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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Tainted by uranium: On groundwater contamination"
- Tainted - something that is tainted is spoilt by an unpleasant feature or quality that often makes people not want to be involved with it
- Contamination - the process of making something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection
- Probe - to try to find out the truth about something
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Norms - standards of behaviour that are accepted in a particular society
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Accumulate - to get more and more of something over a period of time
- Radioactive - a radioactive substance contains a very harmful form of energy that is produced during nuclear reactions
- Chronic - very bad
- Cluster - a small group of people or things that are very close to each other
- Epidemiologist - people who study infectious diseases and their causes
- Terrain - an area of land, usually one that has a particular physical feature
- Alluvial - made of earth and sand left by rivers or floods
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Hypotheses - an idea that attempts to explain something but has not yet been tested or proved to be correct
- Contaminant - a substance that makes something dirty, polluted, or poisonous
- Aquifer - a layer of earth or rock that contains water or that water can pass through
- Arsenic - a chemical element that is a brittle grey semimetal
- Sediment - a layer of a substance that forms at the bottom of a liquid
- Hotspot - a popular place
- Uncover - to find out about something that has been hidden or kept secret
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Make or break ?: On BJP’s Bihar allies"
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
- Accommodate - to provide enough space for something or someone
- Sacrifice - to give up something important or valuable so that you or other people can do or have something else
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Constituency - the voters in a division of a country who elect a representative to parliament
- Retain - to keep someone or something
- Possibility - the chance that something might happen or be true
- Switching - to change from one thing to another, or to make something do this
- Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Opportunism - the actions of someone who takes every opportunity to gain an advantage and is willing to behave in an unfair way
- Idealistic - believing very firmly in something which is good but probably impossible to achieve
- Isolate - feeling alone and unhappy, with no friends to support you
- Fancy - to want to have or do something
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Break away - to escape from a person, place, or situation
- Spectacular - extremely impressive
- Ascendant - in the process of gaining power or influence over another person, group etc
- Comeback - a period when someone or something becomes successful or popular again
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Primacy - the fact of being more powerful or important than anything else
- Downplay - to deliberately make a situation seem less serious or important than it is
- Trump - to beat someone or something by doing or producing something better
- Spontaneous - happening in a natural way without being planned or thought about
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