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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 16th April 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Justice Karnan's outrageous defiance"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Army personnel using 'human shield': The rights thing"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Justice Karnan's outrageous defiance"
- Outrageous - shocking and morally unacceptable
- Defiance - behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something
- Continuance - the process of continuing
- Mockery - something that makes a system, organization etc seem stupid or useless
- Judiciary - the part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system, including all the judges in the country's courts
- Disrepute - the state of not being trusted or respected
- Flout - to deliberately refuse to obey a rule or custom
- Conduct - behaviour
- Democracy - the belief in freedom and equality between people
- Curious - unusual and interesting
- Disgraceful - extremely bad or shocking
- Intolerable - impossible to bear or deal with
- Summoning - to officially order someone to come to a place, especially a court of law
- Affront - a remark or action intended to insult or offend someone
- Apex - top or highest
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Harmonious - friendly and peaceful
- Regret - to feel sorry or sad that something has happened
- Suo motu - on its own motion
- Erroneous - wrong or false
- Instance - a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that happens generally
- Misconduct - unacceptable or bad behaviour by someone in a position of authority or responsibility
- Contempt - a strong feeling of disliking and having no respect for someone or something
- Denigrating - to say that someone or something is not good or important
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Apparent - able to be seen or understood
- Recalcitrant - (of a person) unwilling to obey orders or to do what should be done, or (of an animal) refusing to be controlled
- Accusing - suggesting that you think someone has done something bad
- Discrimination - treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality,etc
- Invoking - to make someone have a particular feeling or remember something
- Peer - a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group
- Pertaining to something - to relate to or have a connection with something
- Barged into - to walk into a room quickly, without being invited
- Hearing - an official meeting that is held to collect the facts about an event or problem
- Hurling - to shout insults or rude language at someone angrily
- Volley - a lot of questions, insults etc all spoken or made at the same time
- Invective - insulting language or swearing
- Hauled up - to force someone to go somewhere or see someone in order to be punished or to answer questions about their behaviour
- Contempt - a strong feeling of disliking and having no respect for someone or something
- Restrain - to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force
- Impeachment - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job
- Give full play - to develop and use emotions or ideas completely
- Alleged - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Grievance - a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly
- Vividly - clearly
- Inadequacy - the fact that something is not good enough or is too small in amount
- Infusion - the act of adding one thing to another to make it stronger or better
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Army personnel using 'human shield': The rights thing"
- Personnel - the people who are employed in a company, organization, or one of the armed forces
- Shield - something or someone used as protection or providing protection
- Swift - happening or moving quickly
- Compel - to force someone to do something
- Viral - used to describe something that quickly becomes very popular
- Bonnet - the metal cover over the part of a car where the engine is
- Escort - to go with a person or vehicle, especially to make certain that he, she, or it leaves or arrives safely
- Constituency - one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament or legislature
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Stone-pelters - people who throw stones with force at someone or something
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Embroider - to decorate cloth or clothing with patterns or pictures consisting of stitches that are sewn directly onto the material
- Humiliation - something that makes you feel very embarrassed and ashamed
- Hardly - only just; almost not
- Indeed - used to express that something is correct
- Forcibly - with physical power or violence
- Gross - total
- Violation - an action that breaks or acts against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect
- Called out - to criticize someone or ask them to explain their actions
- Cynically - in a distrustful way that expresses a belief that people are motivated purely by self-interest
- Civil war - a war fought by different groups of people living in the same country
- Abduct - to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence
- Hostage - someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants
- Potentially - possibly true
- In harm’s way - in a dangerous situation
- Blend in - to look or seem the same as surrounding people or things and therefore not be easily noticeable
- Unenviable - unpleasant or difficult
- Hybrid - something that is a mixture of two very different things
- Surfaced - appeared
- Exercising - an action or actions intended to improve something or make something happen
- Admirable - deserving to be respected
- Restraint - calm and controlled behaviour
- Ironic - expressing the opposite of what you really think
- Hypocritical - claiming to have certain moral principles or beliefs but behaving in a way that shows you are not sincere
- Defending - to protect someone or something against attack or criticism
- Indefensible - too bad to be protected from criticism
- Hostile - unfriendly and not liking something
- Abysmally - very badly
- Turnout - the number of people who are present at an event, especially the number who go to vote at an election
- Alienation - to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Intimidation - to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do
- Bandobast - protection of a person, building, or organization against crime or attack
- Precisely - exactly
- Binary - consisting of two parts
- Expedite - to make something happen more quickly
- Erring - to make a mistake or to do something wrong
- Affirm - to state something as true
- Vis-à-vis - in relation to
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
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