The Hindu Editorial (Self-inflicted injury) – Feb 12, 2025

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The Hindu Editorial (Self-inflicted injury) – Jan 12, 2025:

1. self-inflicted (adjective) – caused suffering to oneself (on his/her own).
2. tariff (noun) – a tax imposed by one country on the goods and services imported from another country.
3. spare (verb) – refrain from infliction; be merciful to, be lenient to, leave unpunished, forgive, let off.
4. suggest (verb) – indicate, denote, point to, signify.
5. sweeping (adjective) – comprehensive, extensive, expansive, broad, total, complete, all-inclusive, all-embracing, far-reaching, across the board.
6. administration (noun) – government, governance, regime.
7. result in (verb) – cause, lead to, bring on, bring about, produce, give rise to.
8. inflation (noun) – simply meaning “cost of living”; increase of price level of goods & services and vice versa decrease of currency value.
9. Gross domestic product (GDP) (noun) – a measure of economic activity in a country. It is the total value of a country’s annual output of goods and service.
10. household (noun) – family, house.
11. Federal Reserve (US) (noun) – the central banking system of the United States (The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central banking institution).
12. disentangle (verb) – free, remove, release, disengage, detach, disconnect.
13. expose (verb) – subject, lay open, put at risk of, make vulnerable.
14. relative (adjective) – comparative, comparable, correlative, respective, corresponding, reciprocal.
15. retaliatory (adjective) – revenging, vengeful, avenging.
16. retaliatory tariff (noun) – punitive tariff; an extra tariff/tax that a country charges on import goods from another country to punish the another country for charging tax on its own export goods.
17. outweigh (verb) – have the edge over, offset, cancel out, outbalance.
18. lead to (verb) – cause, result in, bring on, bring about, produce, give rise to.
19. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (noun) – the U.S. lawmakers created the Congressional Budget Office to help the Congress play a stronger role in budget matters. CBO was established by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (the Budget Act) to provide objective, nonpartisan information to support the Congressional budget process and to help the Congress make effective budget and economic policy.
20. U.S. Congress (noun) – legislative assembly, parliament; The United States Congress is the bicameral (two chambers) legislature of the federal government of the United States, and consists of two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
21. outlook (noun) – prospects, expectations, chances, possibilities, future.
22. project (verb) – predict, indicate, forecast, prognose, speculate, calculate (of future events or trends).
23. tariff/trade barriers (noun) – taxes established by each country to restrict foreign trade.
24. trade barriers (noun) – government-induced restrictions on international trade.
25. non-tariff barriers (noun) – it refer to any measures, other than customs tariffs, that regulate imports or exports into a country. Non-tariff barriers include embargoes, sanctions, and levies.
26. term (noun) – period of office; spell, stint, duration, incumbency.
27. mirror (verb) – reflect, repeat, match, reproduce, imitate.
28. exempt (verb) – free from, not liable to, not subject to.
29. truce (noun) – an ad-hoc (temporary/makeshift) arrangement, arrived at by the combatants (fighters), to pause the fighting. Temporary cessation/suspension (of hostilities); A deal to stop fighting for a certain time.
30. ceasefire (noun) – a negotiated agreement that will be accompanied by other associated commitments to de-escalate the fighting; a temporary stoppage of war, truce, armistice.
31. cessation of hostilities (phrase) – it means that the combatants are willing to stop fighting and to restrain their forces.
32. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (noun) – a trade pact signed in 1992 that gradually eliminated most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The pact effectively created a free-trade bloc among the three largest countries of North America.
33. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) (noun) – an agreement between two or more countries designed to reduce or eliminate certain barriers to trade and investment, and to facilitate stronger trade and commercial ties between participating countries.
34. to a large/great extent (phrase) – largely, to a considerable degree; in a substantial way.
35. account for (phrasal verb) – constitute, make up, comprise, form, compose, represent.
36. rely on (phrasal verb) – depend on, trust, believe in, turn to, lean on, bank on, count on.
37. appliance (noun) –  device, machine, instrument, gadget, apparatus, tool.
38. welcome (verb) – accept, embrace, approve of, be glad about, be pleased by.
39. unlikely (adjective) – not likely, doubtful, improbable, questionable, debatable.
40. surplus (noun) – generation of goods, services, and resources (such as capital) exceeds their consumption.
41. drive (verb) – cause to happen.
42. ripple (verb) – spread through.
43. affordability (noun) – the capacity to afford the cost/price of something.
44. if history is any indication (phrase) – considering what has happened in the past (events and trends), one can reasonably expect/predict a similar thing to happen in the current situation.
45. strained (adjective) – affected, troubled, fraught, edgy, embarrassed.
46. albeit (conjunction) – though, even though, however.

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