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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 23th October 2016 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Making cities inclusive"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Kingdom of bonds"
- Rapidly - happening, moving, or acting quickly
- Urbanising - to build houses, offices, etc. in an area of countryside so that it becomes a town
- Theme - the main subject of something such as a book, speech, art exhibition, or discussion
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Habitat - the natural environment in which an animal or plant usually lives
- Once-in-a-generation - extremely rare
- Compass - a limit or range
- Evaluate - to think carefully about something before making a judgment about its value, importance, or quality
- Fared - used for saying how well or how badly someone does something
- Inequality - a situation in which people are not equal because some groups have more opportunities, power, money etc than others
- Sanitation - the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect people's health
- Mobility - the ability to move freely
- People with disability - someone who has a permanent injury, illness, or other problem that makes them unable to use their body or mind normally
- Moreover - (used to add information) also and more importantly
- Dominant - more important, powerful, or successful than the other people or things of the same type
- Low-wage - used to describe jobs for which or places in which workers are paid little
- Pronounced - very noticeable
- Workforce - the group of people who work in a company, industry, country, etc
- Align - to give your support publicly to a group, political party, or country
- Emission - the act of sending out gas, heat, light, etc
- Ambition - something that you very much want to do, usually something that is difficult to achieve
- Harness - to control something
- Orderly - well arranged or organized
- Chiefly - mainly
- Rejuvenation - to make something such as an organization, system, or place good or effective again
- Contradiction - the fact of something being the complete opposite of something else or very different from something else
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Informal - not official
- Egalitarian - supporting a social system in which everyone has equal status and the same money and opportunities
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Resistant - not harmed or affected by something
- Prefabricated - a prefabricated building is built in sections that can be moved and put together quickly
- Pursue - if you pursue a plan, activity, or situation, you try to do it or achieve it, usually over a long period of time
- Vigorous - full of energy, enthusiasm, or determination
- Liberate - to help someone or something to be free
- Tyranny - cruel and unfair treatment
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Kingdom of bonds"
- Sovereign bonds - bonds issued by governments
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Extricate - to get someone / something out of a difficult or unpleasant situation
- Sticky situation - difficult or dangerous situation
- Entrenched - so fixed that they cannot be changed
- Persistent - lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid of
- Barrel - in the oil industry, a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres
- Consequences - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient
- Revenue - the income that a government or company receives regularly
- Deficit - the total amount by which money spent is more than money received
- Precarious - likely to change or become dangerous without warning
- Pushing down something - to make something lower in level or amount
- Consequently - as a result
- Likely - if something is likely, it will probably happen or is expected
- Arch-rival - the main person, company etc that you compete with in sport, business etc
- Wage - an amount of money that you earn for working
- Deputy - someone whose job is the second most important in a department or organization
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Oversubscribed - if something is oversubscribed, people still want to buy things, especially shares or tickets, although all of them are already sold
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Reiterating - say something again or a number of times, typically for emphasis or clarity
- Peg - an arrangement that keeps a price, amount etc at the same level in relation to something else
- Riyal - the standard unit of money used in Saudi Arabia and Qatar
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Stability - a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes
- Drawing to a close - to end
- Equitable - fair and reasonable because everyone is treated in the same way
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