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The Hindu Editorial (Sweet nothing) – Jun 16, 2018

The Hindu Editorial (Sweet nothing) – Jun 16, 2018

A little over a month after the Centre proposed a special cess under the GST to help alleviate distress among sugarcane farmers,… For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Sweet nothing) – Jun 16, 2018.

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Sweet nothing) – Jun 16, 2018:

sweet_nothings (phrase) – sweet words, sweet talk.
bailout (noun) – an act of providing financial help/support by the outside investors to a bank/institution which faces serious financial difficulty. bail-in (noun) – a way of helping a bank or other institution in financial difficulty, in which people/creditors of the bank to bear some of the burden by cancelling a part of the debt they are owed.
alleviate (verb) – reduce, control, mitigate/moderate.
molasses (noun) – it is a dark brown, thick liquid product resulting from refining sugarcane.
mop up (phrasal verb) – gather, collect, absorb.
glut (noun) – surplus, excess, oversupply.
procurement (noun) – the action of buying or purchasing something.
buffer stock (noun) – it is defined as supply of commodities held as a reserve in case there are future demand and supply fluctuations.
dissipate (verb) – disappear, vanish, dissolve.
iquidity (noun) – liquid assets; cash; (liquid asset is an asset which can be easily sold/converted into cash without losing its value).
reckon (verb) – consider/judge, evaluate, estimate.
materialize (verb) – happen, occur, take place/transpire.
greenfield (adjective) – new facility ; relating to the new (production) facility that has never been used for any development.
brownfield (adjective) – existing facility; relating to the existing (production) facility that can been upgraded for any further development.
sweetener (noun) – incentive, attraction, stimulus/impetus.
cropping decision (noun) – a decision made by (the farmers/others) on when to harvest crops.
rallying cry (noun) – something (word/phrase/event) that makes people to join and to act in support of a idea/cause.
perpetuate (verb) – maintain, continue, extend.
sop (noun) – something given/provided (which is of less importance) to pacify somebody.
distort (verb) – alter, change, deform.

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