The Hindu Editorial Vocab - 21st March 2017 Topic 2 - "Pakistan’s headcount: a necessary exercise despite resistance"

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1. Headcount - the act of counting how many people are present in a place
2. Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
3. Resistance - the act of fighting against something, or refusing to accept something
4. Census - an occasion on which government officials count the people who live in a country and record other information about them
5. Formulate - to develop all the details of a plan for doing something
6. Federal - relating to the central government
7. Province - an area that is governed as part of a country
8. Delimitation - the process of establishing the limits or boundaries
9. Demographic - relating to the study of populations and the different groups that make them up
10. Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
11. Undergo - to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change
12. Influx - the fact of a large number of people or things arriving at the same time
13. Diminish - to reduce or be reduced in size or importance
14. Refugee - a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war
15. Provincial - in or from the parts of the country that are not the capital city
16. Merely - used to emphasize that you mean exactly what you are saying and nothing more
17. Obsolete - no longer used because of being replaced by something newer and more effective
18. Composition - the way that something is formed from separate parts or people
19. Existential - an existential danger threatens the very existence of something
20. Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
21. Realistic -  accepting things as they are in fact and not making decisions based on unlikely hopes for the future