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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Shifting goal posts: Demonetisation has totally failed to curb black money"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Shifting goal posts: Demonetisation has totally failed to curb black money"
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Professed - used for describing something that you claim to be true but that is possibly false
- Legal tender - the money that is officially used in a country
- Unequivocal - clear, definite, and without doubt
- Assert - to speak or behave in a firm, confident way
- Hoard - to get and keep a large amount of something because it might be valuable or useful later
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Windfall - an amount of money that you get when you are not expecting it, especially a large amount
- Scrap - to decide not to continue with something
- Liability - legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something
- Dividend - a share of the profits
- Extinguish - to stop a feeling or idea from continuing to exist
- Piffling - small and not important
- Confiscation - the action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority
- Disingenuous - not really honest or sincere, and only pretending to be
- Rationale - the set of reasons that something such as a plan or belief is based on
- Stop-go - happening or developing in a way that is not continuous
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Fathom - to understand someone or why someone acts as they do
- For instance - for exmaple
- Amnesty - a situation in which a government agrees not to punish, or to no longer punish, people who have committed a particular crime
- Dissuade - to persuade someone not to do something
- Spin-off - something good that happens unexpectedly as a result of something else
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Reliance - the state of depending on a particular person or thing
- Launder - conceal the origins of the money obtained illegally, by transfers involving foreign banks
- All in all - used for showing that you are considering every aspect of something
- Bestow - to give something (valuable)
Hindu Editorial Topic2 : "Ray of hope: bandh suspended in the Darjeeling hills"
- Ray of hope - a very small sign that something might improve or succeed
- Reciprocate - to behave in the same way as someone else
- Indefinite - without clear limits
- Paralyse - completely unable to operate normally or effectively
- Adjoining - near, next to, or touching
- Impasse - a situation in which progress is impossible, especially because the people involved cannot agree
- Ice-breaker - something that you say or do to make people feel more relaxed
- Reiterate - to say something again, once or several times
- Heartening - making you feel happier and more positive
- Breakthrough - an important or event that helps to improve a situation
- Solidarity - agreement between and support for the members of a group, especially a political group
- Mitigate - to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Consolidate - to become, or cause something to become, stronger, and more certain
- Tap into something - to manage to use something in a way that brings good results
- Chauvinism - the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important
- Unrest - disagreements or fighting between different groups of people
- Lion’s share - the largest part or most of something
- Balk - to be unwilling to do something or to allow something to happen
- Sympathise - to understand and care about someone's problems
- Notwithstanding - despite the fact or thing mentioned
- Longstanding - having existed for a long time
- Legitimate - reasonable and acceptable
- Grievance - a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Statehood - the condition of being a country or a part of a large country that has its own government
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Chunk - a part of something
- Agitation - worry and anxiety
- Autonomous - independent and having the power to make your own decisions
- Substantive - important, serious, or related to real facts
- Decentralisation - to move the control of an organization or government from a single place to several smaller ones
- Lackadaisical - showing little enthusiasm and effort
- Substantive - important, serious, or related to real facts
- Empowerment - authority or power given to someone to do something
- Devolution - the moving of power or responsibility from a main organization to a lower level, or from a central government to a local government
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