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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Avoidable suspense: on Indian-origin FPIs"
- Avoidable - capable of being prevented
- FPI - Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) [non residents who invest in Indian securities including shares, government bonds, corporate bonds, convertible securities, infrastructure securities etc]
- Regulatory - a regulatory organization or company controls an activity, process, or industry
- Seldom - not often
- Talk tough - to speak in a way that makes other people fear you
- In the public domain - if something such as information is in the public domain, people in general know about it because it is not secret
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Booming - increasing or becoming successful and producing a lot of money very quickly
- Bear-hug - an extremely high offer to buy a company, which shareholders will want management to accept
- Embattled - experiencing a lot of problems and likely to be defeated or destroyed
- Diktat - an official rule that people are forced to obey
- Scrap - to decide not to continue with something such as a plan or an event
- Disqualify - to not allow someone to do something
- Back - support
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Enhance - to improve something
- End up - to be in a particular place or state after doing something or because of doing it
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Blanket ban - total / complete ban
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Delegate - to give a particular job, duty, right, etc. to someone else so that they do it for you
- Jurisdiction - the right or power to make legal decisions
- Custodian - someone who is responsible for something valuable such as money, property, or a collection of works of art
- Preposterous - extremely unreasonable or silly
- Irresponsible - done or said without thinking of the possible results of your actions or words
- Directive - an official order
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- NRI - a non-resident Indian: an Indian who lives outside India
- Ambiguity - something that is not clear because it has more than one possible meaning
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Determine - to control what something will be
- Complying with -to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do
- Breach - to break a law, rule, or agreement
- Unwind - to begin to relax after you have been working hard or feeling nervous
- Breathing space - a period of rest from a difficult activity that allows you to get your energy back or try a different solution
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Round-trip - if you make a round trip, you go on a journey and return to where you started from
- Conduit - a person, place, or system that is used for passing goods or information from one group of people to another
- Illicit - not allowed by the law or rules
- Unwise - not sensible
- Timely - happening at the most suitable time
- Dialogue - a process in which two people or groups have discussions in order to solve problems
- Stakeholder - a person or company that has invested in a business and owns part of it
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- About-turn - a big change in your opinion or attitude to something, so that it is almost the opposite of what it was before
- Enhance - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The centre holds: on the Sweden elections"
- Far right - used to refer to political groups whose opinions are very extreme
- Shrinking - becoming smaller or less
- Centrist - not extreme in your political beliefs
- Echo - to express the ideas or feelings that someone else has expressed
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Nordic - someone who is Nordic is from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Iceland
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Social democrat - someone who believes in social democracy (relating to society and to people’s lives in general)
- Emerge - to become known
- Majority - the number of votes by which a person or party wins an election
- Razor-thin - a razor-thin difference in amount is very small
- Minority government - a government in which the main party has more members than any other single party but not more members than all the other parties together
- Phenomenon - an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist
- Democrat - someone who supports democracy as a political system
- Populist - representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Opinion poll - an attempt to find out what people in general think about a subject by asking some people questions about it
- Isolation - the state of being separated from other people, or a situation in which you do not have the support of other people
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Tenable - a tenable situation is sensible or well organized and therefore can continue
- Shed - to get rid of something that is not wanted or is no longer necessary
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event
- Generous - giving people more of your time or money than is usual or expected
- Welfare - the health and happiness of people
- Traction - the action of pulling something over a surface, or the type of power used for pulling
- Stoked - to make a feeling stronger
- Apparent - easy to see or understand
- Step down - to leave an official position or job, especially so that someone else can take your place
- Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Like-minded - like-minded people, groups etc have similar tastes, interests, and opinions
- Populist - representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Extremism - a tendency to have beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Pan - all
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