English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Dual duty: on the twin responsibilities of States"
- Free speech - the legal or natural right to say what you believe is true, without being prevented or punished
- Prohibit - to officially stop something from being done, especially by making it illegal
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Reiteration - the action of repeating something, typically for emphasis or clarity
- Violate - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Enshrine - to officially record something such as an idea or principle in a document so that it cannot be ignored
- Constitution - a set of basic laws or principles for a country that describe the rights and duties of its citizens and the way in which it is governed
- Subject to something - depending on whether something happens
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Intimidation - the action of deliberately making someone feel frightened
- Oblique - not expressing something directly
- Stifle - to stop something from developing normally
- Apprehension - a feeling of worry or fear that something bad might happen
- Invoking - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Veto - to officially refuse to approve or allow something
- Statutory - controlled by a law or statute
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Denude - to remove the covering of something
- Interim - temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists
- Paves the way - if something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Tantamount - to have the same bad qualities or effect as something else
- Negation - the opposite of something
- Intimidation - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Medieval - very old-fashioned
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Protestor - someone who shows that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Accuracy - the fact of being exact or correct
- Mere - only / just
- Pretext - a pretended reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason
- Offensive - unpleasant or insulting, and likely to make people upset or embarrassed
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Three States: election in a changing political landscape"
- Landscape - the main features of a situation or activity
- Significance - the importance that something has because it affects other things
- Turnout - the number of voters in an election
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
- Indices - a plural of index
- Infant - a baby, or a very young child
- Mortality rate - death rate
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Agrarian - relating to or involving farming or farmers
- Reign - a period of time during which a particular person, group, or thing is very important or a powerful influence
- Tribal - relating to or belonging to a tribe
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Underside - a bad aspect of something, that people do not usually see or talk about
- Diversification - the process of developing new products or business activities
- Inasmuch as - used for adding a comment that explains or makes clearer what you have just said
- Wooing - to try to persuade someone to support you
- Indigenous - indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there
- Carve out - to develop a career or position for yourself by working hard
- Oust - to remove someone from a position of power, especially in order to take that position
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Factional - involving small groups in a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- Rupture - an end to a friendly relationship or to a peaceful situation
- Apex - the most important or successful part of something
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
- Loom large - to have a lot of importance or influence over someone or something
- Uninterrupted - continuous
- Hard-selling - the act of trying to persuade someone in a forceful and annoying way to buy or do something
- Leaving no stone unturned - to do everything possible to solve a problem or to find something out
- Barometer - something that shows how a situation is changing or how people feel about something
