The Hindu Editorial (Submerging markets) – Sep 01, 2018

Emerging market economies continue to be in the spotlight for the wrong reasons as their currencies resume their prolonged slide against the U.S. dollar. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Submerging markets) – Sep 01, 2018.

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Submerging markets) – Sep 01, 2018:

1. submerge (verb) – dip, plunge, sink.
2. the spotlight (noun) – the public attention; the public eye, the glare of publicity.
3. resume (noun) – begin again, recommence.
4. prolonged (adjective) – continuous, steady, constant.
5. slide (noun) – fall, drop, decline.
6. owing_to (phrase) – because of, as a result of, due to.
7. loss of confidence (phrase) – diffident, unassertive, unconfident/timid.
8. stem (noun) – stop, restrict, restrain.
9. outflow (noun) – money/assets flowing out of (or leaving) a particular country’s economy.
10. shore up (phrasal verb)  bolster up, support, buttress/strengthen.
11. doldrums (noun) – a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, depression/despair.
12. underlie (verb) – be fundamental, be basic, be essential.
13. carnage (noun) – destruction, annihilation, havoc.
14. liquidity (noun) – liquid assets; cash; (liquid asset is an asset which can be easily sold/converted into cash without losing its value).
15. Federal Reserve (US) (noun) – the central banking system of the United States (The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central banking institution).
16. yield (verb) – provide, give, produce.
17. turmoil (noun) – confusion, disorder, disruption.
18. far from (phrase) – not, not at all, nowhere near.
19. inflation (noun) – increase of price level of goods & services & vice versa decrease of currency value.
20. vis-a-vis (preposition) – in relation to, with regard to.

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