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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 26th November 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Messy fix: the amended insolvency code"
- Messy - complicated, difficult, and unpleasant to deal with
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Insolvency - a situation in which a company or person does not have enough money to pay what they owe
- Bankruptcy - a situation in which a person or business has officially admitted that they have no money and cannot pay what they owe
- Ordinance - an official order by a government
- Significantly - in a way that is easy to see or by a large amount
- Preamble - an introduction to a document, speech, or report explaining its purpose
- Antecedent - something that happened or existed before something else
- Adversely - in a dangerous, harmful way
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Deem - to consider that someone or something has a particular quality
- Creditor - a person or company that is owed money by another person or company
- Nub - the most basic or essential part of something
- Quibble - to argue or complain about something that is not important
- Unscrupulous - willing to do things that are unfair, dishonest, or illegal
- Wilful defaulter - an entity or a person that has not paid the loan back despite the ability to repay it
- Germane - relevant to a subject that is being discussed
- Mere - only / just
- Liquidation - a situation in which a business closes and sells everything it owns in order to pay money that it owes
- Framework - a system of rules, laws, agreements etc that establish the way that something operates in business, politics, or society
- Entrepreneurship - skill in starting new businesses, especially when this involves seeing new opportunities
- Non-performing asset - loan or advance for which the principal or interest payment remained overdue for a period of 90 days
- Mala fide - illegal or dishonest
- Unpredictable - changing often, in a way that is impossible to prepare for
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- For instance - for example
- Downturn - a reduction in economic or business activity
- Debt-laden - owing a lot of money or involving a lot of debt
- Retrospective - relating to or considering things that happened in the past
- Unintentional - not deliberate or planned
- Throwing the baby out with the bathwater - to discard something valuable or important while disposing of something worthless
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Desert storm: the chaos in Egypt"
- Chaos - a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess
- Counter-terror task - something you do to prevent terrorism
- Murderous - likely to kill someone, or intending to kill someone
- Grim - unpleasant, makes you feel upset and worried
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Brutish - violent and cruel
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Assault - a physical attack on someone, or the crime of physically attacking someone
- Devotee - someone who follows a particular religion or religious leader
- Coup - an occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force
- Raised the stakes - to increase the amount of something
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Sect - a religious group whose beliefs are different from the beliefs of an established religion, usually in a way that most people do not approve of
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Formidable - very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with
- Daunting - something that is daunting makes you worried because you think that it will be very difficult or dangerous to do
- Disrupt - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Terrain - an area of land
- Grievance - a complaint about being treated in an unfair way
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