The Hindu Editorial (Being prepared) – Nov 19, 2018

Tamil Nadu was more prepared than before to deal with Cyclone Gaja when it made landfall between Nagapattinam and Vedaranyam on November 16, but it still took a toll of at least 45 lives. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Being prepared) – Nov 19, 2018.

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Today’s word list-1 The Hindu Editorial (Being prepared) – Nov 19, 2018:

1. resilience (noun) – strength, toughness; the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
2. landfall (noun) – The point at which a hurricane/cyclone or similar storm reaches land after a sea voyage.
3. take its toll (phrase) – have an adverse effect.
4. pay off (phrasal verb) – be successful, be effective, get results.
5. bureaucracy (noun) – government, the establishment, administration.
6. mitigate (verb) – diminish, reduce, lessen.
7. catastrophic (adjective) – destructive, ruinous, disastrous.
8. classify (verb) – categorize, list, group.
9. vulnerability (noun) – weakness/defencelessness, frailty, susceptibility.
10. stream (noun) – a large number of, succession, series.
11. partisan (adjective) – biased, prejudiced, one-sided.
12. get in the way of (phrase) – to obstruct something.
13. rehabilitation (noun) – the action of bringing (someone or something) back to a normal.
14. contrast (noun) – difference, dissimilarity, contradiction/incongruity. 
15. livestock (noun) – farm animals (cattle, goats & etc).
16. provision (noun) – supplying, giving/providing, allocation/distribution.
17. far fewer (phrase) – much less (with a large difference).
18. casualty (noun) – victim, fatality, dead and injured.
19. tropical cyclone (noun) – a very powerful low-pressure weather system which results in strong winds (over 120 km/h) and heavy rainfall (up to 250 mm in one day). Tropical cyclones have different names depending on where they occur in the world. In the US and the Caribbean they are known as hurricanes, in South Asia – cyclones, in East Asia – typhoons and in Australia they are known as willy-willies. They all develop in the same way and have the same characteristics. (Coutesy: BBC)
20. hazard (noun) – danger, risk, peril.

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