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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 8th July 2018 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "No, Minister: on Jayant Sinha's decision to felicitate convicts"
- Felicitate - to praise someone and say that you approve of or are pleased about a special or unusual achievement
- Convict - someone who is in prison because they are guilty of a crime
- Disservice - an action that harms something or someone
- Vigilantism - attempts by ordinary citizens to catch and punish criminals, without waiting for the police
- Entitled - an entitled person thinks they are special and deserve special treatment
- Presumption - a belief that something is true because it seems reasonable or likely
- Guilt - the fact that someone has committed a crime
- Aviation - connected with making or flying planes
- Reservation - a feeling of doubt about whether something is good or right
- Convicted - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- Sentence - when a judge sentences someone, they officially state what someone’s punishment will be
- Bunch of - group of
- Life imprisonment - a punishment in which someone is sent to prison for the rest of their life
- Merely - just / only
- Let out - to allow a person or animal to leave a place
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Garland - to decorate someone or something with flowers
- Celebratory - celebrating an important event or a special occasion
- Savage - cruel and unpleasant or violent
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Hobnob - to spend time being friendly with someone who is important or famous
- Inexcusable - inexcusable behaviour is so bad or rude that you cannot forgive the person who behaved like that
- Ought to - have to
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Grave - so serious that you feel worried
- Lapse - a short or temporary period when you fail or forget to do something in the right way
- Distinction - a difference between two things
- Assault - a physical attack on someone, or the crime of physically attacking someone
- Onlooker - someone who watches something happen but does not take part in it
- Proclamation - an official announcement, especially about something important, or something that affects everyone
- Innocence - the state of not being guilty of a crime
- Far from - used for saying that the real situation is the opposite of what you mention
- Presume - to think that something is true because it is likely, although you cannot be certain
- Miscarriage - a miscarriage of justice is a wrong decision in a court of law, or any unfair decision:
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Exigency - something difficult that you must deal with as part of a situation or job
- Prevail - to exist at a particular time or in a particular situation
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Wittingly - if you do something wittingly, you know that you are doing something that might cause problems or upset someone
- Unwittingly - in a way that is not conscious or deliberate
- Indulge - to become involved in something that people do not approve of
- Affiliation - connection with an organization, especially a political or religious one
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "No one wins: on the US-China trade war"
- Sane - a sane action or decision is a sensible one that people can understand
- Counsel - to give someone advice and help with their problems
- Prevail - to be the strongest influence or element in a situation
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Potential - someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, or succeed
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Vowed to do something - to promise that you will do something
- Resonate - to produce an emotional effect on someone
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Retaliatory - intended to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Consumer - someone who buys and uses goods and services
- Disrupt - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Rely - depend
- Tit-for-tat - something that you do to harm someone because they have harmed you
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Scale back - to reduce
- Slowdown - a period when there is less activity
- Amicably - friendly and without arguments
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Isolate - to keep someone in a place away from other people
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- For instance - for example
- Simmer - if a disagreement or negative emotion simmers, it grows slowly stronger over a period of time and could become more serious at any moment
- Resort to - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Devalue - to officially reduce the value of a country’s money
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
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