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October 24, 2018

24th October 2018 Hindu Editorial Vocabulary - PDF Download

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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 24th October 2018. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 :  "Trouble at the top: on CBI power play"
  • Power play - tactics exhibiting or intended to increase a person's power or influence
  • Firm - strong
  • Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
  • Unsavoury - involving unpleasant, dishonest, or immoral things that you do not want to think or talk about
  • Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
  • Turf war - arguments between people or groups who each want to control a particular area
  • At the helm - in charge or in the position of a leader
  • Malaise - a general feeling of being worried, unhappy, or not satisfied
  • Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
  • Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
  • Agency - a government department, or an organization connected with a government, that deals with a particular subject
  • Shown in a poor light - to make someone / something seem to be bad
  • Justified - if you are justified in doing something, you have a good reason for doing it and it is right that you should do it
  • Embark on - to start a new project or activity, usually one that will be difficult and will take time
  • High-profile - often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appearing on television
  • Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
  • Bribery - the crime of giving money or presents to someone so that they will help you by doing something dishonest or illegal
  • Charge - a claim that someone or something is bad or has done something bad
  • Pervasive - spreading through the whole of something and becoming a very obvious feature of it
  • Second-in-command - someone who is next in rank to the person in charge of something
  • Off the hook - having avoided a duty, an unpleasant situation, or a punishment
  • On the other hand - in a way that is different from the first thing you mentioned
  • Implicate - to show or suggest that someone is involved in something illegal or morally wrong
  • Vigilance - the activity of watching a person or situation very carefully so that you will notice any problems or signs of danger immediately
  • Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
  • Precede - to happen or exist before another person or thing
  • Under a cloud - with your reputation damaged because you may have done something wrong
  • Accused - the person who is on trial in a law court
  • Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
  • Credible - able to be believed or trusted
  • Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
  • Exporter - a person, business, or country that sells goods to another country
  • Haunt - to make someone feel worried and upset for a long time
  • Superintendent - a senior police officer
  • Fabricating - to make up a story or piece of information in order to make someone believe something that is not true
  • Corroborate - to support what someone says by giving information or evidence that agrees with them
  • Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
  • Disillusioned - disappointed because you have discovered that someone or something is not as good as you had believed
  • Handmaiden - something that supports something else that is more important
  • Augur - to be a sign of what may happen in the future
  • Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
  • To a large extent - mainly
  • Primary - most important
  • Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
  • Overrule - o officially change a decision that someone else has made
  • Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
  • Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
  • Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
  • Impartial - not connected to or influenced by one particular person or group
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 :  "In the net : on direct tax base"
  • Widen - to make something wider
  • Yield - to produce something useful
  • Reward - something good that happens or that you receive because of something that you have done
  • Tax return - an official document on which you give details of your income so that the government can calculate the amount of tax that you have to pay
  • Corporate - relating to large companies, or to a particular large company
  • Witness - to see something happen
  • Significant - very large or noticeable
  • Surpassing - better or greater when compared with others
  • Buoyancy - success and a lot of activity in an economy, market, etc
  • Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
  • Attribute something to someone/something - to believe that something is the result of a particular situation, event, or person’s actions
  • Measure - an action that is intended to achieve or deal with something
  • Tenure - the period of time during which someone has an important job or is an elected official
  • Intent - the intention to do something
  • In other words - used for introducing another way of saying or explaining something, especially a more simple way
  • Going forward - used, especially in business, to mean "in the future"
  • Regressive - (of tax) lower on large amounts of money, so that the rich are less affected
  • Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
  • Standpoint - a way of considering something
  • Distortion - a change that makes something no longer true or accurate
  • Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
  • Stature - the good reputation a person or organization has, based on their behaviour and ability
  • Bureaucratic - involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes




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