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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Rocky summit: when Trump met Putin"
- Rocky - a rocky relationship, situation, or period of time is one in which there are a lot of problems
- Mess up - something that has been done badly
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Cold War - unfriendly relations between countries who are not at war with each other
- Dial down - to reduce the level of tension or intensity in a situation
- Mutual - felt or done in the same way by each of two or more people
- Tension - a feeling of fear or anger between two groups of people who do not trust each other
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem:
- Formal - public or official
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Overshadow - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Uproar - angry public criticism of something
- Remark - a few words that give the facts or your opinion about someone or something
- Meddling - to become involved in a situation that you have no right to be involved in, in a way that is annoying
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Treason - the crime of helping your country’s enemies or of trying to destroy your country’s government
- Subsequent - happening or coming after something else
- U-turn - a sudden and complete change of policy by a government or by someone in authority
- Hacking - to use a computer to connect to someone else’s computer secretly and often illegally, so that you can find or change information on it
- Democrat - in the US, a member or supporter of the Democratic Party
- Surreal - something surreal is so strange that you cannot believe it is real
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Closed-door - held in private, with no journalists or members of the public allowed in
- Evaluate - to think carefully about something before making a judgment about its value, importance, or quality
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Arms - weapons, for example guns or bombs
- Treaty - an official written agreement between two or more countries
- Expire - if an agreement, offer, or official document expires, the period of time during which it exists or can be used comes to an end
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Lasting - continuing to exist or have an effect for a long time
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- In a shambles - something that is very badly organized and that does not operate effectively
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Intercontinental - going between continents (=main divisions of the world such as Europe or Asia), or happening between people who are in different continents
- Ballistic - objects that are shot or thrown through the air
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Isolate - to keep someone in a place away from other people
- Ambitious - having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich
- Enhanced - better than before
- Ratchet something up - to increase something in controlled stages over a period of time
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Rogue - someone who is dishonest
- Stakes are high - used to describe a situation that has a lot of risk and in which someone is likely to either get or lose an advantage
- Hinder - to stop someone or something from making progress or developing
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A fishy matter: on the formaldehyde contamination of fish"
- Fishy - seeming dishonest or false
- Formaldehyde - a gas with no colour and a strong smell, used mixed with water for preserving dead things in a laboratory
- Contamination - the process of making something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Trace - a sign that something has happened or existed
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Reveal - to let something become known, for example a secret or information that was previously not known
- Marine - living in or happening in the sea
- On a par with - of the same quality as or at the same level as
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Play down - to try to make a problem or difficult situation seem less important than it is
- Carcinogen - a substance that can cause cancer
- Embalming - to preserve a dead body using chemicals
- Inhale - to breathe air, smoke, or other substances into your lungs
- Fumes - smoke or gas that has an unpleasant smell, especially harmful smoke or gas
- Nasopharyngeal - related to the soft part between the bottom of the skull and the top of the soft palate
- Orally - connected with the mouth
- Dietary - related to the foods that someone eats
- Preservative - a chemical substance used for preventing food or wood from decaying
- Unscrupulous - willing to do things that are unfair, dishonest, or illegal
- Vendor - someone who sells something, but not in a shop
- Pass off - to make people believe that a person or thing is something else
- Stale - stale food such as bread is old and no longer fresh
- Gastric - relating to your stomach
- Merely - only / just
- Consume - to eat or drink something
- Evidence - facts or physical signs that help to prove something
- Distinguishing - a distinguishing feature, mark etc makes someone or something clearly different from other similar people or things
- Contaminant - a substance that makes something dirty, polluted, or poisonous
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
- Allaying - if you allay feelings such as fears, worries, or doubts, you make someone feel less afraid, worried, or full of doubt
- Stoking - to make a feeling stronger
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