap - a plan
- Cover - if a law, rule, or contract covers a particular situation, type of person etc, it includes or deals with that situation or person
- Diagnostic - identifying a particular illness using a combination of signs and symptoms
- Essential - completely necessary
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Vulnerable - weak
- Hospitalisation - the act of taking someone to hospital and keeping them there for treatment
- Fragmented - consisting of several separate parts
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Tertiary - in the place or position counted as number three
- Developing countries - countries that are poor and do not have much industrial development
- Universal - involving all the members of a group or society
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Provinces - the parts of a country outside the capital city or the large cities
- Moreover - used for introducing an additional and important fact that supports or emphasizes what you have just said
- Subsume - to include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character
- Beneficiary - someone who gets an advantage from a situation
- Empanel - enrol
- Tremendous - extremely good
- Incidence - the number of cases of an illness or a medical condition in a particular place, group, or situation
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Hypertension - a condition in which your blood pressure is extremely high
- Medication - a drug that you take to treat or cure an illness
- Procure - to obtain something, especially with effort or difficulty
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Resort to something - to do something that you do not want to do because you cannot find any other way of achieving something
- Inflate - to make a number or price higher than it should be
- Aid - help with doing something
- Asymmetry - lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something
