The Hindu Editorial (A stable planet) – Jun 22, 2019
The key message from the UN’s World Population Prospects 2019 report is that national leaders must redouble their efforts to raise education,… For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (A stable planet) – Jun 22, 2019.
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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (A stable planet) – Jun 22, 2019:
- The 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects (noun) – the twenty-sixth round of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.
- redouble (verb) – make something more intense.
- populous (adjective) – densely populated.
- surpass (verb) – be greater than, exceed, outdo/eclipse.
- in perspective (phrase) – judge a particular thing’s real importance by considering it in relation to everything else.
- alarmist (adjective) – pessimistic, negative, cynical.
- malthusian (adjective) – relating to a theory of exponential population growth and arithmetic food supply growth (by Thomas Robert Malthus FRS who was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography).
- inability (noun) – lack of ability, incapability, insufficiency.
- in favour of (phrase) – in support of, to the advantage of, approving of.
- sustainable (adjective) – reliable, dependable, acceptable.
- open up to something (phrasal verb) – to accept something.
- sustain (verb) – maintain, support, bolster up.
- exploitation (noun) – utilization, use, capitalization.
- fertility rate (noun) – a rate which measures the average number of children per woman.
- seek (verb) – try, endeavour, strive.
- set your minds to do something (phrase) – if you set your minds to do something, you are determined to do it.
- singularly (adverb) – especially, particularly, extremely.
- life expectancy (noun) – an average life time of a human being.
- imperative (noun) – necessary/essential condition, requirement, requisite.
- bound to (adjective) – certain/sure, very likely, guaranteed.
- certainty (noun) – inevitability, necessity, foregone conclusion, predictable result.
- cater to (verb) – accommodate/serve, provide for, satisfy.
- mobility (noun) – transportability.
- roadmap (noun) – schedule of a complex program.
- nutrition (noun) – nourishment, nutriment, nutrients.
- remunerative (adjective) – profitable, lucrative, rewarding/gainful.
- political will (noun) – political intention/desire (to complete a scheme/project even if it is not admired/welcomed in the beginning).
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