{"id":62387,"date":"2023-10-03T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/?p=62387"},"modified":"2023-10-03T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T07:50:24","slug":"the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-october-3-2023-day-476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-october-3-2023-day-476\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary\u2013 October 3, 2023; Day 476"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Difficult Word\/ Phrase<\/span><\/td>\nContextual Sense<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Variance\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nAn activity that varies from a norm or standard<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vagary\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nAn unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person’s behaviour, etc.)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deficit\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe amount by which something is less than expected or required<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Subdue\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nReduce\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
On the horizon\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nlikely to happen soon<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Converse\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nObsolete\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deluge\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA heavy rain<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Landslide\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grapple\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nSucceed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anthropogenic\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nOf or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spectrum\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA broad range of related objects, values, qualities, ideas or activities<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peninsular\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nRelated to any land area projecting out into water<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spatial\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nconnected with the size or position and area of something<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Temporal\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nOf or relating to or limited by time<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reiterate\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nTo say, state, or perform again<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dynamics\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nthe way in which things behave and react to each other in a particular situation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Capturing the monsoon: its <\/span>variance (An activity that varies from a norm or standard) <\/b>and the message<\/span><\/h2>\n

India needs all-weather insurance against <\/span>vagaries (An unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person’s behaviour, etc.)) <\/b>of global climate<\/span><\/h3>\n

For the first time since 2018, India has reported a <\/span>deficit (The amount by which something is less than expected or required) <\/b>monsoon. From June to September this year, India received 82 cm of rainfall, nearly 6% lower than the 89 cm that is considered \u2018normal\u2019. Beginning April, there were enough indications that the monsoon would be <\/span>subdued (reduced) <\/b>with an El Ni\u00f1o <\/span>on the horizon (likely to happen soon)<\/b>. This cyclical warming of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean usually corresponds to a decline in rainfall over India, particularly the north-west. Between 2019 and 2022, the Indian monsoon was significantly impacted by the <\/span>converse (obsolete) <\/b>phenomenon \u2013 a cooling La Ni\u00f1a \u2014 that sometimes is associated with above normal rainfall. By those metrics, the expectations of a normal monsoon in 2023 were muted. However, the experience of the monsoon this year was far from the ordinary. About 9% of the country received \u2018excess\u2019 rainfall with 18% getting \u2018deficient\u2019 and the rest of the country, \u2018normal\u2019 rainfall. While on one hand, August \u2014 the second-most important monsoon month \u2014 posted a third less than its normal, several States in north India, which were expecting minimal rainfall, were <\/span>deluged (A heavy rain) <\/b>following multiple episodes of record rainfall. July, for instance, saw exceptionally heavy rainfall in Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, resulting in floods and <\/span>landslides (A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff)<\/b>. Several cities were left <\/span>grappling (Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available) <\/b>with serious flooding over several days. Cloudbursts were reported in Himachal Pradesh in August. It is worthwhile to note here that these episodes of intense rain were due to so-called western disturbances that are extra tropical storms from the Mediterranean region and normally not expected to play a major part in the monsoon. Thus, these are fingerprints of the wide-ranging impacts of <\/span>anthropogenic (Of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings) <\/b>warming.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the other end of the <\/span>spectrum (A broad range of related objects, values, qualities, ideas or activities) <\/b>were drought-like conditions in Maharashtra. Extreme water stress was also reported out of Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Karnataka, where in the case of Karnataka, matters came to a head with neighbouring Tamil Nadu over the sharing of water from the Cauvery river. The India Meteorological Department has also forecast a \u2018normal\u2019 north-east monsoon from October to December and \u2018normal to above-normal rainfall\u2019 over large parts of north-west India and south <\/span>peninsular (any land area projecting out into water) <\/b>India. The signs are there of increased rains in several parts of south India. The <\/span>spatial (connected with the size or position and area of something) <\/b>and <\/span>temporal <\/b>variance of the monsoon <\/span>reiterates (To say, state, or perform again) <\/b>the need to invest in more resilient infrastructure that can be an all-weather insurance against the increasingly unpredictable vagaries of the global climate. The pattern in recent years is to improve forecast models that are better able to warn of significant changes in weather a week or two ahead than having approaches that fail to capture the <\/span>dynamics (the way in which things behave and react to each other in a particular situation) <\/b>of the Indian monsoon. More money and expertise should be directed towards this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Want to improve your vocabulary further?\u00a0Download the Lists of Word-Meanings of Previous Months here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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