The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary – Set 120

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary Words with Meanings for various Exams: SBI PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/Clerk, RRB, RBI, LIC, NABARD, SEBI, SSC, UPSC, IPPB, etc.

We are providing vocabulary words from the Editorial articles in The Hindu newspaper which is important for all the upcoming competitive exams. Add some more words to your English vocabulary words list.

 

TOPIC – Talking amid conflict

Relations between the world’s two biggest powers, the U.S. and China, have been in free fall over the past five years amid the trade war launched by the Trump administration. Ties have remained strained despite the change in administration in Washington, with meetings between top officials, in Alaska and then in Tianjin, marked by their rancor. It is this perilous state of ties that likely prompted U.S. President Joe Biden to call his counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday, the first time they spoke since a conversation in February not long after Mr. Biden’s inauguration. While Mr. Biden wanted “to ensure competition does not veer into conflict”, Mr. Xi agreed both sides needed to “get the relationship right”, but underlined the repeated Chinese view that the troubles were “due to the U.S. policy on China”. Part of the Biden administration’s stated broader approach of competing with China where required but cooperating where possible, the U.S. has sought Chinese cooperation in Afghanistan after its disastrous exit, which has been celebrated by the state media in China, and also on climate change, which is a priority for this administration. At the same time, both sides have clashed on issues including human rights in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South China Sea actions, and the contentious inquiry into the origins of COVID19. The Chinese side, for its part, has made clear it seeks concessions on some of the thorny issues before it will agree to discuss working together on others. In the July talks in Tianjin, Chinese officials presented two “lists” of demands to the U.S., including unconditionally revoking visa restrictions on Communist Party members and withdrawing an extradition request for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of tech firm Huawei who is on trial in Canada. The Chinese side has also demanded the U.S. change its stance on the COVID19 inquiry, where Washington has led calls for a more transparent investigation. The Chinese Foreign Minister likened U.S. calls for cooperation on climate change as seeking “an oasis” surrounded by desert. The “oasis”, he argued, would “sooner or later be decertified”. With the U.S. unlikely to agree to China’s preconditions, the state of relations is likely to endure. If the Chinese argument that it is unrealistic to insulate points of discord from a broader relationship is not entirely unreasonable, it is notable that Beijing’s officials have rejected that precise argument with regard to the strained relations with India, which has said cooperation on trade and other fronts cannot continue while the LAC remains in crisis. On the contrary, Beijing has hit out at New Delhi for “wavering and backpedalling” in its China policy, demanding that it keep the border “in an appropriate position”. If cooperating while in conflict appears an unreasonable proposition for China when it comes to ties with the U.S., it is unfathomable how it expects India to take a very different stand on bilateral relations.

 

 

The Hindu Editorial Words with meanings, synonyms, and antonyms 

 

Amid (preposition) – Surrounded by; in the middle of

Synonyms – Amongst, throughout, between, surrounded by

Antonyms – Separate, outside, away from, beyond

 

Strained (adjective) – Showing signs of nervous tension or tiredness

Synonyms – Careworn, pinched, fatigued, haggard, exhausted

Antonyms – Unaffected, relaxed, graceful, slackened, broke

 

Rancor (noun) – An angry feeling of hatred or dislike for someone who has treated you unfairly

Synonyms – Animosity, antagonism, enmity, hostility, animus

Antonyms – Friendliness, geniality, sympathy, congeniality

 

Perilous (adjective) – Full of danger or risk

Synonyms – Treacherous, precarious, desperate, fraught, hazardous

Antonyms – Innocuous, unthreatening, ultra-safe, harmless, advantageous

 

Disastrous (adjective) – Causing great damage

Synonyms – Calamitous, tragic, devastating, ravaging, ruinous

Antonyms –Miraculous, trivial, assisting, wondrous, triumphant

 

Contentious (adjective) – Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial

Synonyms – Bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, belligerent

Antonyms – Obliging, considerate, pacific, obsequious, accommodating

 

 Extradition (noun) – Removal of a person from a requested state to a requesting state for criminal prosecution or punishment

Synonyms –Deportation, expatriation, refoulement, banishment, expulsion

Antonyms –Repatriation, return, indigenous, resist, encounter

 

Insulate (verb) – To place in a detached situation

Synonyms –Seclude, segregate, shield, sequester, isolate

Antonyms –Integrate, desegregate, expose, squander, combine

 

Discord (noun) – Disagreement between people.

Synonyms –Dissonance, schism, strife, discordance, conflict

Antonyms –Accord, harmony, concordance, agreement, concord

 

Unfathomable (adjective) – Incapable of being fully explored or understood.

Synonyms –Inscrutable, mysterious, incomprehensible, complex, believable

Antonyms –Measurable, depthless, superficial, shallow, confined

 

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