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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 30th September and 1st October 2017 (Sunday, Dussehra)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Maximum neglect: on Elphinstone stampede"
- Stampede - if a group of animals or people stampede, they all start to run in a very fast uncontrolled way because they are frightened or excited
- Preventable - capable of being prevented
- Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
- Ghastly - shocking in a way that frightens or upsets you
- Staircase - a set of stairs, usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical poles at the side for you to hold on to
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Accountable - in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened
- Unthinkable - impossible to imagine
- Augmenting - to increase the size, amount, or value of something
- Creaking - a high sound that something, especially something wooden, makes when it moves or when you put weight on it
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates,
- Canopy - a curved roof over part of a building
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- Inexpensive - something that is inexpensive does not cost much money
- Off-the-shelf - used to describe a product that is available immediately and does not need to be specially made to suit a particular purpose
- Concern - something that you think is important
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Archaic - old and no longer used
- Commuting - to travel regularly to and from work
- Periphery - the outer part of an area, very far from the centre
- Peninsular - on land and away from the sea
- Amenity - something that makes it comfortable or enjoyable to live or work somewhere
- Civic - relating to a town or city, especially to its government and public activities
- Lobbying - to try to influence politicians or people in authority on a particular subject
- Skewed - opinions, ideas, or judgments that are skewed have been affected by something, making them strange or unfair
- Bedlam - a noisy and confusing place or situation
- Bottleneck - a specific problem in part of a process, that causes delays to the whole process
- Adjoining - next to and connected to another building, room, area etc
- Obstacle - a difficulty or problem that prevents you from achieving something
- Termini - a large building where train, boat, or bus services start and finish
- Exemplary - excellent or done in a way that other people should try to copy
- Compensation - money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Administration - the activities involved in managing a business, organization, or institution
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Back to paper: on using VVPAT in Gujarat polls"
- Critic - someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it
- Regressive - relating to behaviour that is not responsible or controlled
- Deploy - to use something
- Questionable - possibly not true, accurate, or complete
- Audit - a careful examination of something
- Randomised - to choose people or things for a test or experiment in a random way
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Undertake - to agree to be responsible for a job or a project and do it
- Blanket - including or affecting everything, everyone, or all cases, in a large group or area
- Expedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Unwarranted - not fair or necessary
- Scaremonger - a person who spreads stories that cause public fear
- Allay - if you allay feelings such as fears, worries, or doubts, you make someone feel less afraid, worried, or full of doubt
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Confront - to deal with a difficult situation
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Fraud - the action of producing false documents or information in order to get what you want
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Tamper - to touch something that you should not touch, and to change it in some way, often because you want to spoil it
- Hackathon - an event when computer programmers meet to create computer programs / hack computers to prove that they are not secure
- Manipulate - to influence someone, or to control something, in a clever or dishonest way
- Cry wolf - to keep saying that there is a problem when there is not
- Naysayer - someone who always thinks of reasons to oppose new ideas or solutions to problems
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Vet - to examine something in order to decide if it is allowed
- Standalone - not connected to anything else, or not depending on anything else
- Malware - software such as a virus that is designed to damage or destroy information on a computer
- Compelling - able to persuade someone to do something
- Revert to something - to return to a previous state or way of behaving
- Ballot - the process of voting secretly to choose a candidate in an election or express an opinion about an issue
- Robust - strong
- Continually - all the time without stopping
- Spear-phishing - sending emails to a targeted group of people in an attempt to get important personal details from them
- Manipulation - behaviour that influences someone or controls something in a clever or dishonest way
- Susceptible - easily influenced or affected by something
- Decentralise - to take power from a central government or organization and give it to several smaller and more local ones
- Accountable - in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened
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