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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Price of rapacity: On SC rules against illegal mining"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Price of rapacity: On SC rules against illegal mining"
- Rapacity - aggressive greed (never satisfied until you have taken everything that you can take)
- Mining - the process of getting coal or metal from under the ground
- Laid down - to officially establish a rule, or to officially say how something should be done
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Compensation - money that is paid to someone in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem
- Quantum - the smallest amount or unit of something
- Extract - to remove something from a particular place
- Gone beyond - to be more than something
- Mere - only / just
- Affirmation - an action of support or approval
- Polluter - a person or company responsible for causing pollution
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Stringent - stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards
- Indulge in - to become involved in something that people do not approve of
- Empower - to give someone more power to do something
- Ore - rock or earth from which metal can be obtained
- Dispute - to disagree with something that someone says
- Defaulter - a person who fails to fulfil a duty, obligation, or undertaking
- Violator - a person who breaks or fails to comply with a rule or formal agreement
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Illegality - the state of being illegal
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Expansion - the process of increasing in size and filling more space
- Unlawful - illegal
- Renewal - an arrangement for something to continue for a longer period of time
- Apex - the top or highest or most important part of something
- Notably - especially: used for introducing a good example of something
- Flouted - to deliberately refuse to obey a rule or custom
- Depleting - to reduce the amount of something or the number of things
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Rapacious - never satisfied until you have taken everything that you can take
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Revisit - to consider or discuss something again
- Enforced - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Vested interest - a special reason for wanting things to happen in a particular way, because you will benefit from this
- Paying a heavy price - to experience the bad result of something you have done
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Exploitation - the process of making use of something so that you gain as much as possible from it
- Scourge - something that causes a lot of trouble or harm
- Dweller - someone who lives in a particular type of place
- Intergenerational - relating to more than one generation (=group of people who were born at about the same time)
- Conserve - to prevent land, water, or other natural resources from being damaged or destroyed
- Subsequent - happening or coming after something else
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Editing ourselves: On genes and ethics"
- Gene - a pattern of chemicals within a cell that carries information about the qualities passed to a living thing from its parents
- Ethics - moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity
- Mutation - a change in the genes of a plant or animal that causes it to become different from others of its type
- Embryo - an animal or human before it is born, when it is beginning to develop and grow
- Mutation - a change in the genes of a plant or animal that causes it to become different from others of its type
- Fuelling - to make something increase
- Cardiac - connected with your heart
- Inherit - to be born with a gene that causes a particular biological characteristic to be passed on
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Milestone - an event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process
- Genome - the total amount of genetic information in the chromosomes of a living thing, including its genes and DNA
- For instance - for example
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Implanting something in something - to put something into someone’s body in a medical operation
- Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
- Realm - a particular area of knowledge, experience, interest etc
- In retrospect - considering something that happened in the past, using knowledge or information that you did not have at that time
- Reproductive - relating to the process of having babies or producing young animals or plants
- In vitro fertilization - the medical process in which a woman’s egg is fertilized outside her body and then put back inside to grow into a baby
- Mired - caught in an unpleasant situation that you cannot easily escape from
- Hereditary disease - a hereditary disease or quality is passed from a parent to a child in their genes
- Rigorous - thorough and careful
- Ethical - involving the principles used for deciding what is right and what is wrong
- Inherent - an inherent quality is a basic or essential feature that gives something its character
- Mosaic - an individual (especially an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types
- Sperm - a cell from a man that fertilizes the egg inside a woman’s body and makes her pregnant
- Nonetheless - despite what has just been said
- Rage on - to continue with a lot of force, violence, or angry arguments
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