English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Backroom to the front-stage"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Perilous U-turn on Iran"
- Backroom - used for describing work that is important but is done in a private or secret way, or the people who do this work
- Evidently - easily seen or understood
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Ceremonial - used for formal public events
- Elaborate - containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts
- Orchestrated - with every detail very carefully planned, sometimes secretly
- Functionary - a person who has official duties, especially in a government or political party
- Entreating - to keep asking someone to do something in a way that shows you are worried and serious
- Outgoing - leaving a job
- Advancing - moving forwards or progressing
- Pawn - a person who does not have any real power but is used by others to achieve something
- En passant - if you say something en passant, you mention it while you are talking about something else
- Disproportionate - too large or too small in comparison to something else
- Asset - something valuable belonging to a person or organization that can be used for the payment of debts
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Juncture - a particular point in time
- Ill-advised - not wise, and likely to cause problems in the future
- Inappropriate - unsuitable
- Leniency - a punishment that is not as serious as it could be
- Administrative - relating to the management of a company, organization, or institution
- Efficiency - the good use of time and energy in a way that does not waste any
- Below par - worse than usual, or below the expected standard
- Conviction - the fact of officially being found to be guilty of a particular crime
- Standstill - a condition in which all movement or activity has stopped
- Predecessor - someone who had a job or a position before someone else
- Nevertheless - despite what has just been said or referred to
- Regarded - considered
- Successor - someone who has an important position after someone else
- Virtue - a good moral quality in a person
- Mandate - the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country
- By-election - an election that happens at a different time from a main election
- Overthrow - to force a leader or government out of their position of power
- Intrigue - to plan secretly, especially in order to harm or cheat someone
- Awkwardly - in a worried or embarrassed way
- Resistance - the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Perilous U-turn on Iran"
- Perilous - extremely dangerous
- U-turn - a complete change from one opinion or plan of action to an opposite one
- Sanction - an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Hostile - unfriendly and not liking something
- Threaten - to tell someone that you will kill or hurt them or cause problems if they do not do what you want
- Moored - controlled
- Reach out to somebody - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them
- Clinch - to finally get or win something
- Far-sighted - having good judgment about what will be needed in the future and making wise decisions based on this
- Diplomatic - acting in a way that does not cause offence
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Acquiring - to get something
- Visceral - based on deep feeling and emotional reactions rather than on reason or thought
- Mend - to do something to end an argument or disagreement
- Domestically - in a way that relates to a person's own country
- Moderate - a person whose opinions, especially their political ones, are not extreme and are therefore acceptable to a large number of people
- Hostility - opposition to something (unfriendly behaviour)
- Repeal - if a government repeals a law, it causes that law no longer to have any legal force
- Multilateral - involving more than two groups or countries
- Immigration - the act of someone coming to live in a different country
- Curb - a limit on something that is not wanted
- Détente - an improvement in the relationship between two countries that in the past were not friendly and did not trust each other
- Containment - the act of controlling or limiting something or someone harmful
- Pragmatism - a practical way of thinking or dealing with problems that emphasizes results and solutions more than theories
- Pursue - to try to discover information about a subject
- Agenda - a list of aims or possible future achievements
- Restoring - to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position
- Bipolar - involving two completely opposing parts or groups
- Ally - a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one
- Hostility - an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something
- Destabilisation - to make a government, area, or political group lose power or control, or to make a political or economic situation less strong or safe, by causing changes and problems
- Prompt - to make someone decide to say or do something
- Liberating - making you feel free and able to behave as you like
- Chaotic - happening in a confused way and without any order or organization
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