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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Polls and polarisation"
- Polarisation - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- By-election - an election in one particular area to choose a new representative in parliament or on a council, or to replace someone who has died or left the job
- Evoke - to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind
- Come together - if people or groups come together, they meet or join in order to do something
- Opposition parties - the political parties in a country that are not part of the government
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Significant - very important
- Erosion - the gradual reduction or destruction of something important
- Riot - a violent protest by a crowd of people
- Win back - to get back something that you have lost
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Bold - involving a risk
- Rapprochement - the development of greater understanding and friendship between two countries or groups after they have been unfriendly
- Backing - support
- Best bet - the thing or action that gives the best chance of a successful result
- Retain - to keep someone or something
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Portend - to be a sign or warning of something that will happen
- Communal - relating to a particular community
- First-past-the-post system - a first-past-the-post system is one in which only the person or political party that gets the most votes is elected
- Disparate - disparate things belong to very different groups or classes
- Succeed - to achieve something that you planned to do or attempted to do
- Give chase - to follow someone quickly in order to catch them
- Wrest - to get land, power, or possessions from someone, usually by fighting
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
- Likewise - in the same way
- Far from - used for saying that the real situation is the opposite of what you mention
- Comforting - making you feel less sad or worried
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Guarding the peso: Argentina's economic crisis"
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Reformist - wanting to change and improve society or an institution
- Credentials - personal qualities, achievements, or experiences that make someone suitable for something
- On the line - at risk
- Rallying - improving
- Recurrent - happening again, especially several times
- Default - to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that you legally have to do
- Devaluation - an official reduction in the value of a country’s money
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Sovereign - an old unit of money in the form of a gold coin worth one pound
- Optimistic - based on beliefs that are too confident
- Narrative - a particular way of explaining or understanding events
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Nevertheless - despite a fact or idea that you have just mentioned
- Put to the test - to find out how good or how effective someone or something is
- Tumble - if a price or value tumbles, it suddenly becomes much lower
- Greenback - a US dollar
- Shore up - to give support or help to something that is having problems or is likely to fail
- Hostile - unfriendly
- Apprehensive - slightly worried or nervous
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Hyperinflation - very high inflation (=a general increase in prices)
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Socialist - a supporter of socialism or member of a socialist political party
- Aggressive - someone who is aggressive is very determined to win or be successful
- Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Successor - someone who has an important position after someone else
- Lampoon - to publicly criticize someone or something by making jokes about them
- Sustainability - the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Gradualist - very slow
- Keynesian - relating to or following the ideas of the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who believed that governments should invest in public projects during times of economic difficulty
- Neoliberal - favouring free markets and a lack of regulation of capitalism
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters, especially taxes
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Prudent - careful, and using good judgment
- Cautious - careful to avoid problems or danger
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Profligacy - wasting money or other things
- Prop up - to help a government, system, organization etc to continue to exist, especially by providing financial or military support
- Avert - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
- Horror - a very strong feeling of shock, fear or disgust caused by something extremely unpleasant
- Upheaval - a sudden or violent change, especially one that affects people’s lives
- Centrist - not extreme in your political beliefs
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Conflicting - describes two or more things that cannot all be right or cannot all happen at the same time
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