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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Reorganisation in Uttar Pradesh"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "China’s tightrope walk"
- Reorganisation - a change in the way that something is organized, in order to improve it
- Defection - to leave a country, political party, or organization and go to another one
- Flutter - a quick up-and-down movement
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Glory - a good quality that makes you admire someone or something
- Proximity - nearness in space, time, or relationship
- Embarrassing - to cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable
- Therefore - for that reason
- Uncertain - not clearly known or understood
- Switch - to change from one thing to another, or to make something do this
- Betrayal - to not be loyal to your country or a person
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Compelled - to force someone to do something
- Set something / someone apart - to make someone or something separate
- Picks up - to increase or improve
- Picks up the gauntlet - to agree to fight or compete with someone
- Overriding - more important than anything else
- Ambition - a strong wish to achieve something
- Debate - a formal discussion that ends with a decision made by voting
- Flight - the act of running away or of trying to escape from someone or something
- Poses - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Loyalists - a group that strongly supports the government or ruler in power
- Democratise - to change the way of running a government or organization so that the people in it are more equal and can share in making decisions
- Loosen the hold - if you loosen your grip/hold on a situation, you decide to control it less
- Loyalty - support that you always give to someone or something because of your feelings of duty and love towards them
- Particularly - especially
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Extent - the degree to which something happens or is likely to happen
- Cohesively - united and working together effectively
- Jostling - struggling or competing forcefully for something
- Uncertain - not known or fixed
- Branch out - to start to do something different from what you usually do, especially in your job
- Narrative - a particular way of explaining or understanding events
- Falling back - to become smaller or lower in amount, level, value etc
- Polarisation - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- Perceived - to come to an opinion about something (to understand)
- Disputed site - a disputed site / area is one that different groups claim belongs to them, so that there is a disagreement or war between them
- Simmer - if a disagreement or negative emotion simmers, it grows slowly stronger over a period of time and could become more serious at any moment
- Abandon - to suddenly leave someone / something
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Battlefield - a place where groups of people violently oppose each other
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "China’s tightrope walk"
- Tightrope walk - to deal with a difficult situation (especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action)
- Seemingly - in a way that appears to have a particular quality, even though this is probably not true
- Pump priming - the stimulation of economic activity by investment
- Robust - strong and successful
- Expansion - the process of making a business, organization, or activity grow by including more people, moving into new areas, selling more products etc
- Hovered - to move to a particular level
- Hard landing - a sudden, big decrease in economic activity and in the money available for loans following a period of economic growth
- Rebalancing - to change the amount or level of one or more things in order to improve a particular situation
- Reliant - depending on someone or something
- Mounting - increasing, especially in a way that makes a situation worse
- Compiled - to make something such as a list by bringing together information from many different places
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something
- Stabilise - to reach a state where there are no longer any major changes or problems
- Fiscal deficit - a fiscal deficit occurs when a government's total expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates, excluding money from borrowings
- Set alarm bells ringing - to make someone feel worried about something
- Including - used for mentioning that someone or something is part of a particular group or amount
- Monetary - relating to a country’s money and to the systems that a country uses for controlling its money supply
- Boom - a sudden major increase in trade, profits etc in a particular country or region
- Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual
- Fraught - very worried and with a lot of problems
- Cognisant - understanding or realizing something:
- Slowdown - a period when there is less activity
- Extract - to remove or take out something
- Doldrums - unsuccessful or showing no activity or development
- Ensue - to happen after something else, often as a result of it
- Unenviable - difficult and not at all enjoyable
- Determining - controlling your decision to do something
- Contour - a way in which something varies
- Post-haste - as fast as possible
- Precipitous - happening more quickly than expected
- Overhang - a quantity of securities or commodities large enough to make prices fall if offered for sale.
- Advocate - to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something
- Promptly - immediately
- Prescription - a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward.
- Financial distress - a condition where a company cannot meet, or has difficulty paying off, its financial obligations to its creditors
- Unmindful - not remembering, noticing, or being careful about something
- Steering - to take someone or something in the direction in which you want
- Precision - the quality of being very accurate and exact
- Ensuring - to make something sure to happen
- Rebalancing - to change the amount or level of one or more things in order to improve a particular situation
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