The Hindu Editorial (Lethal misgovernance) – Dec 10, 2019

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1. lethal (adjective) – fatal, deadly, life-threatening. 
2. lax (adjective) – neglectful, inattentive, careless.
3. dawn (noun) – first thing in the morning, early morning.
4. sweep through (verb) – engulf, overwhelm, flow across.
5. score of (noun) – a lot of, a large number, a great deal of.
6. dickensian (adjective) – relating to the writings and characterizations of 19th-century English writer Charles Dickens in his novels. it refers to a poverty/inequality among social classes, reminiscent of the dark lives of the underprivileged during Victorian times.
7. rathole (mining) (noun) – it is a kind of mining involves digging pits into the ground to create a narrow hole to find coal.
8. toil (verb) – work hard, labour, sweat blood, work one’s fingers to the bone.
9. crushing (adjective) – making huge disappointment or embarrassment.
10. pretend to (verb) – claim, profess, make believe.
11. casualty (noun) – victim, fatality, loss/dead/injured.
12. suffocation (noun) – a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing; asphyxia.
13. stack (verb) – load, fill up, cover.
14. culpability (noun) – guilt, blame/fault; responsibility.
15. consolation (noun) – comfort, solace, relief.
16. rescue (noun) – an act of saving someone from danger.
17. stricken (adjective) – troubled, deeply affected.
18. tangled (adjective) – complicated, twisted, complex.
19. mollify (verb) – calm down, pacify, appease/mitigate.
20. audit (noun) – probe, inspection, analysis.
21. grist (noun) – it is valuable thing, particularly to help an argument/contention.
22. pin something on (phrase) – blame someone for something, hold someone responsible for something.
23. wrangling (noun) – long dispute, argument, quarrel.
24. chart (verb) – outline, describe, detail.
25. chaotic (adjective) – confused, disrupted, messy/disorganized.
26. deplorable (adjective) – disgraceful, dishonourable, unacceptable.
27. rezoning (noun) – the process of chancing the legal use of a property/land to a different type.
28. accommodate (verb) – adjust, adapt, attune, accustom.
29. enforcement (noun) – imposition, implementation, execution.
30. post facto (adjective) – done with or made something only after (a situation/event) has happened.
31. come down on (phrasal verb) – criticize, reprimand, rebuke.
32. sternly (adverb) – strictly, severely, stringently.
33. watershed (noun) – an event that marks a historic change; critical moment, decisive moment.

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