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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 2nd May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Power drive: on the quest to achieve full electrification"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 2nd May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Power drive: on the quest to achieve full electrification"
- Quest - an aim you need to achieve
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Household - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced, especially in relation to the time, money, and workers needed to produce them
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Resource - something that you can use to help you to achieve something, especially in your work or study
- Inhabited - a place that is inhabited has people living in it
- Significant - very important
- Milestone - an event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- Remotest - far away from other cities, towns, or people
- Broad-brush - very general and without many details
- Statistics - a group of numbers that represent facts or that describe a situation
- Conceal - to hide something so that it cannot be found
- Severe - a severe problem is very serious and worrying
- Disparity - a difference between things
- Reliable - can be trusted to be accurate
- Per capita - based on calculations that show the average amount for each person affected
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Consume - to use a supply of something such as time, energy, or fuel
- Mere - only / just
- Pales - to become less important or serious, especially when compared with someone or something else
- Anomaly - something unusual, unexpected, or different from what normally happens
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Inefficiency - the state of not achieving maximum productivity; failure to make the best use of time or resources
- Union Territory - an area in India that is ruled directly by the central government
- Far from - used for saying that the real situation is the opposite of what you mention
- Census - an occasion on which government officials count the people who live in a country and record other information about them
- Primary - most important
- Divergence - a difference in the way that two or more things develop from the same thing
- Renewable - renewable energy and natural materials replace themselves by natural processes, so that they are never completely used up
- Photovoltaic - a piece of equipment that changes light into electricity
- Hurdle - one of several problems that you must solve before you can do something successfully
- Scaling up - to make something larger in size, amount etc than it used to be
- Standalone - not connected to anything else, or not depending on anything else
- Augment - to increase the size, amount, or value of something
- Conventional - of the usual, traditional, or accepted type, instead of being new and different
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Rooftop - used about something that is built on a roof of a building
- Determinant - something that controls or decides how something else will develop or what result it will have
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Nicaragua rocked: why the government should prevent escalation of violence"
- Escalation - the process of becoming greater or more serious
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Welfare - help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have enough money
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Authoritarianism - the belief that people with power should control what other people can do, or a situation in which this happens
- Clampdown - a determined attempt by someone in authority to stop people doing something bad or illegal
- Convulse - to cause major problems or serious harm to someone or something
- Mayhem - a very confused situation
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Simultaneously - at the same time as something else
- Rationale - the set of reasons that something such as a plan or belief is based on
- Contain - to prevent something harmful from spreading to other people or places
- Ballooning - to quickly increase in size, weight, or importance
- Deficit - lack of something you should have
- Projection - a calculation of the way that something will change and develop in the future, especially of how fast it will grow or become smaller
- Staggering - to continue doing something despite great difficulty
- Backlash - a strong, negative, and often angry reaction to something that has happened, especially a political or social change
- Roll back - to remove something, or to reduce the influence of something
- Mount - to prepare for and begin an activity or event
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Criticise - to say what you think is wrong or bad about something
- Alter - to make something or someone different
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Prohibition - a law or rule that stops people from doing something
- Manoeuvre - if a politician is on manoeuvres, they are engaging in activities to improve their own political situation and gain an advantage over rivals
- Indefinite - continuing into the future with no fixed end
- Creeping - happening very slowly so that people do not notice
- Unaccountability - not responsible
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Stint - a period of time spent doing something
- Draw a parallel with/between - a comparison between
- Dictator - someone who uses force to take and keep power in a country
- Overthrew - to force a leader or government out of their position of power
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Outcry - an angry expression of protest or shock by a lot of people, as a reaction to something that someone has done or to something that has happened
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Channel - to make something follow a particular system
- Coherent - reasonable and sensible
- Claim - if war, disease, or an accident claims someone’s life, they die as a result of it
- Dialogue - a process in which two people or groups have discussions in order to solve problems
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Prolong - to make something last longer
- Tenure - the period of time during which someone has an important job or is an elected official
- Curtail - to reduce or limit something, especially something good
- Forum - an organized event or meeting at which people discuss something
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