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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Rebel factor, minority choices"
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Rebel factor, minority choices"
- Rebel - a person who is opposed to the political system in their country and tries to change it using force
- Minority - any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race, religion, or political beliefs
- Carved out - to create / develop
- Bipolar - involving two completely opposing parts or groups
- Contest - competition
- Muddied - not clear or pure
- Spoiler - someone who spoils someone else’s performance or success in an election or competition
- By virtue of something - because of; as a result of
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Billed as something - to advertise or describe someone or something in a particular way, especially in order to make them sound interesting or important
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Disaster - an event that results in great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty
- Reconstruction - the process of building or creating something again that has been damaged or destroyed
- Declin - to gradually become less, worse, or lower
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced, especially in relation to the time, money, and workers needed to produce them
- Margin - the profit made on a product or service
- Instead - in place of someone or something else
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Pronounced - very noticeable or certain
- Abstract - existing as an idea
- Calling cards - evidence that someone or something has been to a place
- Contrasting - very different
- Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport, or the skill of planning for such situations
- Door-to-door - going to all the houses in a particular area, for example in order to sell something or to ask for information or votes
- Grassroots - the ordinary people in a society or an organization, especially a political party
- Constituency - the people who live and can vote in a particular area
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Merely - just; only
- Secular - not having any connection with religion
- Disservice - an action that harms something or someone
- Abysmal - very bad
- Socio-economic - related to the differences between groups of people caused mainly by their financial situation
- Small-scale - smaller or less important than other things of the same kind
- Unorganised - without any particular plan, structure, or order
- Severely - very seriously
- Impact - a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person
- Unpredictability - the quality of being impossible to predict
- Lob - to throw something so that it goes high into the air
- On the face of it - used when you are describing how a situation seems on the surface
- Bballistic missile - a missile (= flying weapon) that has power in order to direct it on its flight, but that continues and falls towards its target without power
- Reckless - doing something dangerous and not worrying about the risks and the possible results
- Provocation - an action or statement that is intended to make someone angry
- Regime - a particular government or a system or method of government
- Vowed - to make a determined decision or promise to do something
- Intercontinental - going between continents (=main divisions of the world such as Europe or Asia)
- Triggered - to cause something to start
- Anxious - worried and nervous
- Impose - to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc. to be obeyed or received
- A host of - a large number of something
- Sanction - an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law
- Neither ... nor - used when you want to say that two or more things are not true
- Impact - a marked effect or influence.
- Bellicose - wishing to fight or start a war
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person
- Posturing - behaviour or speech that is intended to attract attention and interest, or to make people believe something that is not true
- Frequent - happening often
- Violation - an action that breaks or acts against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect
- Hosting - to organize and be in charge of a meal or party for guests, especially an official one
- Weapon - any object used in fighting or war, such as a gun, bomb, knife, etc
- Hardline - very serious / strict
- Stormed into - to enter or leave a place in a way that shows that you are angry
- Foreign policy - a government's policy on dealing with other countries, for example in matters relating to trade or defence
- Measured - careful and controlled, or not fast
- Restraint - calm and controlled behaviour
- In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Administration - the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan or organization
- Stake - a share or a financial involvement in something such as a business
- Predecessor - someone who had a job or a position before someone else
- Isolated - used about countries and organizations that others refuse to deal with
- Out of the question - to be an event that cannot possibly happen
- Ally - a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Feasible - possible or likely to succeed
- Leverage - the power to make someone do what you want
- Diplomatically - in a sensitive way that does not upset or offend anybody
- Erratic - changing often or not following a regular pattern, so that it is difficult to know what will happen next
- Carrot-and-stick - a system in which you are rewarded for some actions and threatened with punishment for others
- Provocative - intended to start arguments between people or to make people angry or upset
- Yield - produce
- Hardly - only just; almost not
- Dividend - profit
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