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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 13th June 2018 from HERE
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 13th June 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Historic handshake — on Trump-Kim summit"
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Traverse - to move or travel through an area
- Remarkable - unusual in a way that surprises or impresses you
- Affirmation - an action of support or approval
- Diplomacy - the ability to deal with people in a sensitive way that does not upset or offend them
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Deranged - behaving in an uncontrolled or dangerous way because of mental illness
- Ground-breaking - using new methods, or achieving new results
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Whimsical - unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying
- Thaw - to become friendlier or more relaxed
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Brink - the point in time when something very bad or very good is about to happen
- Expansive - friendly, generous, or willing to talk
- Reciprocate - to do the same thing for someone that they have done for you
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Call off - to decide that something will not happen
- Threat - an occasion when someone says that they will cause you harm or problems
- Counter - something that you say to reply to a criticism or argument
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Appetite - a feeling of being very interested in something or of wanting it very much
- Rapprochement - the development of greater understanding and friendship between two countries or groups after they have been unfriendly
- Rendezvous - a meeting arranged for a particular time and place, especially secretly
- Back on track - working or happening normally again
- Firm - strong
- Unwavering - strong and steady despite opposition or other problems
- Denuclearisation - the process of removing nuclear weapons from a country or countries
- Prosper - to be successful, especially by making a lot of money
- Concession - something you give or allow to someone in order to reach an agreement
- Pull off - to succeed in doing something that is difficult
- Breakthrough - a discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work
- Specifics - the details of something
- Dismantle - to separate the parts of something such as a machine so that they no longer form a single unit
- Arsenal - a large collection of weapons and military equipment
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Unpredictable - changing often, in a way that is impossible to prepare for
- Impulsive - someone who is impulsive tends to do things without thinking about what will happen as a result
- Stare down - to look at
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Ethics first — on TN organ transplant allocations"
- Ethics - a set of principles that people use to decide what is right and what is wrong
- Organ - a part of your body that does a specific job, such as your heart or brain
- Transplant - a medical operation in which a new organ is put into someone’s body
- Inquiry - an official examination of a crime, accident, problem etc, in order to get information or the truth
- Expensive - something that is expensive costs a lot of money
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Altruistically - thinking or behaving in a way that shows you care about other people and their interests more than you care about yourself
- Brain-dead - if someone is brain-dead, they have serious and permanent damage to their brain, and need machines in order to stay alive
- Ethically - in a way that relates to moral principles
- Enrol - to put yourself or someone else onto the official list of members of a course, college, or group
- Lay down - to officially establish a rule, or to officially say how something should be done
- Preferential - giving one person or group an advantage over others
- Pioneer - to be one of the first to do something
- Orderly - well arranged or organized
- Deceased - dead
- Consistently - in the same way and without changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Procure - to obtain something, especially with effort or difficulty
- Donor - someone who gives blood, sperm, eggs, or a part of their body to be used in the medical treatment of someone else
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Retain - to keep someone or something
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Domicile - the place where a person lives
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Opt for - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Shed light on something - to provide new information that helps you understand something
- Overlook - to fail to notice or do something
- Air-lift - an operation in which people or things are taken into or away from a place by aircraft, especially in a dangerous situation
- Erode - to gradually reduce the value or level of something
- Kin - all the people in your family
- Commerce - the activity of buying and selling goods and services
- Unethical - morally wrong, or against accepted standards of behaviour, especially in a particular profession
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