Keeping safety on the rails – The Hindu (Jan 30, 2017)

Keeping safety on the rails – The Hindu (Jan 30, 2017)

The preliminary finding of the Commission of Railway Safety that the derailment of the Indore-Rajendranagar Express near Kanpur in November 2016 that killed over…  For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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Word List-1:

1. on the rails (phrase) – functioning normally.
2. derailment (noun) – the action of a train leaving its tracks accidentally.
3. carriage (noun) – coach, bogie, car (of a train for the transportation of passenger).
4. wagon (noun) – a freight/goods carriage on a railway.
5. sabotage (noun) – damage, destruction, impairment.
6. merit (verb) – deserve, warrant, be worthy of.
7. wheel gauge (noun) – the distance between two wheels on the same rotating/fixed spindle/rod of a vehicle (train).
8. deficient (adjective) – defective, faulty/ flawed, impaired.
9. derelict (adjective) – careless, sloppy, irresponsible.
10. fatal (adjective) – deadly, lethal, killing.
11. equitable (adjective) – impartial, unbiased, egalitarian.
12. pursue (verb) – strive for, work towards, seek to accomplish (a goal).
13. non-lapsable corpus (noun) – the unutilised remaining fund/amount in the corpus (total amount/fund of a scheme) in a particular year is carried forward to the subsequent years.
14. constitute (verb) – amount to, add up to, account for.
15. rely on (phrasal verb) – depend (on) , count (on), bank (on).
16. universal service obligation/universal service (noun) – it is an economic, legal and business term used mostly in regulated industries, referring to the practice of providing a baseline level of services to every resident of a country (Courtesy: Wikipedia).
17. ageing (adjective) – reaching the end of useful life.
18. keep pace with (phrase) – progress at the same rate as.
19. leap (verb) – increase/grow rapidly, surge, escalate.
20. zero tolerance (noun) – a complete refusal to accept certain behavior(Courtesy: VOA Learning English).

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