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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "How to rule Delhi"
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Enact - to make a proposal into a law
- Concurrent - happening or done at the same time
- Tussle - a short fight
- Acrimonious - an acrimonious situation is unpleasant because people feel angry towards each other
- Proviso - the chance to change a decision or an agreement if a situation changes
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Concurrence - agreement
- Essentially - used for emphasizing what is the most important aspect of something or fact about something
- Reaffirm - to formally and officially state something again
- Circumscribe - to limit something such as power, rights, or opportunities
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Mischief - trouble or disagreement that someone deliberately causes
- Exhaustive - complete and including everything
- Encompass - to include a lot of people or things
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Implicate - to show or suggest that someone is involved in something illegal or morally wrong
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Trivial - not very important, serious, or valuable
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Morality - principles of right or wrong behaviour
- Vest - to give someone or something the power to do something
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Withhold - to deliberately not give something to someone
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Embrace - to completely accept something such as a new belief, idea, or way of life
- Collaborative - involving people or groups working together to produce something
- Federal - connected with the national government of a country rather than with the government of one of its member states
- Co-existence - a situation in which people live together, or things exist together, at the same time or in the same place
- Inter-dependence - the fact of depending on each other
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Flood of despair: Mumbai's flooding woes"
- Despair - the feeling that a situation is so bad that nothing you can do will change it
- Woes - problems and worries
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Soggy - wet and soft, especially in an unpleasant way
- Monsoon - a period of heavy rain in India and Southeast Asia
- Spectacular - very sudden or extreme, and therefore attracting a lot of attention
- Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
- Injury - physical damage done to a person or a part of their body
- Paralysis - the state of being completely unable to operate normally or effectively
- Ghastly - shocking in a way that frightens or upsets you
- Stampede - if a group of animals or people stampede, they all start to run in a very fast uncontrolled way because they are
- Recurrent - happening again, especially several times
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Shoddy - shoddy work, services, or products are of a very low standard
- Ambitious - an ambitious plan, aim, or attempt is difficult and will need a lot of effort to succeed
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Custodian - someone who is responsible for something valuable such as money, property, or a collection of works of art
- Debris - rubbish or pieces of useless material that make a place untidy
- Catchment - the area of land around a river or lake that it gets its water from
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Resolute - extremely determined
- Sewage - waste substances, especially waste from people’s bodies, removed from houses and other buildings by a system of large underground pipes called sewers
- Retrieve - to get something back, especially something that is not easy to find
- Mangrove - a tropical tree that grows beside water and has roots that begin above the ground
- Worrisome - causing you to feel worried
- Affluent - used about a place where people have a lot of money
- Prone - likely to do something or be affected by something, especially something bad
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Disruption - a situation in which something cannot continue because of a problem
- Underscore - to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Feasible - possible or likely to succeed
- In situ - something that is in situ is in the place where it was found or put, and has not been moved
- Audit - an official examination of the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Remedial - intended to improve or correct something
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