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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Dangerous escalation: On Russia’s expulsion U.S. staff"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Dangerous escalation: On Russia’s expulsion U.S. staff"
- Escalation - to become much worse or more serious
- Expulsion - an occasion when someone is officially forced to leave an organization or activity permanently because of their bad behaviour
- Retaliatory - intended to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Spiral - a situation that gets worse and worse
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Superpower - a country that has great military, economic, and political power
- Senate - the more senior part of a law-making institution
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Comparable - fairly similar to another thing
- Shutdown - an occasion when a business or large piece of equipment stops operating
- Losing heart - to stop believing that you can succeed
- Expel - to officially force someone to leave a place or organization because of their bad behaviour
- Diplomat - an official whose job is to represent their government in a foreign country
- Last leg - near to end
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Retaliate - to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Overture - a suggestion or offer that you make to someone
- Take a hard-line - to deal with someone or something in a very firm or strict way and refuse to change your opinion or decision
- Commodity - something that can be bought and sold, especially a basic food product or fuel
- Meltdown - a sudden and complete failure of a company, organization, or system
- Counter - an action that you take in order to oppose or stop something or reduce its negative effect
- Slim - very small
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- War-ravaged - destroyed by war
- Ceasefire - an agreement to stop fighting for a period of time, especially in order to discuss permanent peace
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Reportedly - used for showing that you are not certain that something you are reporting is true
- Irrational - done or happening without clear or sensible reasons
- Mutual - belonging to or true of two or more people
- Hostility - opposition to something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Washed out: On the floods in eastern and western India"
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Ravage - to destroy something or damage it very badly
- Displacing - to force someone to leave their own country and live somewhere else
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Destructive - causing severe damage or harm
- Deluge - a very heavy fall of rain
- Subcontinent - the part of Asia that contains the countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
- Variability - the fact that something changes often or is not always the same
- Moreover - used for introducing an additional and important fact that supports or emphasizes what you have just said
- Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die
- Prone - likely to be affected by something, especially something bad
- Rehabilitation - the process of returning something to a good condition
- Alleviating - to make something less painful, severe, or serious
- Normality - a situation in which everything is normal
- Next of kin - your closest relative
- Elderly - old people
- Aggravated - to make a bad situation worse
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Calamity - an event that causes serious damage, or causes a lot of people to suffer, for example a flood or fire
- Dismaying - to make someone very worried, disappointed, or sad
- Wrangle - to argue about something for a long time, especially in an angry and unpleasant way
- Unseemly - unseemly behaviour is embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Catastrophic - causing a lot of damage, or making a lot of people suffer
- Necessitate - to make something necessary
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Inundate - to cover an area of land with water
- Hotspot - a place where war or other fighting is likely to happen
- Mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something
- Legitimately - in a way that conforms to the law or to rules
- Marginal - very small
- Calamitous - causing serious damage, or causing a lot of people to suffer
- Take something in your stride - to not be upset or troubled by something
- Traumatic - a traumatic experience or event makes you feel very upset, afraid, or shocked
- Disorder - an illness or medical condition
- Catastrophe - an event that causes a lot of damage or makes a lot of people suffer
- vigorous - strong, active, and healthy
- Consequence - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient
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