The lost tribe of Odisha – The Hindu (Aug 06, 2016)
Kusumuli Pradhan cannot quite remember the date she lost her son. She recalls it was sometime in the third week of June and four-year-old Charan was running a high temperature. There were rashes on his small frame. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Word List:
- Hamlet (noun) – a little/small village.
- Inoculate (verb) – immunize, vaccinate; protect/shield/safeguard from.
- make do with (phrase) – manage, cope, survive.
- take the toll (phrase) – have an adverse/serious/bad effect; cause damage/harm.
- put down to (phrasal verb) – attribute, ascribe, set down, assign.
- Feeble (adjective) – weak, infirm, sickly, ailing, unwell.
- Prevalence (noun) – commonness, widespread presence, ubiquitousness.
- Habitation (noun) – place of residence, dwelling place, abode.
- The Austroasiatic languages family – they are a large language family of continental Southeast Asia, scattered throughout India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the southern border of China. (it is consisting of the Mon-Khmer family, the Munda family).
- Purview (noun) – the range/limit/scope of authority, responsibility, influence.
- Apathy (noun) – lack of interest, indifference, unresponsiveness, dispassion, unconcern.
- Stalk (verb) – harass, annoy, bother, trouble persistently; woo, chase.
- Stunted – children who are too short for their age; (stunting – low weight for age).
- Ambit (noun) – scope, extend, bounds, limits.
- Elude (verb) – fail to be attained by.
- Staple (adjective) – (in terms of consumption) main, important, essential.
- (Wild) tuber – a thickened/swollen underground stem/root of a plant. (potato of the potato plant).
- Rehabilitate (verb) – restore to health/normality.
- Assimilate (verb) – grasp, comprehend, understand, take in, absorb.
- Lapse (noun) – failure, error, mistake, oversight.
- Entrust with (verb) – give responsibility for; assign, confer on; delegate, depute.
- Bouquet (noun) – bunch of; a lot, a number of.
- Ascent to (noun) – progress, rise (in social/professional status).
- Descent (noun) – coming down.
- Precarious (adjective) – uncertain, insecure, unreliable, unsure.
- Watching your step (idiom) – be careful, take care, look out, be cautious.
Note:
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- Definitions (elementary level) & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.