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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The price of defiance"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "New Year’s-eve tragedy in Turkey"
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The price of defiance"
- Defiance - behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something
- Predicament - a difficult or unpleasant situation that is not easy to get out of
- Defying - to refuse to obey someone or something
- Reforms - changes that are intended to make a system work more effectively
- Contempt - a strong feeling of disliking and having no respect for someone or something
- Prosecution - the process or act of accusing someone of a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Perjury - the crime of telling lies in court when you have promised to tell the truth
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Obstructionist - the act of intentionally stopping or slowing down an official process
- Tactic - a planned way of doing something
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Wilful - done deliberately in order to cause damage or harm
- Defy - to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc
- Affiliated - used to describe an organization that is officially connected with or controlled by another, usually larger, organization
- Held sway - have great power or influence over a particular person, place, or organization
- Autonomy - the right of an organization, country, or region to be independent and govern itself
- Imminent - coming or likely to happen very soon
- Equivocation - to speak in a way that is intentionally not clear and confusing to other people, especially to hide the truth
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Mollify - to make someone less angry or upset
- Wrath - extreme anger
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "New Year’s-eve tragedy in Turkey"
- Tragedy - a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death or suffering
- Rapidly - suddenly / quickly
- Deteriorating - to become worse
- Ambassador - an important official who works in a foreign country representing his or her own country there
- Lone - alone / single / only
- Violent - using force to hurt or attack
- Rebel - a person who is opposed to the political system in their country and tries to change it using force
- Sizeable - large
- Caliphate - an Islamic state, especially one ruled by a single religious and political leader
- Upmarket - upmarket services or goods are designed for people who have a lot of money
- Gathered - when people or animals gather, they come together in a group
- Booming - increasing
- Descended - to become lower
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Chaos - a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess
- Blowback - negative reactions or results that were not intended, such as criticism, protest, or anger
- Turned out - to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one
- Monumental - very big
- Ally - a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war
- Anti-regime - opposed to or against government
- Inadvertently - not intentional
- Folly - a way of thinking or behaving that is stupid and careless, and likely to have bad results
- Debacle - a complete failure, especially because of bad planning and organization
- Autonomous - an autonomous state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- In the wake of something - if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and often because of it
- Abandoned - left
- Ceasefire - an agreement, usually between two armies, to stop fighting in order to allow discussions about peace
- Kicking off - starting
- Civil war - a war fought by different groups of people living in the same country
- In a tight spot - to be in a difficult situation
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Curtail - to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Authoritarian - demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as they wish
- Tendency - an aspect of your character that you show by behaving in a particular way
- Crackdown - a situation in which someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way
- Dissent - a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject, especially about an official suggestion or plan or a popular belief
- Polarising - to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups
- Fragility - easily damaged, broken, or harmed
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