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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Unwise proposal: On Election Commission seeking contempt powers"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Unwise proposal: On Election Commission seeking contempt powers"
- Unwise - stupid and likely to cause problems
- Contempt power - power to punish persons who don't obey or respect rules
- Alarming - frightening or worrying
- Transient - temporary
- Abuse - the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Unwarranted - not fair or necessary
- Strident - holding strong opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Relic - something such as a system or rule that remains from an earlier time or situation
- Bygone - happening or existing during a period of time in the past
- Empower - to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something
- Contempt of court - the crime of not doing what a judge in a court of law has ordered you to do
- Sparingly - in small quantities
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Impartiality - not connected to or influenced by one particular person or group
- Travesty - a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it should be or because it seems very unfair
- Democratic - involving elections in which people vote for their political representatives
- Pertain to something - to be directly related to something
- Wilful - done deliberately in order to cause damage or harm
- Disobedience - someone’s behaviour when they do not obey orders or rules
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Scandalised - to do something that shocks someone
- Vague - not clearly or fully explained
- Curtail - to reduce or limit something, especially something good
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Robustly - if you do something robustly, you do it in a determined way
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Superintendence - power, authority, influence and leadership
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Tendentious - expressing a strong personal opinion, attitude, or intention that other people are likely to argue with
- Calumnious - related to the act of making a statement about someone that is not true and is intended to damage the reputation of that person
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Scepticism - doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right
- Invulnerable - impossible to damage
- Alleged - to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong or illegal, even though this has not been proved
- Aligned - to give your support publicly to a group, political party, or country
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Throttling - to prevent something from succeeding
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The Quetta murders and its effect on China-Pakistan ties"
- Fault line - a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail
- Abducted - to take someone away from their home, family etc using force
- At gunpoint - while threatening to shoot someone or while being threatened with a gun
- To begin with - used for introducing the first thing in a list of things you are going to say
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Missionary - someone who has been sent to a place by a religious organization to teach the people there about a particular religion
- Unlawful - something that is unlawful is illegal, especially something that would be considered legal in a different situation
- Inroads - direct and noticeable effects on something
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Substantive - important or serious, or referring to the most important or serious issues
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Emanating - to come from a particular place
- Alleged - to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong or illegal, even though this has not been proved
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Sovereignty - the right to rule a country
- Premature - happening too soon or before the usual time
- Significance - the importance that something has because it affects other things
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