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- Optimistic - based on beliefs that are too confident
- 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
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Meteorological - related to the scientific study of weather
- Variation - the existence of differences in amount, number, level, form etc
- Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die
- Deficit - the amount by which something is smaller than it should be
- Deficiency - a lack of something that you need
- Witness - to see something happen
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Investment - the process of spending money in order to improve something or make it more successful
- Ruin - to destroy or severely damage something
- Displace - to force someone to leave their own place and live somewhere else
- Resume - to start something again after stopping temporarily
- Spatial - relating to the size, shape, and position of things, and the relation of objects to each other in space
- Variation - the existence of differences in amount, number, level, form etc
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Groundwater - water that flows or collects under the ground
- Determinant - something that controls or decides how something else will develop or what result it will have
- Chair - to be the person in charge of a meeting, committee, or company
- Optimal - best or most suitable within a range of possibilities
- Hectare - a unit for measuring an area of land, equal to 10,000 square metres
- Sow - to plant seeds in the ground
- Assess - to carefully consider a situation, person, or problem in order to make a judgment
- Accelerate - to happen or make something happen at a faster rate
- Harness - to control something
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Minor - not great in size or importance
- Irrigation - to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow
- Alter - to make something or someone different
- Intensity - strength
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Alluvial - made of earth and sand left by rivers or floods
- Precipitation - rain
- Spell - a short period of a particular type of weather
- Augment - to increase the size, amount, or value of something
- Farming - the activity or business of a being a farmer
- Community - the people who live in an area
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Coastal - on land beside a sea
- Accurate - correct or true in every detail
- Favourable - giving someone or something an advantage or a benefit
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Dissent & diplomacy: on the Saudi-Canada spat"
- Dissent - strong disagreement
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Spat - a short argument
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Furious - extremely angry
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Activist - someone who takes part in activities that are intended to achieve political or social change, especially someone who is a member of an organization
- Professed - admitting publicly that you have a particular feeling or belief
- Ascend - to get a more important job or position
- Throne - a special chair that a king or queen sits on
- Progressive - supporting social and political change that aims to make a system fairer
- Crack down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- Hardliner - someone, especially in politics, who is very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to reduce or change their demands in any way
- Clergy - the people who lead religious services
- Moderate - neither very great nor very small in amount, size, strength, or degree
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Detain - to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them to leave
- Unilateral - done or decided by one country, group, or person, often without considering what other countries etc think or want
- Appeal - an urgent request for people to give you something that you need such as help, money, or information
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Expel - to officially force someone to leave a place or organization because of their bad behaviour
- Ambassador - a senior official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country there
- Envoy - an official who represents their country in another country, with a rank below an ambassador
- Trade - the activities of buying and selling goods or services
- Campaign - to try to achieve political or social change by persuading other people or the government to do something
- Guardianship - the position of being legally responsible for someone
- Sentence - when a judge sentences someone, they officially state what someone’s punishment will be
- Dwelt on - to spend a lot of time thinking or talking about something unpleasant
- Oblique - not expressing something directly
- Siege - an attack in which an army surrounds a castle or city in order to prevent the people inside from receiving food and water
- Mosque - a building in which Muslims worship
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Tolerance - the attitude of someone who is willing to accept someone else’s beliefs, way of life etc without criticizing them even if they disagree with them
- Defender - someone who supports something or who works to prevent it from being lost or taken away
- Intellectual - someone who is well educated and interested in art, science, literature etc at an advanced level
- Refrain from - to stop yourself from doing something. This word is often used in official announcements or signs
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Refuge - a place where you go to protect yourself from something dangerous or threatening
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Destination - the place where someone or something is going
- Arms - weapons, for example guns or bombs
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry or rude way that shows you want to fight, attack, or argue with someone
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Lenient - if a person or system is lenient, they punish someone less severely than they could
- Vengeful - wanting or trying to harm someone because they have done something bad to you
- Neither...nor - used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas
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