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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 11th March 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A welcome quietus: on Hadiya case verdict"
- Quietus - an end to something, usually something unpleasant
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Unjustified - not fair, or not based on any good reason
- Curious - unusual and interesting
- Muddle - a confused situation or condition
- Annull - to state officially that something such as a marriage, an agreement, or an election has no legal authority
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Ruse - a plan or trick used for hiding your true intentions
- Scuttle - to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape
- Habeas corpus - a judge’s order to bring a prisoner into court so that the court can decide whether the prisoner should stay in prison or not
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Indoctrinate - to teach someone a set of beliefs so thoroughly that they do not accept any other ideas
- Brainwash - to force someone to accept a particular set of beliefs by repeating the same idea many times so that the person cannot think in an independent way
- Embrace - to completely accept something such as a new belief, idea, or way of life
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Confinement - a situation in which someone is forced to stay in a place and not allowed to leave
- Categorical - clear and definite about what you mean
- Invalidate - to make something such as a document, contract, or process no longer legally effective
- Writ - an official document that tells someone to do something or to stop doing something
- Jurisdiction - the right or power to make legal decisions
- Unjustified - not fair, or not based on any good reason
- Curtail - to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something
- Apex - the top or highest part of something that ends in a point
- Custody - the protection or care of someone or something
- Homoeopathy - a way of treating illness by giving small amounts of natural substances that in large amounts would cause the illness
- Amid - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Radical - a radical person or group believes that important political or social changes are necessary
- Veracity - truth, or honesty
- Sham - something that people pretend is good, serious, or honest but is really not
- Vulnerable - weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Primacy - the fact of being more powerful or important than anything else
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Ordeal - an extremely unpleasant experience, especially one that lasts for a long time
- Disquieting - making you feel very worried or nervous
- Volition - the power or ability to decide something by yourself and to take action to get what you want
- Autonomy - the power to make your own decisions
- Curtail - to reduce or limit something
- Impede - to make it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
- Sway - to influence or change someone’s opinion
- Mere - only / just
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Saving Ghouta"
- Evacuate - to leave a building or other place because it is not safe
- Reach out - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people
- Besiege - to surround a place with an army and prevent the people there from getting food and supplies, as a way of getting control of it
- Enclave - an area of a country or city where a particular group of people live
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Formerly - in the past
- Province - one of many areas into which some countries are divided
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Bombardment - an attack on a place made by dropping bombs from planes or by firing large guns for a long time
- Apocalypse - a time when the whole world will be destroyed
- Backer - someone who gives help or money to a plan or organization
- Unanimous - a unanimous decision, vote, agreement etc is one that everyone agrees with and supports
- Ceasefire - an agreement to stop fighting for a period of time, especially in order to discuss permanent peace
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Eerie - strange and mysterious, and sometimes frightening
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Endanger - to put someone or something into a situation where they might be harmed or damaged
- The sooner the better - used for saying that you want something to be as soon/big/quick etc as possible
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