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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 3rd May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Delivering the goods: on GST collections"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 3rd May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Delivering the goods: on GST collections"
- Revenue - income from business activities or taxes
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Teething problems - minor problems that a new company, project, product etc may have in the beginning
- Accrue - if money accrues or is accrued, it gradually increases in amount
- Precise - exact and accurate
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- Consistently - in the same way and without changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Heartening - make more cheerful or confident
- Caught up - to reach the same quality or standard as someone or something else
- Arrears - money that you owe because you have failed to make payments at the correct time
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Expedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Upswing - an increase or improvement in something
- Wrap up - to finish something
- Influx - a large number of people or things coming to a particular place
- Firm - strong
- Tumult - a confused and excited situation or mental state
- Evasion - the practice of avoiding doing something that you should do
- Grip - to have a strong effect on someone
- Tumble - if a price or value tumbles, it suddenly becomes much lower
- Robust - successful
- By virtue of something - because of, or as a result of
- Reckoning - a calculation or measurement
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Policymaker - a member of a government department, legislature, or other organization who is responsible for making new rules, laws, etc
- Uptick - a small increase, especially in the price of something
- Catalyse - to make something start happening or start being successful
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Call to action: on India's air pollution crisis"
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Widespread - happening or existing in many places, or affecting many people
- Deficient - not good enough
- Summarise - to express the most important facts or ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form
- Choke - if you choke, or if something chokes you, you cannot breathe
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Metropolis - a big city
- Mitigation - a reduction in the harmful effects of something
- Extensive - very large in amount or degree
- Death toll - the number of people who are killed on a particular occasion
- Attributable - caused by a particular event, situation, activity, or person
- Pneumonia - a serious illness affecting your lungs that makes it difficult for you to breathe
- Ischemic - relating to ischaemia (= a medical problem in which there is not enough blood flowing to a part of the body)
- Succumbed to - to become very ill or to die from a disease
- Silver lining - a consoling aspect of a difficult situation
- Poverty line - the amount of money considered necessary to live
- Below poverty line - someone who is below the poverty line does not have enough money
- Plague - to cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something over a period of time
- Insecticide - a chemical for killing insects, especially those that damage plants or crops
- Swift - happening quickly or immediately
- Call to action - something that shows that it is necessary to deal with a bad situation in a determined way
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