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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Resignation drama: on Mayawati and BSP's struggle"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Resignation drama: on Mayawati and BSP's struggle"
- Resignation - the act of leaving a job permanently
- Retrieve - to get something back
- Viability - ability to work successfully
- High drama - a very exciting and dramatic event or events
- Monsoon - a period of heavy rain in India
- Inadvertently - not deliberately, and without realizing what you are doing
- Fightback - a situation in which you end by defeating an opponent who was winning before
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Relevance - the quality of being directly connected with and important to something else
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Squeeze - to make someone have financial trouble
- Presume - to think that something is true because it is likely, although you cannot be certain
- Beneficiary - someone who gets an advantage from a situation
- Blowback - negative reactions or results that were not intended, such as criticism, protest, or anger
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Predicament - a difficult or unpleasant situation that is not easy to get out of
- Sought - to ask for something, or to try to get something
- Procession - a line of people or vehicles moving in a slow and formal way as part of an event
- Segment - a separate part of anything
- Fiery - becoming angry very easily and quickly
- Assertion - to do something to show that you have power
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Crafting - to make or produce something skilfully
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Oppressed - suffering from unfair and cruel treatment by a more powerful person or government
- Accommodate - to provide enough space for something or someone
- Handout - something such as food, clothing, or money that is given free to someone who has a great need for it
- Progress - to continue to develop or move forward
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Majority - the number of votes by which a person or party wins an election
- Aggression - an angry feeling that makes you want to attack or defeat someone else
- Cherry-pick - to choose only the best things or people out of a group
- Rely - to trust someone or something to do something for you
- Modernising - to make something use the most recent ideas and methods
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Target Tehran: on USA's sanctions on Iran"
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Administration - the activities involved in managing a business, organization, or institution
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Stability - a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes
- Compliant - used to describe something that obeys a particular rule or law
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Tactical - a tactical action is one that you do as part of a plan for achieving what you want
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Curbing - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Renegotiate - to discuss an agreement again in order to change it
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Pact - a formal agreement
- Unilateral - done or decided by one country, group, or person, often without considering what other countries etc think or want
- Reluctant - not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
- Ballistic missile - a type of missile that travels long distances and cannot be controlled after it has been launched
- Détente - an improvement in the relationship between two countries that in the past were not friendly and did not trust each other
- Unquestionably - in a way that cannot be doubted
- Overstretched - not having enough money, people, equipment, etc
- Set the stage for something - to make it possible for something else to happen
- Overhaul - to repair or improve something so that every part of it works as it should
- Endorse - to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone
- Isolate - to separate something from other things with which it is connected or mixed
- Align with - if you align yourself with an organization or person, you agree with and support their aims
- Undermine - to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually
- Backfire - (of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended
- Substantial - large in size, value, or importance
- Geopolitical - relating to politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors
- Clout - power and influence over other people or events
- Long-lasting - continuing for a long period of time
- Reciprocate - to share the same feelings as someone else, or to behave in the same way as someone else
- Mediator - to talk to two separate people or groups involved in a disagreement to try to help them to agree or find a solution to their problems
- Take sides - to support one person or group rather than another, in an argument or war
- Destabilising - to make a government, area, or political group lose power or control
- Cold war - unfriendly relations between countries who are not at war with each other
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