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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Understanding Trumpocalypse"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A method in the shock therapy"
- Apocalypse - a time when the whole world will be destroyed
- Echo - if a noise echoes, it is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns
- Shell-shocked - extremely tired and nervous or frightened, especially after an unpleasant and unexpected event, or extremely surprised
- Downcast - sad and without hope
- Delirious - extremely happy or excited
- Sheer - used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is
- Divergence - the situation in which two things become different
- Poignant - causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness
- Polarising - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- Campaign - a series of things that a politician or political party does to try to win an election
- Bigotry - intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself
- Patriarchy - a society controlled by men in which they use their power to their own advantage
- Racist - someone who believes that other races are not as good as their own and therefore treats them unfairly
- Rancour - a feeling of hate or anger that lasts a long time
- Incivility - rudeness
- Catharsis - the process of expressing strong feelings that have been affecting you so that they do not upset you any longer
- Apotheosis - the best or most extreme example of something
- Exit poll - the activity of asking people about how they voted as they leave a polling station (place at which people vote), to try to discover who will win the election
- Opponent - a person who disagrees with something and speaks against it or tries to change it
- Blue-collared - people who do work using physical strength or skill with their hands rather than working in an office
- Thronged - if people throng somewhere, a lot of them go there
- Droves - large numbers
- Perceived - to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something
- Impoverishment - the state of being extremely poor
- Disenfranchisement - taking away power or opportunities from a person or group
- Inflict - to force someone to experience something very unpleasant
- Elite - the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
- Metaphorical - intended to represent or emphasize particular aspects of something else
- Pollster - a person who does opinion polls
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Suspect - to think or believe something to be true or probable
- Respondent - a person who answers a request for information
- For instance - for example
- Reluctant - not willing to do something
- Boasting - to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own
- Assault - a violent attack
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Tilted - to influence a situation in a particular way
- Insofar as - used for talking about the degree to which something happens, or the situation in which something happens
- Go against the grain - if something goes against the grain, you would not usually do it because it would be unusual
- Recrimination - arguments between people who are blaming each other
- Conciliatory - intended to show that you care about the feelings or opinions of someone who is angry or upset with you
- Afar - from or at a great distance
- Collaborative - involving people or groups working together to produce something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A method in the shock therapy"
- Curb - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Unaccounted - missing / unpaid
- Legal tender - the money that can be officially used in a country
- Invoked - to use a law in order to achieve something
- Provocative - intended to start arguments between people
- Imagery - the use of words or pictures in books, films, paintings, etc. to describe ideas or situations
- Stashing - storing or hiding something, especially a large amount
- Ill-gained - to get something in an illegal way
- Illicit - illegal or disapproved of by society
- Fuelling - to increase something
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Seldom - not often (almost never)
- Disproportionate - too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence
- Counterfeit - counterfeit bank notes, products, tickets etc are illegal copies made in order to cheak people
- Purge - to remove a bad or unpleasant condition or feeling from someone or something
- Amassed - to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period
- Hardship - (something that causes) difficult or unpleasant conditions of life
- Scramble - to compete with other people for something there is very little of
- Expenditure - the total amount of money that a government or person spends
- Outweigh - to be greater or more important than something else
- Stash - to store or hide something, especially a large amount
- Dramatic - very sudden or noticeable, or full of action and excitement
- Amnesty - a fixed period of time during which people are not punished for committing a particular crime
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Saddled - burdened
- Reform - to make an improvement
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Spawning - to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly
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