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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A big broom — On crackdown on shell companies"
- Broom - a brush with a long handle, used for cleaning the floor
- Crackdown - a situation in which someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way
- Shell company - a company that is used to hide illegal activities
- Duly - in the way that you expect or think is suitable
- Name and shame - to publish embarrassing facts about a person or organization, especially in order to persuade them to change their behaviour or policies
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Disqualify - to not allow someone to do something because they have committed an offence
- Debar - to officially prevent someone from doing something
- Firm - a business or company
- Bona fide - a bona fide person or thing is really what they seem to be or what they claim to be
- Virtually - used for emphasizing that a statement is almost completely true
- Publicise - to make information about something generally available
- Fraught with - full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers
- Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Motive - the reason that you do something
- Cite - to mention something as an example, explanation, or proof of something else
- Laudable - deserving to be praised or admired
- Inadvertently - not deliberately, and without realizing what you are doing
- Taint - to make someone seem less honest, morally pure etc
- Appellate - relating to a legal appeal
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- Hastily - not well planned
- Sheer - used for emphasizing the amount or degree of something
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Diligence - the attitude or behaviour of someone who works very hard and very carefully
- Mala fide - illegal or dishonest
- Comply with - to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do
- Onus - the responsibility or duty to do something
- Subvert - to attack or harm a government or established system of law, politics etc
- Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Shortcoming - a fault or problem that makes someone or something less effective
- Malfeasance - illegal actions
- Entrepreneur - someone who uses money to start businesses and make business deals
- Chagrin - a feeling of being very annoyed, disappointed, or embarrassed
- Dissolve - if a group or organization dissolves, or if someone dissolves it, it stops existing
- Wind up - to end something
- Rigging - the act of organizing something in a dishonest way in order to produce a particular result
- Insider trading - the crime of buying or selling shares in a company using information that is available only to people working within that company
- Questionable - not good or honest
- Acute - very serious or severe
- Illiquidity - used to describe an asset that is not easy to sell and exchange for cash
- Oversight - something that you do not notice or think of that causes problems later
- Fraudster - someone who commits the crime of fraud
- Money launderer - someone who transforms the profits of crime and corruption into "legal" assets
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Deep-rooted a deep-rooted feeling, belief, idea etc is strong and you have had it for so long that it is difficult to change
- Malady - a serious problem within a society or organization
- Symptom - a sign of a larger problem
- Insolvency - the state of not having enough money to pay debts, buy goods, etc
- Bankruptcy - a situation in which a business or a person unable to pay what they owe
- Dissolve - if a group or organization dissolves, or if someone dissolves it, it stops existing
- Delist - to stop a company's shares being traded on the stock market
- Usher in - to make an activity or process begin
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Compliant - used to describe something that obeys a particular rule or law
- Stringent - strict
- Penal - relating to the punishment of criminals
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Nuclear deal in danger — on Trump's UNGA address"
- Tirade - a long angry speech criticizing someone or something
- Non-proliferation - a policy of preventing any increase in the number of chemical weapons that countries have
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Slam - to criticize someone or something severely
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Put to rest - to finally show that something is not true
- Embarrassment - a feeling of being nervous or ashamed because of what people know or think about you
- Unsurprisingly - in a way that you expected
- Trigger - to cause someone to have a particular feeling
- Ignorant - not knowing something that you should know or need to know
- Medieval - very old-fashioned
- Consistent - not changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Pragmatism - a practical way of thinking or dealing with problems that emphasizes results and solutions more than theories
- Aberration - something that is not normal or not what you would usually expect
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Theocratic - relating to or denoting a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Unravel - if a process or project unravels, it begins to fail
- Forge - to develop a successful relationship, especially in business or politics, with another country, organization, or person
- Intense - very great or extreme
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Signatory - a person or organization that has signed an official agreement
- Shortcoming - a fault or problem that makes someone or something less effective
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Irresolvable - (of a problem or dilemma) impossible to solve or settle
- Compliant - too willing to do what other people want or too willing to accept their opinions
- Pursuing - to try to achieve something
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Contrary - completely different or opposed to something else
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Diplomacy - the ability to deal with people in a sensitive way that does not upset or offend them
- Hard-line - extreme and severe and not likely to change
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Non-proliferation - the prevention of an increase or spread of something, especially the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
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ReplyDeleteKani thanks...do u know abt Hindustan times editorial vocab..? If u know thn reply..
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