English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Countering hate — on murder of migrant worker in Rajasthan"
- Countering - to take action in order to oppose or stop something or reduce its negative effects
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Swiftly - quickly or immediately
- Prosecute - to officially accuse someone of a crime and ask a court of law to judge them
- Explicitly - in an extremely clear and direct way
- Denounce - to criticize someone or something severely in public
- Back-story - an account of the events leading up to what is being written about now
- Ranting - to complain or talk loudly and angrily for a long time, sometimes saying unreasonable things
- Ramble - to talk for a long time in a confused way, especially about other things instead of the subject that you should be talking about
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Of unsound mind - mentally ill at the time of committing a crime
- Subscribe to - to agree with an idea
- Majoritarian - governed by or believing in decision by a majority
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Isolated - feeling alone and unhappy, with no friends to support you
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Bring someone to book - to punish someone
- Hate crimes - a crime that is done by someone because they hate the group that the victim (=person who is attacked) belongs to
- Provoke - to deliberately try to make someone angry
- Enforce - happening because of a situation that you cannot control or prevent
- Post-hoc - occurring or done after the event
- Grisly - involving death or violence in a shocking way
- Denounce - to criticize someone or something severely in public
- Heinousness - extremely evilness
- Venality - quality of being open to bribery or overly motivated by money
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Handiwork - used in an angry way for referring to something bad that someone has done
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Polarised - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Perverse - determined to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by doing the opposite of what is expected or wanted
- Unambiguous - expressed in a way that makes it completely clear what is meant
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rights & wrongs — on Transgender Persons Bill"
- Transgender - relating to people whose sexual identity does not match traditionally accepted male and female genders
- Draft - something such as a plan, letter, or drawing that may have changes made to it before it is finished
- Travesty - a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it should be or because it seems very unfair
- Avowed - publicly claimed or promised
- Brush aside - to refuse to accept that something is important or true
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Entitle - to give someone the right to do or have something
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Accord - to treat someone specially, usually by showing respect
- Violate - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Binary - consisting of two parts
- Benevolent - willing to help and be generous towards people
- Marginalise - to treat someone or something as if they are not important
- Autonomy - the power to make your own decisions
- Divergent - things that are divergent are different from each other
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
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