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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Going grey: on Pakistan and the FATF watch list"
- Grey - not clear and therefore not easy to deal with
- Watch list - a list of companies, people, etc. whose activity is being closely examined to check that they are not doing something illegal
- Task Force - a group of people chosen to deal with a particular problem or situation
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Money-laundering - to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal businesses
- Overdue - if something is overdue, it should have been done before now
- Blatant - done in an obvious way that shows you are not embarrassed or ashamed to be doing something bad or illegal
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Crack down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Affiliated - to be officially connected with a larger organization or group
- Garner - to collect or obtain a large amount of something useful or important
- Claim - to say that something is yours
- Fortress - a strong well-protected building used for defending a place
- Turn a blind eye to something - to pretend you do not notice something, because you should do something about it but you do not want to
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Jeopardise - to risk damaging or destroying something important
- Disregard - the attitude of someone who does not respect something or consider it important
- Outcry - an angry expression of protest or shock by a lot of people
- Plenary - a plenary meeting is intended for all the people in a particular group
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Formidable - very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Outreach - the practice of providing help and advice to people in a community before they have to ask for it
- Significant - very important
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Negotiable - a proposal, agreement, or amount of money that is negotiable can be changed through discussion by the people involved before a final agreement is reached
- Set in stone - permanent and impossible to change
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Accountable - in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened
- Ratchet - to increase or decrease by small amounts during a period of time, or to make something do this
- Stricture - a limit to your freedom
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that something happens, especially that people obey a law or rule
- Bear fruit - to have a successful result
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "No discrimination: on health insurance in India"
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Revisit - to consider or discuss something again
- Exclusion - something that is deliberately not included
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that something must be done
- Uphold - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Manifestation - evidence that something exists or is present
- Genetic - relating to genes (a pattern of chemicals within a cell that carries information about the qualities passed to a living thing from its parents)
- Invariably - always, or almost always
- Plethora - a greater amount than you need or want
- Diminish - to make something become less
- Interpret - to explain the meaning of something
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Household - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
- Asymmetry - lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Enactment - the making of a law, or a particular act of making a law
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Uniformly - in a way that is the same in all cases and at all times
- Intent - the intention to do something
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