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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Saving Kulbhushan Jadhav"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Jhulan Goswami’s haul of wickets, simply the best"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Saving Kulbhushan Jadhav"
- Adherence - the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- To stall - to stop
- Execution - the act of killing a person as a punishment for a crime
- Impel - if a feeling or idea impels you to do something, it forces you to do it
- Peculiar - strange, often in an unpleasant way
- Circumstances - conditions that make a bad action or mistake seem less serious, sometimes even making it seem reasonable
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Naval - relating to or belonging to a country’s navy
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Bogus - not real, although pretending to be real
- Imminent - likely or certain to happen very soon
- Execution - the act of killing a person as a punishment for a crime
- Hinge - based on / depends on
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Espionage - attempts to discover your enemy’s political, military, or industrial secrets using secret methods
- Contention - an opinion or statement that something is true, especially one made during a discussion or argument
- Egregious - extremely bad
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Convention - a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country
- Consular - relating to a government official sent to live in another country and look after their own country’s citizens and business interests there
- Denying - to not allow someone to have or do something
- Pursue - to follow a course of activity
- Appellate - relating to a legal appeal
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Instituting - to start something such as a system or an official process
- Virtually - used for emphasizing that a statement is almost completely true
- Substantive - important or serious, or referring to the most important or serious issues
- Interim - temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists
- On the face of it - used for saying that something appears to be true but might not be true when you have examined it in more detail
- Incongruous - strange because of being very different to other things which happen or exist in the same situation
- In the light of something - because of
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Jurisdiction - the right or power to make legal decisions
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Stiff - strong and difficult
- Preliminary - coming before the main or most important part of something
- Reciprocal - done according to an arrangement by which you do something for someone who does the same thing for you
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge
- Iteration - the process of doing something again and again
- Precipitate - to make something happen or begin to exist suddenly and quickly, especially something bad
- Adherence - the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Jhulan Goswami’s haul of wickets, simply the best"
- Haul - to succeed in reaching a higher position using a lot of effort
- Leg before wicket - in the game of cricket, the situation in which your time as the person trying to hit the ball is ended because the ball has hit your leg when it should not have
- Path-breaking - innovative
- Emerge - to become recognized
- Unheard of - something that is unheard-of is very unusual or has never happened before
- Obstacle - a difficulty or problem that prevents you from achieving something
- Surmount - to deal successfully with a difficult situation or problem
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Formidable - very impressive
- Patriarchal system - a patriarchal society, system, organization etc is one in which men have all or most of the power and influence
- Prejudice - an unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially the feeling of not liking a particular group of people
- Disdain - the feeling that someone or something is not important and does not deserve any respect
- Mind-boggling - very large, unusual, or complicated and not easy to imagine
- Astutely - accurately assessing situations or people
- Sinew - the strong substance that connects muscles to bone
- Consistency - the ability to remain the same in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Emphatic - said or shown in a very strong clear way
- Iconic - very famous and well known
- Debut - the first time that a performer or sports player appears in public
- Maiden - being the first of its type
- Adhere to something - to support or believe in an idea, plan, opinion etc
- Deprive - if you deprive someone of something, you take it away from them or prevent them from having it
- Gradual - very slow
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Banked on someone - to depend on someone
- Foothold - a position from which you can improve your status or become more successful in an organization, profession, or market
- Skipper - captain of a sports team
- Decisive - strongly affecting how a situation will progress or end
- Pioneer - one of the first people to do something important that is later continued and developed by other people
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