English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were NO EDITORIALS on 14th September 2018 (due to Ganesh Chaturthi on 13th)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Beyond recompense: on the ISRO spy case"
- Beyond - further away than something else
- Recompense - payment that you give to someone who has suffered injury or loss because of you
- Espionage - attempts to discover your enemy’s political, military, or industrial secrets using secret methods
- Disgraceful - extremely bad or shocking
- Pretext - a reason that you pretend to have in order to hide your real reason or intention
- Witch-hunt - an attempt to find all the people in a particular group in order to punish them or treat them unfairly
- Grave - so serious that you feel worried
- Mercifully - used for showing that you are grateful that something has happened, because it has prevented or ended something bad
- Lack of something - a situation in which you do not have any, or enough, of something that you need or want
- Evidence - facts or physical signs that help to prove something
- Lapse - a short or temporary period when you fail or forget to do something in the right way
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Questionable - possibly not true, accurate, or complete
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Restoration - the process of putting something back into its original condition so that it looks cleaner and better
- Dignity - respect that other people have for you or that you have for yourself
- Attitude - someone’s opinions or feelings about something, especially as shown by their behaviour
- Obstinate - not willing to be reasonable and change your plans, ideas, or behaviour
- Ungracious - not polite or friendly, especially towards someone who has been polite or kind to you
- Peevish - easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important
- Revive - to make someone become conscious or alive again
- Unsympathetic - not kind enough or interested enough to want to know about other people’s problems
- Errant - behaving in a way that is bad or wrong
- Petulant - annoyed and behaving in an unreasonable way because you cannot get what you want
- Address - to give attention / deal with a perticular roblem
- Glaring - very obvious
- Inadequacy - the failure to be of the quantity or quality needed for a particular purpose
- Malicious - unkind and showing a strong feeling of wanting to hurt someone
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Crude - not exact or accurate, but often good enough for a particular purpose
- Archaic - old and no longer used
- Heinous - a heinous act or crime is extremely evil
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Exonerate - to officially state or prove that someone is not to be blamed for something
- Open the floodgates - to suddenly make it possible or easier for a lot of things to happen
- Innumerable - too many to be counted: used for emphasizing a large amount or number
- Oversight - something that you do not notice or think of that causes problems later
- Malicious - unkind and showing a strong feeling of wanting to hurt someone
- Humiliation - the unhappy and ashamed feeling that you get when something embarrassing happens
- Consequential - happening as an indirect result of something
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Muster - to try to produce as much of a feeling such as enthusiasm or determination as you can
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Power games: on issues in the power sector"
- Circular - sent to a lot of people at the same time
- Non-performing loan - a sum of borrowed money upon which the debtor has not made the scheduled payments for a period of usually at least 90 days for commercial banking loans and 180 days for consumer loans
- Repayment - the process of paying someone money that you have borrowed from them
- Comply with - to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do
- Undergo - to experience something, especially something that is unpleasant but necessary
- Swift - happening quickly or immediately
- Insolvency - the state of not having enough money to pay what you owe
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Bankruptcy - a situation in which a person or business has officially admitted that they have no money and cannot pay what they owe
- Apex - top
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Uncertainty - the fact that something is not known or has not been decided
- Hearing - a meeting of a court of law or official organization to find out the facts about something
- In contrast to - to be very different from something else
- Reprieve - to stop or delay something bad that was going to happen
- Intervene - to become involved in a situation in order to try to stop or change it
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Unreliable - not definitely true or accurate
- Unsustainable - not capable of continuing at the same rate or level
- On the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Sorted - arranged, or dealt with
- Adequately - in a way that is good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Investor - a person or organization that invests money
- Invest - to use your money with the aim of making a profit from it, for example by buying property or buying shares in a company
- Flaw - a mistake or fault in something that makes it useless or less effective
- Liquidate - to close a business and sell everything that it owns, usually in order to pay money that is owed
- Overemphasis - the tendency to treat something as being more important than it really is
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Purview - the area of responsibility or influence that a person or organization has
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