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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "For a clean judiciary: the importance of in-house mechanisms"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "For a clean judiciary: the importance of in-house mechanisms"
- Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
- In-house - done, working, or happening inside a company or organization
- Impropriety - behaviour that is not honest, professional, or socially acceptable
- Violate - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Restraining order - a legal document from a judge that stops someone from doing something
- Apex - the top / most important part of something
- Memorial - something created to honour someone who has died
- Propriety - behaviour that follows accepted social or moral standards
- Conduct - behaviour
- Substance - the fact that something is based on accurate information
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Deviate - to start doing something different from what is expected or agreed
- Tender - to formally offer something, usually in writing
- Ignominy - a situation where you feel embarrassed and lose other people’s respect
- Impeach - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job
- Pave the way for something - if something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
- Middlemen - someone who communicates or makes arrangements between two people or groups who are unwilling or unable to meet or deal directly with each other
- Favourable - giving someone or something an advantage or a benefit
- Climactic event - a climactic event, moment etc is the most exciting or important one in a series
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Departed - to not use the usual way of doing something
- Convention - a way of behaving that is generally accepted as being normal and right
- Roster - a list of people’s names that shows when each of them must work and what they have to do
- Sobering - making you think about things in a serious way
- Cleanse - to get rid of someone or something bad or unpleasant
- Unwarranted - not fair or necessary
- Onslaught - an attack
- Elaborate - used about something that is more complicated than is practical or necessary
- Cumbersome - not simple, fast, or effective enough and difficult or annoying to use
- Hasten - to make something happen sooner or more quickly
- Flagrant - done in an obvious way that shows you do not care if you break rules or offend people
- Misuse - to use something in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Undoubtedly - used for saying that something is certainly true or is accepted by everyone
- Fight shy of something - if you fight shy of something, you do not feel willing to do it because it might cause problems for you
- Integrity - the quality of behaving according to the rules and standards of your job or profession
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A year of Trump: how much has changed in the past year ?"
- Chalk something up - to score points, or to achieve success
- Unwavering - strong and steady despite opposition or other problems
- Eschew - to avoid doing something
- Provocative - intended to start arguments between people or to make people angry or upset
- Lash out - to criticize someone or something angrily
- Democrat - someone who supports democracy as a political system
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Shutdown - an occasion when something stops working temporarily
- Teleprompter - a machine that projects a television performer's script onto a screen that is hidden from the camera
- Generous - giving people more of your time or money than is usual or expected
- Bipartisanship - the fact of two political parties that usually oppose each other agreeing or working together
- Policymaking - the activity of deciding on new policies, especially by a government or political party
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Strikingly - in a way that attracts attention by reason of being unusual, extreme, or prominent.
- Prospective - likely to be or become a particular thing
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Vow - to promise that you will do something
- Vet - make a careful and critical examination of (something).
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Stepped up - increased in amount or strength
- Divergence - a difference in the way that two or more things develop from the same thing
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Stark - extreme and obvious
- Inaugural speech - an inaugural speech is one made by someone to celebrate the start of an important new job
- Carnage - a situation that is difficult or full of problems
- Intervening - happening between two events or times
- Adherence - the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- Revoke - to officially say that something is no longer legal, for example a law or a document
- Throwaway - a throwaway remark, comment etc is something that you say suddenly and without thinking carefully about it
- Hawk - a politician who prefers using military force to more peaceful methods
- Sought-after - wanted by many people but not easy to get
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently and the rules that control it
- Mirage - something that seems to be real or true but is not really so
