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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Revival risks: On economy woes"
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Woe - problems and worries
- Not out of the woods - used for saying that a situation is still difficult although it has improved
- Dispel - to get rid of unpleasant feelings or false beliefs
- Pall of - something such as smoke, dust, or cloud that covers an area and makes it darker
- Gloom - the feeling of having no hope
- Sovereign - an old unit of money in the form of a gold coin worth one pound
- Headwind - a wind that blows in the opposite direction to the one in which you are moving
- Fragile - easy to break or damage
- Restock - to replace goods that have been sold or used with a new supply of them
- Rollout - the introduction of a new product / service / law
- Robust - strong and successful
- Consumer durables - products such as cars, furniture, and electrical equipment that are expected to last for a long time
- Contract - to become smaller
- Stagnant - not growing or developing
- Moderate - neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength
- Coincide with - to happen at the same time as something else
- Slump - to be suddenly reduced to a much lower level
- Shipment - an amount of goods carried on a ship, plane, train, or truck
- Bear out - to show that something is true or that someone is telling the truth
- Spectre - the possibility of something unpleasant that might happen in the future
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Consumer - someone who buys and uses goods and services
- Quicken - if something quickens, or if you quicken it, it happens or moves more quickly
- Wane - to become weaker or less important
- Breach - to break a law, rule, agreement or limit
- Slash - to reduce something by a large amount
- Owing to - because of something
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Brexit - an exit (act of leaving) by the United Kingdom from the European Union (short for "British exit")
- Assert - to state firmly that something is true
- Adoption - the decision to use or accept a particular idea, method, law, or attitude
- House of Commons - the part of the parliament in the UK or Canada that consists of politicians who have been elected by the people
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Stinging - making you feel sore or uncomfortable
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Significance - the importance that something has because it affects other things
- Exaggerated - describing something in a way that makes it seem better, worse, larger, more important etc than it really is
- At stake - likely to be lost or damaged if something fails
- Liability - legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Oblige - to force someone to do something because it is the law, a rule, or a duty
- Accountable - in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened
- Sovereignty - the right to rule a country
- Prerogative - a right that a particular person or group has
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Plebiscite - a vote by everyone in a country about a very important issue
- Predominantly - mainly, or mostly
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Triggering - to make something happen
- Treaty - an official written agreement between two or more countries
- Upheld - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Pertaining to something - to be directly related to something
- Precise - exact and accurate
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Uneasy - an uneasy situation is not settled or calm, and it could quickly change and get worse
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Campaigner - someone who tries to achieve political or social change by persuading other people or the government to do something
- Populist - representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Slender - very small in degree and only just enough
- Nuance - a slight difference that may be difficult to notice but is fairly important
- Override - to be much more important than something else
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