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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Still unwieldy but just in time"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Ominous curb on media freedom"
- Unwieldy - too big or complicated to work well
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Deliberations - discussions in which a subject is considered carefully
- Contentious - causing or likely to cause disagreement
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Retain - to keep or continue to have something
- Proposed - to offer or suggest a possible plan or action for other people to consider
- Tweaking - to change something slightly, especially in order to make it more correct, effective, or suitable
- Respectively - (of two or more items) with each relating to something previously mentioned, in the same order as first mentioned
- Threshold - a level at which something happens
- Foodgrains - any of a variety of grains that are grown for human consumption, such as wheat, oats, etc
- Essential - completely necessary
- Constitute - to be or be considered as something
- Inflation - a general, continuous increase in prices
- Exempted - to excuse someone or something from a duty, payment, etc
- Regressive - (of tax) lower on large amounts of money, so that the rich are less affected
- Repercussions - the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters, especially taxes
- Levied - to impose (a tax, fee, or fine)
- Durables - products such as cars, furniture, and electrical equipment that are expected to last for a long time
- Producer - a country or region that produces a lot of something
- Hardly - used for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all
- Spur - something that encourages someone to do something
- Drive - to force someone into a bad situation or state
- Manufacturing - the business of making goods in large quantities in a factory
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Cess - a tax
- Sin goods - goods harmful to society (alcohol and tobacco etc)
- Desirable - something that is desirable has qualities that make you want it
- End-use - the ultimate specific use to which a manufactured product (such as paper) is put or restricted
- Point of sale - the place at which a retail transaction is carried out
- Distort - to change something such as information so that it is no longer true or accurate
- Unlikely - not likely to happen
- Compensate - to change or remove the bad result of something
- Doing away with - to get rid of something
- Thereafter - after a particular time that has been mentioned
- Visibility - a situation in which someone or something can be clearly seen or noticed
- Dovetail - to fit together, or to work together well
- Lobbying - to make someone agree to do something by convincing them
- Nix - to refuse or say no to something
- Spills over - to spread to other areas
- Constituted - to combine (to form a group)
- Unanimous - a unanimous decision, vote, agreement etc is one that everyone agrees with and supports
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Augur - to be a sign of what may happen in the future
- Refining - to make small changes to something in order to improve it
- Ensuring - to make something certain to happen
- Radically - completely or in a way that is very noticeable
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Ominous curb on media freedom"
- Ominous - making you think that something bad will happen
- Curb - to control or limit something
- Directing - to give someone instructions to do something
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Regime - government
- Concerning - about a particular subject
- Suspension - the act of officially stopping something for a period of time
- Smacks - to hit something hard and noisily
- Inclination - a feeling that you want to do something
- Accused - to say that someone has done something wrong
- Sensitive - needing to be kept secret
- Compromised - to risk harming or losing something important
- Neutralise - to stop something from having any effect
- Disclosure - the process of giving information to people, especially information that was secret
- Ammunitions - bullets, bombs etc that can be fired from a weapon
- Vicinity - the area near a particular place
- Reportage - the methods and type of language that journalists use when they are reporting news
- Briefing - a meeting or document in which people receive information or instructions
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Restrained - controlled
- Hostage - a person who is the prisoner of someone who threatens to kill them if they do not get what they want
- Adjudicate - to make an official decision about a problem or disagreement
- Blanket ban - complete ban of something
- Statutory - controlled by a law
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment
- Imminent - likely or certain to happen very soon
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