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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sri Lanka must act firmly on anti-Muslim violence"
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Decisive - able to make choices or decide what to do quickly and confidently
- Impartial - not connected to or influenced by one particular person or group
- Put down - to use force to stop a protest
- Spurt - a sudden increase in something
- Racial - relating to someone’s race
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Disquiet - a feeling of being very worried or nervous
- Warrant - a reason for doing something
- Imposition - the introduction of something such as a new law or a new system
- State of emergency - a temporary system of rules to deal with an extremely dangerous or difficult situation
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Precarious - likely to change or become dangerous without warning
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Apparatus - the people and organizations involved in some aspect of government
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Deploy - if a government or army deploys soldiers or weapons, it uses them
- Strife - fighting or disagreement between people or groups
- Reverberation - an effect that spreads over a wide area or lasts for a long time
- Ignite - to make something start to burn
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Road rage - violent behaviour by a driver towards another driver
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Wade in - to become involved in someone else’s discussion, argument, or fight in a confident way that may not be very welcome
- Inflammatory - likely to make people feel angry
- Incendiary - likely to cause anger or violence
- Constituent - someone who lives in a constituency and is allowed to vote in elections
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Massacre - the action of killing of a lot of people
- Displacement - the process of taking the place of someone or something
- Mobilisation - to organize or prepare something, such as a group of people, for a purpose
- Integral part of something - forming an essential part of something and needed to make it complete
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Presumably - used for saying that you think something is true based on what you know, although you are not really certain
- Attribute - to believe that something is the result of a particular situation, event, or person’s actions
- Majoritarian - governed by or believing in decision by a majority
- Hate-monger - someone who tries to provoke hatred and prejudice, especially against minority groups
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event
- Triumphalism - the attitude or behaviour of someone who shows they are very proud of their own victory or success
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Relapse - to return to your previous character or behaviour
- Impunity - freedom from any risk of being punished for doing something wrong or bad
- Prevail - to exist at a particular time or in a particular situation
- Hardliner - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Intimidation - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
- Redouble - to try even harder than before to do something
- On the ground - the place being discussed, especially a place where there is a war or another serious situation
- Decisiveness - the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively
- Impartiality - equal treatment of all rivals or disputants; fairness
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rooftop energy: on boosting solar power"
- Rooftop - the outside of the roof of a building
- Aerial - taking place in the air
- Boost - to help something to increase, improve, or become more successful
- Assess - to carefully consider a situation, person, or problem in order to make a judgment
- Urbanisation - the process by which towns and cities grow bigger and more and more people go to live in them
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Rapidly - very quickly; at a great rate
- Scale up - to make something larger in size, amount etc than it used to be
- Massive - very large in amount or degree
- Evaluate - to think carefully about something before making a judgment about its value, importance, or quality
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Anti-dumping - relating to laws that are intended to prevent imported goods from being sold for less than they cost to produce
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Photovoltaic - able to produce electricity from light, or relating to the process of doing this
- Apprehensive - slightly worried or nervous
- Diminish - to become less
- Attuned - familiar with something and able to deal with it in a sensitive way
- Augment - to increase the size, amount, or value of something
- Acquisition - the process of getting something
- Exploit - to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself
- Incentive - something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this
- Enormous - very large in size or quantity
- Potential - someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, or succeed
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates
- Forward-looking - looking at the future in a positive way and happy to try new ideas and methods
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Strive to do something - to make a lot of effort to achieve something
- Large scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Significant - very large or noticeable
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