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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Shifting the GST goalpost"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Debating to the bitter end"
- Shift / Change the Goalpost - to change the rules while someone is trying to do something in order to make it more difficult for them
- Outcome - a result or effect of an action, situation
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Hard-pressed - a person or organization that is hard-pressed does not have enough money for the things that they need
- Intended - aimed
- Modality - a particular way of doing or experiencing something
- Codify - to make something part of an organized system, especially an official system of laws
- On track - doing or saying things that are likely to be successful or correct
- Unanimously - a unanimous decision, vote, agreement etc is one that everyone agrees with and supports
- Technicality - a detail about a particular subject that is understood only by an expert
- Turnover - the value of the goods and services that a company sells in a particular period of time
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Assessee - a person or group that is being assessed (judged), especially in order to decide how much tax they must pay
- Timebound - attached to a certain moment or era in time
- Road map - a plan or set of instructions that makes it easier for someone to do something
- Compensation - money that is paid to someone in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem
- Legislative - relating to laws or the making of laws
- Evaporate - suddenly disappears
- Unravel - to understand something complicated by thinking about it for a long time
- Subsume - to include something or someone as part of a larger group
- Levy - an amount of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax
- Discarded - to get rid of something that you no longer want or need
- Pitch - a level of development
- Backed - supported
- Demerit - a fault or other bad quality
- Moot - to suggest something for discussion
- Old wine in a new bottle - an existing concept or institution offered as though it were a new one
- Perspective - a way of thinking about something
- Spurt - a sudden increase in something, for example speed or development
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Convergence - a situation in which people or things gradually become the same or very similar
- Showcase - a situation or event that makes it possible for the best features of something to be seen
- Reform - to make an improvement, especially by changing a person's behaviour or the structure of something
- Return to the drawing board - to start planning something again because the first plan failed
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Debating to the bitter end"
- Debating - argue about something
- To the bitter end - until something is finished (even though it is difficult or unpleasant)
- Warmth - a kind and friendly quality in someone or something
- Degenerated - to become worse
- Disrespectful - showing a lack of respect or courtesy (impolite)
- Interruption - something that someone says or does that stops someone else when they are speaking or concentrating on something
- Unashamed - not ashamed (without hiding behaviour or opinions that other people might consider unacceptable)
- Baiting - to deliberately try to make someone angry
- Abrasive - behaving in way that seems rude to other people
- Name-calling - the act of insulting someone by calling them rude names
- Frosty - unfriendly
- Campaigns - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Revelation - the act of making something known that was secret
- Boasting - to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own
- Groping - to touch someone sexually in a rough way
- Consent - permission to do something
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Assault - a violent attack
- Avalanche - a large quantity of similar things that happen within a short time
- Confidential - secret
- Underscored - to emphasize / highlight something
- Proximity - the state of being near in space or time
- Deep-pocketed - a deep-pocketed person or organization has a lot of money to spend
- Donor - someone who gives things such as money or goods to an organization
- Damning - showing that something is wrong or bad, or that someone has done something wrong or bad
- Tumbled - fell quickly and without control
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Soared - to quickly increase to a high level
- Dramatically - suddenly and surprisingly
- Head-to-head - involving a direct competition between two people or teams
- Margin - the amount by which one thing is different from another
- Offensive - unpleasant or insulting
- Simulation - a model of a set of problems or events that can be used to teach someone how to do something
- Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future
- Plague - to cause a lot of problems for someone or something for a long period of time
- Intractable - very difficult or impossible to deal with
- Polarisation - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- Rot - make fun of
- Tolerant - willing to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them
- Pluralistic - related to the idea that people can and should live together without fighting
- Resounding - very great
- Stoutly - in a strong and determined way
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done
- Compelled - to force someone to do something
- Mend fences - to try to become friends again with someone who you have argued with
- Discredit - to cause people to stop respecting someone
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Rehabilitate - to try to make people respect someone or something again
- Multitude - a large number of people or things
- Bargain - an agreement in which two people or groups each promise to do something
- Stridently - expressing in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people
- Medicare - a system in the US in which the government pays part of the cost of medical treatment for people who are over 65 years old
- Immigration - the act of someone coming to live in a different country
- Reproductive - relating to the process of having babies
- Vitiated - destroyed or damaged
- Atmosphere - the mood or feeling that exists in a place and affects the people who are there
- Touched upon something - to mention a subject quickly when speaking or writing about another subject
- Enunciated - to express an idea clearly and in detail.
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