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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Curbing the khaps"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Curbing the khaps"
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Defending - to protect someone or something from attack
- Honour - the respect that people have for someone / something
- Clan - a large group of families that are related to each other
- Abominable - extremely bad, offensive, or unpleasant
- Entrenched - entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change
- Prejudice - an unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially the feeling of not liking a particular group of people
- Feudal - related to the social system in which land belonged to powerful lords and the people they allowed to live on the land had to work and fight for them
- Patriarchal - a patriarchal society, system, organization etc is one in which men have all or most of the power and influence
- Honour killing - the murder of a woman by a male relative because he believes that she has damaged the family’s image
- Eradicate - to get rid of something completely, especially something bad
- Overnight - in a very short time
- Diktat - an official rule that people are forced to obey
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Stern - so strong that you cannot oppose it
- Enforce - to make sure that something happens or is done
- Medieval - old-fashioned
- Notion - an opinion or belief, especially one that is wrong or silly
- Ostracisation - to avoid someone intentionally, or to prevent someone from taking part in the activities of a group
- Strident - expressing or expressed in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people:
- Observation - a written or spoken comment about something
- Significance - the importance that something has because it affects other things
- Apex - the top or highest
- Brook - to not allow or accept something
- Violate - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Preventive - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
- Remedial - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Desist - to stop doing something
- In the same breath - used for saying that someone has said two things that cannot both be true
- Feasible - possible or likely to succeed
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Brazen - behaving in a way that is not moral or socially acceptable, and not caring if other people are shocked or offended
- Flout - to deliberately refuse to obey a rule or custom
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Outright - used for emphasizing that something happens or is done completely at one time or in a single process
- Permissible - allowed to be done by a law or rule
- Lay down - to officially establish a rule, or to officially say how something should be done
- Adhered to - to support or believe in an idea, plan, opinion etc
- Salutary - a salutary experience or warning is one that has a good effect although it is unpleasant
- Content with - to do something or have something although it is not exactly what you want
- Expedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Comprehensive - complete and easily achieved
- Matrimonial - relating to marriage
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Out of favour: the love for Indian bonds"
- Out of favour - no longer liked, popular, or fashionable
- Ramping up - a large increase in activity or in the level of something
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Spook - to suddenly feel frightened or nervous
- Fiscal deficit - a fiscal deficit occurs when a government's total expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates, excluding money from borrowings
- Deserting - to leave someone without help or in a difficult situation
- Aggressively - determined and ambitious (used about plans or methods that are designed to do everything possible to succeed)
- Yield - to make a profit
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Amid - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Lacklustre - not lively, exciting, or impressive
- Sovereign - an old unit of money in the form of a gold coin
- Fuel - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Inflation - economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Portfolios - all the investments that a person or company has made
- Mount - to gradually increase, rise, or get bigger
- Tailwind - a wind that blows in the same direction in which a vehicle is moving
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Lucrative - bringing a lot of money
- In the eyes of - according to
- Outflow - a movement of large amounts of money or large numbers of people from one place to another
- Pressing - very important and urgent
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Cutting down on - to reduce an amount of something
- Profligacy - wasting money or other things
- Re-examine - to look at or think about something carefully again
- Bond market - a financial market in which the participants are provided with the issuance and trading of debt securities
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