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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 8th May 2018 from HERE
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A violent time: on the protests in Shopian"
- Violent - involving the use of physical force, with the deliberate intention of causing damage to property or injury or death to people
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Fury - a feeling of very strong anger
- Valley - a low area of land between mountains or hills, usually with a river flowing through it
- Aide - someone whose job is to help another person in their work
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
- Injured - hurt in an accident or attack
- Clash - a fight or battle between two groups of people
- Death toll - the number of people who are killed on a particular occasion
- Cordon - a line of police, soldiers, vehicles, etc. positioned around a particular area in order to prevent people from entering it
- Reinforcements - soldiers sent to join an army to make it stronger
- Retaliate - to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Teargas - a gas used by some police and armed forces to control crowds of people. It hurts the eyes and makes them produce tears
- Pellet - a small round piece of steel or lead that is fired from a gun
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Distract - to make someone stop giving their attention to something
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- Confine - to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way
- Stronghold - a place where people fighting an enemy can defend or organize themselves
- Claim - if war, disease, or an accident claims someone’s life, they die as a result of it
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Episodic - happening as a series of separate events that have no clear connection between them
- Stone-pelting - to throw stones with force at someone or something
- Intensity - strength
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Stare down - a confrontation between two parties in which neither side is prepared to back down
- Out of harm’s way - in a safe place, so that nothing bad can happen
- Alienation - the feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Tranquil - calm, still, and quiet
- Home-grown - developed locally
- Alarming - frightening or worrying
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Intense - very great or extreme
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Price freeze: on high fuel prices"
- Freeze - to stop moving or making progress
- Abandon - to stop something that you are doing or planning to do
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Shooting up - to increase quickly by a large amount
- Crude oil - oil that is still in its natural state and has not yet been refined for use by chemical processes
- For instance - for example
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Glaring - used to say that something bad is very obvious
- Dynamic - continuously changing
- Revise - to change, improve, or make additions to something
- Uptrend - an improvement in the economy, or an increase in business activity
- Owing to - because of something
- Rally - if things such as prices rally, they increase after being low
- Volatility - liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Periodically - from time to time; occasionally
- Fortnightly - happening every two weeks
- Inelastic - not changing much, or not allowing much change
- Keep pace with - to develop or progress at the same rate as something else
- Retail - relating to the sale of goods directly to the public for their own use
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Speculate - to consider or discuss why something has happened or what might happen
- Refrain from - to stop yourself from doing something
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Resist - to stop yourself from doing something
- Offloading - to get rid of something that you do not want
- Consumer - someone who buys and uses goods and services
- Unsustainable - not capable of continuing at the same rate or level
- In the long run - not immediately but at some time in the future
- Opt - to make a choice or decision
- Ease - to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc
- Purview - the area of responsibility or influence that a person or organization has
- Excise duty - a tax that a government charges on services used and goods sold inside its country
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