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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Food for action: on food security in India"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Food for action: on food security in India"
- Food security - a situation in which enough food is produced and available for everyone in a group, country, etc. to have enough to eat
- Directive - an official order
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Indifference - lack of interest or sympathy
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Progressive - supporting social and political change that aims to make a system fairer
- Legislation - a law, or a set of laws
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Subsidise - to pay some of the cost of goods or services so that they can be sold to other people at a lower price
- Grievance - a complaint about being treated in an unfair way
- Redress - something that you do for someone or money that you give to them as a way of improving a bad situation that you are responsible for
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Consistent - not changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Welfare - the health and happiness of people
- Egalitarian - supporting a social system in which everyone has equal status and the same money and opportunities
- Ceiling - an upper limit set on the number or amount of something
- Rural - relating to the countryside
- Urban - relating to towns and cities
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Full-fledged - completely developed or trained
- Audit - a careful examination of something
- Incorporate - to include something as a part or as a quality
- Dynamic - continuously changing, growing, or developing
- Subsidised - to pay some of the cost of goods or services so that they can be sold to other people at a lower price
- Deficiency - a lack of something that your body needs
- Uniformly - the same everywhere
- Mere - only / just
- Beneficiary - someone who gets an advantage from a situation
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rouhani’s challenge"
- Daunting - something that is daunting makes you worried because you think that it will be very difficult or dangerous to do
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Abroad - foreign country or countries
- Formally - officially
- Conservative - someone who is not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Pushing for something - to try hard to get or achieve something
- Hard-line - the fact of being very severe (Serious)
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Consolidating - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Turning up - to increase the amount of something
- Moderate - neither very great nor very small in amount, size, strength, or degree
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Initiate - to make something start
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Resolve - to solve a problem, or to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a disagreement
- Status quo - the present situation, or the way that things usually are
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Override - to use official authority to ignore or change a decision that someone else made
- Gradually - slowly and in small stages or amounts
- Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Brinkmanship - the act of deliberately taking risks and making a situation as bad as it can be in order to force a particular result
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Reformist - wanting to change and improve society or an institution
- Antagonising - to make someone feel angry with you, so that they start to dislike you or have a negative attitude towards you
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Vindicate - to prove that someone is right, or that something they said, did, or decided was right, especially when most people believed they were wrong
- Reciprocate - to do the same thing for someone that they have done for you
- Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Succumb - to lose your ability to fight against someone or something, and to allow them to control or persuade you
- Provocation - something that causes you to react in an angry or violent way
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