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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A wider net: on the expanding tax base"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A wider net: on the expanding tax base"
- Expanding - to increase in size, number, or importance
- Indirect tax - a tax charged on goods before they reach their final buyer
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Advent - the fact of an event happening
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Triggered - to make something happen
- Surge - a sudden increase in something
- Stride - an important positive development
- Formalizing - to make something such as a plan, system, or agreement official
- Bias - a special interest or ability in a particular thing, or a particular tendency
- Assess - to carefully consider a situation, person, or problem in order to make a judgment
- Threshold - a level at which something happens
- Swell - to become larger than normal
- Exchequer - the government department responsible for a country’s financial matters
- Potential - someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, or succeed
- Glacial - extremely slow
- Tipping point - a time when important things start happening in a situation, especially things that you cannot change
- Reckon - to believe that something is true
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Chink - a small amount of a quality
- Macro-economic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Inertia - a situation in which something does not change for a long time
- Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
- Former - used for referring to the first of two people or things that you have mentioned
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Deter - to prevent someone from doing something
- Road map - a plan or set of instructions that makes it easier for someone to do something
- Pruning - to get rid of something that you do not need or want
- Blanket - including or affecting everything
- Exemption - permission to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Vocation - a trade or profession
- Proactive - taking action and making changes before they need to be made, rather than waiting until problems develop
- Evader - someone who avoids or escapes from something or someone
- Compliant - designed to follow a particular law, system, or set of instructions
- Slash - to reduce something by a large amount
- Duty - a tax that you must pay on something that you buy, or on something that you bring into one country from another country
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Siege of terror: on Afghanistan's growing security crisis"
- Siege - an attack
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Expose - to allow something that is usually covered or hidden to be seen
- Inability - the fact of not being able to do something
- Backer - someone who gives help or money to a plan or organization
- Claim - to say that someone’s actions are the cause of something,
- Intercontinental - between / related to continents
- Charity - an organization to which you give money so that it can give money and help to people who are poor or ill, or who need advice and support
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Destabilise - to cause problems for a country, government, or person in authority so that they become less effective
- Chaos - a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Cracking down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- War-torn - a war-torn country or place has been badly damaged by a war
- Enclave - an area of a country or city where a particular group of people live
- Orchestrate - to plan and organize a complicated event or course of action
- 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
- Firepower - the weapons available to use against an enemy
- Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
- Contrary - completely different or opposed to something else
- Stepping up - to incrase something
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Crises - plural of crisis (= a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering)
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Indiscriminate - done without considering who or what you harm or damage
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
- Outright - used for emphasizing that something happens or is done completely at one time or in a single process
- Unseat - to remove someone from a position of power
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Troop - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Logjam - a situation in which one problem is stopping anything else from being done
- Apparent - easy to see or understand
- Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
- Withholding - to refuse to give something or to keep back something
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Cohesive - combining well to form a strong well-organized unit
- Plague - to cause a lot of problems for someone or something for a long period of time
- Infighting - disagreements over who has power or control among the members of a group or organization
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen