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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Towards transparency — on judicial appointments"
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Disclosure - the process of giving information to people, especially information that was secret
- Spelt out - to say or explain something very clearly because someone has not understood something
- Collegium - an advisory or administrative board
- Entrenched - entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change
- Elevation - an increase in the level of something
- Discreetness - careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Pertain to something - to be directly related to something
- Opaqueness - hard to understand or explain
- Albeit - used for introducing a comment that slightly changes or reduces the effect of what you said before it
- Obliquely - not expressing something directly
- Confidentiality - a situation in which important information must be kept secret
- Augur - to be a sign of what may happen in the future
- Salience - the fact of being important to or connected with what is happening or being discussed
- Puisne - denoting a judge of a superior court inferior in rank to chief justices
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Conversant - if you are conversant with something, you know about it and understand it
- Unease - a feeling of being nervous, uncomfortable, or unhappy about a situation
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- Put in place - to set up, organize, or establish
- Mammoth - very large
- Screening - a test or examination to discover if there is anything wrong with someone / something
- Backed - supported
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Shortcoming - a fault or problem that makes someone or something less effective
- Commendable - deserving praise or admiration
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Problem animals — on wildlife protection strategies"
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Conservation - the management of land / water / something in ways that prevent it from being damaged or destroyed
- Itention - a plan in your mind to do something
- Quash - to say officially that a decision taken by another court was wrong and no longer has legal force
- Death warrant - an official document ordering someone to be punished by death
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Litigation - use of the legal system to settle a disagreement
- Intrusion - the act of becoming involved in something in a way that is not welcome
- Territory - an area that an animal considers to be its own, and tries to prevent others from entering
- In harm’s way - in a dangerous situation
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Arm-twisting - behaviour in which you try to make someone do something by threats or by persuading them forcefully
- Worrisome - causing you to feel worried
- Scramble - to hurry or try very hard to get something
- Translocating - moving from one place to another
- Carnivore - an animal that eats other animals
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Prey - an animal that is caught by another animal and eaten
- Density - the amount of something in a place
- Habitat - the type of place that a particular animal usually lives in or a particular plant usually grows in, for example a desert, forest, or lake
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Aggression - an angry feeling that makes you want to attack or defeat someone else
- Livestock - animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs that are kept on farms
- Absurd - completely stupid, unreasonable
- Intuitive - based on your feelings rather than on facts or evidence
- Hue and cry - a lot of complaints and protests from the public about something
- Fathom - to understand someone or why someone acts as they do
- Trophy-hunting - the activity of hunting and killing animals in order to display part or all of their bodies as trophies
- Fauna - all the animals that live wild in a particular area
- Infirm - weak because of old age or illness
- Sacrifice - to kill a person or animal as part of a ceremony to honour
- Species - a plant or animal group whose members all have similar general features and are able to produce young plants or animals together
- Culling - to kill animals deliberately
- Carnivore - an animal that eats other animals
- Mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something
- Antagonise - to make someone feel angry with you
- Indiscriminately - done without considering who or what you harm or damage
- Burgeoning - growing or developing quickly
- Intensity - strength
- Coercing - to make someone do something by using force or threats
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