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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 3rd June 2018 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Fuel fractions: on petrol, diesel prices"
- Fraction - a small part or amount of something
- Bite the bullet - to force yourself to do something difficult or unpleasant that you have been avoiding doing
- Run-up - the period before an important event
- Creep up - to gradually become larger in number or amount
- Under fire - to be criticized
- Persisting with - to continue to do or say something in a determined way
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Crude - oil from rocks underground in a natural state that has not yet been treated
- Flak - criticism and argument
- Cursory - quick and probably not detailed
- Gearing up - to prepare yourself, or to prepare something for an activity or event
- Followed by - to happen or come after something else
- Intensify - if something intensifies, or if you intensify it, it becomes greater, stronger, or more extreme
- Formulation - the way that an idea or opinion is expressed in words
- Reversion - a change back to a previous and often worse condition
- Reluctance - a feeling of being unwilling to do something or of wishing that you did not have to do it
- Excise - a tax that a government charges on services used and goods sold inside its country
- Duty - a tax that you must pay on something that you buy
- Slash - to reduce something by a large amount
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Rake in - to earn a lot of money
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Ad valorem - an ad valorem payment, rate, or tax is calculated according to the price of a product or service, rather than at a fixed rate
- Make matters worse - used for talking about something that makes a bad situation worse
- Amplification - the process of increasing something
- Reckon - to calculate something
- Anomaly - something unusual, unexpected, or different from what normally happens
- Giving up - to stop doing something that you do regularly
- Easy money - money that you get without working hard
- Robust - strong and successful
- Embolden - to give someone more confidence to do something
- Spike - a sudden increase in something
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- 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
- Nascent - beginning or formed recently
- Vulnerable - someone who is vulnerable is weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
- Exposed - not protected from attack
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Corollary - something that will also be true if a particular idea or statement is true, or something that will also exist if a particular situation exists
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Fire without smoke: on chewable tobacco consumption"
- Chew - to bite something with your teeth
- Consumption - the process of eating, drinking, or smoking something
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Emergency - an unexpected situation involving danger in which immediate action is necessary
- Prevalence - the fact that something is very common in a particular place or among a particular group
- Paying off - if something that you do pays off, it brings you some benefit
- Non communicable disease - a disease that can not be passed from one person or animal to another
- Scourge - something that causes a lot of trouble or harm
- Paucity - a small amount of something that is not enough
- Rampant -existing, happening, or spreading in an uncontrolled way
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Lethal - very dangerous and able to kill you
- Adolescent - a boy or girl who is changing into a young man or woman
- Sizeable - fairly large
- Chunk - a large amount or part of something
- Carcinogenic - likely or able to cause cancer
- Compound - a chemical substance that consists of two or more elements that together form a molecule
- Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
- Loophole - something that has been left out of a law or legal document that people can use to avoid obeying it
- Purview - the area of responsibility or influence that a person or organization has
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want, or the amount that you lack
- Seemingly - according to what you know or how something appears
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