The Hindu Editorial (Think big) – Sep 29, 2018

The Centre’s decision to increase customs duty on imports of 19 “non-essential” items amounts to tinkering at the margins to address a structural macro-economic issue. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Think big) – Sep 29, 2018.

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1. tinker with (verb) – try to improve, play around with, try to mend.
2. narrow (verb) – reduce, decrease, cut down.
3. current account deficit (noun) – the amount by which money relating to trade, investment etc going out of a country is more than the amount coming in.
4. amount to (verb) – be regarded as, be equivalent to, be tantamount to.
5. macroeconomic (adjective) – relating to the branch of economics concerned with large-scale factors (interest rates/national productivity).
6. curb (verb) – check, control, restrain.
7. admission (noun) – acknowledgement, acceptance, recognition/concession.
8. aggregate (verb) – total, comprehensive, overall.
9. merchandise (noun) – goods commodities, produce.
10. elapse (verb) – pass, go by, roll past.
11. pare (verb) – reduce, cut down, decrease.
12. clutch (noun) – power, control, domination.
13. dampen (verb) -decrease, diminish/lessen, reduce.
14. slide (noun) – fall, drop, decline.
15. tipping point (noun) – the point in a condition at which a small development/change causes major & unstoppable changes.
16. salutary (adjective) – beneficial/productive, good, practical.
17. foster (verb) – encourage, promote/nurture, assist.
18. outpace (verb) – surpass, outshine, exceed.
19. expedite (verb) – speed up, accelerate, hurry.
20. shortfall (noun) – deficit, deficiency, inadequacy.
21. woo (verb) – try to attract, pursue, persuade/coax.
22. irony (noun) – paradox, incongruity, peculiarity.
23. abundance (noun) – a great/large quantity of something; a lot, plentifulness.
24. reserves (noun) – stock, store, supply.
25. expeditiously (adverb) – quickly and efficiently.
26. trajectory (noun) – course, route, path.
27. sanctions (noun) – action taken, or an order given to force a country to obey international laws by limiting or stopping trade with that country, by not allowing economic aid for that country, etc (Courtesy: VOA Learning English).
28. loom (verb) – emerge, appear, become visible.
29. post-haste (adverb) – as quickly as possible, without delay, swiftly.
30. imbalance (noun) – disparity, variation, disproportion.

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