👀DAILY HINDU EDITORIAL WORD BYTES -1 -> 28 MAY👀

💥Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial -Stress test: the need for water management reforms💥

stress test (noun) – a test to analyse the function of a system when it is subjected to more pressure.
Hindu Editorial usage : Stress test: the need for water management reforms

avert (verb) – prevent, stop, avoid.
Hindu Editorial usage : Water management reforms are needed to avert public hardship and economic loss

on the cusp (phrase) – a point where something will change.
Hindu Editorial usage : On the cusp of the southwest monsoon, several arid States are hoping to revive their rivers and reservoirs with bountiful rain

arid (adjective) – dry, water-less, parched.
Hindu Editorial usage : On the cusp of the southwest monsoon, several arid States are hoping to revive their rivers and reservoirs with bountiful rain

revive (verb) – fortify, strengthen, regenerate/reinvigorate.
Hindu Editorial usage : On the cusp of the southwest monsoon, several arid States are hoping to revive their rivers and reservoirs with bountiful rain

bountiful (adjective) – abundant, plentiful, ample.
Hindu Editorial usage : On the cusp of the southwest monsoon, several arid States are hoping to revive their rivers and reservoirs with bountiful rain

roil (verb) – annoy, irritate.
Hindu Editorial usage : One of them is Gujarat, which is roiled by the long-tail effect of a deficit monsoon between August and November last year. 

long tail (noun) – “long tail” – derived from the fact that when things (precipitation/rainfall 
rate) are plotted along an axis they come to look like a long tail, with the most rainfall in short duration (in few days) and the less rainfall in long duration (in months) stretching the tail out to its length.
Hindu Editorial usage : One of them is Gujarat, which is roiled by the long-tail effect of a deficit monsoon between August and November last year. 

deficit (noun) – shortfall, deficiency, shortage.
Hindu Editorial usage : One of them is Gujarat, which is roiled by the long-tail effect of a deficit monsoon between August and November last year. 

embark on (verb) – begin, start, undertake.
Hindu Editorial usage : The State government has embarked on a labour-intensive programme to desilt rivers and waterbodies ahead of the rains

desilt (verb) – remove silt/sediment/mud from the water (of a lake/pond/etc).
Hindu Editorial usage : The State government has embarked on a labour-intensive programme to desilt rivers and waterbodies ahead of the rains

predicament (noun) – difficult/problematic situation, difficulty, quandary.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Its predicament reflects the larger reality of drought in India, aggravated by heat waves and significant rain deficits in different regions. 

drought (noun) – dry spell/period, lack of rain, shortage of water.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Its predicament reflects the larger reality of drought in India, aggravated by heat waves and significant rain deficits in different regions. 

aggravate (verb) – worsen, make worse, exacerbate.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Its predicament reflects the larger reality of drought in India, aggravated by heat waves and significant rain deficits in different regions. 

turn (up) the heat on (phrase) – to increase the intensity of activity.
Hindu Editorial usage :  A reinvigorated Congress in the opposition has turned the heat on the BJP government in Gujarat, which is hard put to defend itself against the charge that dam waters were depleted merely to fill the Sabarmati river for a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December, 

be hard put (to) (phrase) – find it very difficult.
Hindu Editorial usage :  A reinvigorated Congress in the opposition has turned the heat on the BJP government in Gujarat, which is hard put to defend itself against the charge that dam waters were depleted merely to fill the Sabarmati river for a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December, 

deplete (verb) – exhaust, use up, consume/spend.
Hindu Editorial usage :  A reinvigorated Congress in the opposition has turned the heat on the BJP government in Gujarat, which is hard put to defend itself against the charge that dam waters were depleted merely to fill the Sabarmati river for a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December, 

roll out (phrasal verb) – (officially) launch, introduce, organize/start.
Hindu Editorial usage : Its response has been to roll out a campaign to deepen waterbodies on the one hand, and arrange religious events to propitiate the gods on the other

propitiate (verb) – appease, pacify, satisfy.
Hindu Editorial usage : Its response has been to roll out a campaign to deepen waterbodies on the one hand, and arrange religious events to propitiate the gods on the other

irrigation (noun) – the process of (artificially) supplying water to farm land to grow crops & plants.
Hindu Editorial usage : But it has had to prioritise drinking water needs over farming, and suspend irrigation supply from the dam on March 15. 

at loggerheads (phrase) – in disagreement, at variance, in opposition.
Hindu Editorial usage : Delhi has been at loggerheads with Haryana over reduction of water released in the Yamuna, highlighting growing stresses over a vital resource.

respite (noun) – rest, break, interval/breathing space.
Hindu Editorial usage : In a normal year, the pre-monsoon phase from March 1 brings some respite and India gets about 130 mm of precipitation before the rainy season begins.

precipitation (noun) – rainfall (water condensed on the ground).
Hindu Editorial usage : In a normal year, the pre-monsoon phase from March 1 brings some respite and India gets about 130 mm of precipitation before the rainy season begins.

underscore (verb) – underline, emphasize, highlight.
Hindu Editorial usage : This underscores the need for comprehensive reforms at the level of States, with the Centre helping to conserve hydrological resources. 

prosperity (noun) – success, profitability, fortune/wealth.
Hindu Editorial usage : f Gujarat improves rural water storage structures and creates many small wetlands beyond the compulsions of politics, it can ensure long-term prosperity for thousands of villages in Saurashtra

unfailing (adjective) – constant, reliable, steady.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Kutch and the northern region where pumps run dry with unfailing regularity. 

vagary (noun) – usually vagaries, are unexpected and unpredictable changes in a situation.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Farmers will get relief from the monsoon vagaries that affect the Narmada, whose waters are apportioned among four States.

apportion (verb) – share out, divide out, allocate/distribute.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Farmers will get relief from the monsoon vagaries that affect the Narmada, whose waters are apportioned among four States.

desalination (noun) – the process of removing salt from seawater.
Hindu Editorial usage : The State government is thinking of going in for desalination.

dwindle (verb) – diminish, decrease, reduce.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Decentralised water storage too will help cities like Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara when water supply from large dams and other sources dwindles

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