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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Murky mining: on SC cancelling mining leases in Goa"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Murky mining: on SC cancelling mining leases in Goa"
- Murky - used to describe a situation that is complicated and unpleasant, and about which many facts are not clear
- Mining - the industry or activity of removing substances such as coal or metal from the ground by digging
- Lease - to make a legal agreement by which money is paid in order to use land, a building, a vehicle, or a piece of equipment for an agreed period of time
- Halt - to (cause to) stop moving or doing something or happening
- Exploitation - the use of something in order to get an advantage from it
- Ore - rock or soil from which metal can be obtained
- Ecological - relating to the environment and the way that plants, animals, and humans live together and affect each other
- Fragile - easily damaged, broken, or harmed
- Rapacious - never satisfied until you have taken everything that you can take
- Lay down - to officially establish a rule, or to officially say how something should be done
- Enforce - to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
- Disregard - the fact of showing no care or respect for something
- Renewing - to begin doing something again
- Inexplicable - unable to be explained or understood
- Impact - a powerful effect that something, has on a situation or person
- Assessment - the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something
- Suspicion - a feeling or belief that someone has committed a crime or done something wrong
- Hastily - with excessive speed or urgency; hurriedly
- Unveil - to announce something officially that was previously a secret
- Extraordinarily - in a way that seems strange or unusual
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Pre-empt - to do or say something that stops someone else’s plan or action
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Ordinance - an official order by a government
- Termination - the end of an agreement, job, or situation
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Domestic - relating to the country / place being talked about, and not other countries / places
- Severe - very serious and worrying
- Ecology - the relationship between the plants, animals, and the environment in a particular area
- Resumption - the start of something again after a temporary stop
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Audit - an official examination of the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Contaminated - made dirty, polluted, or poisonous by the addition of a chemical, waste, or infection
- Foul - to spoil or damage something by making it dirty
- Appraisal - an opinion about how successful, effective etc someone or something is
- Zero tolerance - a policy of punishing people for even very minor offences by using the law in a very strict way
- Indefensible - impossible to defend from criticism
- Abeyance - a state of not happening or being used at present
- Unsustainable - something that is unsustainable cannot continue at the same rate
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Open cast mine - an opencast mine is a mine where coal is dug from a large hole in the ground, rather than from a tunnel far under the ground
- Dust bowl - a region where there are a lot of dust storms because the soil has become dry because of a lack of rain
- Coalition - a temporary union of different groups who agree to work together to achieve a shared aim
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Emergence - the process of appearing or becoming recognized
- Chancellor - the leader of the government in some countries, for example Germany and Austria
- Cohabit - live together
- Appetite - a strong desire or liking for something
- Left-wing - someone who is left-wing is considered to have socialist aims and ideas, for example that property, money, and power should be shared more equally
- Pragmatism - a practical way of thinking or dealing with problems that emphasizes results and solutions more than theories
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Primacy - the fact of being more powerful or important than anything else
- Minority government - a government in which the main party has more members than any other single party but not more members than all the other parties together
- Inexorably - in a way that is impossible to stop or prevent
- Cede - to allow someone to take something such as power or land away from you
- Eurosceptic - someone, especially a politician, who thinks that their country should not be part of the European Union
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Stasis - a condition in which there is no movement or change
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Stitch up - to arrange an agreement or deal
- Disillusionment - the disappointed feeling you have when you discover that someone or something is not as good as you had believed
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Hawk - a politician who prefers using military force to more peaceful methods
- Purse strings - the way in which money is controlled and spent by a group or organization
- Prop up - to help a government, system, organization etc to continue to exist, especially by providing financial or military support
- Profligate - wasting money or other things
- Surplus - an amount of money or goods that is left because a country or business has more than it needs
- Flip side - the negative aspects of an idea, plan, or situation
- Pragmatic - solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Middle-ground - opinions and attitudes that are not extreme and that a lot of people can agree with
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Veer - to suddenly move in a different direction
- Extreme - an opinion or way of behaving that is as different from another as it is possible to be
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Induction - the process or formal act of accepting someone into a group or job
- Forebode - (of a situation or occurrence) act as an advance warning of (something bad)
- Turbulent - involving a lot of sudden changes, arguments, or violence
