Hindu Editorial Vocabulary PDF- April 2022 Edition

If you get stuck in the English language section of prominent banking exams because of vocabulary, you are at the right place. We at PracticeMock, analyze the editorials of prominent newspapers and cherry-pick the difficult words/ phrases/ terms and explain only their contextual sense. As you would already be aware, a word may have a number of meanings and sometimes it’s okay for you to get confused as to which meaning will be applied at a particular place. So, to save you from any confusion, we only tell you the contextual sense of the difficult words/ phrases.

Remember: It’s only reading and writing which can increase the rate of your vocabulary learning. As you read randomly, you may come across a word that you encountered a while back. You may or may not retain its meaning and that is absolutely fine. Look into the dictionary again and try to understand its contextual usage in the new sentence. This time you may retain its meaning. Next comes writing. When you write something, try using the newly learnt words. This will reinforce its meaning to your brain and you would be more likely to retain its meaning.

Here is the list of all difficult words/ phrases/ terms used in the editorials in the month of April 2022. Have a look and see which word’s meaning you didn’t know hitherto.

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Difficult Word/ Phrase/ Term	Contextual Sense/ Definition
Inflammatory	Arousing to action
Peddling	to advocate (ideas) persistently or importunately
Prohibitory	Tending to discourage (especially of prices)
Conspicuous	completely obvious
Bin	If you bin something, you throw it away
Fulmination	Thunderous verbal attack
Incitement	An act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
Genocidal	Relating to systematic killing of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, etc.
Tenor	purpose
Dithering	Act nervously; be undecided
Call for	Express the need or desire for
Stern	very serious
Fringe	A social group holding marginal or extreme views
Gainsaid	Question the truth or validity of; take exception to
Provocateur	A secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
Foster	Promote the growth of
Feed off	to gain strength, energy, or support from (something)
Seep	to enter or be introduced at a slow pace
Tranquility	A state of peace and quiet
Perennial	Recurring again and again
Myopic	Lacking foresight or scope
Open a can of worms	to create a complicated situation in which doing something to correct a problem leads to many more problems
Raging	Very intense
Reigning	denoting the most recent winner of a competition, contest, etc
Ostracize	Expel from a community or group
Unprecedented	unheard-of
Transcend	Be greater in scope
Unilaterally	by means of one part or party
Splintered	to break into small parts or into groups with divergent views
Shorn	to strip or divest (someone) of a power, right, etc.
Check and balance	counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups
Optics	the superficial appearance of an action or event
Hold aloft	to maintain at an elevated altitude
Blanket ban	complete or total ban
Militate	be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing
Strip	Take away functions
Attest	show by one’s behaviour, attitude etc.
Espouse	Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one’s own
Can’t see the wood for the trees	to be unable to understand a situation clearly because you are too involved in it
Quinquennially	Occurring once in five years
Fructify	Become productive or fruitful
Flag	to draw attention to (something)
Discrepancy	A difference between conflicting facts, claims or opinions
Divergence	A variation that deviates from the standard or norm
Scuttle	Intentionally undermine
Unflattering	Showing or representing unfavourably
Obfuscate	Make obscure or unclear
Caveat	A statement that limits or restricts some claim
Commission	Charge with a task
Drought	A shortage of rainfall
Moot	Think about carefully; weigh
Spell out	specify in detail
Factor in	Consider as relevant when making a decision
Take something with a pinch of salt	If you take something with a pinch of salt, you do not believe that it is completely accurate or true.
Surmise	A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Extinction	Abolition
Tom-tom	proclaim or boast about
Insinuation	An indirect (and usually malicious) implication
Discontent	A longing for something better than the present situation
Harbinger	Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
Shore up	Support, help or boost something that would otherwise be weak or fail
Exacerbate	Make worse
Balm	something comforting
Unhindered	Not slowed, blocked or interfered with
Unequivocal	Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding
Erstwhile	Belonging to some prior time
Steadfastly	With resolute determination
Vociferously	expressing your opinions or feelings in a loud and confident way
Betray	to disappoint the expectations of
Punitive	Inflicting punishment
Provocative	Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
Reiterate	To state again
Egregious	outstandingly bad
Contumacious	stubbornly disobedient
Partisan	Devoted to a cause or party
Conflate	Add together different elements
Insinuation	An indirect (and usually malicious) implication
Foment	Try to stir up public opinion
Crucial	Of extreme importance
Insurgency	An organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict
Bring down	Cause the downfall of
Unleash	Turn loose or free from restraint
Roll back	The act of forcing the enemy to withdraw
Porous	Allowing passage in and out
Retaliate	Take revenge for a perceived wrong
Breakdown	Cause to fall or collapse
Disown	to say that you no longer want to be connected with or responsible for somebody/something
Proxy	A person authorized to act for another
Jurisprudence	The collection of rules imposed by authority
Myopic	Lacking foresight or scope
Tamper	Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Intimidate	To compel or deter by (or as if) by threats or a show of force
Fleet	Disappear gradually
Acquittal	(law) a judgment of not guilty
Facet	A distinct feature or element in a problem
Victimology	The study of the victims of crime, esp. the psychological effects of crime
Indictment	A formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offence
Repose	Put or confide something in a person or thing
Ripple effect	The effect of an event setting off other events in an unexpected way, or in unexpected areas
Protract	Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
Tenure	The term during which some position is held
Spectrum	a range of light waves or radio waves within particular frequencies
Negate	show to be false
Steep in	to make (someone) know and understand a lot about (something)
Obviate	Prevent the occurrence of
Malfeasance	Wrongful conduct by a public official
Net	to yield or earn as clear profit
Linchpin	A central cohesive source of support and stability
Reel under	To struggle to deal with some oppressive or difficult burden or responsibility
Inevitable	Incapable of being avoided or prevented
Bailout	A rescue, esp. a rescue from financial difficulties
Devastated	Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
Pre-emptive	Designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence
Shepherd	to watch over carefully
Absolve of	to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt
Moot	Think about carefully
Insipid	Lacking interest
Curtail	Place restrictions on
Work-in-progress	A piece of work that is not yet finished
Litigation	a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights
Emphasis	Special importance or significance
Mandate	Make something required by rule
Dubious	Open to doubt or suspicion
Proficient	Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Wherewithal	The necessary means (especially financial means)
Rule out	Include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
Backdrop	The context and environment in which something is set
Pragmatic	Concerned with practical matters
Landscape	An extensive mental viewpoint
Polarise	Cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions
Run-off	A final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
Whopping	Very large
Resentment	A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Endorse	Give support or one’s approval to
Follow suit	Do what someone else is doing
Alienate	Make withdrawn, isolated or emotionally dissociated
Nuanced	characterized by subtle shades of meaning or expression
Polity	The form of government of a social organization
Spin	A distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)
Zeal	Excessive fervour to do something
Mar	Destroy severely
Outfit	A cohesive unit
Dissemination	The act of dispersing something
Genocidal	Inclined to systematic killing of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, etc.
Tenor	purpose
Retaliation	Action taken in return for an injury or offence
Discreet	judicious in one’s conduct or speech, esp. with regard to maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature
Tacit	Implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Erosion	the fact of a good quality or situation being gradually lost or destroyed
Trajectory	the way in which a process or event develops over a period of time
Spectrum	A broad range of related objects, values, qualities, ideas or activities
Underscore	emphasizing the importance of something
Vicissitude	natural change or mutation
Unambiguous	having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion
Prickly	Very irritable
Dwarf	Make appear small by comparison
Mount	Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
Hegemon	A leading or paramount power
Weigh	take into account
Slump	a sudden large fall in the value of something
Mutate	to change into a new form
Roll-out	officially launch or introduce a new product or service
Eschew	Avoid and stay away from deliberately
Immune	A person who is secure against a particular infection
Buffer	Protect from impact
Bear	to hold in the mind
Gear up	Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
Lacklustre	dull
Bar	An obstruction
Abandon	leave behind
Presuppose	to accept or assume without question
Befitting	Appropriate to
Shed	Get rid of
Aversion	A feeling of intense dislike
Unifying	Combining into a single unit
Condemn	Express strong disapproval of
Lash out	Aggressively challenge in speech or writing
Imbibe	Receive into the mind and retain
Faultline	a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail
Defect	Leave (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
Leavened	made with yeast or other raising agent
Hametz	leavened food banned during Passover
Recess	A state of abeyance or suspended business
Stature	High level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement
Bloc	A group of countries in special alliance
Animosity	​a strong feeling of opposition, anger or hate
Plausible	Apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing
Sustainability	the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level
Revamping	renovate
Rejig	Put into a new order or arrangement
Triad	A set of three similar things considered as a unit
Man	Take charge of a certain job
Rehabilitation	The restoration of someone to a useful place in society
Invoke	Cite as an authority; resort to
Inundate	to overwhelm
Hamper	Prevent the progress or free movement of
Letter of the law	what is actually written in the law, rather than the moral principles on which it is based
Overseas	in, to or from another country that you have to cross the sea to get to
Regime	a form of government or rule; political system
Pronged	An approach having two or three parts
Abstain	Refrain from voting
Subvert	hinder normal operations
Red carpet	Special treatment or hospitality
Cordial	Politely warm and friendly
Amenable	Responsive to suggestions and influences
Curtail	Place restrictions on
Veer off	to begin to go in the wrong direction
Deficiency	the state of not having, or not having enough of, something that is essential
Lacunae	A blank gap or missing part
Sophisticated	Ahead in development
Stringency	Conscientious attention to rules and details
Tangle	to come into conflict
Terminate	Bring to an end
Tilt	to direct (a discussion, policy, etc.) so as to favor a particular opinion or side
Gargantuan	Very large
Windfall	A sudden happening that brings good fortune
Efficacy	Capacity or power to produce a desired effect
Repeal	an official or legal cancellation
Nod	A sign of assent
Vociferous	expressing opinions in a very loud or forceful way
Jurisdiction	the territory within which power can be exercised
Adjoin	share a boundary
Insurgency	an attempt to take control of a country by force
Piecemeal	One thing at a time
Steadfastly	With resolute determination
Hostile	Characterized by enmity or ill will
Purview	The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
Cohesion	tendency to unite
Assuage	to pacify; calm
Orientation	familiarization with and adaptation to a situation
Stalemate	to bring to a standstill
Inherent	Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
Repatriation	The act of returning to the country of origin
Impediment	Something that interferes with (or delays) action or progress
Spillover	a situation or feeling that starts in one place but then begins to happen or have an effect somewhere else
Bolster	Support and strengthen
Strive	Attempt by employing effort

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