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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Upheld at The Hague: Pakistan must act responsibly"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Where the jobs are : on the unemployment rate"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Upheld at The Hague: Pakistan must act responsibly"
- Upheld - confirm or support (something which has been questioned)
- Responsibly - with good judgment and the ability to act correctly
- Consular - relating to the government official sent to live in another country and look after their own country’s citizens and business interests there
- Preliminary - coming before a more important action or event
- Carrying out - to do or complete something, especially that you have said you would do or that you have been told to do
- Execution - the legal punishment of killing someone
- Perception - a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem
- Outline - to give the main facts about something
- Provisional - for the present time but likely to change
- Enjoin - to legally force someone to do something or stop doing something
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Naval - belonging to a country's navy, or relating to military ships
- Death sentence - a legal punishment of a crime by death
- Adjudication - to make an official decision about a problem or disagreement
- Binding - (especially of an agreement) that cannot be legally avoided or stopped
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Urgency - the need to deal with something quickly
- Jurisdiction - the authority of a court or official organization to make decisions and judgments
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Preclude - to prevent something or make it impossible, or prevent someone from doing something
- Humanitarian - kindness
- Irreparable - impossible to repair or make right again
- Prejudice - an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge
- violate - to break or act against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect
- Convention - a formal agreement between country leaders, politicians, and states on a matter that involves them all
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Prima facie - at first sight (= based on what seems to be the truth when first seen or heard)
- Purview - the limit of someone's responsibility, interest, or activity
- Protocol - the system of rules and acceptable behaviour used at official ceremonies and occasions
- Dispute - an argument or disagreement, especially an official one
- Interpretation - an explanation or opinion of what something means
- Espionage - the discovering of secrets, especially political or military information of another country or the industrial information of a business
- Consequence - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient
- Clemency - kindness when giving a punishment
- Undermine - to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually
- Credibility - the fact that someone can be believed or trusted
- Leverage - power to influence people and get the results you want
- Diplomatic - acting in a way that does not cause offence
- Abide by something - to follow a rule, decision, or instruction
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Where the jobs are : on the unemployment rate"
- Attuned - especially able to understand or deal with
- Underperformance - to operate in a less successful way than other things of the same type
- Sector - one of the areas into which the economic activity of a country is divided
- Labour-intensive - Industries and methods that are labour-intensive need a lot of workers
- Downplay - to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is
- Gloomy - unhappy and without hope
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Underemployment - not having enough work, or not having a job in which you can use your skills
- Nevertheless - despite what has just been said or referred to
- Task force - a group of people who are brought together to do a particular job, or a large military group who have a military aim to achieve
- Obtain - to get something
- Reliable data - reliable data can be trusted to be accurate
- Aid - help or support
- Policymaking - the activity of deciding on new policies, especially by a government or political party
- Obviously - in a way that is easy to understand or see
- Vital - necessary for the success or continued existence of something; extremely important
- Transition - a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which this happens
- Extensive - covering a large area; having a great range
- Stagnation - to stay the same and not grow or develop
- Exhausted - extremely tired and without enough energy to do anything else
- On the other hand - in a way that is different from the first thing you mentioned
- Substantial - large in size, value, or importance
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- Indeed - really or certainly, often used to emphasize something
- Ironically - in a way that is different or opposite from the result you would expect
- Reform - to make an improvement, especially by changing a person's behaviour or the structure of something
- Boost - to improve or increase something
- Mobility - the ability to move freely or be easily moved
- Bring down something - to reduce the level of something
- Barriers - something that separates one thing from another
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Investment - the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage
- Formulate - to develop all the details of a plan for doing something
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