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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 20th August 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Separate ways: on JD(U) split"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Separate ways: on JD(U) split"
- Part with - to give something to someone although you would prefer to keep it
- On the credit side - used before you mention a good or positive aspect of a situation
- Flip-flop - an instance of someone changing their opinion completely in a way that annoys other people
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Blot - a small area of ink made by mistake
- Revolt - an attempt to get rid of a government by using violence
- Sheen - a shine on the surface of something
- Portray - to show or describe someone or something in a particular way
- Break-up - if a relationship breaks up, it ends
- Principled - honest and responsible about what you do and how you treat other people
- Dissolution - the process of officially ending the existence of a group or organization
- Betrayal - the act of deliberately harming somebody who believes you
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Pretence - a way of behaving that does not honestly express your real feelings, thoughts, or intentions
- Prospect - something that you expect
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Formidable - very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with
- Relevance - the quality of being directly connected with and important to something else
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Wooing - to try to persuade people to support you
- Minority - a part of a population that is different in race, religion, or culture from most of the population
- Vote-bank - a large group of voters from a single community who always support a particular party or candidate in elections
- Niche - a job or activity that you are good at and that is very suitable for you
- Cramp - to limit someone
- In spite of something - even though there is something unpleasant or bad happening
- Apportioning - to give or share out something, especially blame or money, among several people or things
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Factored in - to include a particular amount or factor when you calculate something
- Souring - if a relationship or situation sours, it stops being successful or satisfactory
- Marginalisation - to make someone or something seem not important or relevant
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Missing investors: on Sahara case"
- Investor - a person or organization that invests money
- Thorough - including everything that is possible or necessary
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Money laundering - to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal businesses
- Regulatory - a regulatory organization or company controls an activity, process, or industry
- Oversee - to watch something in order to check that it works or happens in the way that it should
- Clueless - knowing nothing
- Principal - an amount of money that someone has invested in an organization so that they will receive interest on it
- Bulged - to be very full
- Aggregate - total
- Debenture - an official arrangement with a company in which the company promises to pay a fixed rate of interest on money you have invested in it
- Upheld - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Reclaim - to ask for an amount of money that you have paid to be given back to you
- Bizarre - very strange and unusual
- Genuine - real, rather than pretended or false
- Claim - to say that something is yours, especially as a right
- Obviously - in a way that is clear for almost anyone to see or understand
- Authenticity - the quality of being real
- Unclaimed - without a known owner
- Evidence - 1acts or physical signs that help to prove something
- Expedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Turn up - to come somewhere, especially unexpectedly
- Rationale - the set of reasons that something such as a plan or belief is based on
- Fund-raising - the activity of trying to persuade people or organizations to give money for a specific purpose
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