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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A foregone conclusion: On presidential poll race"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A foregone conclusion: On presidential poll race"
- Foregone conclusion - a result that you can be certain about before it happens
- Set the tone (for something) - to establish a particular mood or character for something
- Agenda - a secret aim or reason for doing something
- Trappings - possessions that show that someone is rich, powerful, or important
- Ideological - related to a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based
- Constrained - behaving in a way that is very controlled and not natural
- On someone’s behalf - instead of someone, or as a representative of someone
- Anything but - used for emphasizing that a particular word does not describe someone or something, because the opposite is true about them
- Old guard - the people in an organization who have been there for a long time and do not like changes or new ideas
- Set the stage for something - to create the conditions in which something is likely to happen
- Swathed in something - to completely cover someone or something with something
- Secular - not religious, or not connected with religion
- Disadvantaged - disadvantaged people do not have the same advantages as other people, for example because they do not have much money
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Garnering - to collect or obtain a large amount of something useful or important
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Obliged - to force someone to do something, or to make it necessary for someone to do something
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Coup - an occasion when someone suddenly gains control in an organization
- Pulled off - to succeed in doing something that is difficult
- Backing - support
- Weighing - to consider all the aspects of a situation carefully before making a decision
- Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Embroiled - involved in a difficult situation
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Faction - a small group within a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions from the rest
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Restive - unwilling to be controlled or be patient
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Engaging Pyongyang: On US-North Korea relations"
- Engaging - attractive and pleasant in a way that makes people like you
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Tragic - causing or involving great sadness, because someone suffers or dies
- Imprison - to put someone in a prison (jail)
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Dialling down - to reduce the level of tension or intensity in a situation
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Defiance - refusal to obey a person or rule
- Rein - control
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Predictably - if something is predictable, it happens in the way that you would expect
- Flayed - to criticize someone or something in a very severe or cruel way
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- On the face of it - used for saying that something appears to be true but might not be true when you have examined it in more detail
- Advocate - to publicly support a particular policy or way of doing things
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Worthwhile - if something is worthwhile, it is worth the time, money, or effort that you spend on it
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Longstanding - having existed for a long time
- Dynastic - related to a family whose members rule a country or region for a long period of time
- Paranoid - worrying that people do not like you and are trying to harm you, although you have no proof of this
- Reluctant - not willing to do something
- Leverage - the power to make someone do what you want
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Viable - able to be done, or worth doing
- Carrots and sticks - a mixture of promises and threats to persuade someone to do something, especially to work harder
- Gradually - slowly and in small stages or amounts
- Advocate - to publicly support a particular policy or way of doing things
- Roll back - to remove something, or to reduce the influence of something
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- Unequivocally - clearly (without doubt)
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