The Hindu Editorial (The secondary monsoon) – Oct 18, 2019

India’s most torrential monsoon in a quarter century officially ended on Wednesday. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (The secondary monsoon) – Oct 18, 2019.

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (The secondary monsoon) – Oct 18, 2019:

1. torrential (adjective) – severe, heavy, copious.
2. onset (noun) – start, beginning, arrival.
3. span (verb) – extend over, spread over, range over.
4. obsessively (adverb) – in an obsessive/ single-minded manner.
5. correlation (noun) – similarity, parallel, resemblance.
6. at best (phrase) – only, merely, simply. 
7. meteorologist (noun) – weather forecaster.
8. outlook (noun) – prospects, expectations, hopes.
9. pan out (phrasal verb) – turn out, result, come out, develop.
10. reservoir (noun) – pool, lake, pond (a source of water).
11. saga (noun) – lengthy story/history; chain/series of events.
12. inundation (noun) – flooding, flood water, covering/flooding with water.
13. global warming (noun) – it is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released as people burn fossil fuels.
14. spell (noun) – period, time, season.
15. drought (noun) – lack/dry spell, lack of rain, shortage of water.
16. El Nino (noun) – abnormal warming (of the Equatorial East of the Pacific that lies closer to the Americas). La Niña means abnormal cooling.
17. phenomenon (noun) – occurrence, event, happening.
18. voluminous (adjective) – ample, full, big, large.
19. wane (verb) – decrease, decline, diminish/dwindle.
20. paucity (noun) – insufficiency, deficiency, shortage.
21. mainstay (noun) – central component, centrepiece, chief support, backbone. 
22. forecast (verb) – predict, estimate, foresee.
23. reliant on (noun) – dependent on someone/something.
24. step up (phrasal verb) – increase, accelerate, quicken.
25. climate change (noun) – a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth (Courtesy: NASA).
26. inescapably (adverb) – undeniably, unavoidably, inevitably.
27. vagaries (noun) – oddity/peculiarity, unpredictability, fluctuation.
28. ought to (modal verb) – must, should.
29. prong (noun) – projecting pointed parts.

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