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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Pay to publish: making paid news an electoral offence"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Pay to publish: making paid news an electoral offence"
- Electoral - relating to elections
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Disqualification - a situation in which someone is not allowed to take part in something because they have committed an offence or have done something that is not allowed by the rules
- Curbing - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Expenditure - the use of time, money, energy etc doing something
- Incur - to experience something unpleasant as a result of something that you have done
- Propaganda - false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Masquerading - to pretend to be someone or something that you are not
- Grave - so serious that you feel worried
- Malpractice - careless or criminal behaviour by someone with a professional or official job
- Circumvent - to find a way of avoiding a rule or law that limits you
- Phenomenon - an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist
- Concerned - involved in something, or affected by something
- Insist - to keep saying very firmly that something is true, even when other people will not believe you
- Exception - someone or something that is different in some way from other people or things and so cannot be included in a general statement
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Disclaimer - a formal statement saying that you are not legally responsible for something
- Buy something - to believe or accept something
- Constituency - the voters in a division of a country who elect a representative to parliament
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Abetting - to help or encourage someone to do something immoral or illegal
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Prejudicial - harmful or influencing people unfairly
- Contestant - someone who takes part in a contest
- Hauled up - to force someone to answer questions about their behaviour
- Intention - a plan in your mind to do something
- Pertain to something - to be directly related to something
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Enormous - very large in size or quantity
- Adjudicate - to make an official decision about a problem or disagreement
- Stall - to stop
- Inquiry - an official examination of a crime, accident, problem etc, in order to get information or the truth
- Expeditiously - quickly and effectively
- Adjudicate - to make an official decision about a problem or disagreement
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "New tech, old values: European Commission's fine on Google"
- Massive - very large in amount
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- Abuse - the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
- Unfair - not fair or reasonable
- Disadvantage - to make someone or something less effective, successful, or attractive
- Systematically - done according to a careful plan and in a thorough way
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Significant - very important
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Owe - if you owe someone money, you have to give them a particular amount of money because you have bought something from them or have borrowed money from them
- Uncertain - not clearly known or understood
- Determin - not willing to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
- Gargantuan - extremely big
- Transnational - affecting or involving several different countries
- Stymie - to stop someone from achieving an aim, or to stop some process from continuing
- Rapidly - quickly
- Frontier - the most advanced or recent ideas about something
- Quieten - to become less active, or busy
- Wariness - lack of trust; suspicion.
- Giant - a very large and successful company
- Vociferously - in a loud and forceful manner
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Refrained - to stop yourself from doing something
- Fault line - a problem that could cause something to fail
- Supra-national - relating to or involving more than one country
- Consumer - someone who buys and uses goods and services
- Obsolete - no longer used because of being replaced by something newer and more effective
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