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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Après le déluge: on the Mumbai floods"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Pragmatic in London: on Brexit"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Après le déluge: on the Mumbai floods"
- Après le déluge - After us, the flood (a French expression)
- 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
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Deluge - a lot of things all happening or arriving at the same time, especially if they are hard to deal with
- Paralysis - the state of being completely unable to operate normally or effectively
- Resilience - ability to quickly return to a previous good condition
- Extreme - very unusual
- Nucleus - the central or basic part of something
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Distressing - making you feel extremely unhappy, worried, or upset
- Wrangling - having a long, complicated dispute or argument
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Prediction - a statement about what you think will happen in the future, or the process of making such a statement
- For instance - for example
- Pathway - a path that you can walk on
- Worst-case scenario - the most unpleasant or serious thing that could happen in a situation
- Baseline - a quantity, value, or fact used as a standard for measuring other quantities, values, or facts
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Encroachment - to gradually take something such as power or authority from someone else
- Traction - the action of pulling something over a surface
- Mangrove - a tropical tree that grows beside water and has roots that begin above the ground
- Downpour - a large amount of rain that falls quickly
- Compensatory - intended to change or remove the bad result of something
- Intense - very great or extreme
- Consistently - continuing or developing steadily in the same way
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Remarkably - in a way that is unusual and surprises or impresses you
- Accurate - correct or true in every detail
- Evacuate - to make people leave their homes because of a dangerous situation
- Vulnerable - easily damaged by something negative or harmful
- Cyclical - cyclical events happen again and again in the same order or at the same times
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Inescapable - impossible to avoid or ignore
- Retrofitting - to change or improve something
- Callous - unkind, cruel, and without sympathy or feeling for other people
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Pragmatic in London: on Brexit"
- Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Brexit - an exit by the United Kingdom from the European Union (short for "British exit")
- Disengaging - separate or release (someone or something) from something to which they are attached or connected
- Bloc - a group of countries or people with the same political aims
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Alienate - feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Significant - very important
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Jurisdiction - the right or power to make legal decisions
- Equated with - to be the same as something
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Sovereignty - the right to rule a country
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Centrepiece - the most important feature of something
- Staunch - loyal, and showing strong belief in something or strong support for something
- Outstanding due - an amount of money that is outstanding has not yet been paid
- Law-abiding - obeying the law
- Eurosceptic - a person, especially a politician, who opposes closer connections between Britain and the European Union
- Negotiate - to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Narrowed - reduced / limited to a small area
- Bottomline - the most important fact in a situation
- Implication - an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it directly
- Premise - an idea or theory on which a statement or action is based
- Vastly - to a great degree
- Inferior - lower / not good
- Conversely - from a different and opposite way of looking at this
- Pragmatism - the quality of dealing with a problem in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist, rather than following fixed theories, ideas, or rules
- Contentious - causing or likely to cause disagreement
- Adherence - the fact of someone behaving exactly according to rules, beliefs, etc
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders
- Entail - to make something necessary, or to involve something
- Concern - to cause worry to someone
- Hasten - to make something happen sooner or more quickly
- Vis-a-vis - in comparison with
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