The Hindu Editorial (Lacklustre meet) – Jun 24, 2019

The Hindu Editorial (Lacklustre meet) – Jun 24, 2019

The Goods and Services Tax Council’s first meeting under the new government did not deliver any big surprises. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Lacklustre meet) – Jun 24, 2019.

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Lacklustre meet) – Jun 24, 2019:

  1. lacklustre (adjective) – dull, uninspired/uninteresting, mundane.
  2. spur (verb) – stimulate, prompt, encourage/motivate.
  3. sag (verb) – decline, fall/drop, decrease/reduce.
  4. tax evasion (noun) – an illegal action in which a person or company purposely avoids paying a true tax liability.
  5. implications (noun) – consequence/outcome, ramification, repercussion.
  6. across the board (phrase) – applying or affecting all.
  7. modest (adjective) – small, ordinary, simple, not large.
  8. send out (phrasal verb) – produce, create, give out.
  9. push through (phrasal verb) – succeed in passing a law accepted by the people who oppose it.
  10. pro-growth (adjective) – referring to something (national policies/reforms) which are primarily to stimulate economic growth.
  11. tenure (noun) – term, period, time (in office).
  12. quantum (noun) – portion, part, division.
  13. profiteering (noun) – an act of making an excessive/illegal profit.
  14. profiteer (verb) – extortion, overcharge, make an illegal profit.
  15. anti-profiteering (noun) – relating to a clause which acts against a person who makes excessive profit illegally.
  16. promising (adjective) – hopeful, favourable, positive.
  17. clause (noun) – condition, requirement, provision.
  18. pass on (phrasal verb) – to give someone something that someone else has given you.
  19. end up (verb) – finish up, turn up, appear.
  20. drive down (phrasal verb) – to force a price, value, etc. to go down.
  21. bureaucracy (noun) – administration, government, the establishment.
  22. rent-seeking (noun) – a behavior which does not create economic gains for society, instead it helps a company/organisation/individual using their resources to get economic gain.

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 1. 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/.bigotry, narrow-mindedness
2. Definitions (elementary level) & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press. Tentative definitions/meanings are provided for study purpose only and they may vary in different context. 
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