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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Fear of forfeiture: on the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Fear of forfeiture: on the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill"
- Forfeiture - the loss of rights, property, or money, especially as a result of breaking a legal agreement
- Fugitive - someone who has done something illegal and is trying to avoid being caught by the police
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Confiscation - the action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority; seizure
- Apparent - easy to see or understand
- Flee - to escape from a dangerous situation or place very quickly
- Cock a snook at somebody / something - to do something intentionally to show you have no respect for someone or something
- Disquiet - a feeling of being very worried or nervous
- Fraudster - someone who commits the crime of fraud
- Clime - a place where the weather is different in a particular way
- Slim - very small
- Deterrent - something that makes people decide not to do something by making them realize that something unpleasant could happen to them
- Incentive - something that makes you want to do something
- Inadequate - not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
- Shortcoming - a fault or problem that makes someone or something less effective
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Evade - to avoid accepting or dealing with something that you should do
- Abroad - in or to a foreign country
- Proclaim - to announce something publicly or officially
- Trafficker - the business of buying and selling things such as drugs or weapons illegally
- Narcotic - any illegal drug, especially one that is addictive (=that someone depends on)
- Proceeding - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Draconian - extremely strict and severe
- Manipulator - someone who influences people in a clever or dishonest way
- Disposal - the process of getting rid of something
- Recoup - to get back money that you have invested or lost
- Pay off - to give someone all the money that you have borrowed from them
- Creditor - a person or company that is owed money by another person or company
- Proceeds - money that a person or organization makes from selling or winning something, or from organizing an event or activity
- Benami - made, held, done, or transacted in the name of (another person)
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that something must be done
- Liable for - if someone is liable for something, they must pay it or must do it
- Infirmity - weakness
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Enshrine - to officially record something such as an idea or principle in a document so that it cannot be ignored
- Ratify - to make an agreement official by signing it or formally accepting it
- Convention - a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Impartial - not connected to or influenced by one particular person or group
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Transition trouble: on the emergency in Ethiopia"
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Emergency - an unexpected situation involving danger in which immediate action is necessary
- Autocratic - ruling with complete power
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Treason - the crime of helping your country’s enemies or of trying to destroy your country’s government
- Condemnation - a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
- Reconciliation - a new and friendly relationship with someone who you argued with or fought with
- Usher in - to make an activity or process begin
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Repression - the use of force or violence to control people
- Quell - to get rid of unpleasant thoughts or feelings, or to prevent them from becoming stronger
- Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Discontent - the unhappy feeling that you have when you are not satisfied with something
- Simmering - something that is simmering is controlled but may burst out at any time, often violently
- Jostling - to compete for something
- Pushback - negative reaction to a change or to something new that has been introduced
- Disproportionate - if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Speculation - ideas or discussion about why something has happened or what might happen
- Mobilisation - if you mobilize a group of people, or if they mobilize, they come together in order to achieve something
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Disrupt - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Inhibit - to make it difficult for a process to start or continue in a normal way
- Entrenched - entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change
- Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
- Squander - to waste something
- Succession - the process by which one person comes after another as a king, queen, or leader
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
- Autocratic - ruling with complete power
- Turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity
- Modest - fairly small, especially when compared with other things of the same type
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