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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Against the odds"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A challenge and an opportunity"
- Against the odds - if you do or achieve something against (all) the odds/against all odds, you do or achieve it although there were a lot of problems and you were not likely to succeed
- Turn up - to happen in unexpected way
- Valley - an area of low land between hills or mountains
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- Normalcy - the state of being normal
- Unrest - disagreements or fighting between different groups of people
- Given - knowing about or considering a particular thing
- Disrupt - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Opting - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Summarily - immediately, and without following the usual official methods or processes
- Postponed - to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time
- Arson - the illegal use of fire to destroy a house, building, or property
- Ablaze - burning very strongly
- Miscreants - someone who behaves badly or does not obey rules
- Hostage - someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants
- Constituency - a group of people who support a particular person, product, suggestion, etc
- Firewall - a wall built to stop a fire from spreading from one area of a building to another area (here : protection)
- Disruptions - a situation in which something cannot continue because of a problem
- Imposed - to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc
- Crossfire - bullets fired towards you from different directions
- Unconscionable - morally unacceptable
- Persistence - the attitude or behaviour of someone who continues to do, or try to do, something in a determined way
- Pellet - a small round piece of steel or lead that is fired from a gun
- Curtailed - to reduce or limit something
- Aspiration - something that you hope to achieve
- Tenuous - weak and likely to change
- Normalise - to make something normal, or to become normal
- Spilled over - to spread to other areas
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Separatists - a group of people who want to be independent of a national, religious, or other group to which they belong
- Bewildering - confusing and difficult to understand
- For instance - for example
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Protests - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Acknowledgement - something that you say or do in order to show that you accept that something exists or is true
- Shutdown - an occasion when a machine or factory stops working temporarily
- Fractious - easily upset or annoyed
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Inordinate - much more than you would usually expect
- Hardship - a situation in which life is very difficult
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A challenge and an opportunity"
- Operationalised - put into operation or use
- Shipment - a large amount of goods sent together to a place, or the act of sending them
- Shortfall - an amount that is less than the level that was expected or needed
- Game changer - something such as a product or event that affects a situation or area of business very much
- Misgivings - a feeling of doubt or worry about a future event
- Domestically - in a way that relates to the home, house, or family
- Critic - someone who says that they do not approve of someone or something
- Viability - ability to work as intended or to succeed
- Accusing - suggesting that you think someone has done something bad
- Impediment - something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible
- Contained - to control or hide
- Endanger - to put someone or something at risk or in danger of being harmed, damaged, or destroyed
- Troops - soldiers on duty in a large group
- Slowdown - a period when there is less activity
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Dismissal - a refusal to accept that something might be true or important
- Disdain - the feeling that someone or something is not important and does not deserve any respect
- Outright - complete
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something
- Disputed - a disputed area is one that different countries claim belongs to them, so that there is a disagreement or war between them
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- On board - involved in a project or organization, or working for a company
- Implications - a possible effect or result
- Clinch - if two people clinch, they hold each other tightly, usually in a fight
- Naval base - an area where warships (navy ships kept when they have no mission at sea
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