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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Virtue of reticence: on Bipin Rawat’s comment about illegal immigration in Northeast"
- Virtue - a way of behaving in which you do what is morally right and avoid things that are morally wrong
- Reticence - unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Exercise - an action that has a particular plan, purpose, or result
- Restraint - the limit or control of the expression of strong emotion or opinion
- Inversion - a change that makes something the opposite of what it was before
- Demographics -the particular features of a population, for example people’s age or race
- Migration - movement from one region to another
- Keeping away - to avoid someone or something
- Stray - to start thinking or talking about a different subject from the one you should be giving attention to
- Acute - very serious or severe
- Warfare - the activity of fighting a war
- Reticent - not willing to provide information about something, especially about yourself or your feelings
- Self-restraint - the ability to control your feelings and stop yourself from doing things that are not right or sensible
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Scholarly - containing a serious, detailed study of a subject
- Retain - to keep or continue to have something
- Strife - fighting or disagreement between people or groups
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Inhibit - to make it difficult for a process to start or continue in a normal way
- Expedient - used for describing an action that produces an immediate result or solution to a problem, even though it may not be fair or honest
- Off-the-cuff - if you say something off-the-cuff, you do not plan it or think about it first
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Rejoinder - a quick reply, especially one that is clever or rude
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- At a fast clip - quickly
- Stray - to move away from the correct place or path
- Remit - a particular area of work that someone is responsible for
- Evoke - to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind
- Criticise - to say what you think is wrong or bad about something
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Canary in coal mine: on making coal mining private"
- Canary - a small yellow bird that is kept as a pet, known for its beautiful singing
- Coal mine -a place where coal is dug from under the ground
- Timely - happening at the most suitable time
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Predominantly - mainly, or mostly
- Nationalisation - if a government nationalizes a large company or industry, it takes control of it and owns it
- Monopoly - a company that has complete control of the product or service it provides because it is the only company that provides it
- Behemoth - someone or something that is very large, especially a company
- Colliery - a coal mine and the buildings around it
- Captive - controlled by an organization
- Account for something - to be the reason why something exists or happens
- Overdue - if something is overdue, it should have been done before now
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Aggressive - used about plans or methods that are designed to do everything possible to succeed
- Renewable - renewable energy and natural materials replace themselves by natural processes, so that they are never completely used up
- Significant - very important
- Surge - a sudden increase in something
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Keep pace with - to develop or progress at the same rate as something else
- Swiftly - quickly or immediately
- Inherit - to receive something
- Irregularity - a situation in which the rules, laws, or usual ways of doing things have not been followed
- Comptroller - someone whose job is to look after the financial aspects of an organization
- Auditor - someone whose job is to officially examine the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Ordinance - an official order by a government
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
- Evolve - to gradually develop particular physical features
- Abrupt - sudden and unexpected, often in an unpleasant way
- Disruption - a situation in which something cannot continue because of a problem
- Auctioning - a public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (= offers of money) for each thing, until the thing is sold to the person who will pay most
- Boost - to help something to increase, improve, or become more successful
- Integrity - the quality of always behaving according to the moral principles that you believe in, so that people respect and trust you
- Afford - if you can afford something you can do it without having to worry about it causing problems for you
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