English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 21st May 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Coal comeuppance: on coal block allocation case"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rouhani’s moment: On Iran President's re-election"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Coal comeuppance: on coal block allocation case"
- Comeuppance - punishment that someone deserves for having done something wrong or unfair
- Allocation - the process of deciding to give an amount or share of something to someone
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Prosecution - the process or act of accusing someone of a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Liability - legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something
- Trial - the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent
- Deceive - to trick someone by behaving in a dishonest way
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Apex - the most important or successful part of something
- Abusing - to use something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Procure - to obtain something, especially with effort or difficulty
- Sundry - several different; various
- Manipulate - to influence someone, or to control something, in a clever or dishonest way
- Deliberately - intentionally
- Ineligible - prevented by official rules from doing something
- The accused - the person who is on trial in a law court
- Arbitrarily - based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason
- Discretion - the right or ability to make a judgment or decision
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Indictment - something that shows how bad or wrong something is
- Defence - actions that you take to protect someone or something that is being attacked
- Adhered to something - to continue to obey a rule or have a belief
- Omission - someone or something that has not been included, either deliberately or because someone forgot
- Inter se - among or between themselves
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Significance - the importance that something has because it affects other things
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rouhani’s moment: On Iran President's re-election"
- Emphatic - said or shown in a very strong clear way
- Reformist - wanting to change and improve society or an institution
- Agenda - a plan or aim that is kept secret
- Resounding - very great
- Moderation - opinions and actions, especially in politics, that are reasonable and not extreme
- Endorsement - an occasion when someone gives official or public support to a particular person or thing
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- Hardliners - people who are strict their your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Rally behind somebody - to join other people in order to support someone when they are having problems
- Slammed - to criticize someone or something severely
- Outreach - the practice of providing help and advice to people before they have to ask for it
- Flung - to say something to someone that is intended to hurt them
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Apparatus - the people and organizations involved in some aspect of government
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Assail - to make someone feel worried or upset
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Cleric - a leader of any religion
- Spotlight - a situation in which you get a lot of public attention
- Negotiation - the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Averse - to dislike or not enjoy something
- Fell short of - to not reach a particular level or to fail to achieve something that you were trying to do
- Clergy - the people who lead religious services, especially Christian priests
- Reformist - wanting to change and improve society or an institution
- Hardly - used for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all
- Radical - new and very different from the usual way
- Ayatollah - an important religious leader in Iran who often has political as well as religious influence
- Resistance - refusal to accept something new such as a plan, idea, or change
- Pursue - to follow a course of activity
- Constraint - something that limits your freedom to do what you want
- Sham - something that people pretend is good, serious, or honest but is really not
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Constructively - in a manner which is intended to be useful or helpful
- Gradual - slowly by small amounts
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