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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sinking rupee"
- Sinking - falling or moving to a lower level
- Emerging - growing and developing, esp. in business investment
- Under strain - under pressure
- Intraday - happening during one day
- The doldrums - a situation in which there is a lack of success, activity, or improvement
- For instance - for example
- Crude oil - oil that is still in its natural state and has not yet been refined for use by chemical processes
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Importer - a person, company, or country that brings goods into their country in order to sell them
- Shell out - to spend a lot of money on something
- Current account deficit - a measurement of a country's trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the goods and services it exports
- Spell trouble - to suggest that there may be problems in the future
- Turn out - to develop in a particular way, or to have a particular result
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- Gauge - to calculate an amount
- A host of - a large number of something
- Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Yield - to make a profit
- Foreign portfolio investment - entry of funds into a country where foreigners deposit money in a country's bank or make purchases in the country’s stock and bond markets
- Outflow - a movement of large amounts of money or large numbers of people from one place to another
- Steep fall - sudden fall
- Turbulence - a confusing or uncontrolled situation
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Crises - plural of crisis (an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation)
- Determine - to control what something will be
- In store - going to happen soon
- Think out of the box - to find new ways of doing things, especially of solving problems
- Taper tantrum - the term used for the 2013 surge in U.S. Treasury yields
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Tectonic shift: On U.S. political funding"
- Tectonic - tectonic changes are very large and significant
- Demographic - relating to populations
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Accelerating - to happen or make something happen at a faster rate
- Protest - to disagree strongly with something, often by making a formal statement or taking action in public
- Savage - cruel and unpleasant or violent
- Swathe - a large number of people, or a large amount of something
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Bite the dust - to fail, die, or stop existing
- Mere - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- War chest - money that a political party or a business has available to spend on something such as an election campaign or a business deal
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Reverberate - to have an effect that spreads over a wide area or lasts for a long time
- Republican - someone who believes that Northern Ireland should join with the Republic of Ireland to form a single country and should no longer be part of the UK
- Ethos - the set of attitudes and beliefs that are typical of an organization or a group of people
- Unfettered - without limits or controls
- Rein - control of a company, government, or organization
- Contrast - if one thing contrasts with another, the two things are different from each other, often in a noticeable or interesting way
- Seize - to gain control in a situation
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Zero-tolerance - a policy of punishing people for even very minor offences by using the law in a very strict way
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Unconscionable - more than a reasonable or acceptable level or amount
- Vigorous - strong, active
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Customs - a government department that collects taxes on goods that people bring into a country
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that something happens, especially that people obey a law or rule
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Embodiment - someone or something that is the best possible example of a particular idea, quality, or principle, especially a good one
- Tremendous - used for emphasizing that something such as an amount, achievement, or feeling is extremely great, important, or strong
- Endorsement - an occasion when someone gives official or public support to a particular person or thing
- Dark pool - a system that allows stock market traders to trade large blocks of shares anonymously, with prices posted publicly only after deals are done
- Primary - an election in which people in a particular state in the US choose their candidate for president
- Gubernatorial - relating to the position of governor
- Eschew - to avoid doing something, especially for moral reasons
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Innumerable - too many to be counted: used for emphasizing a large amount or number
- Multi-racial - including or involving people of many different races
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Beneath - directly under something
- Sparky - energetic, clever
- Reach across the aisle - to reach out to political opponents in order to achieve a compromise
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