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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A shattered peace: On Darjeeling hills unrest"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A shattered peace: On Darjeeling hills unrest"
- Shattered - extremely upset
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Temper - a tendency to get angry very quickly
- Protest - something such as a meeting or public statement by people who strongly disagree with a policy, law etc
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Spiralled into - to continuously become worse, more, or less
- Indefinite - continuing into the future with no fixed end
- Agitation - a feeling of being worried or upset
- Decree - an official decision or order made by a leader or government
- Stone-pelting - to throw stones with force at someone or something / somebody
- Called out - to ask a person or organization that provides a service to come and deal with something for you
- Semblance - a situation in which something only appears in a small amount
- Purview - the area of responsibility or influence that a person or organization has
- Harvesting - to collect a crop from the fields
- Eyeball-to-eyeball - very close together and looking at each other, especially in an angry or threatening way
- Confrontation - a situation in which people or groups are arguing angrily or are fighting
- Survival - the fact or state of continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions
- Indefinite - continuing into the future with no fixed end
- Stringent - stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards
- Intervene - to become involved in a situation in order to try to stop or change it
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Sole - only / single
- Agenda - a plan or aim that is kept secret
- Refrain - to stop yourself from doing something
- Make inroads in something - to take or use a large part of something
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Sidelines - a situation in which you watch something that is happening but are not involved in it or cannot influence it
- Firm - strong
- Quell - to get rid of unpleasant thoughts or feelings, or to prevent them from becoming stronger
- Dweller - someone who lives in a particular type of place
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Are anti-government protests a sign of Moroccan Spring ?"
- Protest - a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition
- Contain - to control or hide an emotion
- Scramble - to compete with other people for something there is very little of
- Turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity
- Trigger - to cause someone to happen
- Gruesome - involving or describing death or injury in a very unpleasant way
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Mediterranean - relating to the countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea, the people who live there, or their culture
- Restive - someone who is restive is not willing or able to keep still or be patient and is becoming difficult to control, especially because they are bored or dissatisfied
- Catalyst - someone or something that causes something to happen or change
- Unrest - disagreements or fighting between different groups of people
- Marginalisation - the process of controlling or limiting something
- Culminating - to happen or exist as the final result of a process or situation
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Scores of - large number of
- Activist - someone who takes part in activities that are intended to achieve political or social change, especially someone who is a member of an organization
- Normalcy - a situation in which everything is normal
- Hampered - to prevent something from happening or progressing normally
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Monarchy - a type of government in which a country is ruled by a king or queen
- Contending - to compete against someone, for example for a victory or for power
- Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Backed - supported
- Backdrop - the situation or place in which something happens
- Onerous - something that is onerous is something that you dislike or worry about because it is very difficult to deal with
- Restoring - to cause a particular situation to exist again
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Paradoxically - used for saying that something is strange because it is the opposite of what you expect
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Impasse - a situation in which progress is not possible because none of the people involved are willing to change their opinion or decision
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Scepticism - doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Assertiveness - confident and forceful behaviour
- Elites - the best or most skilful people in a group
- Monarchy - a type of government in which a country is ruled by a king or queen
- Avert - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
- Upheaval - a sudden or violent change, especially one that affects people’s lives
- Calibrated - measured and careful
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Thriving - very successful
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Atrocity - a cruel and violent act, often in a war
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Sagacity - good judgment based on practical knowledge and experience
- Stewardship - the way in which someone organizes and looks after something
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Restraint - the limit or control of the expression of strong emotion or opinion
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
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