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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A political ploy: on the hike in MSPs"
- Ploy - a way of tricking or confusing someone in order to get an advantage or to make them do what you want
- Hike - a sudden large increase in the amount or level of something
- Hefty - large and heavy
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Modest - fairly good, but not excellent
- Cereal - a food made from grain, for example wheat, oats, or corn
- Redeem - to improve something that is not very good by including something that is good
- Assure - to tell someone that something will definitely happen or is definitely true, especially in order to remove doubt about it
- In line with - similar to someone or something
- Rely - to depend on someone / something
- Impute - to calculate something when you do not have exact information, by comparing it to something similar
- Crop - a plant grown for food, usually on a farm
- Peg - to keep prices, salaries, or the amount of something at a particular level, often in relation to something else
- Spearhead - to lead an organized effort or activity
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Opt - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Abundant - existing or available in large quantities
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Weary - very tired, especially because of hard work or activity
- Admonish - to tell someone that you do not approve of what they have done
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Procurement - the process of buying supplies or equipment for a government department or company
- Paddy - a field of rice growing in water
- Suffice - to be enough
- Anticipate - to think that something will probably happen
- Fool-proof - a foolproof method, plan, or system is so well designed that it cannot go wrong or is certain to succeed
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Endeavour - an effort to do something, especially something new or difficult
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Vary - to be different in different situations
- On the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Adversely - negative, unpleasant, or harmfully
- Outlay - the amount of money that you must spend in order to buy something or to start a new business or project
- Gesture - a movement that communicates a feeling or instruction
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Distortionary - related to a change that makes something no longer true or accurate
- On account of - because of someone or something
- Onerous - something that is onerous is something that you dislike or worry about because it is very difficult to deal with
- Stockholding - the shares that someone owns in a particular company, or in companies in general
- Curb - to control or limit something
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Merkel’s deal"
- Chancellor - the leader of the government in some countries, for example Germany and Austria
- Weather - to manage a difficult experience without being seriously harmed
- Crises - plural of crisis (an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation)
- Jeopardise - to risk damaging or destroying something important
- Stability - a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes
- Integrity - the quality of always behaving according to the moral principles that you believe in, so that people respect and trust you
- Eurozone - the group of European Union states that use the euro as their official currency
- Inconclusive - not producing a definite result or complete proof of something
- Incompatible - ideas, systems, or machines that are incompatible are not able to work or exist together because of basic differences
- Moderate - reasonable and avoiding extreme opinions or actions
- Accommodative - willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Reluctant - not willing to do something
- Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Interior - the government department that is responsible for things that happen within a country, not for relations between that country and others
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Embody - to include something
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Asylum seeker - someone who has to leave their own country because they are in danger and who arrives in another country and asks to be allowed to live there
- Accommodate - to provide a place or room for someone to stay in
- Transit - the activity or process of moving someone or something from one place to another
- Staunch - loyal, and showing strong belief in something or strong support for something
- Open-doors approach - a policy of allowing all people and goods to come into a country easily
- Dilution - the action of making something weaker
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Scepticism - doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right
- Insist - to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- Echo - to express the ideas or feelings that someone else has expressed
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Transit center - a temporary home for people who are escaping from a war or another dangerous situation
- Internment - the act of putting someone in a prison without officially accusing them of a crime, especially when this is done for political reasons
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Liberal - accepting different opinions and ways of behaving and tending to be sympathetic to other people
- Centrist - not extreme in your political beliefs
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Urgency - the need to deal with something quickly
- Far-right - people whose political views are either extremely right-wing or left-wing
- Lurching - to keep having serious problems, usually caused by a lack of judgment
- Perilous - very dangerous
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Slant - to give information or ideas in a way that gives more attention or support to a particular person, group, or opinion
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Hollowing out - to make an empty space inside something
- Middle-ground - opinions and attitudes that are not extreme and that a lot of people can agree with
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
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