The Hindu Editorial (Expedient exit) – Nov 22, 2019

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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Expedient exit) – Nov 22, 2019:

1. expedient (noun) – tactical/strategic; advantageous, beneficial.
2. disinvestment (noun) – the process of reducing capital investments.
3. stopgap (adjective) – temporary, provisional, short-term, makeshift.
4. plug the gap (phrase) – give something that is lacking/deficient in a particular situation.
5. at best (phrase) – simply, merely, only.
6. shortfall (noun) – deficit, inadequacy/deficiency; shortcoming/defect.
7. capital receipts (noun) – capital receipts refer to those receipts which either create a liability or cause a reduction in the assets of the government.
8. yawning (adjective) – large, huge, great/big.
9. fiscal gap (noun) – a measure of a government’s total indebtedness.
10. actualization (noun) – making something reality; achievement, accomplishment.
11. underlying (adjective) – fundamental, basic, primary.
12. rationale (noun) – reason/basis; principle.
13. hazy (adjective) – indistinct, unclear, ill-defined.
14. dividend (noun) – profit, income, benefit, yield/return/gain.
15. upstream (petroleum industry) (noun) – the industry which finds and produces crude oil and natural gas.
16. deprive (verb) – dispossess, strip, divest.
17. upside (noun modifier) – an upward movement of share prices.
18. exchequer (noun) – funds/resources/finances, treasury, coffers.
19. hydrocarbon (noun) – it is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon which are the main components of petroleum and natural gas.
20. carve out (phrasal verb) – create, establish (something with effort).
21. pare (verb) – reduce, cut, decrease. 
22. prospective (adjective) – potential, possible, probable.
23. precedence (noun) – priority, superiority, primacy.
24. newfound (adjective) – recently discovered; recently established.
25. keenness (noun) – desire/ferocity, discrimination, clarity.
26. sway (noun) – influence, rule, control, domination, power.
27. restive (adjective) – agitated; anxious; refusing to advance.
28. captive buyer (noun) – the buyer who has no real choice about buying.
29. bidding (noun) – command, order, instruction.
30. go through (phrasal verb) – be completed, be concluded, be carried through.
31. in time (phrase) – eventually, ultimately, finally.
32. big-ticket (adjective) – very expensive, major.
33. so far (phrase) – until now, up to the present, up to this point.
34. expedite (verb) – speed up, accelerate, quicken; stimulate, boost, forward/press.
35. double-quick (adjective & adverb) – very quickly, swiftly, rapidly.

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