English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Appointments as spoils of office"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The great American election hack"
- Gross - gross actions are extremely bad and are considered immoral by most people
- Disrespect - the attitude or behaviour of someone who does not respect someone or something
- Institutional - from or within a large organization
- Integrity - the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change
- Constitutional - allowed by the constitution of a country or organization
- Quashing - to say officially that something, especially an earlier official decision, is no longer to be accepted
- Foreground - to give something more importance than something else
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Preceded - to come before someone or something else in a series
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Relevance - the quality of being directly connected with and important to something else
- Bar - something that prevents a particular event or development from happening
- By dint of something - as a result of something
- Administrative - relating to the management of a company, organization, or institution
- Disquieting - making you feel very worried or nervous
- Spoils system - the practice of a successful political party giving government civil service jobs to its supporters
- Patronage - the support given to an organization by someone
- Integrity - the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change
- Calibre - the level of someone’s ability, intelligence etc, or the standard or quality of something, especially when it is high
- Flawed - not perfect, or containing mistakes
- Instance - a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that happens generally
- Absence - the fact of not being where you are usually expected to be
- Incorporate - include something as part of something larger
- Executive - someone in a high position
- Evolve - to gradually change and develop over a period of time
- Drawing upon - to use something that you have gradually gained or saved
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The great American election hack"
- Hack - to get into someone else's computer system without permission in order to find out information or do something illegal
- Declassified - declassified information is officially no longer secret
- Purportedly - said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true
- The minutiae - small and often not important details
- Conspiracy theory - a belief that an unpleasant event or situation is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people
- Dogged - very determined to do something, even if it is very difficult
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Tip the scales - to give someone or something enough of an advantage to influence a result or decision
- Magnate - a person who is very rich and successful in business or industry
- Pulls together - to combine different things so that they form a single unit
- Conclude - to judge or decide something after thinking carefully about it
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Victim - someone who has been affected by a bad situation
- Secrecy - a situation in which you keep something secret, or the process of keeping something secret
- Disseminated - to make something such as information or knowledge available to a lot of people
- Troves - a large supply of something such as information
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Undercut - to damage something or to make it fail
- Provenance - the place of origin of something
- Malicious - intended to harm or upset other people
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Expell - to force someone to leave an organization, or country
- Diplomats - an official whose job is to represent one country in another
- Boiling point - the point when a situation is about to get out of control and become violent
- Saga - a long complicated series of related, usually negative, events
- Consequential - happening as an indirect result of something
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Outcome - a result or effect of an action, situation, etc
- Concerted - planned or done together for a shared purpose
- Disinformation - false information spread in order to deceive people
- Sway - to influence or change someone’s opinion
- Covert - hidden or secret
- Concede - to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true
- Woe - big problems or troubles
- Immigrant - a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently
- On the flip side - the opposite, less good, or less popular side of something
- Untrustworthy - not able to be trusted
- Scarcely - almost not
- Corroboration - evidence or information that supports what someone has said
- Irony - a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result
- Unparalleled - having no equal; better or greater than any other
- Interfering - deliberately involving yourself in other people’s lives and trying to influence the way that they behave, although you have no right to do this
- Throws up - to produce new problems / ideas
- Dismissive - showing that you do not think something is worth considering
- Impunity - freedom from punishment or from the unpleasant results of something that has been done
- Justifiably - if something is justifiable, there is a good reason for it
- Poised - ready to do a particular thing at any moment
- On the brink of something - in a situation in which something bad is very likely to happen
- Prospect - the possibility that something good might happen in the future
- Sweep - to win all the parts of a competition, or to win very easily
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