Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 21st March 2017

By Shristi|Updated : March 21st, 2017

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Good Morning Everyone..!!

We are here with your Daily dose of Challenging Wordlist. Consider the given newspaper article as a Comprehension for your exams and do answer the questions at the end.

Today’s article, 'Managing water conflicts’ has been picked from Business Line.

This article talks about The proposed amendment to the Inter-State Water Disputes Tribunal Act which takes a limited view on the matter.

To read more, you can go through the article from the link below -

Managing water conflicts

Challenging Words in the Article -

Tribunal (न्यायाधिकरण) - Noun
Meaning - a body established to settle certain types of dispute
Synonyms - board, justice
Example - A tribunal of Native Americans gathered to discuss their local laws.
Expedite (जल्दी करना) - Verb
Meaning - make (an action or process) happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly.
Synonyms - accelerate, hasten
Antonyms - retard, hinder
Example - If you would like to expedite the shipping of your order, please pay the express shipping fee.
Resolution (वियोजन) - Noun
Meaning - a firm decision to do or not to do something
Synonyms - intention, resolve
Antonyms - indecision, apathy
Example - He had promised his son a new bike for Christmas and nothing would break his resolution.
Contends (तर्क) - Verb
Meaning - struggle to surmount (a difficulty)
Synonyms - grapple, resist
Antonyms - agree, comply
Example - After the call was made against his team, the coach tried to contend with the stubborn referee.
Perception (तेज़ी) - Noun
Meaning - the fact or quality of acting suddenly and rashly
Synonyms - drizzle, sleet
Antonyms - dryness
Example - Drinking in excess will precipitate liver disease.
Assessment (मूल्यांकन) - Noun
Meaning - the action of assessing someone or something
Synonyms - estimate, judgement
Example - The assessment of my car damage was that it was totaled from the accident.
Regulatory (नियामक) - Adjective
Meaning - serving or intended to regulate something
Synonyms - administrative, managing
Example - All students are supposed to know the school regulations.
Moot (वाद-विवाद करना) - Verb
Meaning - raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility)
Synonyms - broach, discuss
Antonyms - close, finish
Example - Federal legislation will override the states’ concerns and make them moot.

Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following -

What are the current river water disputes in India? What are the processes to address them? How can they be made more effective?
What are the current constitutional provisions to tackle Inter-State river water dispute? How effective they have been in addressing the disputes?

Given below are some words to check your vocabulary you can make sentences with those words in the comment section which will be reviewed by us.