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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Arbitrary, capricious: on the Karnataka Governor's decision"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 18th May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Arbitrary, capricious: on the Karnataka Governor's decision"
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Capricious - suddenly and unexpectedly changing your opinion or behaviour without any good reason
- Engineer - to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen, especially something that is to your advantage
- Summarily - immediately, and without following the usual official methods or processes
- Propriety - behaviour that follows accepted social or moral standards
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Unbecoming - behaviour that is unbecoming is unsuitable for a particular type of person
- Backing - support, help, or active approval
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Demonstrable - able to be proved
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Ushering - to lead someone politely somewhere
- Stable - not changing frequently and not likely to suddenly become worse
- Unbolt - to open
- Constitution - a set of basic laws or principles for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it is governed
- Discretion - the right or ability to make a judgment or decision
- Privilege - an advantage that only one person or group of people has
- Stake out - to explain your opinion clearly and defend it in a determined way
- At odds with - disagreeing with someone
- Defence - actions that you take to protect someone or something that is being attacked
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Attorney General - the most senior lawyer in some countries
- Claim - to win something such as a prize or a top position
- Constitute - if several people or things constitute something, they combine to form it
- Turn out - to develop in a particular way, or to have a particular result
- Bad loser - someone who behaves badly when they have lost
- Best - to gain an advantage over or defeat an opponent
- Pay the price for something - to have to deal with the bad effects of something that you have done
- Victory - the fact of winning a competition or battle
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Growing cities: on Urban governance"
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Governance - the process of governing a country or organization
- Migration - the process by which people or animals migrate to another place or country
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Pick up pace - to start to happen more quickly
- Vibrant - energetic, exciting
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Developing countries - countries that are poor and do not have much industrial development
- Evidence - facts or physical signs that help to prove something
- Revision - the process of changing, improving, or making additions to something such as a plan, law, or piece of writing
- Urbanization - the process by which towns and cities grow bigger and more and more people go to live in them
- Forecast - to make a statement about what is likely to happen, usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Complex - something that is complex has a lot of details or small parts that make it difficult to understand or deal with
- Expansion - the process of increasing in size and filling more space
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Magnetism - a quality that makes someone / something very attractive to other people
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced, especially in relation to the time, money, and workers needed to produce them
- Efficiency - the ability to work well and produce good results by using the available time, money, supplies etc in the most effective way
- Compromise - to risk harming or losing something important
- Anarchy - a situation in which people are behaving in a way that ignores normal rules and laws, and are unable to be controlled
- Rampant - existing, happening, or spreading in an uncontrolled way
- Deficit - a lack of a quality, skill, or ability that you should have
- Proliferation - a sudden increase in number or amount
- Metro - a city with a population of over one million
- Congested - with so many vehicles or people that it is difficult to move around
- Fuel - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Unsustainable - not capable of continuing at the same rate or level
- Moreover - used for introducing an additional and important fact that supports or emphasizes what you have just said
- Particulate - an extremely small piece of dirt, especially one produced by road vehicles, that causes pollution
- Suburb - an area or town near a large city but away from its centre, where there are many houses, especially for middle-class people
- Dismal - making you feel unhappy and without hope or enthusiasm
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Reform - to improve a situation by correcting things that are wrong or unfair, or to make a system work more effectively
- Stature - the amount of public respect or popularity that someone or something has
- Laudable - deserving to be praised or admired
- Innovation - a new idea, method, piece of equipment etc
- Augmenting - to increase the size, amount, or value of something
- Wetland - low land that is often covered with water from the lake, river, or sea next to it
- Aesthetical - in a way that gives pleasure through beauty
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