English Vocabulary from
sponsored links
Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 25th November 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Leave them alone: on the Sentinelese"
- Sentinel - a soldier who stands at the entrance to a place and guards it
- Tragic - causing or involving great sadness, because someone suffers or dies
- Misguided - a misguided idea or action is based on judgments or opinions that are wrong
- Inhabitant - a person or animal that lives in a particular place
- Convict - to prove in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Urge - to advise someone very strongly about what action or attitude they should take
- Integrate - combining things, people, or ideas of different types in one effective unit, group, or system
- Extinction - the situation when an animal, plant, or language no longer exists
- Tragedy - a very sad event that causes people to suffer or die
- Foolhardy - ignoring obvious dangers in a stupid way
- Missionary - someone who has been sent to a place by a religious organization to teach the people there about a particular religion
- Scholar - someone who studies a particular subject and knows a lot about it, especially a subject that is not scientific
- Adventurer - someone who enjoys and looks for dangerous and exciting experiences
- Venture - to risk going somewhere or doing something that might be dangerous or unpleasant
- Circumstance - conditions that make a bad action or mistake seem less serious, sometimes even making it seem reasonable
- Meticulous - very thorough and with careful attention to detail
- Precaution - something done to protect people or things against possible harm or trouble
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Isolation - the state of being separated from other people, or a situation in which you do not have the support of other people
- Immunity - the protection that someone’s body gives them against a particular disease
- Resistance - the ability not to be affected or harmed by something, especially a disease or a drug
- Indigenous - indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Poacher - someone who illegally catches or kills animals, birds, or fish on someone else’s property
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Circumnavigation - to sail or fly completely around something, especially the world or an island
- Buffer - something that protects another thing by being between it and something else that could harm it
- Perhaps - used to show that something is possible or that you are not certain about something
- Reclusive - living alone and avoiding other people
- Fiercely - in a frightening, violent, or powerful way
- Intruder - someone who enters a place where they are not allowed to go, especially to commit a crime
- Spear - a long weapon like a stick with one sharp end
- Tsunami - a very large wave or series of waves caused when something such as an earthquake moves a large quantity of water in the sea
- Knowingly - if you do something knowingly, you do it deliberately even though you know that what you are doing is wrong or illegal
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- Misadventure - something bad that happens to you
- At the heart of - to be the most important part of something
- Survival - the fact or state of continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions
- Census - an occasion on which government officials count the people who live in a country and record other information about them
- Anthropologist - someone who scientifically studies humans and their customs, beliefs, and relationships
- Ignorance - lack of knowledge or facts about a situation or a particular subject
- Orientalist - someone from a western country who studies the languages, cultures, or history of the countries of eastern Asia
- Discourse - a long and serious speech or piece of writing on a particular subject
- Overpower - to defeat someone in a fight or game
- Cautionary - warning someone that they should be careful
- Oversight - something that you do not notice or think of that causes problems later
- Embrace - to completely accept something such as a new belief, idea, or way of life
- Heritage - the art, buildings, traditions, and beliefs that a society considers important to its history and culture
- Diversity - the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place
- Empathetic - able to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them
- Vulnerable - easily damaged by something negative or harmful
- Inhabitant - a person or animal that lives in a particular place
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Ahead on malaria: on reduction in cases in India"
- Bringing down - to reduce the rate, level, or amount of something
- Incidence - the number of cases of an illness or a medical condition in a particular place, group, or situation
- Major - important, serious, large, or great
- Morbidity - the number of people affected by a particular disease
- Declining - becoming less or worse
- Scourge - something that causes a lot of trouble or harm
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Optimism - a tendency to be hopeful and to expect that good things will probably happen
- Endemic - very common, or strongly established in a place or situation
- Accredited - an accredited organization, worker, or course of study has official approval
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Insecticide - a chemical for killing insects, especially those that damage plants or crops
- Bednet - a net which is hung over the bed to keep out mosquitos and other insects
- Paid off - if something that you do pays off, it brings you some benefit
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Attribute something to someone/something - to believe that something is the result of a particular situation, event, or person’s actions
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Transmission - a process by which a disease spreads from one person to another
- Complacency - a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder
- Deployment - to use something or someone, especially in an effective way
- Resistance - refusal to accept something new such as a plan, idea, or change
- Artemisinin - a drug obtained from a type of plant
- Falciparum - the most severe form of malaria
- Parasite - a plant or animal that lives in or on another type of animal and feeds on it
- Cerebral - relating to or affecting your brain
- Phenomenon - an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist
- Monitoring - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Efficacious - producing the effect that you intended
- Statistically - relating to a group of numbers that represent facts or that describe a situation
- Remote - far away from other cities, towns, or people
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Rid - to take action that stops something annoying, unpleasant, or not wanted from affecting you
Read Previous Posts of THE HINDU English Vocabulary from here
Download Top 10 HINDU Editorials of 2017 with meanings (Pdf) from HERE
sponsored links
Download Top 10 HINDU Editorials of 2017 with meanings (Pdf) from HERE
sponsored links
0 Responses:
Post a Comment