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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Citizen count: on Assam's draft NRC"
- Draft - something such as a plan, letter, or drawing that may have changes made to it before it is finished
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Prod - to persuade or encourage someone to do something
- Unrelenting - used for describing someone who continues to do something with a lot of determination
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Panic - a sudden strong feeling of fear or worry that makes you unable to think clearly or calmly
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Contour - the shape of the outside edge of something
- Consolidate - to combine several small things, especially companies or organizations, into one large unit
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Contestation - the act of arguing or disagreeing about something
- Vexed - full of difficulties
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Agitation - an attempt to cause social or political changes by arguing or protesting, or through other activities
- Roil - to seriously disturb; to throw into confusion
- Expulsion - an occasion when someone is officially forced to leave an organization or activity permanently because of their bad behaviour
- Alien - someone who is not a citizen of the country they are living in
- Propel - to cause someone to do a particular thing or to cause something to happen
- Debatable - something that is debatable is not certain because it is possible for people to have different opinions about it
- Turn a blind eye - to pretend you do not notice something, because you should do something about it but you do not want to
- Cultivate - to grow crops or plants, especially in large quantities
- Cut-and-dried - if something is cut and dried, it is already clearly decided or settled
- Elapsed - passed
- Sneak - to go somewhere secretly, or to take someone or something somewhere secretly
- Confine - to exist only in a particular area or group of people
- Daunting - something that is daunting makes you worried because you think that it will be very difficult or dangerous to do
- Deportation - to force someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law
- Treaty - an official written agreement between two or more countries
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Manifesto - a formal statement expressing the aims and plans of a group or organization, especially a political party
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Denominational - relating to a particular religious group
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Transparent - simple, clear, and easy to understand
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Aid - money, food, or other help that an organization or government gives to a country or area where people need i
- Withhold - to deliberately not give something to someone
- Downgrade - to treat something in a way that shows that you think it is now less important than it was
- Ambassador - a senior official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country there
- Harbouring - to protect someone who has done something wrong
- Troops - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Temperate - not extreme in behaviour or language
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Deceit - dishonest behaviour that is intended to trick someone
- Convene - to arrange a formal meeting, or to gather for a meeting
- Outlay - an amount of money spent for a particular purpose
- Tranche - a part of an amount or total, especially a sum of money
- Alarming - frightening or worrying
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Ultimatum - a statement that orders someone to do something and threatens to punish or attack them if they do not
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen
- Mindful - careful about or conscious of something
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Bilateral - a bilateral agreement or activity is one that involves two groups or countries
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Ensnare - to trick someone in an unpleasant way and get control of them
- Triangulate - the method of using other people’s opinions about something to help you to decide what your opinion is
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