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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 31st July 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A good beginning: on draft data protection bill"
- Draft - to write something such as a legal document, speech, or letter that may have changes made to it before it is finished
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Vast - extremely large
- Jurisdiction - a country or area in which a particular legal system operates
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Oblivious to - not noticing something, or not knowing about it
- Harness - to get control of something in order to use it for a particular purpose
- Privacy - the freedom to do things without other people watching you or knowing what you are doing
- Fundamental - relating to the basic nature or character of something
- Chair - the person who is in charge of a meeting, committee, or company
- Sound - complete or detailed
- Codify - to make something part of an organized system, especially an official system of laws
- Firm - a business or company
- Fiduciary - a person or company that is responsible for looking after money or property that belongs to someone else
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Akin to something - similar to something
- Contractual - agreed to or stated in a contract
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Entrust - to give someone responsibility for an important job or activity
- Obligated - if you are obligated to do something, you must do it because it is your duty or it is morally right
- Consent - permission to do something
- Principal - main, or most important
- Onus on something - if the onus is on someone to do something, it is their responsibility or duty to do it
- Fiduciary - involving responsibility for looking after money or property that belongs to someone else
- Possibility - the chance that something might happen or be true
- Sensitive - needing to be kept secret / protected
- Mirror - someone or something that matches or expresses the qualities, features, or feelings of another person or thing
- Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
- Portability - the ability of software or equipment to be used on several systems
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Enabling - making something possible
- Grey area - a situation in which the rules are not clear, or in which you are not sure what is right or wrong
- Exemption - permission to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Acquire - to get something
- Blanket - something that makes it difficult for you to get information or make progress
- Pertain - to be directly related to something
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Oversight - something that you do not notice or think of that causes problems later
- Consensual - agreed to by all the people involved
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Dragnet - a very thorough search
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place that may be involved in a criminal activity
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Come to fruition - the result that you wanted to achieve from a plan or idea
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A result foretold: on Cambodia polls"
- Foretold - to say what will happen in the future
- Disbar - to make someone unable to continue working, especially because they have done something wrong
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Key - main / important
- Fray - a fight or argument
- Muzzling - to prevent a person, group, newspaper etc from expressing their opinions or ideas publicly
- Spokesperson - someone whose job is to officially represent an organization, for example in dealing with journalists
- Smugly - in a way that shows too much satisfaction or confidence
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Renew - to arrange for something to continue for a longer period of time
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Estimate - to say what you think an amount or value will be, either by guessing or by using available information to calculate it
- Turnout - the number of voters in an election
- Hollow - not sincere
- At the helm - in charge or in the position of a leader
- Uncontested - if something is uncontested, no one opposes it or disagrees with it
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
- Sham - something that people pretend is good, serious, or honest but is really not
- Fragment - if something fragments or is fragmented, it breaks into a lot of separate pieces or parts
- Merger - the process of combining two companies or organizations to form a bigger one
- Dissolution - the process of officially ending the existence of a group or organization
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Overthrow - to force a leader or government out of their position of power
- Treason - the crime of helping your country’s enemies or of trying to destroy your country’s government
- Veteran - someone who was in the armed forces, especially during a war
- Exile - a situation in which you are forced to live in a foreign country because you cannot live in your own country, usually for political reasons
- Reputed - famous and with a good reputation
- Expose - to make public something bad or dishonest
- Intolerance - someone’s refusal to accept behaviour, beliefs, or opinions that are different from their own
- Voluntary organization - a voluntary organization does important work for the community but is not part of the official government services, and usually has to raise all its money by itself
- Wind up - to end something
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Bias - an attitude that you have that makes you treat someone in a way that is unfair or different from the way you treat other people
- Climate - the general situation or attitudes that people have at a particular time
- Intimidation - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Massacre - the action of killing of a lot of people
- Averse - to dislike or not enjoy something
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Overt - not hidden or secret
- Strings - special conditions that limit an offer or agreement
- Capitalise - to supply money to a business so that it can develop or operate as it should
- Counter - to react to something with an opposing opinion or action, or to defend yourself against something
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Implicate - to show or suggest that someone is involved in something illegal or morally wrong
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Senate - the more senior part of a law-making institution that has two parts
- Conciliatory - trying to end an argument and make people feel less angry
- Speculation - ideas or discussion about why something has happened or what might happen
- Respite - a short period of rest from having to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation
- Genocide - the murder of large numbers of people belonging to a particular race
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
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