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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sharp correction: on stock market volatility"
- Volatility - liability to change rapidly and unpredictably
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Blockbuster - something that is very successful
- Temper - to make something less strong, extreme, etc
- Correction - a fall in values on the stock market following a period when values have risen very fast
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Infuse - to fill someone or something with an emotion or quality
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Marginally - by only a very small amount
- Breadth - the fact that something includes a wide range of different things or ideas
- Bull run - a period during which prices of shares on the stock market are generally rising
- Advance - progress
- Indices - a plural of index
- Keep on feet - to force someone to stay active, alert, and focused on something or someone
- Downtrend - a general reduction in the level or amount of something, especially economic activity
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Underperform - to be less successful than people expect
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Optimistic - someone who is optimistic is hopeful about the future and tends to expect that good things will happen
- Partially - not completely
- Underlying - used to describe something on which something else is based
- Rein in - to control an emotion, activity, or situation to prevent it from becoming too powerful
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Amid - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Balance sheet - a written statement showing the value of a company at a particular time
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Treasury - the government department responsible for a country’s financial matters
- Proclaim - to state something publicly
- Witness - to see something happen
- Taper - to gradually reduce the amount of new money which is supplied by a central bank in order to aid economic recovery
- Tantrum - a sudden period of uncontrolled anger like a young child's
- Subdued - not very active or busy
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Dampen - to make something such as a feeling or hope less strong
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Populist wave: on the Italian elections"
- Populist - representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Integration - the process of combining with other things in a single larger unit or system
- Take a hit - to suffer damage or loss
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Undercurrent - a feeling that exists and affects how people behave, but is not obvious or stated directly
- First-past-the-post - a first-past-the-post system is one in which only the person or political party that gets the most votes is elected
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Eurosceptic - someone, especially a politician, who thinks that their country should not be part of the European Union
- Rabble-rouser - someone who speaks to a group of people and encourages them to behave in a violent way, usually in order to gain political power
- Elbow out - to make someone leave a job or position so that you or someone else can take their place
- Kingmaker - someone who helps to choose people for important or powerful jobs
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Disenchanted - disappointed and no longer enthusiastic about someone or something
- Poverty - a situation in which someone does not have enough money to pay for their basic needs
- Leave someone high and dry - to put someone in a very difficult or unpleasant situation that they cannot escape from
- Euroscepticism - criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Tone down - to make something less forceful or offensive
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- For instance - for example
- Distrust - to not trust someone or something
- Make no bones about something - to talk about or do something in a very open way without feeling ashamed or embarrassed
- Extreme - very unusual
- Bedfellow - someone or something that is connected with another person or thing in some way, often unexpectedly
- Rule out - to stop considering something as a possibility
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
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