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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Pursued by danger: on the Haryana stalking case"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Pursued by danger: on the Haryana stalking case"
- Pursue - to follow someone or something, usually to try to catch him, her, or it
- Stalking - the crime of following and watching someone in a threatening way
- Mere - only / just
- Annoyance - a slightly angry or impatient feeling
- Swift - happening quickly or immediately
- Limelight - public attention and interest
- Regularity - the action of doing the same thing often
- Odium - the feeling of hating someone or something
- Deterrent - something that makes people decide not to do something by making them realize that something unpleasant could happen to them
- Pertains to something - to be directly related to something
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Stringent - strict
- Provision - the act of providing something that someone needs
- Ingredient - one of the things that give something its character or that make it effective
- Accused - the person who is on trial in a law court
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Presence of mind - the ability to think quickly and clearly in a difficult situation
- Foiled - to prevent someone from doing something that they are trying to do
- Pursuer - someone who is chasing you
- Ordeal - an extremely unpleasant experience, especially one that lasts for a long time
- Traumatic - a traumatic experience or event makes you feel very upset, afraid, or shocked
- Inhibiting - to make it difficult for someone to do something
- Unsolicited - not asked for / may not want
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Horrific - so shocking that it upsets you
- Rigour - the quality of being strict or severe
- Penal - relating to the punishment of criminals
- Privilege - a special benefit that is available only to a particular person or group
- Permeates - if an attitude or feeling permeates something, you can feel or see its influence clearly in every part of that thing
- Quiet burial - the process of hiding something silently
- Cast aspersions (on) - to say or write things about someone that attack their character, work etc
- Call out - to challenge someone over something they have said or done
- Discourse - serious spoken or written discussion of a particular subject
- Compel - to force someone to do something
- Widespread - happening or existing in many places, or affecting many people
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Bring someone to justice - to make someone have a trial in order to find out whether they are guilty of a crime
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Raging rupee: resisting arguments for making the rupee cheaper"
- Resist - to oppose or fight against someone or something
- Exporter - a person, business, or country that sells goods to another country
- Turned out - to develop in a particular way, or to have a particular result
- In fact - used for saying what is really true, when this is surprising or different from what people think
- Bearish - expecting the prices of shares to fall
- Predicting - to say what you think will happen in the future
- Breach - a failure to follow a law or rule
- Turn the tide - to change a situation, especially so that you begin to win instead of losing
- Portfolio - all the investments that a person or company has made
- Equity - the value of a company’s shares
- Generous - kind, friendly, and helpful
- Rattled - to make worried or nervous
- Taper - to gradually become narrower towards one end, or to make something narrower towards one end
- Tantrum - an occasion when someone suddenly behaves in unreasonable way
- Contributor - someone or something that is one of the causes of a situation, event etc
- Hawkish - serious
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Notably - especially: used for introducing a good example of something
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- In tandem - together and at the same time
- Appreciating - increasing in value
- Competitiveness - the ability of people to compete successfully
- Exporter - a person, business, or country that sells goods to another country
- Protectionist - relating to the theory or practice of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports
- Retaliatory - intended to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Fiddling - to touch, move, or change something many times in order to improve it or make it work better
- Foolhardy - ignoring obvious dangers in a stupid way
- Take something for granted - to expect something always to happen or exist in a particular way, and to not think about any possible problems or difficulties
- Monetary - relating to a country’s money and to the systems that a country uses for controlling its money supply
- Invariably - always
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