The Hindu Newspaper Editorial – Daily Vocab List Date 03­03­2017
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Donald Trump sounds more presidential, but fails to address concerns about his policies.
President Donald Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress was unusual insofar (जहां तक) as he
adopted a distinctly (साफ़/‫ױמּ‬तः/▀έā) less combative (जुझा╜/लड़ाका/झगड़ालू) tone on certain issues,
and refrained (परहे ज/अलग होना) from his melodramatic oratorical (भाषण­संबंधी/व♣ृβ­कला
संबंधी) strategy of painting America as a nation facing a dark future in a dangerous world. Most striking in
terms of the change in his tenor (तΡ/बोध) were his remarks on immigration (आ▀वासन/परदे श म┼ बसना).
Through most of his election campaign (अिभयान), he frequently promised to detain (रोकना) and deport
(िनवा└िसत करना/िनकाल दे ना/दे श­िनकाला करना) “illegal aliens” and build a wall along the Mexican border to
keep “rapists” and drug dealers out. While the Department of Homeland Security has indeed (वा‫הּ‬व
म┼) carried out raids (छापे/आ╡मण/धावा/चढ़ाई) against undocumented immigrants in a number of major
American cities over the past few weeks, Mr. Trump on Tuesday expressed his willingness to consider a
merit­based system, rather than relying on lower­skilled immigrants, which could be achieved through “real
and positive immigration reform (सुधार/दोषिनवृिΟ/सुधारना)”. Yet Mr. Trump appeared to blunt the positive
impact of this long­awaited softening (नरमी) in his rhetoric on immigration when he announced a proposal
to create an office to serve ‘Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement’, apparently a special agency with a
mandate to focus on tackling crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. As before, the fact that
multiple studies of the demographics (जनसांεġकी) of crime suggest that immigrants are less likely to
commit crimes than native­born (दे शी­का जП) Americans has not deterred him from making
such xenophobic (अŵात‫י‬ε♣भीत, irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries) proposals.
Mr. Trump is also likely to have been alluding to Indian fiscal policies when he spoke of a country that taxed
U.S.­made Harley­Davidson motorcycles at a 100% rate. Even though subsequent (आगामी/उΟरगामी/
अनुवत┬) reports pointed out that the sales of the motorcycle company have grown at a brisk pace of 30%
over the past two years in India despite such taxation, it is Mr. Trump’s penchant (लगन/╛िच/इŜा) for flirting
with the idea of introducing protectionist measures in U.S. trade policy that is causing alarm in India and
elsewhere. It is hard to distinguish how much of Mr. Trump’s attack on the global trade system, which he
blames for taking away Americans’ jobs, is bluster (धमकी), and how much portends (पूव└सूचक) actual
policy change. For example, among the multiple companies that he named in his speech as firms promising
to invest in production lines on U.S. soil since November’s election, fact­checkers discovered that many
had already made plans to do so during his predecessor’s time in office. This apparent lack of interest in
factual accuracy and specificity on details seemed to echo through other parts of Mr. Trump’s speech — for
example, in his glossing over precisely what “historic tax reform” his administration would introduce to
enable U.S. companies to be competitive the world over. While many Americans may be willing to tolerate
presidential strategies of purposeful equivocation, they are probably hoping that, at the very least, Mr.
Trump’s speech may be an inflection (मोड़ना) point in his evolution (╡मागत उКित/िवकास) toward a more
conciliatory ethos (▀कृित/‫תּ‬भाव/‫תּ‬भाव).
Courtesy: The Hindu
List of Most Important words with Hindi Meaning, Synonyms and
Antonyms from The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Conciliatory, sketchy
1.Combative (जुझा╜/लड़ाका/झगड़ालू)
Synonyms: Aggressive, Antagonistic, Quarrelsome, Argumentative
Antonyms: kind, nice, agreeable
2.Oratorical (भाषण­संबंधी/व♣ृβ­कला संबंधी)
Synonyms: Rhetorical, Grandiloquent, Magniloquent, Orotund
Antonyms: natural, simple, undramatic
3.Detain (रोकना)
Synonyms: Apprehend, Confine, Delay
Antonyms: Free, liberate, advance
4.Deport (िनवा└िसत करना/िनकाल दे ना/दे श­िनकाला करना)
Synonyms: Expel, Exile, Transport, Expatriate,dismiss, displace, exile
Antonyms: allow, hold, keep, take in
5.Penchant (लगन/╛िच/इŜा)
Synonyms: affection, affinity, predilection
Antonyms: antipathy, disinclination, dislike
6.Inflection (मोड़ना)
Synonyms: articulation, pronunciation, tone of voice
Antonyms: monotone
7.Ethos (▀कृित/‫תּ‬भाव/‫תּ‬भाव)
Synonyms: ideology, mentality, mindset
Antonyms: body, physicality