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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Superpower dreams: On how India must respond to a low HDI rank"
- HDI - Human Development Index
- Superpower - a very powerful and influential nation
- Outlay - an amount of money spent on something.
- Pose - to ask a question
- Significantly - in a way that is easy to see or by a large amount
- Trajectory - the way in which a process or event develops over a period of time
- Liberalisation -to make laws or rules less strict so that people have more freedom
- Life expectancy - the length of time that someone is likely to live
- Empowerment - the process of gaining freedom and power to do what you want or to control what happens to you
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Inheritance - money or objects that someone gives you when they die
- Reform - an improvement
- Instituted - to start or cause a system, rule, legal action, etc. to exist
- Inequality - the unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people
- Persist - if an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist
- Workforce - the group of people who work in a company, industry, country, etc
- Severe - extreme or very difficult
- Multidimensional - having many different features
- Deprived - not having the things that are necessary for a pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or good living conditions
- Poverty - the condition of being extremely poor
- Break free - to escape from an unpleasant person or situation that controls your life
- Underachiever - someone who is less successful than they should be at school or at work
- Fiscal - connected with (public) money
- Subsidy - money given as part of the cost of something, to help or encourage it to happen
- Quintile - one of five equal measurements that a set of things can be divided into
- Aviation - the activity of flying aircraft, or of designing, producing, and keeping them in good condition
- Outlay - an amount of money spent for a particular purpose
- Bolster - to support or improve something or make it stronger
- Conscious - noticing that something exists or is happening and realizing that it is important
- Indices - plural of index (a number that shows the price, value, or level of something compared with something else)
- Ratify - to make an agreement official
- Convention - a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Enforce - to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
- Lacuna - an empty space where something is missing
- Sustain - to cause or allow something to continue for a period of time
- Crafted - to make objects, in a skilled way
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Urbanisation - the process by which towns and cities grow bigger and more and more people go to live in them
- Deficit - the total amount by which something is less than required
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Russian connection: not helping Trump's credibility"
- Credibility - the fact that someone can be believed or trusted
- Erode - to slowly reduce or destroy something
- Hearing - an official meeting that is held to collect the facts about an event or problem
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Kicked off - started
- Mischaracterise - to misrepresent what someone says or thinks
- Revelation - the act of making something known that was secret
- Grilling - an occasion when someone is asked a lot of questions for a long time
- Interfere - to involve yourself in a situation when your involvement is not wanted or is not helpful
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Withheld - to deliberately not give something to someone
- Ambassador - an important official who works in a foreign country representing his or her own country there, and who is officially accepted in this position by that country
- Inauguration - sthe act of putting someone into an official position with a ceremony
- Recused - to withdraw oneself from acting as a judge or other official in a court case because of possible conflicts of interest
- Probe - to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly
- Alleged - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Meddling - to become involved in a situation that you have no right to be involved in, in a way that is annoying
- Came to light - if facts come to light, they become known publicly
- Hack - to get into someone else's computer system without permission in order to find out information or do something illegal
- Scramble - to put things such as words or letters in the wrong order so that they do not make sense
- Ironically - in a way that is different or opposite from the result you would expect
- In the cross hairs - in a position to be criticized or attacked
- Trove - a large supply of something such as art or information
- Confidential - secret, often in a formal, business, or military situation
- Vault - a room, especially in a bank, with thick walls and a strong door, used to store money or valuable things in safe conditions
- Penetration - to succeed in becoming part of an organization, etc. and working within it
- Covert - hidden or secret
- Surveillance - the careful watching of a person or place to find out something
- Opponent - a person who disagrees with something and speaks against it or tries to change it
- Accused - to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal, or unkind
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Wiretap - to secretly listen to people by connecting a listening device to their telephone
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- The last straw - the latest problem in a series of problems, that makes a situation impossible to accept
- Debunk - to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear
- Tendency - if someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or like it
- Resort - the fact that you have to do something because there is no other way of achieving something
- Unsubstantiated - an unsubstantiated argument, claim etc is one for which you have no evidence
- Stall - to stop
- Collaboration - the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing
- Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
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