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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 2nd April 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Coping with summer"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Wine and whimper"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Coping with summer"
- Coping - to deal successfully with a difficult situation
- Heatwave - a period of time such as a few weeks when the weather is much hotter than usual
- Frequent - happening often
- Torrid - extremely hot
- Soar - to rise very quickly to a high level
- Consensus - a generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Intensify - to become greater, more serious, or more extreme
- Toll - the total number of people who have been killed or hurt
- Action plan - a detailed set of instructions to follow in order to solve a problem or achieve something
- Disaster - (an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty
- Meteorological - related to the scientific study of weather
- Distress - a situation in which you are suffering or are in great danger and therefore in urgent need of help
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Crippling - to cause serious damage to someone or something
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Disruption - a situation in which something cannot continue because of a problem
- Dehydration - a drop below normal levels of water in the body
- Heat cramp - sudden severe pain in heart
- Elderly - old people
- Viscosity - the thick and sticky quality of a liquid
- Thrombosis - a serious medical condition in which your blood gets thicker and forms a clot that stops the blood flowing normally
- Forecasting - the job or activity of judging what is likely to happen in the future, based on the information you have now
- Protocol - the system of rules
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Precautionary - done or used for protection against possible harm or trouble
- Vulnerable - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
- Pursuing - to follow a course of activity
- Vocation - a job that you do
- For instance - for example
- Symptom - a sign of a larger problem
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Intervention - the act or fact of becoming involved intentionally in a difficult situation
- Rescheduling - the changing of the time at which something will happen
- Moisture - a liquid such as water in the form of very small drops, either in the air, in a substance, or on a surface
- Albedo - the fraction of solar energy (shortwave radiation) reflected from the Earth back into space
- Integral - necessary and important
- Vernacular - in architecture, a local style in which ordinary houses are built
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Wine and whimper"
- Whimper - to say something in a voice that expresses pain, fear, or sadness
- Fully thought out - carefully planned
- Foreseen - to know about something before it happens
- Eventuality - something unpleasant or unexpected that might happen or exist in the future
- Reiterate - to say something again
- Impractical - not likely to be effective or successful
- Aspect - one part of a situation, problem, subject, etc
- Assert - to say that something is certainly true
- Proscription - to not allow something
- Retail - the activity of selling goods to the public, usually in shops
- Outlet - a shop or place where a particular product is sold
- Distinguish - to notice or understand the difference between two things or to make one thing seem different from another
- Set apart - to make someone or something different and special
- Interior - the inside part of something
- Apparently - used when the real situation is different from what you thought it was
- Fatality - a death caused by an accident or by violence
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that people obey something such as a law or rule
- Draconian - draconian laws, government actions, etc. are extremely severe, or go further than what is right or necessary
- Perhaps - used to show that something is possible or that you are not certain about something
- Clientele - all the customers of a business when they are considered as a group
- Luxury - great comfort
- Exempt - to excuse someone or something from a duty, payment, etc
- Provocation - an action or statement that is intended to make someone angry
- Revenue - the income that a government or company receives regularly
- Quirky - slightly strange
- Inevitably - used for saying that something is certain to happen
- For instance - for example
- Enclave - an area of a country or city where a particular group of people live
- Partly - to some degree, but not completely
- Address - to deal with a matter or problem
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Prohibition - the act of officially not allowing something
- Binge-drinking - the activity of drinking too much alcohol on one occasion
- Hazard - something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage
- Counterproductive - having an effect that is opposite to the one intended or wanted
- Outcome - a result or effect of an action, situation, etc
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