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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "M. Karunanidhi, 94: the end of an era"
- Era - a period of time that has a particular quality or character
- Void - a situation in which something important that is usually present is no longer there
- Legislator - someone who has the power and authority to create new laws
- Engineer - to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen
- Progressive - supporting social and political change that aims to make a system fairer
- Offshoot - a company, group, or organization that has developed from a larger one
- Influential - able to influence the way other people think or behave
- Excel - to do something extremely well
- Clinical - not showing any excitement or emotion
- Bureaucrat - someone who is employed to help run an office or government department
- Acumen - the ability to make good quick decisions and judgments
- Contrasted with - if one thing contrasts with another, the two things are different from each other, often in a noticeable or interesting way
- Welfarism - the principles or policies associated with a welfare state
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Beyond - outside the range or limits of a subject, quality, or activity
- Populism - politics that represents the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Investment - the process of spending money in order to improve something or make it more successful
- Emulate - to try to be like someone or something else, usually because you admire them
- Freebie - something that someone gives you that you do not have to pay for
- Indiscriminately - done without choosing or judging carefully
- Household - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Crusader - someone who works hard for a long time to achieve something that they strongly believe is morally right
- Federalism - the system of giving power to a central authority
- Foremost - most important or most well known
- Emergency - a situation in which a government takes action to deal with an event such as a flood or a fire that is putting a lot of people in danger
- Charge - an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime
- Outfit - an organization, especially a small firm
- Liberation - the action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release
- With iron hand - to control a group of people very firmly, having complete power over everything they do
- Rung - a level of achievement
- Indulge - to allow someone to do what they want or enjoy
- Dissenter - someone who strongly disagrees with something
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Reign - a period of time during which a particular person, group, or thing is very important or a powerful influence
- Longevity - the fact of having a long life or existence
- Leeway - the amount of freedom that someone has to make their own decisions or to take action
- Designated - marked, separated, or given a name for a particular purpose
- Successor - someone who has an important position after someone else
- Wing - a part of an organization or political party that has its own responsibilities and opinions that are separate from the rest of the group
- Astute - good at judging situations and people quickly and able to use this knowledge for personal benefit
- Repartee - conversation that is full of clever and funny comments
- Uncanny - strange and mysterious
- Keen - very strong
- Statesman - an experienced political leader that many people respect
- Straddle - to include different things
- Reflexive - a reflexive movement or action is one that you do without thinking
- Ease - the ability to do something easily
- Succumb to - to become very ill or to die from a disease
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Pause, refresh: on the GST Council's focus on MSMEs"
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Firm - a business or company
- Fortnight - a period of two weeks
- Refrain from - to stop yourself from doing something
- Rejig - to arrange something so that it is organized in a different way
- Peak - to reach the highest standard of performance, before becoming less successful
- Accrue - if money accrues or is accrued, it gradually increases in amount
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Revenue - income from business activities or taxes
- Steep - sudden and very big
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Unfold - to happen, or to develop
- Reckon - to have a particular opinion about someone or something
- Annually - once every year
- Marginal - very small
- Offset - to balance the effect of something, with the result that there is no advantage or disadvantage
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Micro - extremely small
- Enterprise - a business company or organization
- Creditable - good enough to deserve some praise or admiration
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Brush aside - to refuse to accept that something is important or true
- Turnover - the value of the goods and services that a company sells in a particular period of time
- Constitute - if several people or things constitute something, they combine to form it
- Cumbersome - not simple, fast, or effective enough and difficult or annoying to use
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Enhance - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Pointer - something that shows the development or progress of a situation
- Consensual - agreed to by all the people involved
- Consumer - someone who buys and uses goods and services
- Incorporate - to add or include something as a part of something else, for example as a part of an arrangement or a document
- Volunteer - to offer to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been asked to do it and/or without expecting payment
- Pilot -a pilot plan, product, or system is used to test how good something is before introducing it
- Evaluation - careful thought about something before making a judgment about its value, importance, or quality
- Incentive - something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this
- Keenness - the quality of being eager or enthusiastic
- Retain - to keep someone or something
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