High noon – The Hindu (Mar 06 2018)

High noon – The Hindu (Mar 06 2018)

The India Meteorological Department’s forecast of above-normal maximum and minimum temperatures across the country during the pre-monsoon March-May period is a timely alert for State authorities to review their preparedness. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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Word List-2 (To Improve English Vocabulary)

1. high noon (noun) – encounter, head-to-head, face-off.
2. intervention (noun) – action to improve a medical condition.
3. heat stress (noun) – heat stress occurs when our body is unable to cool itself enough to maintain a healthy temperature (due temperatures over 90 degrees, sun exposure, or high humidity).
4. deprived (adjective) – poor, disadvantaged, poverty-stricken.
5. heatwave (noun) – (a long period of) hot weather, hotness, humidity.
6. advent (noun) – arrival, emergence, occurrence.
7. oppressive (adjective) – hot, humid, torrid.
8. mortality rate (noun) – (in a particular time/for a cause) the rate of death.
9. spike (noun) – a sharp increase in importance of something.
10. contend (verb) – assert, claim, affirm.
11. implications (noun) – consequence/outcome, ramification, repercussion.
12. heatstroke (noun) – it is also known as sun stroke, is a severe heat illness, defined as hyperthermia with a body temperature greater than 40.6 °C (105.1 °F) because of environmental heat exposure with lack of thermoregulation (Courtesy: Wikipedia).
13. exhaustion (noun) – extreme tiredness, fatigue, lack of energy.
14. cramp (noun) – muscle spasm, muscle contraction.
15. stakeholder (noun) – a person with an interest in something.
16. phenomenon (noun) – occurrence, event, happening.
17. water stress (noun) – water scarcity; the lack of sufficient available fresh water resources to meet water demand.
18. chronic (adjective) – long-lasting, constant, continuing/persistent.
19. scarcity (noun) – shortage, undersupply, insufficiency.
20. La Niña (noun) – abnormal cooling; El Nino (abnormal warming) (of the Equatorial East of the Pacific that lies closer to the Americas).
21. pursue (verb) – engage in, take part in, go in for.
22. mitigation (noun) – alleviation, reduction; lessening.
23. greenhouse gas (noun) – heat trapping gas; a gas (such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc) in the atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation, causing greenhouse effect and warming of Earth’s temperature (Courtesy: VOA Learning English).
24. climate change (noun) – a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth (Courtesy: NASA).

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