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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A deeper malady: on PNB fraud case"
- Malady - a serious problem within a society or organization
- Fraud - the crime of obtaining money from someone by tricking them
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Breakdown - a situation in which something has failed or is beginning to fail
- Supervisory - having or relating to the role of observing and directing an activity or a person
- Barely - used for emphasizing that something happened only a very short time before something else
- Scam - a dishonest plan, especially for getting money
- Wilful - done deliberately in order to cause damage or harm
- Default - to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that you legally have to do
- Surface - to become known or obvious after being hidden
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Consortium - an organization of several businesses or banks joining together as a group for a shared purpose
- Siphon off - to move money from one bank account to another, especially illegally or dishonestly
- Disburse - to pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose
- Avail - to obtain or use something
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Complicit - involved in or knowing about something bad that happens
- Remedial - intended to improve or correct something
- Bypass - to avoid dealing with someone or something
- Tier - one of several levels in an organization or system
- Malfeasance - illegal actions
- In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Oblivious - not noticing something, or not knowing about it
- Unconscionable - morally unacceptable
- Determine - to officially decide something
- Vested with something - officially able to do something
- Keep an eye on - to look after someone or something
- Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
- Corrective action - corrective action is intended to make a bad situation better
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Infuse - to give someone or something a particular quality
- Professionalism - the qualities and skills that someone with a professional job is expected to have
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Empowering - to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Lapse - a short or temporary period when you fail or forget to do something in the right way
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Salutary - causing improvement of behaviour or character
- Otherwise - used after an order or suggestion to show what the result will be if you do not follow that order or suggestion
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The value of life: on U.S. gun ownership regulation"
- Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
- Mass - a large quantity or number
- Campaigning - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Bring about - to make something happen, especially to cause changes in a situation
- Common-sense - the ability to use good judgment and make sensible decisions
- Survivor - someone or something that still exists after an event that could have killed or destroyed them
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- Applaud - to praise a decision, action, idea etc
- Undaunted - determined and not afraid to continue doing something, even though it might be difficult
- Lethal - very dangerous and able to kill you
- Overlaid with something - something that is overlaid with something has a particular quality added to it that influences its character
- Myriad - a very large number of something
- Devastating - causing a lot of harm or damage
- Tearful - crying, or feeling as if you want to cry
- Moot - to suggest something as a subject for discussion
- See off - to deal successfully with someone or something
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Parting gift - a gift given when someone is leaving
- Loophole - something that has been left out of a law or legal document that people can use to avoid obeying it
- Nullify - to make something lose its legal effect
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Lobby - to try to persuade a politician, the government, or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Prioritise - to decide in what order you should do things, based on how important or urgent they are
- Sizeable - fairly large
- A drop in the ocean - a very small amount that will not have much effect
- Immense - extremely large
- Mobilise - if you mobilize a group of people, or if they mobilize, they come together in order to achieve something
- Tyranny - cruel and unfair treatment by someone in a position of power
- Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
- Racial - relating to someone’s race
- Diversity - the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place
- Baseline - a quantity, value, or fact used as a standard for measuring other quantities, values, or facts
- At heart - used for saying what someone’s basic character is
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Juncture - a stage in a process or activity
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