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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Passing the buck : on governments' response to lynchings"
- Pass the buck - to make someone else deal with something that you should take responsibility for
- Lynching - to kill someone, even though they have not been proved guilty of any crime
- The length and breadth of something - in every part of a large area
- Baffling - impossible to understand
- Mob - a large crowd of people that is dangerous or difficult to control
- Materialise - to appear suddenly and unexpectedly
- Plotting - to make a secret plan with other people to do something bad
- Harvest - to collect something
- Beware - used to warn someone of danger or difficulty
- Hail from - to be from a particular place
- Circulate - if information or ideas circulate, one person talks or writes about them to another, so that more and more people start to know about them
- Cluster - a series of events of the same type
- Clobber - to hit someone very hard
- Overpower - to defeat someone by having greater strength or power
- Ironically - used for saying that a situation has developed in an unexpected way
- Hire - to pay someone to work for you, especially for a short time
- Precisely - clearly
- Remedial - intended to improve or correct something
- Proliferation - a sudden increase in number or amount
- USP - unique selling proposition, or unique selling point: the thing that makes a product or service special or different from others
- Legitimise - to make something seem morally right or reasonable
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place
- Privacy - the freedom to do things without other people watching you or knowing what you are doing
- Commodity - a valuable quality
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Predate - to kill
- Tendency - a strong chance that something will happen in a particular way
- Panic - a sudden strong feeling of fear or worry that makes you unable to think clearly or calmly
- Distressing - making you feel extremely unhappy, worried, or upset
- Viral - very popular and spreading very quickly, especially on the Internet
- Reach out - to try to communicate with a person or a group of people
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Rumour - unofficial information that may or may not be true
- Amplify - to explain something more thoroughly or give it more emphasis
- Merely - only / just
- Appeal - a request for people to do something or to behave in a particular way
- Hardly - certainly not
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Allies, interrupted: on India-U.S. ties"
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
- Drift - to do something or to happen in a way that is not planned
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Diverge - to start to go in separate directions
- Multilateral - involving more than two groups or countries
- Sanction - an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Insistence - a very firm statement that something must happen or that something is true
- Defence - the system of weapons, equipment, and people that is used to protect a country
- Procurement - the process of buying supplies or equipment for a government department or company
- Envoy - an official who represents their country in another country, with a rank below an ambassador
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Interlocutor - someone who you are having a conversation with
- Confrontation - a fight or argument
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Adversary - an enemy or opponent
- Tilt - to influence a situation in a particular way, or to be influenced in a particular way
- Dialogue - a process in which two people or groups have discussions in order to solve problems
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Lapsed - no longer legally effective
- Autonomy - a situation in which a state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Informal - informal talks or meetings are relaxed, do not involve many people, and do not need to produce an official result
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- At variance with - if one thing is at variance with another, they are completely different and seem to oppose each other
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Considerably - a lot
- Diminished - reduced in amount, size, or importance
- In contrast to - to be very different from something else
- Postpone - to decide that something will not be done at the time when it was planned for, but at a later time
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Fraying - gradually being destroyed or becoming weaker
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Ultimatum - a statement that orders someone to do something and threatens to punish or attack them if they do not
- Kick in - to start to have an effect
- The clock is ticking - used for saying that someone must do something quickly because there will soon be no more time left
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