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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Held at ransom: on the recent ransomware attacks"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Gold shines: on reducing India's demand for gold"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Held at ransom: on the recent ransomware attacks"
- Ransom - the amount of money that someone wants to be paid before they will let a person / thing who they are keeping go free
- Ransomware - computer malware that locks someone's machine and demands a payment from the computer owner in order to be unlocked
- Hasten - to make something happen sooner or more quickly
- Threat - a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is not followed
- Menacing - intended to threaten or frighten someone
- Malicious - unkind and showing a strong feeling of wanting to hurt someone
- Vulnerability - the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed
- Unleashed - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Eessentially - used for emphasizing what is the most important aspect of something or fact about something
- Chinks - a small amount of a quality
- Remotely - slightly, or in a very small way
- Unsuspecting - not knowing about something that is happening or will happen
- Ransomware - computer malware that locks someone's machine and demands a payment from the computer owner in order to be unlocked
- Bitcoin - a virtual currency created for use in online transactions
- Decrypt - to change information that was in a code that could not be read or understood into a form that can be read and understood
- Daunting - something that is daunting makes you worried because you think that it will be very difficult or dangerous to do
- Lack of something - the fact that something is not available or that there is not enough of it
- Preparedness - the state of being ready for something
- Fall prey to - to be attacked, cheated, or harmed by someone bad
- Complacent - too confident and relaxed because you think you can deal with something easily, even though this may not be true
- Outbreak - the sudden start of war, disease, violence etc
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease / problem spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Consolation - something that makes you feel less unhappy or disappointed
- Unscathed - not harmed or damaged by something bad that has happened
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Stakeholder - a person or company that has invested in a business and owns part of it
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Uneasy - someone who feels uneasy feels slightly nervous, worried, or upset about something
- Dump - to get rid of someone or something that you no longer want or need
- Wake-up call - a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave
- Hoarding - a large amount of something that someone has saved or hidden somewhere
- Vendor - someone who is selling something
- Exploit - to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Implication - a possible effect or result
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Gold shines: on reducing India's demand for gold"
- Alternative - something that you can choose instead of something else
- Asset - something valuable belonging to a person or organization that can be used for the payment of debts
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Long-drawn-out - continuing for too long
- Tackle - to make an organized and determined attempt to deal with a problem
- Bearing fruit - to have a successful result
- Witness - to see something happen
- Threefold - three times as much
- Robust - strong
- Policymaker - a member of a government department, legislature, or other organization who is responsible for making new rules, laws, etc
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- For instance - for example
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Dormant - something that is dormant is not active or developing now, but it may become active or develop in the future
- Productive - making or growing things in large quantities, especially so that they can be sold
- Predominant - most important or powerful
- A hedge against something - a way of trying to protect yourself against a problem or risk
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Sophisticated - knowing and understanding a lot about a complicated subject
- Acumen - the ability to make good quick decisions and judgments
- Depreciating - to become less valuable than before
- Ironically - used for saying that a situation has developed in an unexpected and sometimes humorous way
- Possibly - used for emphasizing your surprise or shock at something
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Conservation - the careful use of energy, water, and other resources, so that they are not wasted or lost
- Gousehold - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Lure - the quality or power that something or someone has that makes it, him, or her attractive
- Illicit - not allowed by the law or rules
- Evasion - the practice of avoiding doing something that you should do
- Pipe dream - something you wish for that can never really happen
- Stride - an important positive development
- Innovation - a new idea, method, piece of equipment etc
- Adversely - in a negative, unpleasant, or harmful way
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