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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Reform 101: On higher education"
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Regulatory - a regulatory organization or company controls an activity, process, or industry
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Draft - to write something such as a legal document, speech, or letter that may have changes made to it before it is finished
- Far-reaching - affecting a lot of people or things in an important way
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Expansion - the process of making a business, organization, or activity grow by including more people, moving into new areas, selling more products etc
- Vitally - in an extremely important way
- Gross - total
- Enrolment - to put yourself or someone else onto the official list of members of a course, college, or group
- Put something in perspective - to compare something to other things so that it can be accurately and fairly judged
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Autonomy - a situation in which a state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Successor - used about something such as an organization or machine that replaces something that did the same job before
- Academia - the people, activities, and institutions that are connected with education, especially in colleges and universities
- Ambit - the range within which something, especially a rule or law, is effective or has power
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Flaw - a mistake or fault in something that makes it useless or less effective
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Requisite - necessary for a particular purpose
- Intellectual - relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas
- Corpus - a collection of writing
- Sphere - a particular area of interest, activity, work etc
- Weed out - to remove a person or thing that is not suitable or good enough, especially from a group or collection
- Dubious - not completely good, safe, or honest
- Defy - to refuse to obey someone or something
- Laissez faire - laissez-faire policies allow companies and the economy to operate without government control
- Motive - the reason that you do something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Then there were 16: On FIFA 2018"
- Knockout - a competition in which the player or team that loses a game does not take part in later games
- Kick off - to begin
- Clutch of - a small group of similar things
- Well-matched - two people or things that are well matched are suitable for each other because they are similar or have the same abilities
- Allure - a special, exciting, and attractive quality that someone or something has
- League - a group of teams or players who regularly compete against one another
- Off the mark - not correct
- Riveting - extremely interesting or exciting
- Testament to something - evidence that something exists or is true
- Credit - praise for something you have done or achieved
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Minnow - an unimportant person or organization
- Punch above the weight - a country or organization that is punching above its weight has more influence internationally than its size would suggest
- Stifling - preventing something from happening
- Put someone to the sword - to kill someone
- Defending - to attempt to win a competition that you won last time in order to keep your position as winner
- Crash out - to be badly defeated so that you have to leave a competition
- Prodigious - very great or impressive
- Disjointed - confusing because the different parts seem not to be connected with each other
- Stake a claim - to say or show clearly that you consider that something is or should be yours
- Demolition - an easy defeat in a game or competition
- Perennial - always existing, or never seeming to change
- Under-achiever - someone who is not as successful as they could be at work, school etc
- The time is ripe for something - used for saying that a particular time is right for something to happen
- Progress - to continue to develop or move forward
- Dampener - less enthusiastic or hopeful about something
- Fortnight - a period of two weeks
- Respective - belonging separately to each of two or more people or things previously mentioned
- Dispel - to get rid of unpleasant feelings or false beliefs
- Notion - an opinion or belief, especially one that is wrong or silly
- Humiliation - the unhappy and ashamed feeling that you get when something embarrassing happens
- By the skin of your teeth - if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it
- Unabated - unable to be stopped or controlled
- Talisman - an object that someone believes has special powers, especially the power to protect them from bad things
- To hit the right notes - to be perfectly suitable for a particular situation or circumstance; to get it exactly right
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