The Hindu Editorial (Losing steam) – Jul 10, 2019

The Hindu Editorial (Losing steam) – Jul 10, 2019

Many investors who were hoping for business-friendly reforms were not too impressed by the maiden Budget of the second Narendra Modi government. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Losing steam) – Jul 10, 2019.

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Losing steam) – Jul 10, 2019:

  1. steam (noun) – energy, momentum, impetus.
  2. populism (noun) – related to policies that supposedly represent the opinions of ordinary people (Courtesy: VOA Learning English).
  3. moderate (adjective) – average, modest, ordinary.
  4. incur (verb) – suffer, experience, become subject to.
  5. shed (verb) – drop, lose, throw out/jettison.
  6. worst-hit (adjective) – affected severely.
  7. spook (verb) – frighten, panic, make afraid/nervous.
  8. tax burden (noun) – tax incidence/burden falls on the public.
  9. foreign portfolio investor (noun) – Investors investing in financial assets, such as shares, government bonds, corporate bonds, convertible securities, infrastructure securities etc in a foreign country.
  10. buyback (noun) – (share) repurchase, re-acquisition.
  11. weigh on (phrasal verb) – burden, trouble, bother/beset; be burdensome to.
  12. rate cut (noun) – a decision by a central bank (RBI) to reduce its main interest rate to the banks (like SBI, ICICI & etc in India) when these commercial banks get money from the central bank (like RBI in India).  Once this rate goes down, the banks are in a position to give loans at lower interest rates to individuals and the industry.
  13. Federal Reserve (US) (noun) – the central banking system of the United States (The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central banking institution).
  14. systemic (adjective) – constructional, organizational.
  15. tilt (noun) – inclination,nod, attempt on.
  16. revive (verb) – energize, strengthen, fortify.
  17. regressive (adjective) – retrograde, retrogressive, unprogressive/negative.
  18. angel tax (noun) – a tax that is levied on the funding received by startups from an external investor. The 30% tax is levied when startups receive angel funding at a valuation higher than its ‘fair market value’.
  19. bereft of (adjective) – deprived of/stripped of; lacking, deficient in.
  20. instil (verb) – inculcate, inspire, infuse.
  21. trajectory (noun) – course, route, path.
  22. push through (phrasal verb) – succeed in passing a law/reforms accepted by the people who oppose it.
  23. liquidity (noun) – a measure of activity (i.e. the ability to buy or sell easily) in a market.
  24. lacklustre (adjective) – dull, uninspired/uninteresting, mundane.
  25. lofty (adjective) – noble, high, worthy.

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2. Definitions (elementary level) & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press. Tentative definitions/meanings are provided for study purpose only and they may vary in different context. 
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