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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Protecting prisoners: Reforms must secure rights of inmates"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Missile diplomacy: U.S. must be inventive in responding to North Korea"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Protecting prisoners: Reforms must secure rights of inmates"
- Reform - to make an improvement
- Inmate - someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital, or other institution
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Overcrowding - unpleasant conditions caused by too many people or things being in the same place
- Incarceration - imprisonment
- Indigent - very poor
- Horrific - so shocking that it upsets you
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Convict - someone who is in prison because they are guilty of a crime
- Custodial - relating to putting or keeping someone in prison
- Vulnerability - the quality of being easily hurt or attacked
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Lifer - someone who has been sent to prison for the rest of their life
- Startling - surprising, or very unusual
- Accustomed to something - to think/start to think that something is normal or natural because you have experienced it regularly over a period of time
- Rudimentary - basic
- Eyewitness - someone who has seen something happen, especially a crime or an accident
- Severely - very seriously
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Riot - a violent protest by a crowd of people
- Surmise - to guess that something is true, when you do not have enough information to prove that it is true
- Simmering - something that is simmering is controlled but may burst out at any time, often violently
- Discontent - the unhappy feeling that you have when you are not satisfied with something
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Intense - very great or extreme
- Animus - a strong feeling of disliking someone or something
- Consolation - something that makes someone who is sad or disappointed feel better
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Untoward - not suitable, usual, or normal
- Comprehensive - complete (including many details or aspects of something)
- Empowered - having the authority or power to do something
- Constitute - to formally establish an organization, institution, government etc and give it the authority to operate
- In the light of - because of
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Amenity - something that makes it comfortable or enjoyable to live or work somewhere
- Hygiene - the practice of keeping yourself and the things around you clean, in order to prevent illness and disease
- Aid - help
- Anchored in something - to be strongly based on a particular set of ideas or beliefs
- Manual - a book containing instructions for doing something
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Enshrine - to officially record something such as an idea or principle in a document so that it cannot be ignored
- Amenity - something that makes it comfortable or enjoyable to live or work somewhere
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Missile diplomacy: U.S. must be inventive in responding to North Korea"
- Diplomacy - the ability to deal with people in a sensitive way that does not upset or offend them
- Inventive - good at thinking of new and original ideas or methods
- Provocation - something that causes you to react in an angry or violent way
- President-elect - someone who has been elected president but has not officially started the position yet
- Capable - able to do something
- Defying - to refuse to obey someone or something
- Intercontinental - hapenning between continents
- Ballistic - related to the objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as a bullet from a gun
- Perhaps - used to show that something is possible or that you are not certain about something
- Lost for words / response - to be so surprised, shocked etc that you do not know what to say
- Administration - the people responsible for managing a business, organization, or institution
- Consistently - in every case or on every occasion
- Banked on someone/something - to depend on something happening or on someone doing something
- Crucial - very important
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
- Rein in - to control
- Addressing - to try to deal with a problem
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Posturing - to do things only because you want people to notice you, admire you, or be afraid of you
- Defiant - refusing to obey a person or rule
- Destabilising - to cause problems for a country, government, or person in authority so that they become less effective
- Unlawful - illegal
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Threat - an occasion when someone says that they will cause you harm or problems, especially if you do not do what they tell you to do
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Doctrine - a set of principles or beliefs, especially religious or political ones
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Back to square one - in the same situation that you were in before you started to do something, with no progress made
- On the table - if a proposal or offer is on the table, someone has suggested it officially and people are considering it
- Unpredictability - the quality of being impossible to predict
- Be tantamount to something - to have the same bad qualities or effect as something else
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Isolation - a situation in which a country or group is alone and without support because other countries or groups stop dealing with it
- Roguish - characteristic of a dishonest or unprincipled person.
- Overlook - to fail to notice or do something
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Inclined - feeling that you want to do something
- Opt for - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
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