The Hindu Editorial (Preparing for the worst) – Dec 04, 2024

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The Hindu Editorial (Preparing for the worst) – Dec 04, 2024:

1. prepare for the worst (phrase) – to be optimistic while also being ready for any risk/danger.
2. peninsula (noun) – an area of land almost surrounded by water (on three sides) and one side attached to the mainland.
3. coast (noun) -seashore, seaside, shoreline.
4. magnitude (noun) – great size, extent, hugeness, strength.
5. devastation (noun) – destruction, wreckage, ruin.
6. nearly (adverb) – almost, about, more or less.
7. landslip (noun) – another name for landslide, mudslide, earthfall.
8. claim (verb) – take (someone’s life), cause the loss of (life).
9. unusually (adverb) – abnormally, uncommonly, surprisingly, suddenly, unexpectedly.
10. under water (adjective) – submerged; flooded.
11. storm (noun) – low-pressure weather system; cyclone.
12. tropical storm (noun) – hurricane, typhoon, cyclone; depression.
13. adjoining (adjective) – adjacent, neighbouring, bordering, abutting.
14. bear the brunt (phrase) – to suffer or endure the worst part of something (force/burden/pressure) when a very bad or unpleasant thing happens.
15. plight (noun) – predicament, emergency, tight spot, difficulty, trouble, quandary, dilemma, problem, muddle, mix-up, confusion, complication, imbroglio, entanglement, mire.
16. dry (adjective) – arid, parched, dried up/out, torrid, waterless, rainless, droughty.
17. cusecs (plural noun) – a unit of flow of water equal to one cubic foot per second.
18. sought past tense of seek (verb) – request, ask for, demand.
19. authorities (noun) – official, officialdom, the people in charge, the administration, the bureaucracy, the system.
20. given (preposition) – considering, taking into account, bearing in mind.
21. whereas (conjunction) – in comparison with the fact that; in view of the fact that.
22. monograph (noun) – an article/book on a particular subject.
23. India Meteorological Department (IMD) (noun) – an agency under the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India which is responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology. It has the responsibility for forecasting, naming and distributing warnings for tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean region, including the Malacca Straits, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
24. depression (noun) – a synoptic (short) scale tropical disturbance which forms in the monsoon circulation regime. It refers to low pressure system; It is an important rain producing system of monsoon period.
25. concrete (adjective) – real, actual, solid, substantial, definite, tangible.
26. tangible (adjective) – real, actual, concrete, substantial, appreciable, discernible.
27. rehabilitation (noun) – the action of bringing (someone or something) back to a normal; restoration, bringing back, reinduction; reinstitution, reinstallation, re-establishment, revival.
28. hit (verb) – affect badly, ruin, devastate, damage.
29. make public (phrase) – publicize, disclose, make known.
30. measure (noun) – course of action, proceeding, procedure, step.
31. bund (noun) – ​a wall of stone; a wall of earth; embankment, bank, causeway.
32. silt (noun) – sediment, mud, remains/deposited earth.
33. water course (noun) – stream, river, brook (small river), water channel.
34. relentless (adjective) – continual, constant, continuous, unrelenting, unabating, sustained, unceasing, steady.
35. drive (noun) – push, initiative, enterprise.
36. encroachment (noun) – an unauthorized intrusion onto a neighboring property through the creation or extension of a physical structure above or below the surface of land; intrusion, infiltration, incursion, trespass, invasion, breach, violation, impingement.
37. age-old (adjective) – traditional, long-established, long-standing, historic.
38. irrigation (noun) – the process of (artificially) supplying water to farmland to grow crops & plants.

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