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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The waiting game: Nitish's mixed political signals may be a calculated plan"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The waiting game: Nitish's mixed political signals may be a calculated plan"
- Waiting game - to delay in a situation where people expect you to do something, because you think this will give you an advantage
- Ascendant - in the process of gaining power or influence over another person, group etc
- Coalesce - to come together and form a group or a single unit
- Broke ranks - if a member of a group breaks ranks, they disagree publicly with the rest of the group
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- One-off - happening, done, or made only once
- Goodwill - friendly and helpful feelings
- Nonetheless - despite what has just been said
- Castigate - to criticize someone or something severely
- Coherent - reasonable and sensible
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Reactive - reacting to things that happen, rather than making things happen yourself
- Narrative - a particular way of explaining or understanding events
- Put forth - to give your opinion
- Candidature - the fact that someone is a candidate in an election
- Counter - an action that you take in order to oppose or stop something or reduce its negative effect
- Nomination - an official suggestion that someone should get a job or a prize, or the decision to give them a job or a prize
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Inability - the fact of not being able to do something
- Proactive - taking action and making changes before they need to be made, rather than waiting until problems develop
- Genuine - real, rather than pretended or false
- Exit strategy - a plan that allows you to stop being involved in a situation without causing any harm or disadvantage to yourself
- Ally with somebody - to start to support someone
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Forge - to develop a successful relationship, especially in business or politics
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Intense - very great or extreme
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Irregularity - a situation in which the rules, laws, or usual ways of doing things have not been followed
- Flutter - a short period of excited activity
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Conflicting - describes two or more things that cannot all be right or cannot all happen at the same time
- Incentive - something that encourages a person to do something
- Spectacular - extremely impressive
- Combustion - the process of burning
- Fossil fuel - a fuel such as coal or oil, made from decayed material from animals or plants that lived many thousands of years ago
- Quest - a long difficult search
- Surge - to increase a lot very quickly
- Hybrid - a mixture of different things or styles
- Affordability - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Conventional - of the usual, traditional, or accepted type, instead of being new and different
- Sustainability - the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level
- Recycle - to use something again
- Plug-in - to be connected to an electricity supply or to another piece of equipment
- Perspective - a way of thinking about something
- Enlivening - to make something more interesting or lively
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Assessment - calculation of the cost or value of something
- Density - the degree to which something is heavy or thick
- Unsurprisingly - in a way that you expected
- Cater to something - to provide people with something they want or need, especially something unusual or special
- Marque - the name of a product produced by a particular company, especially a car
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Moderate - neither very great nor very small in amount, size, strength, or degree
- Intensity - strength
- Carbon emissions - carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by vehicles and industrial processes
- Feasible - possible or likely to succeed
- By contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Elegance - the quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner
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