English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Back to the collegium"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Gathering Team Trump"
- Collegium - a system under which appointments and transfers of judges are decided by a forum of the Chief Justice of India and the four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court
- Judiciary - the part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system
- Amidst - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Perception - a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Threatening - warning
- Cripple - to cause serious damage to someone or something
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Reconsideration - to think again about a decision or opinion and decide if you want to change it
- Contend - to compete in order to win something
- Take cue from - to be strongly influenced by something or someone
- Remark - something that you say, giving your opinion about something
- Obliged - to force someone to do something
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Unsparing - showing no kindness and no wish to hide the unpleasant truth
- Criticism - the act of saying that something or someone is bad
- Grim - worrying, without hope
- Grappling - to fight, especially in order to win something
- Enormous - extremely large
- On the one hand ... on the other hand - used when you are comparing two different facts or two opposite ways of thinking about a situation
- Docket - a list of cases to be dealt with in a law court
- Unattended - not being watched or taken care of
- Undercurrent - an emotion, belief, or characteristic of a situation that is hidden and usually negative or dangerous but that has some effect
- Memorandum - an informal legal agreement
- Obvious - easy to see, recognize, or understand
- Consensus - a generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people
- Avert - to prevent something bad from happening
- Flashpoint - a situation in which serious problems are likely to develop
- Dilute - to make something less strong or effective
- Primacy - the state of being the most important thing
- Stalling - stopping
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Gathering Team Trump"
- Protests - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Swirl - to move quickly
- Embarked - to begin a journey
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Transitioning - changing
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done
- Significance - importance
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Constituency - division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Segments - parts
- Anxiety -a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Irresistible - strong or powerful and impossible to control or defeat
- Backers - supporters
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Messy - complicated, difficult, and unpleasant to deal with
- Primary - an election in which people in a particular state in the US choose their candidate for president
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Healing - the process of becoming well again, or recovering from an unhappy experience\
- Stab - an action or remark that attacks someone's reputation
- Astute - able to understand a situation quickly and see how to take advantage of it
- Polarising - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- Desire - strong feeling of wanting to have or to do something
- Nastiness - unpleasant or upsetting
- Longstanding - having existed for a long time
- Walk a tightrope - if you walk/tread a tightrope, you have to deal with a difficult situation, especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action
- Fraying - to slowly become upset or annoyed
- Heavyweight - a person or thing that is important or serious and that other people notice
- Acumen - the ability to make good quick decisions and judgments
- Loyalty - support that you always give to someone or something because of your feelings of duty and love towards them
- Negotiating - to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- High-profile - attracting a lot of attention and interest from the public
- Harder to swallow - difficult to believe
- Alt-right - a group of people with racist opinions who are active especially online
- Strategist - someone who develops and carries out a plan, especially a business, military, or political plan
- Counsellor - someone whose job is to give advice and help to people with problems
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Racist - someone who does not like or respect people who belong to races that are different from their own and who believes their race is better than others
- Anti-Semitic - to show a feeling of hate towards Jewish people
- Misogynist - a person who hates or strongly dislikes women, or who thinks they are generally less able than men
- Prone - likely to do something or be affected by something, especially something bad
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Theorising - to develop ideas to explain something
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Tilt - to move something so that one side is lower than the other
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