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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 16th September 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The rupee problem"
- Ad hoc - done only when needed for a specific purpose, without planning or preparation
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Deflect - to make someone change their plans or stop what they are doing
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Non-essential - not really necessary
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Burgeoning - growing or developing quickly
- Current Account Deficit - a measurement of a country’s trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the goods and services it exports
- Foreign portfolio investments - consists of securities and other financial assets passively held by foreign investors
- Masala bonds - bonds issued outside India but denominated in Indian Rupees, rather than the local currency
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- De-risk - to remove risk, especially financial risk, from a situation or process
- Fluctuation - frequent changes in the amount, value, or level of something
- Witness - to be the evidence that something is true
- Amidst - in the middle of or surrounded by
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Outflow - a movement of large amounts of money or large numbers of people from one place to another
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Reliance - the state of depending on a particular person or thing
- Exert - to use influence, authority, or power in order to affect or achieve something
- Tremendous - used for emphasizing that something such as an amount, achievement, or feeling is extremely great, important, or strong
- Impede - to make it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
- Depreciate - to become less valuable than before
- Symptom - a sign of a larger problem
- Persistent - continuing to exist, especially for longer than you would like
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- In line with - similar to someone or something
- Drastic - a drastic action or change has a very big effect
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Lethal filth: India's manual scavenging problem"
- Lethal - very dangerous and able to kill you
- Filth - dirt that is especially unpleasant, usually because there is a lot of it
- Scavenge - to search through things that other people have thrown away in order to see if there is anything that you want
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Vigorously - in a way that is very forceful or energetic
- Entirety - the whole of something
- Septic tank - a large container buried under the ground and used for collecting waste from toilets
- Upmarket - upmarket services or goods are designed for people who have a lot of money
- High-profile - often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appearing on television
- Sanitation - conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Alter - to make something or someone different
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Rehabilitation - to return someone to a good, healthy, or normal life or condition afterthey have been in prison, been very ill, etc
- Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison
- Hazardous - dangerous, especially to people’s health or safety
- Sewer - an underground pipe or passage that carries sewage
- Prescribed - decided by a law or a rule
- Norm- something that is usual or expected
- In spite of - used for referring to a fact that makes something else surprising
- Well-funded - well financed; with plenty of money
- Devoted to - containing or dealing with one particular thing
- Gear - the equipment, clothes, etc. that you use to do a particular activity
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Mere - only / just
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Violator - someone who breaks a law
- Ring hollow - to sound false or not sincere
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Uniform - the same everywhere
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Acknowledge - to accept or admit that something exists, is true, or is real
- Urbanisation - the process by which towns and cities grow bigger and more and more people go to live in them
- For instance - for example
- Fatality - a death caused by an accident, war, violence, or disease
- On the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Avenue - one of the methods you can use to achieve something
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Lacuna - an empty space where something is missing
- Come up with - to think of something such as an idea or a plan
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