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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 10th September 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Search for quality: on credit rating agencies"
- Credit rating - financial information about someone that a bank or shop uses for deciding whether to lend them money or to give them credit
- Propose - to suggest a plan, idea, or action
- Tighten the screws - to put more pressure on someone to do something
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- Feedback - comments about how well or how badly someone is doing something, which are intended to help them do it better
- Enhance - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Mandate - an official order to do something
- Disclosure - the process of giving information to people, especially information that was secret
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Spin-off - to create something new based on something else that already exists
- Non-core - a non-core activity, business, etc. is one that a company does not really need or consider the most important
- Spelt out - to say or explain something very clearly because someone has not understood something
- Predominant - most important or powerful
- Apart from - except for someone or something
- Resorting to - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Collusion - the secret activities of people who work together to do something dishonest
- In line with - similar to someone or something
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Default - to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that you legally have to do
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Plague - harmful
- Allow room for - the possibility for something to exist or happen
- Considerable - large in size, amount, or degree
- Prudential - careful and avoiding risks
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Reputational - relating to the opinion that people in general have about someone or something
- Peril - danger
- Crises - urgent, difficult, or dangerous situations
- Oligopolistic - a situation in which a small number of organizations or companies has control of an area of business, so that others have no share
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Creditor - a person or company that is owed money by another person or company
- Borrower - someone who borrows money from a bank
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Spanish steps: on the Catalan secession referendum"
- Catalan - a language that people speak in parts of the north-east of Spain
- Secession - the act of leaving an organization or government, esp. the decision of a state to separate from the government
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Calibrate - to check something to see if it is accurate
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Full-blown - in its most complete and developed form
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Legislature - the part of government that makes and changes laws
- Consistent with - containing statements or ideas that are similar or that have the same aim
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Self-determination - the freedom of the people in a country to choose their own government and not be controlled by another country
- Turnout - the number of voters in an election
- In turn - as a result of something that is part of a connected series of events
- Cautioned - warned
- Plebiscite - a vote by everyone in a country about a very important issue
- Unconstitutional - not allowed or not legal according to the constitution (=set of official rules or principles) of a particular country or organization
- Swiftly - quickly
- Confrontation - a situation in which people or groups are arguing angrily or are fighting
- Imminent - likely or certain to happen very soon
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Confer - to give something such as authority, a legal right, or an honour to someone
- Province - one of many areas into which some countries are divided
- Awkward - difficult to deal with and embarrassing
- Dire - very severe or serious
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Expenditure - money spent by a government, organization, or person
- Separatist - a member of a group of people who want to be independent of a national, religious, or other group to which they belong
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Defiant - refusing to obey a person or rule
- Consolidation - the action or process of making something stronger or more solid
- Reportedly - used for showing that you are not certain that something you are reporting is true
- Invalidate - to make something such as a document, contract, or process no longer legally effective
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Confiscation - the action of taking or seizing something with authority
- Ballot box - a box in which you put your ballot paper after you have voted
- Undoubtedly - used for saying that something is certainly true or is accepted by everyone
- Secessionist - favouring formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
- Carte blanche - the freedom to do what you want in a particular situation
- Embarrassment - a feeling of being nervous or ashamed because of what people know or think about you
- Overt - not hidden or secret
- Obstruction - to prevent something from happening
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Affluent - having a lot of money or owning a lot of things
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Statute - a law passed by a government and formally written down
- Autonomy - a situation in which a state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Apportion - to divide something
- Austerity - an economic policy by which a government reduces the amount of money it spends by a large amount
- Eurozone - the group of European Union states that use the euro as their official currency
- Tap into - to understand and express something such as people’s beliefs or attitudes
- Conciliatory - trying to end an argument and make people feel less angry
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Upsurge - a sudden increase in something
- Separatism - the practice of separation of a certain group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender
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