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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Lessons from a fiasco: On NEET and T.N. medical admissions"
- Fiasco - a complete and embarrassing failure
- Base something on something - to use particular ideas or facts to make a decision, do a calculation, or develop a theory
- Immense - extremely large
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Uncertainty - the fact that something is not known or has not been decided
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Peremptory - speaking or behaving rather rudely, as if you expect other people to obey you immediately
- Ordinance - an official order by a government, king, queen etc
- Undue - not necessary or reasonable
- Take a dim view - to not approve of something
- Displeasure - the feeling of being annoyed or unhappy
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- About-turn - a big change in your opinion or attitude to something, so that it is almost the opposite of what it was before
- Manoeuvre - a clever or dishonest action that you do to get something that you want
- Assent - agreement with or approval of a plan or suggestion
- Ought - used to say that it is necessary or desirable to perform the action expressed
- Earmarking - to keep or intend something for a particular purpose
- Predictably - as expected
- Chasten - to make someone feel ashamed or less confident
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Ineffectual - something that is ineffectual fails to achieve what it is intended to achieve
- Requisite - necessary for a particular purpose
- Curriculum - the subjects that students study at a particular school or college
- Flip side - the negative aspects of an idea, plan, or situation
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Fiasco - a complete and embarrassing failure
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "And the war goes on: On Trump’s South Asia policy"
- Specifics - the details of something
- War-torn - a war-torn country or place has been badly damaged by a war, especially a war that involves different groups from the same country
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Campaign - to try to achieve political or social change by persuading other people or the government to do something
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Realisation - the process of understanding something, or the moment when this happens
- Grim - unpleasant and make you feel upset and worried
- Precarious - likely to change or become dangerous without warning
- Topple - to make someone in authority lose their power
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Insurgent - someone who belongs to a group of people fighting to take control of their country by force
- Ascendent - in the process of gaining power or influence over another person, group etc
- Mountainous - covered with mountains
- Fortify - to protect a place against attack by building strong walls, towers, or other structures around it
- Survival - the fact or state of continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions
- Plung - to fall quickly from a high position
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Troop - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Long-lasting - continuing for a long time
- Battleground - a place where a battle takes place or where one took place in the past
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Minced no words - to speak in a very direct and honest way without worrying about offending someone
- Bilateral - a bilateral agreement or activity is one that involves two groups or countries
- Transactionalism - a set of philosophical tools, or a method, employed to address the complexities of human social exchange or transactions
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Graveyard - an area of land where dead people are buried
- Empire - a number of countries ruled by one person or government
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