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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Credit tangle: on LoU ban"
- Tangle - a situation that is difficult to deal with because things are not organized properly
- Omnibus - comprising several items
- Legitimate - allowed by the law, or correct according to the law
- Financial instrument - a financial asset that can be bought or sold, such as a bond, share, or other security (= an investment that can be traded)
- Letter of undertaking - a letter of undertaking is an assurance by one party to another party that they will fulfill the obligation that had been previously agreed on, but not written into a contract
- Come to light - if facts are brought to light or come to light, people discover them
- Transaction - the action or process of buying or selling something
- Firefighting - the activity of trying to solve a serious problem that suddenly happens by reacting quickly and effectively
- Unleash - to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Slip-up - a small mistake
- Swift - happening quickly or immediately
- Importer - a person, company, or country that brings goods into their country in order to sell them
- Parlance - a way of speaking or using words
- Expensive - something that is expensive costs a lot of money
- Letter of credit - a letter from a bank allowing the person who has it to take a particular amount of money from a bank in another country
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Delinquent - behaving in a way that is criminal or immoral
- Fiasco - a complete and embarrassing failure
- In cahoots - secretly involved with someone in a dishonest activity or plan
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Severe - very strict or extreme
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Liquidate - to close a business and sell everything that it owns, usually in order to pay money that is owed
- Eloquent - expressing what you mean using clear and effective language
- Neutral - not showing strong feelings or opinions in the way that you speak or behave
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Knee-jerk reaction - a knee-jerk reaction is immediate and not carefully considered
- Blame game - a situation in which people try to blame each other for something bad that has happened
- In same vein - continuing with something similar to what came before
- In accordance with - in a way that follows a rule, system
- Bona fide - a bona fide person or thing is really what they seem to be or what they claim to be
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rex Tillerson sacking: Rexit and beyond"
- Sacking - an act of forcing someone to leave their job
- Propriety - behaviour that follows accepted social or moral standards
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Hold sway - to be the main influence on people’s opinions or behaviour
- Diktat - an official rule that people are forced to obey
- Out of the blue - happening in a way that is sudden and unexpected, and does not seem connected with anything that happened before
- Allusion - a statement that refers to something in an indirect way
- Contra - against or opposite
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Defuse - to make a situation more relaxed by making people feel less angry or less worried
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Chasm - a very big difference that separates one person or group from another
- Hefty - large and heavy
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- White lie - a lie told to avoid making someone upset, not for your own advantage or in order to harm someone else
- Swirl - to move quickly in circles
- Oust - to remove someone from a position of power, especially in order to take that position
- Coterie - a small group of people who do things together
- Magnitude - great size, importance, or effect
- Alarm - fear or worry that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen
- Incessant - continuing for a long time without stopping in a way that is annoying
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Paradigm - a typical example or model of something
- Nationalistic - extremely proud of your own nation and believing that it is better than other nations
- Hawkish - preferring to deal with political problems by using military force instead of more peaceful methods
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Negotiating table - a time, place, or situation in which people discuss something in order to try to reach an agreement
- Insistent - saying very firmly that something must happen or that something is true
- Impediment - something that makes it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
- Quarrel - an argument, especially one about something unimportant between people who know each other well
- Numerous - existing in large numbers
- Vacant - if a job is vacant, someone is needed to do it
- Diplomat - an official whose job is to represent their government in a foreign country
- Concurrence - agreement between people
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Glean - to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty
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