The Hindu Editorial (Wake-up call) – Jul 04, 2022

The landslide that occurred last week in the Tupul area in Manipur’s Noney district will go down as one of the severest natural disasters in the State,… For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Wake-up call) – Jul 04, 2022.

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wake-up call (noun) – something which alerts a person to a problem and makes him/her to do some remedial action.
landslide (noun) – a landslide is defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope. Landslides are a type of “mass wasting,” which denotes any down-slope movement of soil and rock under the direct influence of gravity; landslip, rockfall, mudslide, earthfall/slip.
go down (phrasal verb) – be remembered, be recorded.
toll (noun) – number, count, total (number of deaths).
trap (verb) – confine, get stuck, get caught.
debris (noun) – broken pieces, rubble, wreckage (typically of a building).
rescue (noun) – saving (from danger or difficulty).
on (adverb) – continuing, functioning, working.
compound (verb) – aggravate, worsen, make worse, exacerbate, intensify, heighten, increase.
well up (phrasal verb) – (of a liquid/water) flow, run, rush, gush, flood, surge, rise.
inundate (verb) – flood, deluge, overflow, overrun, swamp, submerge, engulf, immerse.
breach (verb) – break, break through, burst, burst through.
sought past tense of seek (verb) – try, aim, attempt.
inclement (adjective) – bad, severe, extreme, harsh, adverse; rainy, snowy, windy, stormy.
hamper (verb) – slow down, hinder, obstruct, impede, inhibit.
consequence (noun) – result, upshot, outcome, effect, repercussion, reverberations, ramification.
snowball (verb) – rise, increase, escalate (rapidly).
landslide-prone (adjective) – susceptible to landslide, vulnerable to landslide; at the risk of landslide.
give someone pause (phrase) – make more serious (before doing something); make someone stop and think, give someone pause for thought.
ghat (noun) – a mountain pass; (mountain pass is a route/passage through mountains).
terrain (noun) – land, ground, territory.
decade (noun) – a period of ten years.
relatively (adverb) – comparatively, moderately, somewhat, to a certain degree/level.
casualty (noun) – victim, sufferer, loss; fatality, mortality.
accompany (verb) – occur with, co-occur with, coincide with, coexist with, go with, appear with.
the fact that (phrase) – used to refer to a particular situation under consideration.
acknowledge (verb) – accept, recognize, realize.
anthropogenically (adverb) – in a way that is human-caused or human-influenced.
induce (verb) – cause, bring about, give rise to, produce, prompt, develop.
matter of concern (phrase) – something which causes worry.
slopes (noun) – a part of the side of a hill, hillside or hillock.
quarrying (noun) – the process of removing rock, sand, gravel or other minerals from the ground in order to use them to produce materials for construction or other uses.
fragile (adjective) – easily broken/destroyed, weak, risky, unreliable, insecure.
lithography (noun) – a method of printing in which a piece of stone/metal is specially treated so that ink sticks to some parts of it.
geological (adjective) – relating to the study of the solid Earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials, and the processes acting upon them.
post-facto (adjective) – after a certain event.
corroborate (verb) – confirm, endorse, ratify, authenticate, validate, certify, justify; support, back, uphold, substantiate, vouch for.
abut (verb) – adjoin, be adjacent to, border, be next to, touch.
fall under (phrasal verb) – to be classified as; come under.
susceptible (adjective) – vulnerable, defenceless, sensitive.
national landslide susceptibility mapping (NLSM) (noun) – This programme is launched by the geological survey of India (GSI) to prepare seamless (continuous) landslide susceptibility maps of the hilly regions of the country.
susceptibility (noun) – vulnerability, sensitivity, defencelessness.
uncertain (adjective) – changeable, variable, varying, irregular, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, erratic, fluctuating.
add to (phrasal verb) – increase, intensify, heighten, exacerbate, aggravate, inflame, worsen, make worse, compound.
Geological Survey of India (GSI) (noun) – the principal function of Geological Survey of India (GSI) (Established in 1851) relate to creation and updation of national geoscientific data and mineral resource assessment, air-borne and marine surveys and conducting multifarious geo-technical, geo-environmental and natural hazards studies, glaciology, seismotectonics, etc. and to nurture studies on fundamental research.
deploy (verb) – use, utilize, employ, make use of.
keen (on) (adjective) – enthusiastic about, interested in, attracted to, fascinated by.
accelerate (verb) – speed up, hurry up, go faster, gain momentum, increase speed.
uplift (verb) – improve, inspire, elevate, raise; boost, encourage.
point to (phrasal verb) – indicate, suggest, signal, signify, denote, reveal.
ecological (adjective) – relating to the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
deforestation (noun) – it is when humans remove or clear large areas of forest lands and related ecosystems for non-forest use.