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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 4th December 2016 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Due diligence, unsafe drugs"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Indonesia’s blasphemy protests"
- Due diligence - the process of carefully examining something or someone
- Intention - something that you want and plan to do
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Quashing - to stop something from continuing
- Administer - to control the operation or arrangement of something
- Regulatory - controlling
- Therapeutic - causing someone to feel happier and more relaxed or to be more healthy
- Bona fide - real, not false
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Statutory - controlled by a law
- Consultative - providing advice, information, or help on a particular subject
- Off the shelf - available to buy without being ordered or designed for a particular customer
- Antibiotic - a drug that cures illnesses and infections caused by bacteria
- Resistance - the ability not to be affected or harmed by something, especially a disease or a drug
- Refrained - to stop yourself from doing something (this word is often used in official announcements or signd)
- Merits - advantages
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Haphazard - done in a way that does not seem to be carefully planned or organized
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Delegated - to choose someone to do a job for you or to represent you
- Aspect - one part of a situation, problem, subject, etc
- Ought to have - used when you realize that someone did not do the right thing in the past
- Mindful - careful about or conscious of something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Indonesia’s blasphemy protests"
- Blasphemy - something that is considered offensive to God or someone’s religious beliefs
- Clad - dressed / covered
- Ethnically - relating to a particular race of people
- Riled - to make someone angry
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Koranic - related to the sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad
- Verse - a group of words or sentences from a book
- Ought - used to say that it is necessary
- Convulsed - to shake violently with sudden uncontrolled movements
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Violent - used to describe a situation or event in which people are hurt or killed
- Embattled - having a lot of problems or difficulties
- Proximity - how near something is to another thing, especially in distance or time
- Frontrunner - the person or thing considered the most likely to win a competition, game, election etc
- Forge - to work hard to achieve something
- Motive - a reason for doing something
- Tenor - the general meaning, character, or pattern of something
- Treason - the crime of helping your country’s enemies or of trying to destroy your country’s government
- Founding father - someone who establishes an important organization or idea
- Whip up - to encourage strong emotions or behaviour in people
- Locus - the particular place or situation in which something exists or takes place
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Slum - a poor area of a town where the houses are in very bad condition
- Eviction - the process of forcing someone to leave the house they are living in
- Orchestrated - with every detail very carefully planned, sometimes secretly
- Defender - someone who supports something or who works to prevent it from being lost or taken away
- Charity - money or food that is given to people who are poor or ill so that they can live
- Neighbourhood - a particular area of a city or town
- Ideology - a system of ideas and principles on which a political or economic theory is based
- Countryside - the area outside towns and cities, with farms, fields, and trees
- Retrograde - returning to a condition or situation that is worse than the present one
- Bulwark - something that protects you from dangerous or unpleasant situations
- Extremism - the fact of someone having beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable
- Secular - not having any connection with religion
- Tolerance - willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them
- Minority - any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race, religion, or political beliefs
- Adventurism - a way of managing a business, government, or the armed forces that is considered dangerous and might have negative results
- Endanger - to put someone or something into a situation where they might be harmed or damaged
- Accommodating - helpful and easy to work with
- Fabric - the basic structure of a society or organization
- Purge - to remove a bad or unpleasant condition or feeling from someone or something
- Fundamentalist - someone who believes that original religious and political laws should be followed very strictly and should not be changed
- In the context of something - in the circumstances under which something happens
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Onus is on him - if the onus is on someone to do something, it is their responsibility or duty to do it
- Launching pad - something that helps a situation to initiate
- Intolerant - not willing to accept behaviour, beliefs, or opinions that are different from your own
- Ethos - the set of beliefs, ideas, etc. about the social behaviour and relationships of a person or group
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