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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Back on track: on India and China's united front at BRICS"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Back on track: on India and China's united front at BRICS"
- Back on track - working or happening normally again
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Pursuing - to try to achieve something
- Spirit - your mood, or your attitude
- Revival - the process of becoming more active or popular again
- Bitterness - a feeling of anger and unhappiness
- Tenor - the feeling, mood, or main message that you get from a book, person, situation etc
- Remarkable - unusual in a way that surprises or impresses you
- Stand-off - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Resolve - to solve a problem, or to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a disagreement
- Recur - to happen again
- Significant - very important
- Protectionism - a system in which a country helps its own industries by putting taxes on foreign goods
- Espouse - to give your support to an idea, principle, or belief
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Consonance - agreement
- Condemn - to say publicly that you think someone or something is bad or wrong
- Unequivocally - in a way that leaves no doubt.
- Advocating - to publicly support a particular policy or way of doing things
- Dialogue - a process in which two people or groups have discussions in order to solve problems
- Emanate - to come from a particular place
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
- Belie - to make someone or something appear to be different from how they really are
- Determination - the refusal to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
- Hush - used for trying to calm someone who is upset / to make someone quiet
- Triumphalism - an unpleasant show of pleasure and satisfaction because you have won or done better than someone
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Stability - a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Doubly - by a much greater amount, or to a much greater degree than usual
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Discord - disagreement between people
- Convene - to arrange a formal meeting, or to gather for a meeting
- Agenda - a list of things that people will discuss at a meeting
- Designate - to give someone or something a particular name, title, or description
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Atmospherics - unusual conditions in the atmosphere
- Optimise - to make something such as a method or process as good or as effective as possible
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Breaking the bank: on the bid for IPL telecast rights"
- Breaking the bank - to win more at gambling than the casino can pay you
- Bid - to offer a particular amount of money for something, for example at an auction (=an event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money)
- Telecast - a programme broadcast on television
- Mega - very big
- High point - the best, most exciting, or most important part of something
- Staple - a regular and important part or feature of something
- Dished out - to give things to a number of people
- Gargantuan - extremely big
- Nail-biting - a nail-biting situation makes you very excited or worried
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Franchise - a formal agreement for someone to sell a company’s products or service
- Respective - belonging separately to each of two or more people or things previously mentioned
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Squeak - to speak in a high voice, especially because you are upset or excited
- Spot-fixing - in sport, making sure that a specific event happens during a game so that people who know this can win money by betting on it
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Succinctly - in a brief and clearly expressed manner
- Quadruple - if a number or an amount quadruples, it becomes four times bigger than it was
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Fillip - something that improves a situation or that encourages someone
- Dwarf - to make something seem small or unimportant
- Traction - the degree to which a new idea, product etc is accepted
- Lodestone - a type of iron that attracts other iron or steel
- Corporate - a company, especially a large one
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Staggering - extremely surprising
- Enormous - very large in size or quantity
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Uncontested - if something is uncontested, no one opposes it or disagrees with it
- Versus - used for stating that two things are being compared in order to show that they are different or that one is better than the other
- The acme of something - the highest possible standard of something
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
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