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October 31, 2018

31st 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 31st October 2018. Happy reading :)

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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 31st October 2018 from HERE


  • Avert - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
  • Polarisation - the act of dividing something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, into two completely separate groups
  • Push back - to delay something so that it happens later than planned
  • Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
  • Judicious - showing intelligence and good judgment
  • Timeline - a plan of when something should happen or how much time something should take
  • Decline - to refuse
  • Hearing - a meeting of a court of law or official organization to find out the facts about something
  • Diminished - reduced in amount, size, or importance
  • Adjournment - a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial, or the act of giving a pause or rest
  • Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
  • Run-up - to make something very quickly
  • Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
  • Regardless - without being affected or influenced by someone or something
  • Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
  • Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
  • Aggressive - someone who is aggressive is very determined to win or be successful
  • Proponent - someone who publicly supports an idea, policy, plan etc
  • Favourable - giving someone or something an advantage or a benefit
  • Tailor - to make or prepare something following particular instructions
  • Stoke - to make a feeling stronger
  • Exploit - to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this
  • Put off - to delay doing something, especially because you do not want to do it
  • Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
  • Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
  • Unwise - stupid and likely to cause problems
  • Equate - to consider something to be the same as something else
  • Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
  • Postponement - to decide that something will not be done at the time when it was planned for, but at a later time
  • Preclude - if one thing precludes another, the first thing prevents the second one from happening
  • Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
  • Disputed - a disputed area is one that different countries claim belongs to them, so that there is a disagreement or war between them
  • Clamour - to say that you want something and must have it
  • Imprudent - not sensible, especially in relation to the way that money is spent or invested
  • Vigilant - always being careful to notice things, especially possible danger:
  • Resourceful - good at finding effective ways to deal with problems
  • Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
  • Legitimacy - the fact that something is legal
  • Resolute - extremely determined
  • Demolish - to deliberately destroy a building
  • Acquire - to get something
  • Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
  • Circumvent - to find a way of avoiding a rule or law that limits you, especially using a clever trick that does not break the law
  • Address - a formal speech
  • Moratorium - an official agreement to stop an activity temporarily
  • Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
  • Spirit - a particular way of thinking, feeling, or behaving
  • Legitimate - fair and reasonable
  • Pre-emptive - done or said to prevent something from happening
  • Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
  • Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
  • Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
  • Imperil - to put someone or something in danger
  • Meagre - smaller or less than you want or need
  • Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
  • Sentence - when a judge sentences someone, they officially state what someone’s punishment will be
  • Rigorous - strict, or severe
  • Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison
  • Acting - someone who does a job for a short time while the person who usually does that job is not there
  • Exile - a situation in which you are forced to live in a foreign country because you cannot live in your own country, usually for political reasons
  • Convicted - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
  • In absentia - if something happens in absentia, the person involved is not present when it happens
  • Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
  • Grenade - a small bomb that someone throws or fires from a gun
  • Rally - a public meeting that a lot of people go to in order to support someone or something or to protest against someone or something
  • Cripple - to damage something severely, or to prevent it from working properly
  • Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
  • Minor - not very important in comparison with people or things of the same type
  • Secular - not religious, or not connected with religion
  • Icon - someone who is very famous and who people think represents a particular idea
  • Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
  • Fortunes - the things that happen to someone or something and the changing degree to which they are successful
  • Lopsided - not equal
  • Entrenched - entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change
  • League - a group of people or things that are similar in their quality, skills, or achievements
  • Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
  • Vengeance - the act of harming or killing someone because they have done something bad to you
  • Misleading - intended or likely to make someone believe something that is incorrect or not true
  • Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
  • Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
  • Fundamentalism - the belief that the original laws of a religion should be followed very strictly and not be changed
  • Repressive - ruling or controlling people by the use of force or violence, or by laws that put unreasonable limits on their freedom
  • Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
  • Veneer - a pleasant appearance, or a polite way of behaving that is not sincere
  • Illegitimacy - not legal or fair
  • Contention - an opinion or statement that something is true, especially one made during a discussion or argument
  • Backfire - if a plan or idea backfires, it has the opposite effect to the one that you wanted
  • Creditable - good enough to deserve some praise or admiration
  • Tangible - important and noticeable
  • Infant - a baby, or a very young child
  • Mortality - the number of deaths within a particular area, group etc
  • Fertility - a woman’s ability to have babies
  • Sanitation - conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
  • Misgiving - a feeling of fear or doubt about whether something is right or will have a good result
  • Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
  • Impatient - annoyed because something is not happening as quickly as you want or in the way you want
  • Critic - someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it
  • Guilty - someone who is guilty has committed a crime
  • Misdemeanour - an action that is bad or wrong, but not in a serious way
  • Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
  • Overreach - to try to do more than your ability, authority, or money will allow
  • Ominous - making you think that something bad will happen
  • Stringent - stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards
  • Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
  • Liberate - to make a place or the people in it free from soldiers who have been controlling it
  • Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
  • Chilling - making you feel suddenly very frightened or worried
  • Pursue - to follow a course of activity
  • Quasi - partly
  • Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
  • Emasculate - to reduce the power or effectiveness of something
  • Delegitimise - to make something seem not valid or not acceptable
  • Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election

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