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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "We need Paris: on U.S pulling out of climate deal"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "We need Paris: on U.S pulling out of climate deal"
- Pulling out - to stop being involved in an activity, event, or situation
- Climate - the type of weather that a country or region has
- Pact - an agreement between two or more people or organizations in which they promise to do something
- Abandoning - to suddenly leave someone or something
- Adopt - to decide to start using a particular idea, plan, or method
- Backward-looking - not interested in new ideas or ways of doing things
- Emission - a substance, especially a gas, that goes into the air
- Contempt - a feeling that someone or something is unimportant and deserves no respect
- Hard-won - achieved only after a lot of effort
- Incongruent - not suitable or not fitting well with something else
- Retailing - the business of selling goods directly to the public for their own use
- Fossil fuel - a fuel such as coal or oil, made from decayed material from animals or plants that lived many thousands of years ago
- Reaping - to get something as a result of something that you do
- Progressively - gradually and steadily
- Misery - the state of being extremely unhappy or uncomfortable
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something
- Abdicated - to stop accepting a particular responsibility or obligation that you have
- Heartening - making you feel happy or happier
- Greenhouse gas - a gas that stops heat from escaping from the atmosphere and causes the greenhouse effect (Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas)
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Levelled off - to stop becoming more or less, and remain the same
- In spite of something - used for referring to a fact that makes something else surprising
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Intensity - strength
- Ambitious - an ambitious plan, aim, or attempt is difficult and will need a lot of effort to succeed
- Renewable - renewable energy and natural materials replace themselves by natural processes, so that they are never completely used up
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Cope with - to deal successfully with a difficult situation
- Underpin - to be an important basic part of something, allowing it to succeed or continue to exist
- Accumulate - to get more and more of something over a period of time
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Gross misuse: on States using 'Goondas Act'"
- Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Timely - happening at the most suitable time
- Preventive - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
- Confer - to give something such as authority, a legal right, or an honour to someone
- Discretionary - based on someone’s judgment of a particular situation rather than on a set of rules
- Touchstone - a standard that is used for testing or judging other things
- Adherence - the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
- Prescribed - decided by a law or a rule
- Invocation - to use a law in order to achieve something
- Draconian - extremely strict and severe
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Prejudicial - harmful to someone or something
- Rhetorical - relating to a style of speaking or writing that is effective or intended to influence people
- Incantation - words that are repeated together several times because they are thought to have special power
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Spurious - not real
- Extraneous - not relating to the subject or situation that you are dealing with
- Recourse - the use of something so that you can get what you want or need in a difficult situation
- Deterrent - something that makes people decide not to do something by making them realize that something unpleasant could happen to them
- Statutory - controlled by a law or statute
- Habitual - used for describing a person who has a particular bad habit
- Extraneous - not relating to the subject or situation that you are dealing with
- Merely - only / just
- For instance - for example
- Molest - to hurt someone, by touching them in a sexual way or by forcing them to do sexual acts
- Detain - to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them to leave
- Overtly - not hidden or secret
- Pathological - pathological behaviour or feelings are not based on reason and cannot be controlled by the person experiencing them
- Brazen - behaving in a way that is not moral or socially acceptable, and not caring if other people are shocked or offended
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Vigil - a quiet political protest held at night
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Flimsy - weak and difficult to believe
- Trial - the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent
- Draconian - extremely strict and severe
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