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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 22nd July 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Winning trust: on pre-2019 politics"
- No-confidence vote - a voting process in which people show that they do not support a person or group in power
- Churn - to move violently
- Neither...nor - used when you want to say that two or more things are not true
- Opposition party - the political parties in a country that are not part of the government
- Faintest - used for emphasizing that something is very slight or very small
- Bring down - to cause a government or politician to lose power
- Term - a period of time during which a politician or other official holds their job
- Reckon - to believe that something is true
- Debate - if people debate a subject, they discuss it formally before making a decision, usually by voting
- Worth while - if something is worthwhile, it is worth the time, money, or effort that you spend on it
- Indeed - used for adding a statement that supports and increases the effect of what you have just said
- Ragtag - consisting of various types of people / not similar or organized
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- For instance - for example
- Drawing the line - to say that you will definitely not allow or accept something
- Camp - a group of people within a larger group who have the same ideas or support the same person
- Abstain - to deliberately avoid doing something
- Join ranks - to become one of a particular large group of people
- Defiance - refusal to obey a person or rule
- Probably - used for saying that you think something is likely to be true or likely to happen
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Sail through - to do something, or to deal with something, very easily
- Play out - to develop or end in a particular way
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Considerably - a lot
- Bifurcation - to divide into two separate parts
- Federal - a federal country or system is one in which individual states make their own laws, but a national government is responsible for areas such as defence and foreign policy
- Key player - an important person, company, etc. in a particular area of activity
- Drive a hard bargain - to argue in a very determined way in order to reach an agreement that benefits you
- Mega - very big
- Setting the scene for something - to create the conditions that make it possible for an event to happen
- Merely - only / just
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Sunlight and shadow: on amendments to the RTI Act"
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Roll back - to remove something, or to reduce the influence of something
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Saddle with - to give someone something that is difficult to deal with
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Legacy - something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
- Secretive - deliberately not telling people things
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Far-sighted - able to imagine what effects an action will have in the future so that you make good decisions
- Erode - to gradually reduce the strength or importance of something, or to be gradually reduced in this way
- Tenure - the period of time during which someone has an important job or is an elected official
- Ill-advised - likely to have a bad effect
- Junk - to get rid of something because it is old, broken or useless
- Prestige - the high reputation and respect that someone or something has earned, based on their impressive achievements, quality etc
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Exchequer - the government department responsible for a country’s financial matters
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Negate - to make something have no effect
- Rationale - the set of reasons that something such as a plan or belief is based on
- Statutory - controlled by a law or statute
- Betray - if you betray a feeling or quality that you want to hide or that you are not aware of, your words or face make it clear to people
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Moribund - no longer effective and not likely to continue for much longer
- Owing to - because of something
- Pile-up - if something piles up, or if someone piles it up, the amount of it increases a lot
- Suo motu - on its own motion
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Voluntary - a voluntary action is done because you choose to do it, and not because you have to
- Vague - not clearly or fully explained
- Impunity - freedom from any risk of being punished for doing something wrong or bad
- Lacuna - an empty space where something is missing
- Purview - the area of responsibility or influence that a person or organization has
- Enfeeble - no longer strong or effective
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