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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Triumph of the troubadour"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Of politics and administration"
- Triumph - a great victory or achievement
- Troubadour - poet and singer
- Sprung - to happen or appear somewhere suddenly or unexpectedly
- For instance - for example
- Awkward - difficult to deal with and embarrassing
- Astounding - very surprising or shocking
- Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
- Intended - aimed
- Justify - to show that there is a good reason for something, especially something that other people think is wrong
- Persisted - to continue to exist
- Genre - a particular style used in cinema, writing, or art, which can be recognized by certain features
- Oft - often
- Extensive - very large in amount
- Non-fiction - swriting that is about real people and events, not imaginary ones
- Sweepstakes - a competition for a prize, esp. for money, in which those who win are chosen by chance
- Idiosyncratic - unusual or strange
- Purist - someone who believes in and follows very traditional rules or ideas in a subject
- Aghast - shocked and upset
- Clinch - to manage to win or achieve something
- Chronicle - a written record of historical events
- Angst - a strong feeling of worry about what you should do, how you should behave, or what will happen in the future
- Counterculture - a way of life and set of attitudes that is deliberately different from the main culture in society
- Contemporary - alive or existing at the same time as a particular event or person
- Contradictory - if two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. are contradictory, they are very different from each other
- Merged - combined / joined together
- Sheer - completely
- Underrated - if a person or thing is underrated, especially a performer, writer, or sports player, most people do not recognize how good that person or thing really is
- Profoundly - extremely / greatly
- Odes - poems written about a particular person, thing, or event
- Closure - the feeling that an unpleasant experience has ended or been settled
- Subterranean - under the ground
- Reinvented - to change something that already exists and give it a different form or purpose
- Stir - to make someone think about something
- Plumbing - connecting
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something
- Solitary - tending to spend a lot of time alone
- Slain - killed in a violent way (in war)
- Awry - in the wrong position
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Of politics and administration"
- Administration - the activities involved in managing a business, organization, or institution
- Bifurcation - to divide something into two parts
- Statehood - the status of a place as an independent country / state
- Commentary - a discussion of something such as an event or theory
- Geographically - relating to an area or place
- Alienation - the feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
- Intended - aimed to do something
- Subcommittee - a small group of people who are part of a larger committee and who meet to discuss one particular thing
- Draft - something such as a plan, letter, or drawing that may have changes made to it before it is finished
- Revenue - income from business activities or taxes
- Carved out - to successfully create or get something
- Monitoring - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Bottom-up - starting with details rather than a general idea
- Stakeholder - a person or company that has invested in a business and owns part of it
- Morphed - to change from one thing into another by small and interconnected steps
- Spiralling - show a continuous and dramatic increase.
- Agitation - a feeling of being worried or upset
- Replication - the action of copying or reproducing something
- Hardly - only just / almost not
- Suffice - to be enough
- Redeploy - to move someone or something to a different place or a different job
- Incur - to lose money
- Expenditure - the total amount of money that a government or person spends
- Bureaucratic - involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes
- Road map - a plan or set of instructions that makes it easier for someone to do something
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