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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The sedition debate"
- Sedition - language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Overhaul - to completely change a system in order to make it work more effectively
- Repeal - to state officially that a law no longer has legal authority and has ended
- Trenchant - trenchant comments or criticisms are expressed strongly and clearly
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Disaffection - the state of no longer feeling loyal towards a group or organization
- Disloyalty - not supporting someone that you should support
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Penal code - a system of laws dealing with the punishment of crimes
- Enact - to make a proposal into a law
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- The statute book - a book containing a list of all the statutes in a state or country
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Detractor - someone who publicly criticizes someone or something
- Irony - a strange, funny, or sad situation in which things happen in the opposite way to what you would expect
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Extensively - very large in amount or degree
- Tenaciously - in a way that continues to have an influence for a long time
- Survive - to continue to exist, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Altogether - completely
- Revisit - to consider or discuss something again
- Pertinent - relevant to something
- Abolish - to officially get rid of a law, system, practice etc
- Dilution - the action of making something weaker
- Rigorous - strict, or severe
- Foremost - most important or most well known
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Innocuous - not likely to offend or upset anyone
- Voice - to express your opinions or feelings about something, especially negative feelings
- Disapprobation - disapproval of someone or something that you think is immoral
- Stinging - very strong, or thorough
- Depiction - a description of something using words or pictures
- Unresponsive - not reacting in a suitable way to what people say or do
- Insensitive - not noticing or caring about other people’s feelings or needs, and not worrying that things that you say or do may upset them
- Seditious - encouraging people to oppose the government or not obey the law
- Merely - only / just
- Overt - used about feelings and opinions that are expressed in a very open way
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Incitement - something that encourages people to be violent or commit crimes, or the deliberate act of encouraging violence or crime
- Enunciate - to express an idea clearly and in detail
- Mischief - trouble or disagreement that someone deliberately causes
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Do away with - to get rid of something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Submerging markets: on falling rupee value"
- Submerge - to go below or make something go below the surface of the sea or a river or lake
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Spotlight - a situation in which you get a lot of public attention
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Owing to - because of something
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- For instance - for example
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Outflow - a movement of large amounts of money or large numbers of people from one place to another
- In the doldrums - a situation in which there is a lack of success, activity, or improvement
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Intensify - if something intensifies, or if you intensify it, it becomes greater, stronger, or more extreme
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Carnage - a situation that is difficult or full of problems
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Easing - the action or process of making something less severe or difficult
- Normalcy - a situation in which everything is normal
- Turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity
- Hard-hit - to be very badly affected by something
- Drastic - a drastic action or change has a very big effect
- Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
- Mandate - an official order to do something
- Scenario - situation that could possibly happen
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