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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Keeping dry: On Kerala floods"
- Flood - to become covered or filled with water
- Resilience - someone’s ability to become healthy, happy, or strong again after an illness, disappointment, or other problem
- Catastrophic - causing a lot of damage, or making a lot of people suffer
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Grim - unpleasant and make you feel upset and worried
- Vigil - a period of time, especially at night, when you stay in a place to wait for something or to give your support to someone
- Unpredictable - changing often, in a way that is impossible to prepare for
- Natural disaster - something that happens in nature and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people, for example a flood or an earthquake
- Asset - something such as money or property that a person or company owns
- Reservoir - an artificial or natural lake where water is stored so that it can be supplied to the houses in an area
- Giant - very large
- Hydroelectric - using water power to produce electricity
- Inundate - to cover an area of land with water
- Habitation - the fact that someone lives in a place
- Havoc - a situation in which there is a lot of damage or destruction, or in which something cannot continue in its normal way because of problems
- Dwelling - a house, flat, or other shelter in which someone lives
- Owing to - because of something
- Landslip - a small fall of earth or rocks down the side of a hill
- Incessant - continuing for a long time without stopping in a way that is annoying
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Respite - a short period of rest from having to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation
- Intense - very great or extreme
- very great or extreme
- Downpour - a large amount of rain that falls quickly
- Nascent - beginning or formed recently
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Deluge - a lot of things all happening or arriving at the same time, especially if they are hard to deal with
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Blame game - a situation in which people try to blame each other for something bad that has happened
- Rehabilitation - to help someone to give up drugs or alcohol, so that they can return to a healthy, independent, and useful life
- All-round - good at doing a lot of different things, especially in sport. The American word is all-around
- First-hand - obtained directly from someone who is involved in something
- Incongruous - strange because of being very different to other things which happen or exist in the same situation
- Armed forces - a country’s army, navy, and air force
- Normalise - to make something normal, or to become normal
- In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Resilience - someone’s ability to become healthy, happy, or strong again after an illness, disappointment, or other problem
- Hazard - something that could be dangerous or could cause damage or accidents
- In spate - if a river is in spate, it is much deeper than usual and the water in it is moving very fast, for example after snow melts in the spring
- Epidemic - a sudden increase in something bad or unpleasant that affects many people
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Spectacular - very sudden or extreme
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Underscore -to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Last resort - used for saying that you will do something only after trying everything else to solve a problem
- For instance - for example
- Displacement - the situation in which people are forced to leave the place where they normally live
- Evolve - to gradually develop particular physical features
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Huff and e-puff: On e-cigarette ban"
- Huff and puff - to speak or behave in a way that shows you strongly disagree with something
- Conflicting - describes two or more things that cannot all be right or cannot all happen at the same time
- Tread cautiously - to be very careful what you do or say, so that you do not make a mistake or cause a problem
- Hearing - a meeting of a court of law or official organization to find out the facts about something
- Public interest - the fact that the public has a right to know about something because it affects them
- Welfare - the health and happiness of people
- Stand - to behave in a particular way
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Combustible - able to burn easily
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Partly - to some degree, but not completely
- Rapidly - a container in which a liquid such as paint or perfume is kept under high pressure so that it can be sprayed (=forced out in very small drops)
- Toxic - poisonous and harmful to people, animals, or the environment
- Carcinogen - a substance that can cause cancer
- Formaldehyde - a gas with no colour and a strong smell, used mixed with water for preserving dead things in a laboratory
- Myocardial infarction - the technical name for a heart attack
- Extent - the degree to which something happens or is likely to happen
- Annual - happening once a year
- Minimisation - to reduce something harmful or unpleasant to the smallest amount or degree
- Perspective - a way of thinking about something
- Noxious - harmful, or poisonous
- Former - used for referring to the first of two people or things that you have mentioned
- Latter - used for referring to the second of two people, things, or groups that have just been mentioned
- Addict - someone who likes a particular activity very much and spends as much time as they can doing it
- Advocate - to publicly support a particular policy or way of doing things
- Precautionary - done or used for protection against possible harm or trouble
- Uncover - to find out about something that has been hidden or kept secret
- Non-linear - not moving in one direction, or not changing in one way at a regular speed
- Inhale - to breathe air, smoke, or other substances into your lungs
- Adolescent - a boy or girl who is changing into a young man or woman
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Underage - not old enough to do something legally, for example drink alcohol or drive a car
- Therapeutic - helping to treat or cure illness
- Gateway drug - a relatively harmless drug that is believed to lead people on to using more dangerous drugs
- Tough call - a choice or judgment which is difficult to make
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