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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Power games: on AAP's relationship with the bureaucracy in Delhi"
- Bureaucracy - a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Confrontation - a fight or argument
- Detractor - someone who publicly criticizes someone or something
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Solidarity - the support that people in a group give each other because they have the same opinions or aims
- Transpire - to happen
- Radically - completely
- Ludicrous - extremely silly
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Fevered - unnaturally excited or active
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Intimidate - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
- Discomfiture - a feeling of being embarrassed
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Stymie - to stop someone from achieving an aim, or to stop some process from continuing
- Paralyse - to make something unable to operate normally
- Usher in - to make an activity or process begin
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Welfare - care provided by the state or another organization for people in need
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person
- Administrative - relating to the management of a company, organization, or institution
- Union Territory - an area in India that is ruled directly by the central government
- Refrain from - to stop yourself from doing something
- Exploit - to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this
- Intimidation - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Fire and fury: on existing violence in Syria's Eastern Ghouta"
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Offensive - a planned military attack
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Barbaric - extremely violent and cruel
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Airstrike - an attack in which one or more planes drop bombs on a place
- Bombardment - an attack on a place made by dropping bombs from planes or by firing large guns for a long time
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Outskirts - the areas of a town or city that are furthest away from the centre
- Overrun - to defeat an enemy in war and take the land that they control
- Foil - to prevent someone from doing something that they are trying to do
- Recapture - to use force to take control of an area again
- Troop - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Firepower - the weapons available to use against an enemy
- Assault - an attack by the armed forces
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Pound - to hit something several times with a lot of force
- Blockade - an official action that is intended to prevent people or goods from moving from one place to another
- Ground forces - military forces that fight on land rather than at sea or in the air
- Human shield - a person or group of people kept in a particular place in order to stop an enemy from attacking that place
- Shell - to attack or to destroy a place by firing shells
- Nonetheless - despite what has just been said
- Blockade - an official action that is intended to prevent people or goods from moving from one place to another
- Deprived - not having the things that are essential for a comfortable life
- Indiscriminate - done without considering who or what you harm or damage
- Unarmed - not carrying a weapon
- Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
- Monstrosity - something large and ugly
- Backer - someone who gives help or money to a plan or organization
- Brutality - extreme violence, especially when it is deliberately cruel
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Foe - an enemy
- Tragedy - a very sad event that causes people to suffer or die
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