The Hindu Editorial Vocab - 23rd March 2017 Topic 1- "Superpower dreams: On how India must respond to a low HDI rank"

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 The Hindu Editorial Vocab - 23rd March 2017 - Topic 1 -  "Superpower dreams: On how India must respond to a low HDI rank"

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• 1.       HDI - Human Development Index
• 2.       Outlay - an amount of money spent on something.
• Pose - to ask a question
• 3.       Liberalisation -to make laws or rules less strict so that people have more freedom
• 4.       Life expectancy - the length of time that someone is likely to live
• 5.       Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
• 6.       Inheritance - money or objects that someone gives you when they die
• 7.       Reform - an improvement
• 8.       Persist - if an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist
• 9.       Severe - extreme or very difficult
• 10.   Deprived - not having the things that are necessary for a pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or good living conditions
• 11.   Break free - to escape from an unpleasant person or situation that controls your life
• 12.   Underachiever - someone who is less successful than they should be at school or at work
• 13.   Fiscal - connected with (public) money
• 14.   Quintile - one of five equal measurements that a set of things can be divided into
• 15.   Aviation - the activity of flying aircraft, or of designing, producing, and keeping them in good condition
• 16.   Bolster - to support or improve something or make it stronger
• 17.   Conscious - noticing that something exists or is happening and realizing that it is important
• 18.   Indices - plural of index (a number that shows the price, value, or level of something compared with something else)
• 19.   Ratify - to make an agreement official
• 20.   Convention - a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country
• 21.   Enforce - to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
• 22.   Lacuna - an empty space where something is missing
• 23.   Crafted - to make objects, in a skilled way
• 24.   Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
• 25.   Urbanisation - the process by which towns and cities grow bigger and more and more people go to live in them
• Deficit - the total amount by which something is less than required