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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 3rd September 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Perform or perish: on the Cabinet reshuffle"
- Perish - to die / to lose normal qualities
- Reshuffle - the process of changing the jobs or responsibilities of the people in a particular group or organization
- Consideration - careful thought before making a decision or judgment about something
- Expedience - the situation in which something is helpful or useful in a particular situation, but sometimes not morally acceptable
- Dictate - to influence or control how something is done
- Shuffle - to move similar things from one position or place to another
- Show someone the door - to tell someone to leave
- Elevate - to give someone a more important job or position
- Lost out - to not get a benefit that someone else is getting
- Entrant - someone who joins a profession
- Mandate - the period of time during which an elected government or official is allowed to be in power
- Single-minded - with your attention fixed on only one thing
- Nurturing - to help someone or something to develop
- Eventful - with a lot of exciting or unusual things happening
- Stint - a period of time spent doing something
- Portfolio - a particular job or area of responsibility of a member of a government
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Sideline - to prevent someone from being involved in something that they would normally expect to be involved in
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Far from - used for saying that the real situation is the opposite of what you mention
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Divest - to take away someone’s power, rights, or authority
- Rejuvenation - to make something such as an organization, system, or place good or effective again
- Sanitation - conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you
- Imbalance - a situation in which the balance between two things is not equal or fair
- Succeed - to achieve something that you planned to do or attempted to do
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Back to the ballot: on the annulled Kenyan presidential vote"
- Ballot - the process of voting secretly to choose a candidate in an election or express an opinion about an issue
- Annul - to state officially that something such as a marriage, an agreement, or an election has no legal authority
- Bitter-sweet - involving or causing feelings of happiness and sadness at the same time
- Ethnically - with reference to birth, origins, or cultural background
- Exasperated - extremely annoyed and impatient because things are not happening in the way that you want or people are not doing what you want them to do
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Mar - to spoil something
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Tarnish - to make people think that someone or something is less good
- Reputation - the opinion that people have that a person, place, or thing is good
- Dignified - someone who is dignified behaves in a calm way that people respect
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Opponent - someone who is competing against you
- Allege - someone who is competing against you
- Integrity - the quality of always behaving according to the moral principles that you believe in, so that people respect and trust you
- Cumbersome - not simple, fast, or effective enough and difficult or annoying to use
- Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Chaotic - happening in a confused way and without any order or organization
- Controversial -a controversial subject, opinion, or decision is one that people disagree about or do not approve of
- Overhaul - to completely change a system in order to make it work more effectively
- Scepticism - doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right
- Prerequisite - something that must exist or happen before something else is possible
- Erosion - the gradual reduction or destruction of something important
- Legitimacy - the fact that something is legal
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Mammoth - very large
- Enthuse - to talk in an excited way about something that you are interested in
- At the hustings - making speeches before an election to try to persuade people to vote for you
- Outcry - an angry expression of protest or shock by a lot of people, as a reaction to something that someone has done or to something that has happened
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Commensurate - intended to be suitable for the quality, status, or value of someone or something
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Exploit - to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself
- Loyalties - your feelings of support or duty towards someone or something
- Observance - the act of obeying a law
- Prolonged - to make something last a longer time
- Drought - a long period when there is little or no rain
- Starvation - the state of having no food for a long period, often causing death
- Mitigating - making something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad
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