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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 18th February 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Alliance divided: on Sri Lankan politics"
- Alliance - a group of people, organizations, or countries who have united to work together to achieve something
- In the throes of something - involved in a difficult or unpleasant situation or activity
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Fissure - disagreement
- Fragile - used about a situation, agreement, or relationship that can easily be damaged or destroyed
- Beset - to cause someone difficulty or danger over a period of time
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Resoundingly - completely (used for emphasizing how successful or unsuccessful someone or something is)
- Backing - support, help
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Disenchantment - a feeling of disappointment about someone or something you previously respected or admired
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Indict - to accuse someone officially of a serious crime
- Mammoth - very large
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Foresaw - to see or know something that will happen in the future
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Amidst - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Exclude - to deliberately not include something
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Reshuffle - the process of changing the jobs or responsibilities of the people in a particular group or organization
- Durability - ability to last a long time without becoming damaged
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Decisive - making the final result of a situation completely certain
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Disillusionment - the disappointed feeling you have when you discover that someone or something is not as good as you had believed
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Decay - to become gradually worse in quality, or weaker in power or influence
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- Sink your differences - to stop arguing and come to an agreement
- Reconciliation - a new and friendly relationship with someone who you argued with or fought with
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Victim - someone who has suffered as a result of the actions or negative attitudes of someone else or of people in general
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Directing reforms: on candidates disclosing sources of income"
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Disclose - to give information to people, especially information that was secret
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Spouse - a husband, or a wife
- Disproportionate - if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else
- Tenure - the period of time during which someone has an important job or is an elected official
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Significant - very important
- Preserving - to keep an idea, quality, or situation from changing or being lost
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Furnish - to provide someone with something that they need, especially information
- Antecedent - something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way
- Mandatory - something that is mandatory must be done, or is demanded by law
- Dramatic - very sudden or noticeable
- Affidavit - a legal document containing a written promise that something is true
- Probe - to try to find out the truth about something
- Dispute - a serious disagreement
- Amass - to collect a lot of something such as money or information over a period of time
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Normative - concerning rules, or forcing people to obey rules
- Impediment - something that makes it more difficult for someone to do something
- Laudable - deserving to be praised or admired
- Envision - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Disqualification - a situation in which someone is not allowed to take part in something because they have committed an offence or have done something that is not allowed by the rules
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
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