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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sabre-rattling: on the crisis in the Korean peninsula"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sabre-rattling: on the crisis in the Korean peninsula"
- Sabre-rattling -a threat of violence or military action
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Escalate - to increase, especially at a fast rate that causes problems
- De-escalate - to decrease
- Adventurism - a way of managing a business, government, or the armed forces that is considered dangerous and might have negative results
- Unabated - unable to be stopped or controlled
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Cocking a snook at somebody / something - to do something intentionally to show you have no respect for someone or something
- Proliferation - a sudden increase in number or amount
- Condemnation - a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Ratchet up something - to increase something in controlled stages over a period of time
- Appeasement - the action of satisfying the demands an aggressive person, country, or organization
- Totalitarian - controlling a country and its people in a very strict way, without allowing opposition from another political party
- Provocative - intended to start arguments between people or to make people angry or upset
- Attain - to succeed in achieving something, especially after a lot of effort
- De facto - actual, even though not official
- Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Enhance - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Ploy - a way of tricking or confusing someone in order to get an advantage or to make them do what you want
- Impoverished - something that is impoverished has become worse in quality
- Isolated - used about countries and organizations that others refuse to deal with
- Citizenry - the citizens of a particular place considered as a group
- Myth - something that people wrongly believe to be true
- Unpalatable - unpleasant to think about or accept
- Escalation - an increase in the intensity or seriousness of something
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Dictatorship - government by someone who takes power by force and does not allow elections
- Drastic - a drastic action or change has a very big effect
- Cripple - to damage something severely, or to prevent it from working properly
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event
- Beleaguered - having a lot of problems or criticism to deal with
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Trigger - to make something happen
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Down but not out: on the failed PSLV launch attempt"
- Navigation - the movement of a ship or an aircraft along a planned path
- Unlikely - not likely to happen
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Child’s play - something that can be done very easily
- Workhorse - a very useful piece of equipment that you use a lot
- Respective - belonging separately to each of two or more people or things previously mentioned
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Lift-off - when an aircraft or space vehicle lifts off, it goes up from the ground into the air
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Pivotal - extremely important and affecting how something develops
- Enviable - an enviable quality or situation is one that other people admire and would like to have as well
- Minor - not very important in comparison with people or things of the same type
- Altitude - the height of a place or thing above sea level (=the surface of the sea)
- Utmost - as much as possible
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Anomaly - something unusual, unexpected, or different from what normally happens
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Disheartening - making you less confident or enthusiastic
- Consortium - a group of companies or people with similar interests or aims who have agreed to work together
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place
- Encrypt - to put information into code (=a system of words, numbers, or symbols that hides its real meaning)
- Accurate - correct or true in every detail
- Self-reliant - able to do things for yourself and not depend on other people
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