Nervous takeoff – The Hindu (June 18, 2016)
The civil aviation policy, unveiled after much ado, ticks all the right boxes. The intent to fast-track the sector and harvest its multiplier effects on the economy, spurring investments, tourism and employment, is clear. Making flying affordable and bringing more cities on the air transport map — either by reviving defunct airports or building no-frills as well as full-fledged commercial terminals — would boost domestic traffic, but the target to more than triple passenger numbers by 2022 is too ambitious. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Words:
- Unveil (verb) – reveal, present, disclose, make public, communicate.
- Ado (noun) – trouble/difficulty, fuss, disturbance, agitation, confusion, tamasha.
- Spur (verb) – stimulate, encourage, prompt.
- Revive (verb) – resuscitate, bring around/back, restore, bring to life.
- Defunct (adjective) – obsolete, extinct, unused/disused, not-functioning.
- No-frills (adjective) – providing only basic things, no extra/unnecessary things.
- Ambitious (adjective) – difficult, challenging, hard, arduous, tough.
- De-politicisation (noun) – a state of removing/changing something which is not at all influenced/controlled by politics.
- Hinterland (noun) – backwoods, remote areas, far from urban areas.
- Subsidise (verb) – give money to, invest in, finance, aid/promote (something private) with public money.
- Populist gesture (noun) -something done to attract common/ordinary people.
- Perils (noun) – difficulties/risks, danger, thread.
- Wisdom – understanding, insight, perception, judgement, prudence.
- Dole (noun) -benefits/funds paid by the Govt. public allowance, welfare.
- Regime (noun) – system, scheme, plan, arrangement, policy.
- Liberalise (verb) – to make something less strict. to provide more freedom in systems.
- Manoeuvre (noun) – operation, exercise, activity, movement, action
- Feasible (adjective) – practical, workable, achievable, realizable, possible.
- Fleet (noun) – a group of vehicles (aircrafts) work together under an organisation.
- Deploy (verb) – use, utilize, make use of, employ.
- Hinge on (phrasal verb) – to depend on, to determined by something, be subject to.
- Sop (verb) – something given/provided (which is of less importance) to pacify somebody.
- Trajectory (noun) – path, way, course, route, track.
Note:
- Click each one of the words above for their definition, more synonyms, pronunciation, example sentences, phrases, derivatives, origin and etc from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ .
- Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.
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