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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 4th December 2018 from HERE
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Uneasy fields: on Kisan Mukti Morcha"
- Uneasy - slightly worried or uncomfortable about a particular situation
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Reboot - to start something again or do something again, in a way that is new and interesting
- Sought - asked for something, or tried to get something
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Agrarian - relating to or involving farming or farmers
- Key - main / most important
- Unqualified - complete and total, without any doubts
- Waiver - an official statement or document that says a right, claim, or law can be officially ignored or given up
- Mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something
- Indebtedness - the condition of owing money
- Household - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Precarious - likely to change or become dangerous without warning
- Livelihood - something such as your work that provides the money that you need to live
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Fragmented - if something fragments or is fragmented, it breaks into a lot of separate pieces or parts
- Stir - to make someone feel upset or angry
- Restrained - controlled and not emotional
- Conduct - to do something in an organized way
- Unruly - very difficult to control
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Tangible - important and noticeable
- March - to walk along a road as part of a group of people protesting about something
- 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
- By far - used for saying that something has much more of a particular quality than anything else
- Reportedly - used for showing that you are not certain that something you are reporting is true
- Palpable - if a mood or feeling is palpable, it is so strong that you seem to feel it physically yourself
- Bound to - something that is bound to happen will almost certainly happen
- Preceding - existing or coming immediately before someone or something else
- Put something in perspective - a sensible way of judging how good, bad, important etc something is in comparison with other things
- Implode - if something such as an organization or an economic system implodes, it is completely destroyed by things that are happening within it
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Semblance - a situation in which something only appears in a small amount
- Dimmed - become weaker
- About-turn - a big change in your opinion or attitude to something, so that it is almost the opposite of what it was before
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Hit hard - to be very badly affected by something
- Reassure - to make someone feel less worried about something
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Jibe - a comment that is intended to annoy or offend someone
- Aversion - a strong feeling that you dislike someone or something
- Tap into something - to use something or get some benefit from it
- Angst - a strong feeling of worry about what you should do, how you should behave, or what will happen in the future
- Breezy - used in a negative way for saying that someone is too informal and not careful enough
- Vote bank - a large group of voters from a single community who always support a particular party or candidate in elections
- Handout - an amount of money or goods given to people who need them
- Pay lip service to something - to say that you support something although you do not really, especially when you do nothing to prove your support
- Distort - to change or affect something
- Discourse - a long and serious speech or piece of writing on a particular subject
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Tariff truce: On U.S.-China trade war"
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Truce - an agreement between two people or groups involved in a war, fight, or disagreement to stop it for a period of time
- Trade war - a situation in which two or more countries raise import taxes and quotas (= limits on numbers of goods) to try to protect their own economies
- Amicable - friendly and without arguments
- Plaguing - to cause a lot of problems for someone or something for a long period of time
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Refrain - to stop yourself from doing something. This word is often used in official announcements or signs
- Imbalance - a situation in which the balance between two things is not equal or fair
- Cooling down - if a feeling such as love or anger cools, it becomes less strong
- Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
- Albeit - used for introducing a comment that slightly changes or reduces the effect of what you said before it
- Giant - a very large and successful company / country
- Rollback - a reduction of prices, costs, taxes, etc., especially so that they return to a previous level
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Apprehension - a feeling of worry or fear that something bad might happen
- Grinding - extreme: used for emphasizing how bad a situation is
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Sober - with a serious attitude
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Seismic - causing a very great change in a situation
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Protectionist - the actions of a government to help its country's trade or industry by taxing goods bought from other countries
- Claim - to say that something is yours, especially as a right
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