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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 4th May 2018 from HERE
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Secret agent: on JD(S) in Karnataka polls"
- Equidistance - equal distance (equally far or close)
- Kingmaker - someone who helps to choose people for important or powerful jobs
- Secular - not religious, or not connected with religion
- Probably - used for saying that you think something is likely
- Hung - a situation in which no particular political party has an absolute majority
- Opinion poll - an assessment of public opinion by questioning a representative sample, especially as the basis for forecasting the results of voting
- Likely - probably going to happen, or probably true
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Protestation - a statement that shows you strongly disagree with something that other people believe or support
- Patriarch - a powerful and usually old leader of a family / organization
- Ruled out - to stop considering something as a possibility
- Put the blame on - to say or think that someone or something is responsible for an accident, problem, or bad situation
- Vow - a serious promise or decision
- Confine to - limited to (to exist only in a particular area or group of people)
- Concede - to give something that you own or control to someone so that they own or control it
- Principal - main, or most important
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Keep your end of the bargain - an agreement in which two people or groups each promise to do something
- Constituency - the voters in a division of a country who elect a representative to parliament
- Downplay - to deliberately make a situation seem less serious or important than it is
- Proximity - how near something is to another thing
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Dimmed - became weaker
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Encroach - to gradually take something such as power or authority from someone else
- Rebellion - an attempt to remove a government or leader by force
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Be averse to something - to dislike or not enjoy something
- Building bridges - to help two people, groups, or countries who have disagreed to have a more friendly relationship
- Bargaining - an agreement between two people or groups in which each promises to do something in exchange for something else
- Agent - a chemical or other substance that has a particular effect
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Targeting Tehran: on Netanyahu's revelations on Iran"
- Revelation - the act of making something known that was secret, or a fact that is made known
- So-called - used to show that you think a word that is used to describe someone or something is not suitable or not correct
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Robust - strong and successful
- Ripping up - to decide that something such as a plan or an agreement is useless and stop using it
- Opposition - strong disagreement with a plan or policy
- Weapon - an object that can be used to hurt people or damage property, for example a gun, knife, or bomb
- Multilateral - involving more than two groups or countries
- Maintain - to continue to say that something is true, even if other people do not believe you
- Deceit - dishonest behaviour that is intended to trick someone
- Backed - supported
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Stepped up - increased in amount or strength
- Set the stage for something - to create the conditions in which something is likely to happen
- Authentic - sreal, not false or copied
- Indication - a sign that something will happen, is true, or exists
- Violate - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Indeed - used for adding a statement that supports and increases the effect of what you have just said
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Scrap - to decide not to continue with something such as a plan or an event
- Pact - an agreement between two or more people or organizations in which they promise to do something
- Reimpose - to re-introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Disincentive - something that makes you not want to do something
- In compliance with - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Pull out - to stop being involved in an activity, event, or situation
- Unravel - if a process or project unravels, it begins to fail
- Merit - an advantage or good quality that someone or something has
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Narrow - limited in the way that you look at things and not willing to consider other ideas
- Geopolitical - involving a country’s position, economy, and population influence its politics, especially in relation to other countries
- Ideological - related to a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based
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