The Hindu Editorial (Net loss) – Dec 21, 2019

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Net loss) – Dec 21, 2019:

1. resort to (verb) – use, utilize, turn to.
2. in the face of (phrase) – when confronted with; despite, notwithstanding, regardless of.
3. unsophisticated (adjective) – undeveloped, basic, primitive.
4. deprive (verb) – prevent, dispossess, strip, divest.
5. clumsy (adjective) – awkward, uncoordinated, insensitive/thoughtless.
6. quell (verb) – defeat, beat, stifle, suppress.
7. ham-handed (adjective) – ham-fisted, inefficient, unskilful/awkward.
8. at the head of (phrase) – managing, supervising, administering.
9. intolerant (adjective) – prejudiced, discriminatory, biased.
10. acknowledged (adjective) – recognized, admitted, accepted (as true/legitimate).
11. empowered (adjective) – authorized, allowed, entitled.
12. countenance (verb) – tolerate, agree to, admit as acceptable.
13. interim (adjective) – provisional, transitional, temporary.
14. vacuum (noun) – empty space, emptiness, void, nothingness.
15. case in point (phrase) – example, instance, sample.
16. lynching (noun) – an act of punishing/killing someone by hanging for claimed offence by the group of people without legal trail.
17. blackout (noun) – suppression, cut-off, silence.
18. have nothing to do with (phrase) – steer clear of, avoid/shun, keep away from.
19. muzzle (verb) – silence, suppress, stifle.
20. fashion (verb) – create, form, build.
21. chokehold (noun) – an act of putting one’s hands around someone’s neck tightly to restrict/control him.
22. lethal (adjective) – fatal, deadly, life-threatening. 
23. entrepreneurship (noun) – the process/activity of setting up a business.
24. crippling (adjective) – weakening, impairing, paralyzing.
25. deal a blow (phrase) – to hit (someone or something) so as to cause harm.
26. arbitrarily (adverb) – with random choice or personal whim; unpredictably, unreasonably, illogically.
27. apprehension (noun) – understanding, comprehension, realization.
28. ground (noun) – reason, factor, basis.
29. blunt (adjective) – straightforward, direct, simple, abrupt.
30. ambitious (adjective) – difficult, exacting, formidable/challenging.
31. lose face (phrase) – be extremely embarrassed, be humiliated.
32. authoritarian (adjective) – oppressive, dictatorial, totalitarian.
33. vitally (adverb) – essentially, necessarily.

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