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English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 8th August 2019
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Blackout: On Kashmir lockdown"
- Blackout - a period during a war when lights in streets and buildings are turned off so that an enemy cannot see them at night
- Lockdown - an occasion or time when access to a place is restricted because of some danger
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Throttling - to create problems that make it very difficult for something to continue or to develop
- Ironically - used for saying that a situation has developed in an unexpected
- Wisdom - knowledge that you have gained over a long period
- Annul - to state officially that something such as a marriage, an agreement, or an election has no legal authority
- Abruptly - in a sudden, unexpected and often unsatisfactory way
- Clampdown - a determined attempt by someone in authority to stop people doing something bad or illegal
- Cavalier - not caring about other people’s feelings or about the seriousness of a situation
- Incomprehensible - impossible to understand
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Muzzle - to prevent a person, group, newspaper etc from expressing their opinions or ideas publicly
- Corollary - something that will also be true if a particular idea or statement is true, or something that will also exist if a particular situation exists
- Consequential - happening as an indirect result of something
- Discourse - a long and serious speech or piece of writing on a particular subject
- Riot - a violent protest by a crowd of people
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Curfew - a law that does not allow people to go outside between a particular time in the evening and a particular time in the morning
- Misinformation - false or incorrect information, especially when it is intended to trick someone
- Treacherous - someone who is treacherous pretends that they support you but secretly tries to harm you, for example by helping an enemy
- Rumour - unofficial information that may or may not be true
- Sparse - existing in small amounts, or a large distance apart
- Precede - to happen or exist before another person or thing
- Flurry - a short period of activity or emotion
- Troop - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Deployment - if a government or army deploys soldiers or weapons, it uses them
- Owing to - because of
- Tight-fisted - not generous with money
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Subsequent - happening or coming after something else
- Monologue - a speech made by someone who talks for a long time and does not let anyone else say anything
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Aversion - a strong feeling that you dislike someone or something
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Choking - to stop someone or something from developing or being successful
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "RBI’s Goldilocks cut: On repo rate cut"
- Goldilocks - used to describe a situation where something is at the ideal, most effective or advantageous point within a range of conditions
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Inflationary - relating to or likely to cause an increase in prices
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Foregone conclusion - a result that you can be certain about before it happens
- Slowdown - a period when there is less activity
- Deem - to consider that someone or something has a particular quality
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Turbulence - a confusing or uncontrolled situation
- Latter - used for referring to the second of two people, things, or groups that have just been mentioned
- Unconventional - different from what most people consider to be usual or normal
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Aggegating - to put things together in a group
- Inhibiting - to make it difficult for a process to start or continue in a normal way
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Hereon - from this point
- Play out - to develop or end in a particular way
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- On the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Optimistic - someone who is optimistic is hopeful about the future and tends to expect that good things will happen
- Impulse - a sudden strong feeling that you must do something
- Determine - to control what something will be
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Incentivise - to make someone want to do something
- Cyclical - cyclical events happen again and again in the same order or at the same times
- In vain - without success
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