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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Back to the court: on the impeachment controversy"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 25th April 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Back to the court: on the impeachment controversy"
- Impeachment - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Presiding - to be in charge of an official meeting, ceremony, or other event
- Motion -a formal proposal that people discuss and then vote on in a meeting or debate
- Consultation - discussion between people or groups before they make a decision
- Be open to interpretation - if something is open to interpretation, its intended meaning is not clear and people may have different opinions about it
- Merely - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Append - to add something to the end of a piece of writing
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Delineate - to describe something very exactly
- Contour - a way in which something varies
- Interpretation - an explanation or opinion of what something means:
- Held - to have / express an opinion about something
- Merit - an advantage or good quality that someone or something has
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Conjecture - the development of a theory or guess based on information that is not complete
- Pick holes in something - to try and make an idea or piece of work seem bad by finding all the things that are wrong or missing
- Signatory - a person or organization that has signed an official agreement
- Veracity - truth, or honesty
- Ruling - an official decision
- Utmost - as much as possible: used for emphasizing a quality or feeling
- Circumspection - thinking carefully about something before you say or do it
- Imputation - the act of accusing someone of having a bad quality or of being guilty of something
- Indelible - permanent
- Chilling effect - a discouraging effect on the behaviour of an individual or group
- Misbehaviour - bad behaviour or behaviour that offends other people
- Incapacity - a lack of ability
- Roster - a list of people’s names that shows when each of them must work and what they have to do
- Selectively - in a way that involves only particular people or things that have been chosen
- Concrete - based on facts and information
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Polarised - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Nabbing absconders: on Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance"
- Nabbing - to catch or arrest someone who has done something wrong or illegal
- Absconder - someone who goes away from a place suddenly, especially in order to escape from it
- Fugitive - someone who has done something illegal and is trying to avoid being caught by the police
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Ordinance - an official order by a government
- Loophole - something that has been left out of a law or legal document that people can use to avoid obeying it
- Overseas - coming from a country across the sea
- Promulgation - to announce something publicly, especially a new law
- Prosecution - the process or act of accusing someone of a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Mandatorily - something that is mandatory must be done, or is demanded by law
- Wilful defaulter - a person that has not paid the loan back despite the ability to repay it
- Impound - if the police or other officials impound something, they take it away from someone because they have done something illegal
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Belated - happening late
- Haste - great speed in doing something because of limited time
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Fleeing - to escape from a dangerous situation or place very quickly
- Confiscate - to officially remove someone’s possessions for legal reasons or as a punishment
- Washout - a failure
- Clamour for - an urgent request for something by a lot of people
- Absconding - to escape from a place where you are being kept as a punishment
- Misdemeanour - an action that is bad or wrong, but not in a serious way
- Consternation - a shocked or worried feeling, often caused when something unexpected happens
- Baron - a powerful person in a particular type of business
- Defunct - not existing or working any more
- Run up - to make something very quickly
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Defraud - to get money from a person or organization in a dishonest way
- Extradition - the return of someone accused of a crime to the country where the crime was committed
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Indication - a sign that something will happen, is true, or exists
- Eexpedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Duo - two people who work together or who often do things together
- Disallow - to say officially that something cannot be accepted because it is illegal or not allowed by the rules
- Offload - to get rid of something that you do not want by giving or selling it to someone else
- Cross-border - between different countries, or involving people from different countries
- Insolvency - the state of not having enough money to pay debts, buy goods, etc
- Tide over - to supply someone for a short time with something that is lacking
- Handicap - a disadvantage that prevents you from doing something well
- Opted for - to make a choice
- Deflect - to direct criticism, attention, or blame away from yourself towards someone else
- Coherent - a coherent statement is reasonable and sensible
- Fugitive - someone who has done something illegal and is trying to avoid being caught by the police
- Got away - to escape from a person or place
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