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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 12th July 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "High on rhetoric: on Punjab's drug menace"
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Menace - someone or something that is dangerous and likely to cause harm
- Gesture - a movement that communicates a feeling or instruction
- Anticipate - to imagine or expect that something will happen
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Belated - happening late
- Insubstantial - not very large or strong
- Curbing - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Pervasive - spreading through the whole of something and becoming a very obvious feature of it
- Tokenism - the practice of doing something in order to make people believe that you are being fair and including all types of people and issues when this is not really true
- Misstep - a mistake, especially one caused by bad judgment
- Peddler - someone who sells something illegal or harmful, especially drugs
- Latter - used for referring to the second of two people, things, or groups that have just been mentioned
- Capital punishment - the punishment of being legally killed
- Abhorrent - if something is abhorrent to you, you dislike it very much, usually because you think it is immoral
- Deter - to make someone decide not to do something
- Comprehensive - complete and easily achieved
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Vary - to be different in different situations
- Household - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Drug addict - someone who takes illegal or harmful drugs and cannot stop
- Overcrowded - containing too many people or things
- Narcotic - any illegal drug, especially one that is addictive (=that someone depends on)
- Opiate - a drug that contains opium and is used for reducing pain and making you go to sleep
- Sheer - used for emphasizing the amount or degree of something
- Profiteer - to make large profits by charging high prices for things that people need and cannot get anywhere else
- Menace - someone or something that is dangerous and likely to cause harm
- Sustain - to provide the conditions in which something can happen or exist
- Scale - the size of something, especially when it is big
- Well-oiled - a well-oiled system or company operates without problems
- Crescent - a curved shape that is wide in the middle and pointed at the ends
- Synthetic - made from artificial materials or substances, not from natural ones
- Inflow - an amount of something such as money or goods that comes into a place
- Obviously - in a way that is clear for almost anyone to see or understand
- Substance - a drug that people can start to depend on, especially an illegal drug
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Terror - violence used for making people very frightened in order to achieve political aims
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Merely - only / just
- Line up - to form a row, or to put people or things in a row
- Brownie points - approval for something helpful you have done
- Concrete - practical
- Photo-ops - an occasion on which famous people pose for photographers by arrangement
- Sound-bite - a short comment by a politician or other famous person that is taken from a longer conversation or speech and broadcast alone because it is very interesting or effective
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A difficult campaign: on the Pakistan elections"
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Run-up - to make something very quickly
- Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
- Showing hands - an occasion when people in a room vote by putting their hands up
- Democracy - a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them
- Fragile - used about a situation, agreement, or relationship that can easily be damaged or destroyed
- Muted - not as strong or extreme as usual
- Overshadow - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- League - a group of people or things that are similar in their quality, skills, or achievements
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison
- Bar - to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to not allow something
- Guilty - someone who is guilty has committed a crime
- Plague - to cause a lot of problems for someone or something for a long period of time
- Critic - someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it
- Overzealous - doing something so much that it causes problems
- Despatch - to send someone or something somewhere
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Rally - a public meeting that a lot of people go to in order to support someone or something or to protest against someone or something
- Ouster - the removal of someone from an official position
- Neutralise - to stop something from having any effect
- Destabilise - to cause problems for a country, government, or person in authority so that they become less effective
- Harassment - annoying or unpleasant behaviour towards someone that takes place regularly, for example threats, offensive remarks, or physical attacks
- Dawn - the beginning of the day, when it begins to get light
- Cantonment - a district of a South Asian city which shows the influence of Western Europeans or Americans
- Threat - an occasion when someone says that they will cause you harm or problems, especially if you do not do what they tell you to do
- Assassinate - to kill a famous or important person, especially for political reasons or for payment
- Adhere to - to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
- Kowtow - to show too much respect to someone in authority, always doing what you are told and changing what you do in order to please them
- Conducive - providing the right conditions for something good to happen or exist
- Vitiate - to destroy or damage something
- Mainstream - considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people
- Sectarian - caused by or feeling very strong support for the religious or political group that you are a member of, in a way that can cause problems with other groups
- Radical - believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change
- Ideology - a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based
- Tolerate - to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Stricture - a statement of severe criticism or disapproval
- Funding - money given by a government or organization for an event or activity
- Task Force - a group of people who are brought together to do a particular job, or a large military group who have a military aim to achieve
- Cripple - to cause serious damage to someone or something
- Deepening - if a bad situation deepens, it becomes worse
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