The Hindu Editorial Vocab – 19 Nov, 2018

The Hindu Editorial (Cyclone Gaja: Being prepared against extreme events) Vocab – 19 Nov, 2018

November 19, 2018

Tamil Nadu was more prepared than before to deal with Cyclone Gaja when it made landfall between Nagapattinam and Vedaranyam on November 16, but it still took a toll of at least 45 lives.

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  • Resilience (noun)लचीलापन 
    Meaning – The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
    Synonyms – Flexibility, pliability, suppleness, plasticity, elasticity, springiness, spring, give.
    Sentence – Family therapists may be their best allies in passing on resilience.
  • Landfall (noun) – भूस्खलन
    Meaning – A collapse of a mass of land; a landslide.
    Sentence – He made landfall and fixed his position.
  • Take its toll (phrase)
    Meaning – have an adverse effect. 
  • Pay off (phrasal verb)
    Meaning – be successful, be effective, get results. 
  • Bureaucracy (noun) – नौकरशाही
    Meaning – A system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
    Synonyms – government, the establishment, administration.
    Sentence – Most bureaucracies encourage their people to be the first and only line of defense.
  • Mitigate (verb)कम करना, घटाना
    Meaning – Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.
    Synonyms – diminish, reduce, lessen.
    Sentence – One is to develop a serious plan for mitigating extreme poverty.
  • Catastrophic (adjective)आपत्तिजनक, प्रलयंकर
    Meaning – Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
    Synonyms – destructive, ruinous, disastrous.
    Sentence – Officials say the hurricane could cause catastrophic damage.
  • Classify (verb)वर्गीकृत, श्रेणीबद्ध करना
    Meaning – Arrange (a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics.
    Synonyms – categorize, list, group.
    Sentence – Soils within the park have been classified into 29 types.
  • Vulnerability (noun)दोष पूर्णता, अतिसंवेदनशीलता
    Meaning – The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
    Synonyms – weakness, defencelessness, frailty, susceptibility.
    Sentence – The report stresses the vulnerability of farmers in the marketplace.
  • Partisan (adjective) – पक्षपातपूर्ण, कट्टर
    Meaning – A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
    Synonyms – biased, prejudiced, one-sided.
    Sentence – True democracy is dreaded by partisans of the old left and right alike.
  • Get in the way of (phrase)
    Meaning – to obstruct something. 
  • Rehabilitation (noun)पुनर्वास
    Meaning – the action of bringing (someone or something) back to a normal.
    Sentence – He tells of raising four siblings alone while his mother took drug rehabilitation.
  • Contrast (noun) – विरोध
    Meaning – The state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.
    Synonyms – difference, dissimilarity, contradiction/incongruity.
    Sentence – The contrast between the two men couldn’t be more distinct.
  • Livestock (noun) – पशु, मवेशी
    Meaning – Farm animals regarded as an asset.
    Sentence – The government took the initiative to send seed and livestock to these farms.
  • Provision (noun) – प्रावधान
    Meaning – The action of providing or supplying something for use.
    Synonyms – supplying, giving, providing, allocation, distribution.
    Sentence – The Government’s provision of a limited amount of more money is welcome.
  • Far fewer (phrase)
    Meaning – much less (with a large difference).
  • Casualty (noun) दुर्घटना, दुर्घटना का शिकार
    Meaning – A person killed or injured in a war or accident.
    Synonyms – victim, fatality, dead and injured.
    Sentence – Regardless of this, the casualty figures for the Black Death were massive.
  • Hazard (noun) – जोखिम
    Meaning – A danger or risk.
    Synonyms – danger, risk, peril.
    Sentence – The 1998 case is a notorious example of the hazards of credit risk.

 

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