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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 24th April 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Uniting line: on CPI(M)'s political resolution"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 24th April 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Uniting line: on CPI(M)'s political resolution"
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Adopting - to decide to start using a particular idea, plan, or method
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Congress - a large formal meeting
- Avert - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Essence - the most important part of something
- Backed by - supported by
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Vague - not clearly or fully explained
- Manoeuvring - clever or dishonest behaviour that allows you to get something that you want
- Beleaguered - having a lot of problems or criticism to deal with
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that something must be done
- Contention - the disagreement that results from opposing arguments
- Allying with somebody - to start to support someone
- Alliance - a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims
- End-result - the result of an activity or process
- Claim - to win something such as a prize or a top position
- Ruling out - to stop considering something as a possibility
- Open up - to create a new opportunity or possibility
- Intense - very great or extreme
- Word-play - clever or funny use of words
- Authoritarianism - the belief that people with power should control what other people can do, or a situation in which this happens
- Fascism - a very right-wing political system in which the government is very powerful and controls the society and the economy completely, not allowing any opposition
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Viable - able to be done, or worth doing
- Neo-liberalism - favouring free markets and a lack of regulation of capitalism
- Secular - not religious, or not connected with religion
- Mobilisation - if you mobilize a group of people, or if they mobilize, they come together in order to achieve something
- Imaginative - involving new, different, or exciting ideas
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Best-laid plans: on Turkish politics"
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Snap election - a general election (= an election in which every adult can vote for the people who will represent them in parliament) that is called earlier than expected
- Oversee - to watch something in order to check that it works or happens in the way that it should
- Lurch - to move suddenly in a way that is not smooth or controlled
- Right-wing - considered to be conservative in your political views
- Authoritarianism - the belief that people with power should control what other people can do, or a situation in which this happens
- Controversial - a controversial subject, opinion, or decision is one that people disagree about or do not approve of
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Anxious - worried because you think something bad might happen
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Pulled off - to succeed in doing something that is difficult
- Slender - very small in degree and only just enough
- Victory - the fact of winning a competition or battle, or an occasion when someone wins
- Plebiscite - a vote by everyone in a country about a very important issue
- Emergency - an unexpected situation involving danger in which immediate action is necessary
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Reinforce - to make a situation, process, or type of behaviour stronger and more likely to continue
- Sagging - lower or less strong
- Overheating - a country’s economy overheats when it grows too fast, causing prices to rise in an uncontrolled way
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Averting - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
- Run-off - to suddenly leave a place or person
- Uppermost in someone’s mind - more important or urgent than anything else in a particular situation
- Prelude - an event that happens before and introduces a more important event
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Hard line - the fact of being very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to give people what they want
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Treaty - an official written agreement between two or more countries
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Ambition - something that you very much want to do, usually something that is difficult to achieve
- Pact - an agreement between two or more people or organizations in which they promise to do something
- Emblematic - generally accepted as being a symbol of a quality, idea, or principle
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Offensive - used for attacking
- Enclave - an area of a country or city where a particular group of people live
- Tapped into - to understand and express something such as people’s beliefs or attitudes
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Condemnation - a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Count on - to depend on someone to do what you want or expect them to do for you
- Militia - a group of ordinary people who are trained as soldiers to fight in an emergency
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Imposition - the introduction of something such as a new law or a new system
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Coup - an occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force
- Critic - someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it
- Detain - to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them to leave
- Clampdown - a determined attempt by someone in authority to stop people doing something bad or illegal
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Creeping - happening very slowly so that people do not notice
- Intolerance - someone’s refusal to accept behaviour, beliefs, or opinions that are different from their own
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Salvage - to succeed in achieving something in a situation or action that has been a failure
- Reputation - the opinion that people in general have about someone or something, or how much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behaviour or character
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