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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections: an unseemly contest"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Indo-Afghan trade: Castles in the air ?"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections: an unseemly contest"
- Unseemly - embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Biennial - a biennial event happens once every two years
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- High-stakes - a high-stakes activity or situation involves a lot of risk or serious consequences
- Open secret - something that should be secret but is not because a lot of people know about it
- Coveting - to very much want something that someone else has
- Luring - to persuade someone to do something by offering them something exciting
- Institutional - from or within a large organization
- Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Tremendous - used for emphasizing that something such as an amount, achievement, or feeling is extremely great, important, or strong
- Mount - to gradually increase, rise, or get bigger
- Invalidate - to make something such as a document, contract, or process no longer legally effective
- Ballot - a piece of paper that you write your vote on
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Statutory - controlled by a law
- Plenary - complete, or without any limit
- Segregate - to keep one thing separate from another
- Legitimacy - the fact that something is legal
- Abuse - the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Unseemly - unseemly behaviour is embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Poaching - to persuade someone to leave a group or organization and become a member of yours, especially by using secret or dishonest methods
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Resort - a place that many people go to for a holiday
- Compound - a combination of things
- Proxy - someone who has the authority to do something for you, especially to vote
- Tussle - a disagreement between two people who are both trying to get or to achieve something
- Morale - the amount of enthusiasm that a person or group of people feel about their situation at a particular time
- Vibrancy - the state of being full of energy and life
- Vitality - energy, or enthusiasm
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- Unquestioned - considered by everyone to be true, correct, honest, important etc
- Supremacy - a situation in which one person, group, or thing has more power or influence than any other
- Democratic - involving elections in which people vote for their political representatives
- Boomerangs - if a plan boomerangs, it brings a harmful result instead of the intended good one
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Indo-Afghan trade: Castles in the air ?"
- Trade - the activities of buying and selling goods or services
- Castles in the air - plans that have very little chance of happening
- Carry more weight - to be respected and have influence
- Corridor - used about an area of land that belongs to one country but is surrounded by another
- Cargo - used about ships, planes etc that carry goods
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Gamechanger - something that completely changes the way something is done, thought about, or made
- Obstructionist - someone who systematically blocks or interrupts a process
- Shipment - an amount of goods carried on a ship, plane, train, or truck
- Underwrite - to invest money to help someone to start a new project
- Affirm - to state that something is true or that you agree with it, especially in public
- For instance - for example
- Tarmac - the part of an airport where the planes stop and that people walk across to get on a plane
- Perishable - food, which decays quickly
- Teething troubles - minor problems that a new company, project, product etc may have in the beginning
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Trilateral - involving three countries or organizations
- Ratify - to make an agreement official by signing it or formally accepting it
- Follow-through - to continue doing something until it has been completed
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Circumventing - to find a way of avoiding a rule or law that limits you, especially using a clever trick that does not break the law
- Avenue - one of the methods you can use to achieve something
- Heartening - making you feel happier and more positive
- Ceremony - a formal public event with special traditions, actions, or words
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
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