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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Prison and privilege: On favourable exemptions to Sasikala in jail"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Prison and privilege: On favourable exemptions to Sasikala in jail"
- Privilege - a special benefit that is available only to a particular person or group
- Favourable - giving someone or something an advantage or a benefit
- Exemption - permission to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Deterrent - to prevent someone from doing something by threatening bad results if they do it
- Uncommon - unusual, rare, or not happening often
- Concession - something you give or allow to someone in order to reach an agreement
- Obliging - willing to help someone
- Folklore - traditional stories, sayings, and beliefs
- Makeshift - made using whatever is available and therefore not very good
- Inmate - someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital, or other institution
- Confabulation - informal talks / discussions
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Footage - a video showing an event
- Emerge - to become known
- Convict - someone who is in prison because they are guilty of a crime
- Precinct - the area around an important building
- Fanciful - not serious or sensible
- Purported - said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true
- Blew the whistle - to bring something to the attention of other people in order to stop something bad from happening
- Presumably - used for saying that you think something is true based on what you know, although you are not really certain
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place that may be involved in a criminal activity
- Rampant - existing, happening, or spreading in an uncontrolled way
- Sensational - very exciting and surprising
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Bureaucrat - someone who is employed to help run an office or government department
- Irregularity - a situation in which the rules, laws, or usual ways of doing things have not been followed
- Mere - only / just
- Suborn - to persuade someone to do something illegal
- Inadequate - not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
- Vice - extremely bad and immoral behaviour
- For instance - for exmaple
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave
- Comprehensive - complete and including everything that is necessary
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Deterrent - something that makes people decide not to do something by making them realize that something unpleasant could happen to them
- Paraphrase - to express what someone else has said or written using different words, especially in order to make it shorter or clearer
- Scarecrow - an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing
- Perch - if a bird perches on something, or if it is perched on it, it is resting there for a time
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Derailed priorities : On Utkal Express derailment"
- Derail - if a train derails, it comes off its rails
- Mandarin - a senior official in the government department
- Tragedy - a very sad event that causes people to suffer or die
- Maintenance - the work needed to keep a road, building, machine, etc. in good condition
- Blockade - an official action that is intended to prevent people or goods from moving from one place to another
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Instance - a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that happens generally
- Feasible - able to be made, done, or achieved
- Mishap - an unlucky event or accident
- Sabotage - to damage or destroy equipment
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Lapse - a temporary failure
- Conceding - to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true
- Bungling - to do something wrong, in a careless or stupid way
- Exemplary punishment - an exemplary punishment is severe and intended as a warning to others
- Heed - to pay attention to something, especially advice or a warning
- Rolling stock - the engines and carriagesthat are used on a railway
- Casualty - a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war
- Sluggish - moving or operating more slowly than usual and with less energy or power
- Err - to make a mistake or to do something wrong
- Turn a blind eye - to ignore something that you know is wrong
- Obvious - easy to see, recognize, or understand
- Wake-up call - if something that happens is a wake-up call, it should make you realize that you need to take action to change a situation
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