Advanced Word List 2-Learn English-Improve Vocabulary (A register by the people – The Hindu Apr 11, 2018)

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Today’s Advanced Word List 2-Learn English-Improve Vocabulary.

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Today’s Advanced Word List-2 To Learn English And To Improve Vocabulary:

call for (phrasal verb) – require, necessitate/make necessary, demand.
ground truth (noun) – a fundamental truth, the real facts, the underlying facts.
rigorous (adjective) – careful, thorough, detailed.
in turn (phrase) – successively, sequentially, in succession.
decentralise (verb) – move the power/control of a department/government from a single place to other locations.
biodiversity (noun) – the number and variety of species (plants & animals) in a particular geographic region.
entail (verb) – cause/produce, generate, prompt.
habitat (noun) – natural environment, natural territory, natural surroundings.
bottom-up (adjective) – upturned, upended, inverted/reversed.
endemic (adjective) – domestic, native, local.
conserve (verb) – protect, preserve, secure/guard.
sustainable (adjective) – valid, reliable, reasonable.
elusive (adjective) – difficult to find; subtle, indistinct/intangible.
encroachment (noun) – taking away (gradually) of others’ areas (beyond acceptable limits).
fell (verb) – cut down, chop down (a tree).
invasive (adjective) – obtrusive, interrupting, unwanted.
weed (noun) – a wild plant that grows in the fields of crops and prevents the plants which we grow.
grazing (noun) – grassland (suitable for farm animals like cattle or sheep feed on grass).
embrace (verb) – accept, take up, adopt.
oft-forgotten (adverb) – often forgotten.