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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Delhi stand-off: Power crisis"
- Stand-off - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- In bad light - used for talking about people’s opinion of a particular person or thing
- Provocation - something that causes you to react in an angry or violent way
- Residence - a house or other place where someone lives, especially a large house used by an important person
- Run-in - an argument, disagreement, or fight
- Bureaucracy - a complicated and annoying system of rules and processes
- Confrontation - a situation in which people or groups are arguing angrily or are fighting
- Full-fledged - complete
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Discretionary - based on someone’s judgment of a particular situation rather than on a set of rules
- Grouse - to complain angrily
- Bureaucratic - involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Non-cooperation - a policy of not doing the things that someone wants you to do, especially as a type of protest
- Statutory - controlled by a law or statute
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Precipitate - to make something happen or begin to exist suddenly and quickly, especially something bad
- Spectacle - an embarrassing event
- Quest - an attempt to achieve something difficult
- Mounting - increasing, especially in a way that makes a situation worse
- Curtail - to reduce or limit something
- Overbearing - an overbearing person always tries to control other people’s behaviour and ignores their opinions and feelings
- Keener - someone who is extremely keen and enthusiastic
- Mock - to laugh at someone
- Handcuffs - two metal rings, joined by a short chain, that are locked around a prisoner’s wrists to prevent free movement
- Autonomy - a situation in which a state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "On Colombia's first presidential election: In the shadow of FARC"
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- Guerrilla - a member of a military group that is not official and usually wants to change a political situation
- Throw up - to produce something new or unexpected
- Right-wing - considered to be conservative in your political views
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Outgoing - soon to leave a position of authority or power
- Novice - someone who is just beginning to learn a skill or subject
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Erstwhile - an erstwhile friend, employer etc was a friend, employer etc until recently but is not any more
- Insurgent - someone who belongs to a group of people fighting to take control of their country by force
- Run-off - an extra competition or election to decide the winner, because the leading competitors have finished equal
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- Centrist - not extreme in your political beliefs
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Orthodoxy - an idea or practice that is accepted by most people as being correct or usual
- Protégé - a young person who receives help or training from an older experienced person
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Count on - to depend on someone to do what you want or expect them to do for you
- Backing - support, help, or active approval
- Mentor - an experienced person who helps someone who has less experience, especially in their job
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Veteran - someone who has a lot of experience doing a particular activity
- Exert - to use influence, authority, or power in order to affect or achieve something
- Undue - not necessary or reasonable
- Sceptical - having doubts about something that other people think is true or right
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Amnesty - a situation in which a government agrees not to punish, or to no longer punish, people who have committed a particular crime
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Codify - to make something part of an organized system, especially an official system of laws
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Disposed - to get rid of something / someone
- Moderate - neither very great nor very small in amount, size, strength, or degree
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Marginalisation - to make someone or something seem not important or relevant
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Acronym - an abbreviation consisting of letters that form a word
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Arms - weapons, for example guns or bombs
- Tenuous - weak and likely to change
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Displace - to force someone to leave their own country and live somewhere else
- Painstaking - done or doing something very carefully and slowly
- Above all - used for referring to something that is more important than any of the other things you could mention
- Firm - strong
- Conviction - a strong opinion or belief
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
- Muster - to produce or encourage something such as an emotion or support
- Clinch - to finally get or win something
- Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Brutality - behaviour that is very cruel or violent and showing no feelings for others, or an act of this type
- Enduring - continuing for a long time
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