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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Questions about an ‘encounter’"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "School’s out in Kashmir"
- Prisoner - someone who is in jail as punishment for a crime
- Outlaw - to make something illegal / to break law
- Set off - to cause a situation to happen
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Unlikely - not likely to happen
- Undertrial - a person who is appearing in a law court because they have been accused of committing a crime
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Alleged - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Armed - using weapons
- Robbery - the crime of taking money or property illegally, often by using threats or violence
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- Goaded - to deliberately make someone feel very angry or upset so that they react
- Pursue - to chase someone or something in order to catch them
- Suspect - a person believed to have committed a crime or done something wrong
- Zero in on - to aim at someone or something with a gun or camera
- Outskirts - the areas that form the edge of a town or city
- Dramatic - very sudden or noticeable, or full of action and excitement
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Clouded - to make something more complicated or confusing
- Narrative - a description of a series of events
- Hang together - well organized or seem to be true or correct
- Cogent - clearly expressed and makes people to believe it
- Footage - a piece of film especially one showing an event
- Purportedly - said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true
- Imminent - likely to happen very soon
- Surrender - to stop fighting and admit defeat
- Run out of - to use all of something and not have any left
- Claim - to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might not believe it
- Firearm - a gun that can be carried easily
- Contradict - to say the opposite of what someone else has said
- Weapon - any object used in fighting or war, such as a gun, bomb, knife, etc
- Understandably - if you say that someone is understandably feeling a particular emotion, you mean that most people would feel the same way in that situation
- Keen - very interested, eager, or wanting to do something very much
- Inquiry - an official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened
- Jailbreak - an escape from jail
- Mastermind - to plan and organize a difficult or complicated actvity, especially a crime
- Undertrial - a person who is appearing in a law court because they have been accused of committing a crime
- Justification - a good reason or explanation for something
- Magisterial - having or seeming to have complete authority
- Probe - to try to find out the truth about something
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Condemnation - a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
- Troubling - making you feel worried or uncomfortable
- Interpreted - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Ideology - a system of ideas and principles on which a political or economic theory is based
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Perpetrated - to commit a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Unquestioning - never doubting or criticizing
- Acceptance - general agreement that something is true, reasonable, or cannot be changed
- Thorough - including everything that is possible or necessary
- Quell - to get rid of unpleasant thoughts or feelings, or to prevent them from becoming stronger
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "School’s out in Kashmir"
- Unrest - disagreements or fighting between different groups of people
- Protests - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Intermittent - happening sometimes but not regularly or often
- Violence - behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something
- Curfew - a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times (especially during a war or a period of political trouble)
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
- Reach out to somebody - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people
- Separatist - someone who is a member of a particular race, religion, or other group within a country and who believes that this group should be independent and have their own government or in some way live apart from other people
- Avail - to make use of something
- Arson - the crime of intentionally starting a fire in order to damage or destroy something, especially a building
- Afire - on fire
- Claimed responsibility - to say that you did something wrong
- Blame - to say that someone did something wrong
- Amidst - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Blame-shifting - the act of transferring responsibility for an error or problem to another
- Condemned - to criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons
- Outright - completely or immediately
- Equivocation - to avoid making a clear statement by saying something that has more than one possible meaning
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Rattled - to make someone feel nervous or angry
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Reminiscent - similar to something else
- Disrupting - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Insurgents - a group of people fighting to take control of their country by force
- Reinforcing - to make a situation, process, or type of behaviour stronger and more likely to continue
- Disaffection - the state of no longer feeling loyal towards a group or organization
- Alienation - the feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
- Abandon - to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever
- Logistical - relating to the process of planning and organizing to make sure that resources are in the places where they are needed, so that an activity or process happens effectively
- Moreover - (used to add information) also and more importantly
- Purposeful - determined to achieve an aim
- Normalcy - a situation in which everything is normal
- Epicentre - the central point of something
- Prevailing - existing in a particular place or at a particular time
- Resumption - the start of something again after it has stopped
- Tragic - very sad, often involving death and suffering
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