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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "All for one ? : On Congress' strategy to contest in presidential poll"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Put cricket first: On BCCI being forced to name team for Champions Trophy"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "All for one ? : On Congress' strategy to contest in presidential poll"
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Reach out to somebody - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them
- Foe - an enemy
- Putting up - to suggest that someone should be elected to a particular position
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Inclination - a feeling that you want to do something
- Accommodative - willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- Bypassing - to avoid dealing with someone or something,
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- 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
- Disguising - to hide something such as your feelings or intentions
- Initiate - to make something start
- Barring - unless the thing mentioned happens or exists
- Likelihood - the chance that something might happen
- Enviable - if someone is in an enviable situation, you wish you were also in that situation
- Window of opportunity - an opportunity to do something that will only be available to you for a short time
- Former - used for referring to the first of two people or things that you have mentioned
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
- Compel - to force someone to do something, or to get something from someone using force
- Bandwagon - an idea or activity, especially in politics or business, that suddenly becomes very popular or fashionable, so that a lot of people want to be involved in it
- Ill-disposed - feeling unfriendly or not sympathetic towards someone
- Stand a chance - to be likely to achieve something
- Enlisting - if you enlist someone or enlist their help, you ask them to help or support you
- Staunch - loyal, and showing strong belief in something or strong support for something
- Onus is on someone - if the onus is on someone to do something, it is their responsibility or duty to do it
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Put cricket first: On BCCI being forced to name team for Champions Trophy"
- Allure - the quality of being attractive, interesting, or exciting
- Charm - a personal quality that attracts people to you and makes them like you
- Defending champion - someone who has won an important competition
- Nostalgia - thoughts about happy times in your past, often mixed with the wish to be back in the past
- Riveting - extremely interesting or exciting
- Quarter-final - one of four games played between the eight players or teams still left in a competition. The winners of the quarter-finals play each other in the semi-finals.
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Travesty - a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it should be or because it seems very unfair
- Bargaining - an agreement between two people or groups in which each promises to do something in exchange for something else
- Retrieve - to get something back, especially something that is not easy to find
- Scuttle - to make a plan, agreement, attempt etc fail or stop
- Tantrum - an occasion when someone suddenly behaves in a very angry and unreasonable way, often screaming, crying, or refusing to obey someone
- Leverage - the power to make someone do what you want
- Clout - the authority to make decisions, or the power to influence events
- Consistently - in a fair and impartial way.
- Obstinate - not willing to be reasonable and change your plans, ideas, or behaviour
- Mandate - an official order to do something
- Sportsmanship - fair and honest behaviour in sport
- Squad - a sports team
- Emphatic - said or shown in a very strong clear way
- Paramount - more important than all other things
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Priority - something important that must be done first or needs more attention than anything else
- Obfuscating - to deliberately make something confusing or difficult to understand
- Evasive - not talking or answering questions in an honest way
- Insensitivity - not feeling or showing sympathy for other people's feelings, or refusing to give importance to something
- Kick-start - to make something improve or become more active after it has stopped or slowed down
- Defend - to prevent something from failing, stopping, or being taken away
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