The Hindu Editorial (Early take-off) – May 26, 2020

Even after long negotiations with States, and with a truncated schedule, the Centre has found it difficult to relaunch domestic flights. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Early take-off) – May 26, 2020.

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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Early take-off) – May 26, 2020

resumption (noun) – restarting, recommencement, relaunch/restoration.
consensus (noun) – an idea or opinion that is shared by all the people in a group; agreement, concurrence.
truncated (adjective) – shorten, cut short, reduced, decreased.
resume (verb) – restart, recommence, begin/start again.
freeze (verb) – stop, halt, cease, terminate.
notably (adverb) – especially, particularly.
apprehension (noun) – concern, worry, uneasiness.
premature (adjective) – untimely, early, too soon/too early; ill-timed, hasty.
unrelenting (adjective) – continuous, persistent, unceasing/unabating, unstoppable.
quarantine (noun) – a process of separating out people, animals and things (such as plants) from others for a period of time in order to control/restrict the spread of a contagious disease; Quarantine is imposed to separate and restrict the movement of persons, who may have been exposed to infectious disease, but not yet known to be ill.
frustration (noun) – disappointment, annoyance/irritation, dissatisfaction.
legitimate (adjective) – valid, reasonable, reliable.
induced demand (noun) – generated demand; induced demand is generated by improvements made to transportation infrastructure. (In urbanism, “induced demand” refers to the idea that increasing roadway capacity encourages more people to drive, thus failing to improve congestion).
back to the drawing board (phrase) – used to indicate a new idea/plan has to be formed as the old one is not working well.
aggregation (noun) – “coming together” to form a group/cluster; the joining of multiple things together.
multiply (verb) – increase (more and more rapidly).
misstep (noun) – mistake, blunder, false step.
panic buying (noun) – the buying of essential commodities (products such as rice, wheat, vegetables/fruits, hand sanitizers & etc,.) in large quantities due to rumours causing forthcoming shortages.
trajectory (noun) – direction, route, path/way.
aggravate (verb) – worsen, compound, exacerbate, increase, intensify.
bungled (adjective) – mishandled, mismanaged, messed up/screwed up.
expose (verb) – make vulnerable, make subject, lay open.
community transmission (noun) – community spread/transmission means spread of an illness/disease for which the source of infection is unknown. An infected person has no travel history to an affected area and no known contact with a person previously diagnosed with a particular disease. It is possible the patient is exposed to a returning traveler who is infected.
local transmission (cluster) (noun) – local spread/transmission means spread of an illness/disease for which the source of infection is known. An infected person has travel history to an affected area. We could able to identify and trace individual cases, and ring-fence a cluster (of them) to prevent the spread of infection.
code of practice (noun) – a set of guidelines adopted on by a group (to do a particular work).
lockdown (noun) – an emergency protocol implemented by the authorities that prevents people from leaving from a place; An extended state of confinement/encirclement/isolation of a person by the authority.
snowball (verb) – increase, rise, escalate rapidly.
picture (noun) – situation, condition, circumstances.
design (verb) – originate, create, plan, formulate, think up.
moreover (adverb) – besides, furthermore, in addition.
pandemic (noun) – the worldwide spread of a new disease; The illness spreads around the world and typically affects a large number of people across a wide area.
wane (verb) – decrease, decline, diminish/dwindle.
market economy (noun) – a type of economic system where supply and demand regulate the economy, rather than government intervention.
emphasis (noun) – importance, insistence, priority.
precede (verb) – come/go before, pave the way for, lead to.
containment (noun) – an act of keeping something (harmful) under control (it means quickly identifying cases of coronavirus through testing, placing infected individuals in isolation, tracking who infected persons might have been in contact with and potentially quarantining those who came into contact with infection so that the disease doesn’t continue to spread).
protocol (noun) – procedure, rules of conduct.