Back on track – The Hindu (Sep 06, 2017)

Back on track – The Hindu (Sep 06, 2017)

By putting up a united front at the BRICS summit, and proposing a revival of the Panchsheel principles of peaceful cooperation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have signalled they are trying to…. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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1. pursue (verb) – undertake, prosecute, follow.
2. put up (phrasal verb) – build, set up; propose/present.
3. revival (noun) – improvement, betterment; re-establishment.
4. tenor (noun) – the general meaning, content, character of something.
5. stand-off (noun) – deadlock, stalemate, impasse (in a dispute/conflict).
6. recur (verb) – happen again, occur again, repeat.
7. espouse (verb) – adopt, embrace; support/endorse.
8. multilateral (adjective) – involving many different countries or groups.
9. consonance (noun) – agreement, concord, accordance.
10. unequivocally (adverb) – unambiguously, without any doubt, clearly/explicitly.
11. advocate (verb) – recommend, prescribe, uphold/support.
12. emanate (verb) – come out, arise; originate from.
13. belie (verb) – contradict, prove to be false, falsify.
14. hush (verb) – silence, quieten, stop talking.
15. triumphalism (noun) – an attitude or a belief that a particular doctrine, religion, culture, social system is superior to and should triumph all over others.
16. nod (noun) – gesture, signal/cue, acknowledgement.
17. contentious (adjective) – controversial, debatable, disputed.
18. sustained (adjective) – continuous, uninterrupted, non stop.
19. discord (noun) – strife, conflict, hostility.
20. imperative (adjective) – vitally important, crucial, necessary.
21. atmospherics (noun) – actions aimed to create a particular atmosphere/situation.

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