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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Dangerous rhetoric"
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Feasting - to take great pleasure in doing something
- Demography - the study of populations
- Coordinator - someone whose job is to organize the various parts of an activity and make sure that all the people involved work well together
- At pains to do something - to try very hard to do something
- By no means - used as a way of emphasizing a negative statement
- Rehabilitation - to return something to a good condition
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- Daunting - something that is daunting makes you worried because you think that it will be very difficult or dangerous to do
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Strand - left somewhere with no way of going anywhere else
- Full-blown - in its most complete and developed form
- Spectacle - an unusual, exciting, or impressive event or sight
- Unfold - to happen, or to develop
- Trivialise - to make something seem less important or serious than it really is
- Complexity - the complicated nature of something
- Spell out - to say or explain something very clearly because someone has not understood something
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Evict - to legally force someone to leave the house they are living in, usually because they have not paid their rent
- Threatening - showing or saying that someone is likely to do something that will harm you
- Denominational - relating to a particular religious group
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Bloodbath - a period of fighting in which a lot of people are killed or injured
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Manifest - to show something such as a feeling or ability, so that it is easy to notice
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Brace - to get ready for something unpleasant
- Boast - to proudly tell other people about what you or someone connected with you has done or can do, or about something you own, especially in order to make them admire you
- Deport - to send someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there
- Assail - to make someone feel worried or upset
- What-if - used for asking what would happen in a particular situation
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Linguistic - relating to languages, words
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Convey - to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
- Dog-whistle - used for referring to political messages that are aimed at particular groups and will only be fully understood by them
- Implied - suggested without being stated directly
- Counselling - advice and help that you give someone with their problems
- Shrill - used to describe a way of arguing or criticizing that seems too forceful
- Genuinely - honestly, or in a sincere way
- Heed - to pay attention to something, especially advice or a warning
- Legacy - something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
- Render - to make someone or something be or become something
- Eventual - happening or existing at the end of a process or period of time
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Term - a period of time during which a politician or other official holds their job
- Emotive - causing strong feelings
- Convicted - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Sensational - very exciting and surprising
- Charismatic - a charismatic person has a strong personal quality that makes other people like them and be attracted to them
- Left-wing - someone who is left-wing is considered to have socialist aims and ideas, for example that property, money, and power should be shared more equally
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison
- Bribery - the crime of giving money or presents to someone so that they will help you by doing something dishonest or illegal
- Money-laundering - the crime of moving money that has been obtained illegally through banks and other businesses to make it seem as if the money has been obtained legally
- Candidacy - the fact that someone is a candidate in an election
- Overrule - to officially change a decision that someone else has made
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Deter - to make someone decide not to do something
- Nominate - to officially suggest that someone should be given a job, or that someone or something should receive a prize
- Federal - connected with the national government of a country rather than with the government of one of its member states
- Sympathies - support or approval for ideas, beliefs, or people
- Swiftly - quickly or immediately
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Seize upon - to use something in an enthusiastic way in order to gain an advantage
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Morale - the amount of enthusiasm that a person or group of people feel about their situation at a particular time
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Fiercely - used for emphasizing what you are saying, especially how strong or severe something is
- Protest - to disagree strongly with something, often by making a formal statement or taking action in public
- Candidacy - the fact that someone is a candidate in an election
- A shot in the arm - something that quickly makes a bad situation much better
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Influential - able to influence the way other people think or behave
- Congressman - a man who is a member of the US Congress, especially the House of Representatives
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Tap into - to understand and express something such as people’s beliefs or attitudes
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Innocence - the state of not being guilty of a crime
- Persecution - extremely bad treatment of someone, especially because of their race, religion, or political beliefs
- Ploy - a way of tricking or confusing someone in order to get an advantage or to make them do what you want
- Delegate - someone who is chosen to represent a group of other people at a meeting
- Insist - to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Clinging - wanting to be with another person all the time in a way that is annoying
- Impeachment - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job
- Orchestrate - to plan and organize a complicated event or course of action, especially without being noticed, so that it achieves the result you want
- Successor - someone who has an important position after someone else
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Implicate - to show or suggest that someone is involved in something illegal or morally wrong
- Obstruction - the act of taking action in order to prevent someone from doing something or to prevent something from happening
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Misappropriate - to take for yourself money that you are responsible for but that does not belong to you
- Counting on - to depend on someone to do what you want or expect them to do for you
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
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