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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election: The centre holds"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Law against torture: being humane"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election: The centre holds"
- Victory - the fact of winning a competition or battle, or an occasion when someone wins
- Potent - powerful, or effective
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Decisive - making the final result of a situation completely certain
- Elicit - to make someone react in the way that you want
- A sigh of relief - a feeling of comfort after worrying about something
- Centrist - supporting the centre of the range of political opinions
- Brexit - an exit (= act of leaving) by the United Kingdom from the European Union (short for "British exit")
- Perspective - a particular way of considering something
- Ripe - developed to a suitable condition for something to happen
- Widespread - existing or happening in many places and/or among many people
- Discontent - a feeling of wanting better treatment or an improved situation
- Mainstream - considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people
- Elite - the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
- In the wake of - if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and often because of it
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Virulent - virulent feelings or actions are extremely strong and angry
- Remarkable - unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning
- Barring - except if a particular thing happens
- Stint - a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity
- Outgoing - leaving a job
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Apparent - easy to see or understand
- Tumultuous - involving a lot of noise, excitement, activity, or violence
- Outsider - a person who is not liked or accepted as a member of a particular group, organization, or society and who feels different from those people who are accepted as members
- Status quo - the present situation
- Labour - workers, especially people who do practical work with their hands
- Reform - change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Take over the reins - to take control of something, especially an organization or a country
- Uncertain - not knowing what to do or believe, or not able to decide about something
- Start-up - something that just has been started (business / organization)
- Overlook - to fail to notice or do something
- Fringe - unofficial
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Marginalise - to make someone or something seem not important or relevant
- Has powder dry - stay alert, be careful
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Law against torture: being humane"
- Humane - caring about the quality of people’s or animal’s lives and trying to be kind to them
- Ratification - to make an agreement official
- Convention - a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country
- Inhuman - extremely cruel, and not caring when other people are suffering
- Degrading - causing you to have less respect for yourself or for someone else
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Legislation - a law, or a set of laws
- Urgency - the need to deal with something quickly
- Extradition - the return of someone accused of a crime to the country where the crime was committed
- Stand-alone - to not depend on other people or things, or to not be influenced by them
- Enactment - the making of a law, or a particular act of making a law
- In accordance with - following or obeying a rule, law, wish, etc
- Obligation - something that you must do
- Apprehension - the act of arresting someone
- Ill-treat - to treat a person or animal in a cruel or unkind way
- Adhering to something - to continue to obey a rule or have a belief
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders
- Grievous - extremely serious or severe
- Extracting - to get something from someone who does not want to give it to you
- Confession - a spoken or written statement in which you admit that you have committed a crime
- Confinement - a situation in which someone is forced to stay in a place, especially a prison, and not allowed to leave
- Tangible - important and noticeable
- Concrete - based on facts and information / practical
- Enacting - to make a proposal into a law
- Exhaustive - thorough or complete
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Consistent - not changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Authoritative - based on the best, most complete, and most reliable information
- Pervasive - spreading through the whole of something and becoming a very obvious feature of it
- Custodial - relating to putting or keeping someone in prison
- Policing - the control of an area or a problem by police
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Obviously - in a way that is clear for almost anyone to see or understand
- Inadequate - not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Stringent - strict
- Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Rehabilitate - to help someone who has been ill or in prison to return to a healthy, independent, and useful life
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