English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Guilty until..."
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Seoul-searching"
- Guilty - responsible for a specified crime
- Wrongful - unfair, or illegal
- Introspection - the process of carefully examining your own feelings, thoughts, and ideas
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Incarceration - to put someone in prison
- Brings to light - to cause something to be known
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Unconscionable - more than a reasonable or acceptable level or amount
- Miscarriage - an unsuccessful outcome of something planned
- Acquitted - to decide officially in a law court that someone is not guilty of a particular crime
- Charge - an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime
- Evidence - one or more reasons for believing that something is or is not true:
- Convict - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- Reassuring - making you feel less worried
- Affirmation - a statement that something is true
- Lower Rungs - lower level
- Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
- Determinedly - wanting to do something very much and not allowing anyone or any difficulties to stop you
- Monotony - a bored feeling caused by the fact that nothing different ever happens
- Accused - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Miserably - feeling or showing unhappiness:
- Explosion - an occasion when something bursts with a lot of force and a loud noise, often causing damage
- Fall flat - fail completely to produce the intended or expected effect
- Framing - to make someone seem guilty of a crime when they are not, for example by lying to the police or by producing false evidence
- Posture - an attitude, or the way that someone behaves towards other people
- Holistic - thinking about the whole of something, and not just dealing with particular aspects
- Overhaul - to completely change a system in order to make it work more effectively
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem
- End up - to be in a particular place or state after doing something or because of doing it
- Flailing - to move energetically in an uncontrolled way
- Guilty - someone who has committed a crime
- Incompetence - lack of skill or ability to do something correctly or well
- Grave - used for emphasizing how serious something is
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Preparedness - the state of being ready for something
- Avert - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
- Detained - to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them to leave
- Struggling - experiencing difficulty, especially financial difficulty
- Compensate - to pay someone money because they have suffered an injury or loss
- Unjust - an unjust decision, judgment, or action is not fair or reasonable, or is not done according to accepted legal or moral standards
- Incarceration - to put someone in prison
- Get to the bottom of something - to find out the true cause or explanation of a bad situation
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Seoul-searching"
- Heir - someone who will receive money, property, or a title when another person dies
- Sprawl - to cover a large area
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Bracing - shocking
- High-profile - often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appearing on television
- Controversy - a lot of disagreement or argument about something
- Conglomerate - a large business organization formed when several different businesses join together
- Overwhelmingly - to a very great degree or with a great majority
- Impeach - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job
- Fortune - a very large amount of money
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Confidante - a woman who you trust and can discuss your secrets and private feelings with
- Clinch - to manage to win or achieve something
- Questionable - probably not good, honest, or worth admiring
- Merger - the process of combining two companies or organizations to form a bigger one
- Affiliate - to be officially connected with a larger organization or group
- Conglomerate - a large business organization formed when several different businesses join together
- Disputed - a disputed fact, statement, or judgment is one that many people argue about
- Substantiate - to provide evidence that proves something
- Bribery - the crime of giving money or presents to someone so that they will help you by doing something dishonest or illegal
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Stake - the part of a business that you own because you have invested money in it
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Chunk - a large amount or part of something
- Gross domestic product - the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year, except for income received from money invested in other countries. It is often simply called GDP.
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Protectionism - a system in which a country helps its own industries by putting taxes on foreign goods
- Giant - a very large and successful company
- Nexus - a closely connected group of people or things, often forming the central part of something
- Officialdom - government departments, or the people who work in them. This word usually shows that you dislike these people, because you think they are not helpful
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Notion - knowledge or understanding of something
- Pardon - to officially forgive someone for committing a crime and free them from prison
- Let off - to give someone little or no punishment for something that they did wrong
- Fallacy - an idea or belief that is false but that many people think is true
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Mitigating - making something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad
- Inequality - the unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Introspection - the process of carefully examining your own feelings, thoughts, and ideas
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