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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Law, faith, unreason: on eradicating superstition from society"
- Unreason - inability to act or think reasonably
- Eradicating - to get rid of something completely, especially something bad
- Superstition - a belief that things such as magic or luck have the power to affect your life
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair
- Mere - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Prevalence - commonness
- Inhuman - extremely cruel, and not caring when other people are suffering
- Ritual - a formal ceremony
- Black magic - a type of magic in which people communicate with evil spirits and use evil powers
- Offend - to make someone upset and angry by doing or saying something
- Dignity - respect that other people have for you or that you have for yourself
- Exploitation - unfair treatment of someone
- Gullible - a gullible person is easy to trick because they trust and believe people too easily
- Vulnerable - someone who is vulnerable is weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
- Macabre - frightening or unpleasant, and usually involving death, decay, or violence
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Peril - danger
- Incur - to experience something unpleasant as a result of something that you have done
- Divine - connected with a god, or like a god
- Supernatural - used about things that seem to come from a power such as magic and do not have a natural or scientific explanation
- Displeasure - the feeling of being annoyed or unhappy
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Ironically - used for saying that a situation has developed in an unexpected and sometimes humorous way
- Propagation - to spread opinions, lies, or beliefs among a lot of people
- Astrology - the study of the movement of the stars and planets and how some people think they influence people’s characters and lives
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Make headway - to make progress with something that you are trying to achieve
- Ignorance - lack of knowledge or facts about a situation or a particular subject
- Morality - principles of right or wrong behaviour
- Withstand - to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by something
- Constitutionality - the quality of being allowed by the constitution of a particular country or organization
- Outlaw - to make something illegal or unacceptable
- Branding - burn with iron
- Piercing - the process of making a hole in the body
- Irrational - not using reason or clear thinking
- Prevailing - existing in a particular place or at a particular time
- Periphery - the less important part of a group or activity
- Incompatible - not able to exist or work with another person or thing because of basic differences
- Exploitative - using someone unfairly for your own advantage
- Denounce - to criticize something or someone strongly and publicly
- Exorcism - to force an evil spirit to leave a person or place by using prayers or magic
- Decry - to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary
- Possessed - someone who is possessed is thought to be controlled by an evil spirit
- Perspective - a particular way of considering something
- Rationalist - someone whose actions and decisions are based on reason rather than emotions or beliefs
- Ultimately - finally, used to emphasize the most important fact in a situation
- Liberate - to help someone or something to be free
- Abominable - very bad or unpleasant
- Violate - to break or act against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Kazuo Ishiguro: An artist of the world"
- Abundantly - very
- Deserving - worth supporting or helping
- Criteria - a standard that is used for judging something or for making a decision about something
- Make the cut - to succeed at something or meet a requirement
- Strove - to make a lot of effort to achieve something
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Appraisal - an opinion about how successful, effective etc someone or something is
- In a nutshell - used for saying that you are going to express something in a simple direct way
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Snub - to insult someone by ignoring them or being rude to them
- Push the envelope - to go to the limits of what you are allowed to do
- Oral - spoken but not written
- Repurpose - to reuse something for a different purpose from the one that was originally intended
- Abyss - a very frightening or dangerous situation, or one in which there seems to be no hope
- Illusory - not real, but with an appearance of being real
- Consistently - in the same way and without changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Evoke - to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind
- Credentials - personal qualities, achievements, or experiences that make someone suitable for something
- Impeccable - perfect in every way
- Albeit - used for introducing a comment that slightly changes or reduces the effect of what you said before it
- Unreliable - unreliable information is not definitely true or accurate
- Devastating - causing a lot of harm or damage
- Science fiction - books and films about imaginary future events and characters, often dealing with space travel and life on other planets
- Fantasy - a story that shows a lot of imagination and is very different from real life
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Hark back to something - to be similar to something from the past
- Ageing - becoming old
- Evoke - to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind
- Matrix - an arrangement of connected things
- Signpost - a sign next to a road showing where something is
- Giant - an imaginary person in stories, who is extremely tall, strong, and often evil
- Dystopia - an imaginary place or situation in which everything in society is extremely bad
- Clone - an exact copy of an animal or plant created in a laboratory from the animal’s or plant’s DNA
- Harvest - to collect or obtain something
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
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