The Editorials Vocab - 15th April 2015 (Internationl Samet's birthday)

Provocative

• (adjective)

1. serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy.  "a provocative remark".  "a provocative smile".  "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance".  [similar]  exciting, agitative, challenging, charged, incendiary, rousing
2. exciting sexual desire.  "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative".  [similar]  sexy

Urging

• (noun)

1. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.  "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves".  [syn]  goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring
2. the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging.
3. insistent solicitation and entreaty.  "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree".  [syn]  importunity, urgency

Disenfranchise

• (verb)

1. deprive of voting rights.  [syn]  disfranchise

Claimant

• (noun)

1. someone who claims a benefit or rights or title.  "claimants of unemployment compensation".  "he was a claimant to the throne".

Demise

• (noun)

1. the time when something ends.  "it was the death of all his plans".  "a dying of old hopes".  [syn]  death, dying

• (verb)

1. transfer by a lease or by a will

Threshold

• (noun)

1. the starting point for a new state or experience.  "on the threshold of manhood".
2. the smallest detectable sensation.  [syn]  limen
3.  the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door an close.  "he stuck his head in the doorway".  [syn]  doorway, door, room access
4. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway.  [syn]  doorsill, doorstep
5. a region marking a boundary.  [syn]  brink, verge

Strident

• (adjective)

1. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry.  "blatant radios".  "a clamorous uproar".  "strident demands".  "a vociferous mob".  [syn]  blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous;  [similar]  noisy
2. being sharply insistent on being beard.  "strident demands".  "shrill criticism".  [syn]  shrill;  [similar]  imperative

Churn

• (noun)

1. a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk.  [syn]  butter-churn

• (verb)

1. stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
2. be agitated.  "the sea was churning in the storm".  [syn]  boil, moil, roil

Wane

• (noun)

1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).  [syn]  ebb, ebbing

• (verb)

1. grow smaller.  "interest in the project waned".  [syn]  decline, go down
2. become smaller.  "interest in his novels waned".
3. decrease in phase.  "the moon is waning"

Sporadic

• (adjective)

1. recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.  "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids".  [similar]  discontinuous, infrequent, fitful, intermittent, periodic, irregular, isolated

Spurt

• (noun)

1. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid).  [syn]  jet, squirt, spirt

• (verb)

1. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet.  "water gushed forth".  [syn]  spirt, gush, spout
2. move or act with a sudden increase in seed or energy.  [syn]  forge, spirt

Retaliation

• (noun)

1. action taken in return for an injury or offense.  [syn]  revenge

Futile

• (adjective)

1. producing no result or effect.  "a futile effort".  "the therapy was ineffectual".  "an otiose undertaking".  "an unavailing attempt".  [syn]  ineffectual, otiose, unavailing;  [similar]  useless
2. unproductive of success.  "a fruitless search".  "futile years after her artistic peak".  "a sleeveless errand".  "a vain attempt".  [syn]  bootless, fruitless, sleeveless, vain;  [similar]  unproductive

Purportedly

• (adverb)

1. believed or reputed to be the case.  [syn]  supposedly

Viable

• (adjective)

1. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are.  [syn]  feasible, executable, practicable, workable;  [similar]  possible
2. capable of life or normal growth and development.  "viable seeds".  "a viable fetus".  [similar] alive

Woe

• (noun)

1. misery resulting from affliction.  [syn]  suffering
2. intense mournfulness.  [syn]  woefulness

Source:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/15/guardian-view-on-the-mediterranean-boat-people-europe-cannot-evade-humanitarian-responsibilities

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/15/guardian-view-on-lib-dem-ukip-manifestos-world-of-difference

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/justice-for-blackwater-victims.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/a-reckless-act-in-the-senate-on-iran.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/senator-sessions-straight-up.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/payback-for-a-dissident.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/the-right-to-speak-out-in-india.html

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/shiv-sena-relevance-mns/article7102334.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/communist-party-of-india-maoist-movement/article7102333.ece