English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 22nd October 2017 (Sunday)
- Fetters - something that limits your freedom to do what you want
- Ordinance - an official order by a government, king, queen etc
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Whistle-blower - someone who reports dishonest or illegal activities within an organization to someone in authority
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Disclose - to give information to people, especially information that was secret
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Sanction - official permission for taking action
- Grave - so serious that you feel worried
- Consolidating - to combine several small things to become one large unit
- Insulating - to protect someone from unpleasant knowledge or harmful experiences
- Frivolous - lacking any real purpose or importance
- Concerned - involved in something
- Patently - in a way that is so obvious that no one could disagree
- Legitimate - fair and reasonable
- Venality - the quality of being open to bribery or overly motivated by money
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Cognizance - the process by which you recognize and understand something
- Paralyse - to make something unable to operate normally
- Impending - an impending event or situation, especially an unpleasant one, is one that will happen very soon
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue
- Provision - a statement within an agreement or a law that a particular thing must happen or be done, especially before another can happen or be done
- Prosecution - the process or act of accusing someone of a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Proviso - the chance to change a decision or an agreement if a situation changes
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Statutory - controlled by a law or statute
- Touchstone - a standard that is used for testing or judging other things
- Flux - a condition of continuous change
- Misconduct - seriously bad or dishonest behaviour, especially by someone who has a position of responsibility
- Bona fide - a bona fide person or thing is really what they seem to be or what they claim to be
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Behove - used for saying that someone should do something because it is the right thing to do
- Ostensibly - used for saying that although someone pretends to have one reason for something, there is in fact another reason
- Edifice - a complicated system or policy
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Cycle of terror: on the many deadly attacks in Afghanistan"
- Terror - a strong feeling of fear
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Muddle - a confused situation or condition
- Alarm bells - something that makes you feel something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Stabilise - to reach a state where there are no longer any major changes or problems
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Waging - to start and to continue a war or a fight
- Bloody - covered with or full of blood
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Shia - one of the main groups in the religion of Islam
- Shrine - a religious place built to remember a particular holy person or event
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Diplomat - an official whose job is to represent their government in a foreign country
- Amid - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Pursue - to try to achieve something
- Offensive - unpleasant or insulting, and likely to make people upset or embarrassed
- Reaching out - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them
- Outright - used for emphasizing that something happens or is done completely at one time or in a single process
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