Improve Vocabulary - The Hindu Editorial - 28 November 2015

One editorial of The Hindu on 28 November 2015 was about the non-compliance of Maharashtra government to the Supreme Court judgment which stayed its legislation to ban dance bars in Mumbai.

(A) Unhealthy defiance (Please read the article first and then come back to us. We are only covering the English Words)

  

1. It is not unusual to see State governments showing reluctance to abide by court orders that rulers deem politically inexpedient or ideologically unpalatable.

(a) reluctance: an unwillingness to do something

More examples: I accepted his resignation with great reluctance.

(b) abide: If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much

(c) deem: to consider or judge something in a particular way.

More examples: The area has now been deemed safe.

(d) inexpedient: not suitable or convenient

More examples: It was inexpedient for him to be seen to approve of the decision.

(e) unpalatable: An unpalatable fact or idea is unpleasant or shocking and therefore difficult to accept.

2. Maharashtra is perilously close to being seen as wilfully disobedient.

(a) perilously : extremely dangerous

More examples: The country roads are quite perilous.

3.  The court has now peremptorily told the State government to process within two weeks all the applications it has received.

(a) peremptorily: expecting to be obeyed immediately and without asking questions.

More examples: He started issuing peremptory instructions.

4. The present amendment that his regime is trying to defend is unlikely to survive judicial scrutiny.

(a) regime: a particular government or a system or method of government.

More examples: The old corrupt, totalitarian regime was overthrown.

5. The plight of these vulnerable sections ought to pose greater concern to the government than the possibility that society will lapse into depravity by the mere presence of dance bars.

(a) plight: an unpleasant condition, especially a serious, sad, or difficult one.

More examples: the plight of the poor/homeless.

(b) ought: used to say that the action expressed in the verb is probable or expected

More examples: He ought to be home by seven o’clock.

(c) depravity: the state of being morally bad, or an action that is morally bad.

6. Wholesale bans and unhealthy defiance of judicial authority should not be among them.

(a) defiance: behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something.

More examples: In defiance of the ceasefire, rebel troops are again firing on the capital.

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Learn New English Words - The Hindu Editorial - 17 November 2015

The Editorial for the day is about the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to UK recently . Let's have a look at the words used in this editorial which are not so commonly used.

(A) Narendra Modi & Jawaharlal Nehru (Please read the article first and then come back to us. We are only covering the English Words)

  

1. The praise and the miss displayed the strategic manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, have tactfully used and baited Nehru.

(a) baited - to intentionally make a person angry by saying or doing things to annoy them.

2. Nehru’s idea of India — privileging citizenry, secularism and rationalism — is of course at odds with the Right’s ideology, with its cultural nationalism and strident majoritarianism slant.

(a) strident - expressing or expressed in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people.

(b) slant - to present information in a particular way, especially showing one group of people, one side of an argument, etc. in such a positive or negative way that it is unfair.

More examples: The police claimed that reports in the media were slanted against/towards the defendant.

3. Modern, independent India draws heavily from the ethos that Nehru was devoted to and one which he consciously fostered.

(a) ethos - the set of beliefs, ideas, etc. about the social behaviour and relationships of a person or group.

(b) fostered - to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings.

4. But even as the Sangh bristles against Nehru’s liberal legacy, the BJP’s top leaders seek to place themselves in a chronological line.

(a) bristles - to react angrily.

More examples: She bristled at the suggestion that she had in any way neglected the child.

5. The office of the Prime Minister of India draws much of its aura from the man who first occupied it.

(a) aura - a feeling or character that a person or place seems to have.

More examples: The woods have an aura of mystery.

6. Therefore the routine personal jibes, the references to his western demeanour, his easy camaraderie with women.

(a) jibes - to make insulting remarks that are intended to make someone look stupid.

(b) demeanour - a way of looking and behaving

More examples: There was nothing in his demeanour that suggested he was anxious.

(c) camaraderie - a feeling of friendliness towards people that you work or share an experience with.

More examples: When you've been climbing alone for hours, there's a tremendous sense of camaraderie when you meet another climber.

7. In doing so, it straitjackets his legacy so that it becomes that much more easily attackable.

(a) straitjackets- something that severely limits development or activity in a way that is damaging

More examples: He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.

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Learn New English Words - The Hindu Editorial Review - 14 November 2015

Friends..Let's learn some new English words and improve our vocabulary. The Best and easy for that is reading the editorial from The Hindu newspaper. You can't finish reading a Hindu Editorial article without referring a Dictionary. That shows the number of words used by their editorial team in the articles, which are not so commonly used. If you ask any regular reader of The Hindu, they will surely say they are the Big Fans of the Editorials. It improves our vocabulary as well as brings all the Current Affairs topics to our forefront.

As you know, The Hindu always has two editorials in a day. So let's have a look at the Editorials of 14 November 2015. 

(A) BJP’s larger stock-taking (Please read the article first and then come back to us. We are only covering the English Words)

First Editorial for the day is about the defeat of BJP in Bihar Assembly Polls. Let's have a look at the words used in this editorial which are not so commonly used.

1. The attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s current leadership by its most senior veterans continues to force a quiet churn, and where it will end is not yet clear.

(a) churn - to move something, especially a liquid, with great force.

Other examples: The sea was churned up by heavy winds.

2. Reason for the party’s defeat in Bihar was the manner in which it had been “emasculated in the last year”.

(a) emasculated - to reduce the effectiveness of something.

Other examples: They were accused of trying to emasculate the report's recommendations.

3. In the days after, sundry party members have joined issue with one of the two groups.

(a) sundry -  several different; various.

Other examples: Sundry distant relatives, most of whom I hardly recognized, turned up for my brother's wedding.

4. But it would be deflecting from the difficult questions posed by the Bihar verdict if the repercussions were to be seen as simply an organisational tussle between the incumbents and the marginalised in the party’s power structure.

(a) verdict - an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, especially one made at the end of a trial.

(b) repercussions - the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect.

Other examples: Any decrease in tourism could have serious repercussions for the local economy.

(c) tussle - to have difficult disagreements or strong arguments.

(d) incumbents - officially having the named position.

Other examples: The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.

5.  A defeat as spectacular as this, because of the BJP’s slide in Bihar’s electoral stakes since the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and the aura of invincibility around Mr. Modi, was bound to have organisational reverberations.

(a) stakes -  a share or a financial involvement in something such as a business.

(b) aura - a feeling or character that a person or place seems to have.

(c)  invincible - Incapable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable.

(d) reverberations - effects that spread and affect a lot of people.

Other examples: This move is likely to have reverberations throughout the health service.

6. However, in Bihar the BJP ran a sectarian campaign that included, on occasion, polarising statements by the Prime Minister and the BJP president.

(a)  sectarian - strongly supporting a particular religious group and not willing to accept other beliefs.

7. In the event, warnings about a possible BJP defeat being celebrated in Pakistan, with all its Muslim-targeting innuendo, and reservations being protected from encroachment by a particular community, went rebuffed.

(a) innuendo - a remark or remarks that suggest something sexual or something unpleasant but do not refer to it directly.

(b) rebuffed - to refuse to accept a helpful suggestion or offer from someone, often by answering in an unfriendly way.

Other examples: She rebuffed all suggestions that she should resign.

8. When he goes out to campaign for his party, he does not cease even for a moment to be Prime Minister.

(a) does not cease - doen not put an end to; discontinue

9. When he deploys party rhetoric, he does not speak only to potential voters, but to all Indians.

(a) rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people.

Other examples: How far the president will be able to translate his campaign rhetoric into action remains to be seen.

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Expected English Questions for SSC CHSL Exam 2015

Friends.. Here are some useful English Quiz Questions for upcoming SSC CHSL Exam 2015 scheduled to be held in November/December 2015.

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Questions (1 to 5): Choose the correct alternatives for underlined words.

1. Hitler was an absolute potentate.

(A) dictator

(B) militant

(C) ruler

(D) No improvement

2. Boil the potatoes and then crush it until soft.

(A) smash it

(B) knead it

(C) mash it

(D) No improvement

3. Having completion of the course, the students left college.

(A) On completion of

(B) In order to complete

(C) Down the completion

(D) No improvement

4. Will you please give me a warm glass of water?

(A) Will you please give me a glass of warm water?

(B) Will you please give I a warm glass of water?

(C) Would you please give I a warm glass of water?

(D) No improvement

5. They presented him a beautiful expensive designer gold pen.

(A) an expensive designer beautiful gold

(B) a beautiful gold expensive designer

(C) a designer gold beautiful expensive

(D) No improvement

Questions (6 to 10. Find the correctly spelt word

6. (A) Planeing

(B) Planning

(C) Planing

(D) Planning

7. (A) Bilieve

(B) Beleive

(C) Believe

(D) Beleeve

8. (A) Exenerate

(B) Exonerate

(C) Exanrate

(D) Exonarate

9. (A) Ubiqutous

(B) Ubequitous

(C) Ubiquitous

(D) Ubequitus

10. A) Noticible

(B) Noticeible

(C) Noticable

(D) Noticeable
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English Quiz for SSC CHSL Exam 2015

Friends..Here are some useful Questions from English Section for upcoming SSC CHSL Exam 2015 scheduled to be held in November 2015. Attempt Quiz & check your level of preparedness. 

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1) Throughout the years, Rita has _____ a style of her own.

(A) evolved

(B) dissolve

(C) devolve

(D) resolve

2) You will have to account for all the _____ incurred during your tenure.

(A) losses

(B) lose

(C) looses

(D) lost

3) His act was not ____ by anyone.

(A) approval

(B) approving

(C) approve

(D) approved

4) Smoking in public has been ____by law.

(A) prohibited

(B) prevented

(C) disallowed

(D) forbidden

5) Do not be ____ of other's progress.

(a) proud

(b) possess

(c) fascinate

(d) jealous

6) Questions 6 to 10: Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word

SEGREGATE

(A) Disconnect

(B) Seclude

(C) Disunite

(D) Separate

7) BANISH

(A) Force

(B) Trick

(C) Expel

(D) Polish

8) SEDENTARY

(A) Inactive

(B) Unmoving

(C) Fixed

(D) Still

9) BAFFLE

(A) Confuse

(B) Deceive

(C) Sorry

(D) Reveal

10) TRANSIENT

(A) Ephemeral

(B) Unstable

(C) Irregular

(D) Temporary 
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English Online Quiz for upcoming Exams

Friends..Here are some useful English Online Quiz for cracking upcoming exams. This quiz will be useful for SSC CGL/CHSL 2015, FCI/RBI/OICL Assistant Exam 2015, IBPS RRB/PO 2015 and other PSC Exams. Try out the quiz & share your score.

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1) The train is..........time.

(A) besides

(B) between

(C) behind

(D) by

2) Ninety members voted..........favour of the resolution.

(A) in

(B) to

(C) for

(D) from

3) Good citizens always abide..........the law.

(A) with

(B) of

(C) by

(D) for

4) There is a disturbing nexus..........politics and sports in India.

(A) among

(B) with

(C) by

(D) between

5) What do you make..........all this ?

(A) with

(B) of

(C) by

(D) for

6) The art exhibition is to be officially opened..........Wednesday..........2 p.m.

(A) on; at

(B) at; on

(C) from; on

(D) on; from

7) He cut his finger..........a knife.

(A) with

(B) by

(C) from

(D) into

8) There is an exception..........every rule.

(A) for

(B) from

(C) to

(D) in

Ans. (C) to

9) You should start at dawn to reach the station..........time.

(A) upon

(B) by

(C) in

(D) into

10) I have resigned myself..........my fate.

(A) at

(B) with

(C) on

(D) to

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English Quiz for LIC ADO Exam 2015

Friends..Here are some useful Questions from English Section for upcoming LIC ADO Exam 2015. This Quiz will also be useful for other upcoming exams like SSC CGL 2015, OICL Assistant 2015, IBPS PO 2015, SBI PO Mains 2015, IBPS RRB 2015, FCI/RBI Assistant etc. Attempt Quiz & share your score. 

Today’s Questions are:

1) ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’ means?

(A) Reaping is better than sowing

(B) You get the bad result of your bad deed

(C) You get the good result of your good deed

(D) You got the result, good or bad, depending on the nature of your deed

2) ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’ mean?

(A) there is a good side to every difficult situation

(B) there is no hope in a difficult situation

(C) clouds and lightning’s are seen together in the sky

(D) adversity is better than prosperity

3) No country is the world is as rich as America. Which of the following is the correct superlative form of this sentence?

(A) America is richer than the richest country in the world

(B) America is richer than other countries in the world

(C) No country in the world is richer than America

(D) America is the richest country in the world 

4) He said to me. “Please give me the book.” Which of the following is the correct indirect narration of the sentence?

(A) He said to me to kindly give him the book

(B) He asked me to please give him the book

(C) He requested me to give the book

(D) He requested me to please give him the book

5) Which of the following makes the correct use of Preposition?

(A) This is in conformity with the rules laid down by the Corporation

(B) The book is at the table

(C) The train is arriving on the platform

(D) Don’t look down at me

6) Which of the following makes the correct use of article?

(A) A little water in the glass has been drink by the child

(B) A book which was on the table has been stolen

(C) The little knowledge is the dangerous thing

(D) An apple a day keeps the doctor away

7) Which of the following makes the correct use of article?

(A) I have studied at an University

(B) Kalidas is the Shakespeare of India

(C) I have bought a Umbrella

(D) This is best which I have seen

8) There is no culture in the world _____ absolutely pure.

(A) that which is

(B) that which

(C) that is

(D) that what is

9) He took up the letter from the table and _____ it to his friend.

(A) was reading

(B) has been reading

(C) had read

(D) read

10) He led me ____ the green laws to the palatial building.

(A) upon

(B) across

(C) along

(D) about

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