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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Death of an activist: on Gauri Lankesh"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Death of an activist: on Gauri Lankesh"
- Activist - someone who takes part in activities that are intended to achieve political or social change
- Embolden - to give someone more confidence to do something
- Stifle - to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Fool’s game - an effort that is unlikely to be successful
- Hazard - something that could be dangerous or could cause damage or accidents
- Brutally - in extremely violent way
- Point-blank - with the gun held very close to the person who is shot
- Temple - the flat area on either side of your forehead next to your eyes
- Hallmark - a typical feature
- Pre-meditated - a premeditated crime, bad action, unpleasant remark etc has been deliberately planned
- Assassination - the murder of a famous or important person, especially for political reasons
- Draw attention - to make people notice
- Constituency - a group of people with similar attitudes or interests who are likely to support a particular idea
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Consciousness - the knowledge or understanding that something exists or is important
- Creeping - happening very slowly so that people do not notice
- Progressive - supporting social and political change that aims to make a system fairer
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Tabloid - a newspaper with fairly small pages mostly containing stories about famous people and not much serious news
- Intensely - to an extreme degree
- Mourn - to feel extremely sad because someone has died, and to express this in public
- Rationalist - someone who believes that ideas and actions should be based on practical reasons and knowledge, rather than on emotions or religious beliefs
- High-profile - often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appearing on television
- Transcend - to become free of negative attitudes, thoughts, or feelings that limit what you can achieve
- Formidable - causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, or difficult
- Howsoever - showing how a sentence is related to what has already been said
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
- Complainant - in a court of law, the person who has asked the court to judge their case
- Sniffing around - to try to find out information
- Eventual - happening or existing at the end of a process or period of time
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Defenceless - weak and unable to protect yourself
- Expeditiously - with speed and efficiency
- Embolden - to give someone more confidence to do something
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Reassurance - the act of making someone feel less worried about something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Mountains of garbage: India's neglected waste management crisis"
- Garbage - waste material or unwanted things that you throw away
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Ignore - to not consider something
- Notify - to inform someone officially about something
- Collapse - if a building or other structure collapses, it suddenly falls down
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Comply with - act in accordance with a wish or command.
- Stipulation - to say exactly how something must be or must be done
- Segregation - to keep one thing separate from another
- Potential - possible or likely in the future
- Extraction - the process of removing something
- Recycle - to change waste materials such as newspapers and bottles so that they can be used again
- Quantum - the smallest amount or unit of something
- Concurrent - happening or done at the same time
- Stakeholder - someone who has an interest in the success of a plan, system, or organization
- Discard / Dump - to get rid of something that you no longer want or need
- Compost - a mixture of decaying plants and vegetables that is added to soil to improve its quality
- Ironic - the opposite of what you really think
- Stiff - more severe or difficult than usual
- Flimsy - light
- Suburban - an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live
- Paradigm - a typical example or model of something
- Demonstrable - clear or obvious
- Segregated - separated
- Periodic - happening regularly though not frequently
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Preparedness - the state of being ready for something
- Run-up - to make something very quickly
- Rigorous - strict and careful
- Merely - only / just
- Fester - starts to decay and smell bad
- Choke - to fill a place so that it is difficult to move
- Threatened - to be likely to be affected by something bad
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ReplyDelete*Hazard(verb) = say (something) in a tentative way
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