English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 4th February 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Limited succour: Budget 2018 and senior citizens"
- Succour - help given to someone
- Underscore - to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Incentive - something that encourages a person to do something
- Elderly - old people
- Steeply - suddenly or by a large amount
- Escalate - to increase
- Decline - becoming less or worse
- Five-fold - five times much
- Exemption - permission to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Recurring - to happen many times or to happen again
- Doing away with something - to get rid of something
- Reimbursement - to give someone the same amount of money that they have spent
- Allied - similar or related
- Ceiling - an upper limit set on the number or amount of something
- In lieu of - instead of
- Incur - to lose money, owe money, or have to pay money as a result of doing something
- Irrespective - despite a particular fact, situation, or quality
- Cap - a limit on the amount of money that you can spend or charge
- Annuity - a fixed amount of money that someone receives regularly each year
- Poverty line - the amount of money considered necessary to live (Someone who is below the poverty line does not have enough money).
- Contributory - partly responsible for a situation or event
- Laudable - deserving to be praised or admired
- Insofar as - used for talking about the degree to which something happens, or the situation in which something happens
- Chronological - arranged or described in the order in which events happened
- Demographic - relating to populations
- Cohort - a group of people who share a characteristic, usually age
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Hinterland - an area that is a long way from a town or city
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Incorporate - to include something as a part or as a quality
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Outlay - the amount of money that you must spend in order to buy something or to start a new business or project
- Empowerment - authority or power given to someone to do something
- Voluntary - a voluntary action is done because you choose to do it, and not because you have to
- Starkly - clearly
- Inadequate - not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Greying - containing an increasing number of older people
- Demographic - relating to populations
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Crisis in Male"
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Pit against - to make someone compete or fight against someone or something else
- Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
- Bureaucracy - a complicated and annoying system of rules and processes
- Contest - to state formally that you disagree with something or think it is wrong
- Depose - to force a political leader or a king or queen out of their position of power
- Sentence - when a judge sentences someone, they officially state what someone’s punishment will be
- Exile - a situation in which you are forced to live in a foreign country because you cannot live in your own country, usually for political reasons
- Reinstate - to give someone their previous job or position again
- Disqualify - to not allow someone to do something because they have committed an offence
- Convene - to arrange a formal meeting, or to gather for a meeting
- Comply - to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do
- Uphold - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Abide by - to follow a rule, decision, or instruction
- Egregious - extremely bad
- Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Opposition - the political parties in a country that are not part of the government
- Premises - the buildings and land that a business or organization uses
- Parliamentarian - a member of a parliament
- Sack - to tell someone that they can no longer work at their job
- Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Leverage - power to influence people and get the results you want
- Commonwealth - a group of countries that have the same political or economic interests
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Steer - to influence the way that something happens or the way that people behave
- Coercive - using force or threats to make someone do something
- Means - a method for doing or achieving something
