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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Episodic justice: on the Mumbai blasts sentencing"
- Episodic - happening only sometimes and not regularly
- Sentencing - to officially state what someone’s punishment will be
- Closure - the feeling that an unpleasant experience has ended or been settled
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Abroad - in or to a foreign country
- Chilling - making you feel suddenly very frightened or worried
- Precision - the quality of being very accurate and exact
- Alter - to make something or someone different
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Inflict - to cause something unpleasant to happen
- Warrant - to make an action seem reasonable or necessary
- Resolute - extremely determined
- Render - to provide a service, or to give help to someone or something
- Injure - hurt in an accident or attack
- Logistical - relating to or involving organization and planning.
- Apprehend - to arrest someone
- Conspirator - someone who secretly makes a plan with another person or group to do something bad or illegal
- Trial - the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent
- Accused - the person who is on trial in a law court
- Convict - to prove in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Extradite - to send someone accused of a crime back to the country where the crime was committed for a trial
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Proportionate - correct or suitable in size, amount, or degree when considered in relation to something else
- Depravity - behaviour that is immoral or evil
- Gravity - the seriousness or importance of something
- Lenient - if a person or system is lenient, they punish someone less severely than they could
- Misgiving - a feeling of fear or doubt about whether something is right or will have a good result
- Turn around - to consider or express something in a different way
- Confession - a spoken or written statement in which you admit that you have committed a crime
- Admissible - allowed or able to be used, especially in a court of law
- Extradition - the return of someone accused of a crime to the country where the crime was committed
- Prohibiting - to officially stop something from being done, especially by making it illegal
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- Ammunition - bullets, bombs etc that can be fired from a weapon
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Commute - to change a punishment to one that is less severe
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Heinous - a heinous act or crime is extremely evil
- Explosion - an occasion when something bursts with a lot of force and a loud noise, often causing damage
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Nowhere people: the Rohingya crisis"
- Nowhere - not in any place, or not to any place
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Resisting - to stop yourself from doing something that you would very much like to do
- Sympathy - a natural feeling of kindness and understanding that you have for someone who is experiencing something very unpleasant
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Fortnight - a period of two weeks
- Sustainable - using methods that do not harm the environment
- Abstain - to not do something that is likely to cause serious problems
- Humane - caring about the quality of people’s or animal’s lives and trying to be kind to them
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Deport - to send someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there
- Insensitivity - lack of concern for others' feelings
- Unfolding - to become more clear as details become known
- Rickety - in bad condition and therefore weak and likely to break
- Exodus - a situation in which a lot of people leave a place or activity at the same time
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Reprisal - something unpleasant that is done to punish an enemy or opponent because of something bad that they have done to you
- Mob - a large crowd of people that is dangerous or difficult to control
- Render - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Census - an occasion on which government officials count the people who live in a country and record other information about them
- Enumerate - to name things separately, one by one
- Irony - a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result
- Transition - a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which this happens
- Alienation - to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Victim - someone or something that has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness or chance
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Cleansing - to get rid of someone or something
- Deportation - to force someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law
- Perceive - to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something
- Sectarian - strongly supporting a particular religious group and not willing to accept other beliefs
- Stateless - a stateless person has no country that they officially belong to
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