The Hindu Vocab

1. Acrimonious (adjective) – angry & bitter, harsh, sharp.
2. Martyr (noun) – a person killed for his (political or religious) beliefs.
3. Indignation (noun) – resentment, discontent, dissatisfaction, distress.
4. Mill about (verb) -(of people) throng, seethe, crowd, stream, surge.
5. Put paid to (phrasal verb) – forestall, thwart; stop, check, block.
6. Delusion (noun) – misunderstanding, misbelief; fallacy, illusion.
7. Turbulent (adjective) – tempestuous, unstable, unsettled, chaotic.
8. Sustain (verb) – continue, carry on, keep up, maintain.
9. Insurgency (noun) – rebellion, revolt, uprising, outbreak, rioting.
10. Incognito (adjective/adverb) – disguised; unrecognized, unidentified; secretly.
11. Hop (verb) – jump, bound, spring; moving quickly by jumping on one foot.
12. Enraged (adjective) – very angry, furious.
13. Binary (noun) – something having two parts.
14. Rigged (adjective) – manipulate, arrange fraudulently, misrepresent, fake.
15. Military bunker (noun) – reinforced underground shelter.
16. Ranting (adjective) – angry, impassioned.
17. Cacophony (noun) – noise, din, uproar, racket, hubbub.
18. Tip-off (noun) – piece of information, warning, hint, clue; information received.
19. Zero in on (idiom) – focus on, concentrate on, home in on, aim at, highlight.
20. Simmer (verb) – be furious, be angry, be incensed, fume.
21. Discontent (noun) – dissatisfaction, unrest, disquiet.
22. Vale or  Valley (noun) – an area of low land between hills or mountains (with river/stream running through it).
23. Orchard (noun) – an enclosed place where fruit trees are grown.
24. Savvy (adjective) – shrewd, intelligent, clever, sagacious.
25. Sapling (noun) – a young tree.
26. Graft (noun) – new growth, sprout, scion, cutting, bud.
27. Pacify (verb) – appease, calm down, conciliate, mollify.
28. Accretion (noun) – accumulation, gathering; increase, rise.
29. Deception (noun) – deceitfulness; trick, misrepresentation.
30. Accession (noun) – joining, signing up; addition, acquisition; agreement.
31. In the face of (phrase) – in a dangerous/difficult situation; despite.
32. Intrusion (noun) – violation, interruption, disruption, disturbance; obtrusion, encroachment, trespass.
33. Nicety (noun) – fine point, subtlety, nuance; catalyst, cause, factor.
34. Instrument (noun) – agent, medium, factor, mechanism.
35. Consummate (adjective) – proficient, skilful; talented, well versed.
36. Steeped in (verb) – imbue with, fill with,  pervade with, infuse with.
37. Moorings (noun) – stabilizing influence/power.
38. Reincarnated (adjective) – reembodied; incarnated again; undergone rebirth, reborn.
39. Founder on (verb) – fail, be unsuccessful, fall through, break down, collapse.
40. Shoals (noun) – a hidden danger.
41. Incineration (noun) – destruction; an act of destroying something (by burning) completely.
42. Shirk (verb) – evade, dodge, avoid, run away from; neglect.
43. Exacerbate (verb) – aggravate, make worse; intensify, magnify.
44. Discomfiture (noun) – embarrassment, unease, discomfort, nervousness, distress.
45. Hoodlum (noun) – hooligan, mobster, criminal, gangster.
46. Achilles heel (noun) – weak spot, weak/vulnerable spot.
47. Washed up (adjective) – ineffective, unsuccessful.
48. Detritus (noun) – debris, waste/discarded matter; remains, remnants, fragments.
49. Make no mistake (phrase) – to bring attention to/emphasize a statement.
50. Marginalisation (noun) – an act of making a group of people to feel isolated/insignificant/unimportant.
51. Foreboding (noun) – apprehension, anxiety; premonition, suspicion.
52. Graver (adjective) – (comparative form of grave) more serious/important/critical.
53. bioelectronics – n. a branch of science that deals with electronic control of how the body works, especially in medicine to make up for defects of the nervous system
54. pharmaceutical – adj. of or relating to the production and sale of drugs and medicine
55. potentially – adv. capable of becoming real
56. pill – n. a small, rounded object that you swallow and that contains medicine
57. insulin ­– n. a substance that your body makes and uses to turn sugar into energy