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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 18th April 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Chasing the monsoon"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 18th April 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Chasing the monsoon"
- Monsoon - a period of heavy rain in India and Southeast Asia
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Enhance - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Audit - a careful examination of something, especially one done to find the amount, size, or effectiveness of something
- Meteorological - related to the scientific study of weather
- In a row - one after another, without anything different happening in between
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters
- Minimum Support Price - the price at which government purchases crops from the farmers, whatever may be the price for the crops
- Procurement - the process of buying supplies or equipment for a government department or company
- Perspective - a particular way of considering something
- Remunerative - providing payment or other rewards for work that has been done
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
- Long-term - continuing to exist, be relevant, or have an effect for a long time in the future
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Moreover - used for introducing an additional and important fact that supports or emphasizes what you have just said
- Expertise - special skill or knowledge that you get from experience, training, or study
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Staggering - extremely surprising
- Contrast - something that is different from something else in a very noticeable way
- Distortion- a change that makes something no longer true or accurate
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Barring - unless the thing mentioned happens or exists
- Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die
- Consistently - in the same way and without changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Harvest - the time of year when crops are cut and collected from the fields, or the activity of cutting and collecting them, or the crops that are cut and collected
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Clamour for death: On hanging rapists of minors"
- Clamour - an urgent request for something by a lot of people
- Minor - someone who has not reached the age at which they are legally an adult
- Justified - if you are justified in doing something, you have a good reason for doing it and it is right that you should do it
- Capital punishment - the punishment of being legally killed
- Horrific - so shocking that it upsets you
- Prescribe - to state officially what should be done in a particular situation
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something
- Evoke - to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Outrage - a strong feeling of anger and shock at something that you feel is wrong or unfair
- Ghastly - shocking in a way that frightens or upsets you
- Outcry - an angry expression of protest or shock by a lot of people
- Eminent - important, respected, and admired
- Jurist - a legal expert, usually a judge
- Aggravated - an aggravated crime has features, such as the use of violence, that make it worse
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Persistent - continuing to exist, especially for longer than you would like
- Persistent vegetative state - a condition in which a person shows no sign of any brain activity, for example following a serious injury, and is kept alive only by the use of medical machines
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Dichotomy - a difference between two opposite things or ideas
- Vengeful - wanting or trying to harm someone because they have done something bad to you
- Brutality - extreme violence, especially when it is deliberately cruel
- Clamoured for - to say that you want something and must have it
- Deterrent - something that makes people decide not to do something by making them realize that something unpleasant could happen to them
- Empirical - based on real experience or scientific experiments rather than on theory
- Merely - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Legitimate - fair and reasonable
- Consistent - not changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Observe - to make a remark about something
- Arbitrariness - the quality of being based on random choice, rather than any reason or system
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Grave - so serious that you feel worried
- Penitence - regret for a mistake and willingness to correct it
- Adequately - in a way that is good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
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