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- Impatient - annoyed because something is not happening as quickly as you want or in the way you want
- Ordinance - an official order by a government, king, queen etc
- Triple talaq - a form of divorce that was practised in India, whereby a Muslim man could legally divorce his wife by pronouncing talaq (the Arabic word for divorce) three times
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Enact - to make a proposal into a law
- Dilute - to make something less strong or effective
- Instant - immediate
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Undue - not necessary or reasonable
- Deliberation - discussions in which a subject is considered carefully
- Objection - a statement that shows that you disagree with a plan, or a reason for your disagreement
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Desirability - the quality of being worth doing or having
- Criminalising - to make an activity illegal by making a new law
- Statutory - controlled by a law or statute
- Term - the period of time that someone must spend in prison
- In the face of something - in a situation where you have to deal with something unpleasant or difficult
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Significant - very important
- Water down - to make something such as a statement or newspaper article less offensive, powerful, or detailed
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Exigency - something difficult that you must deal with as part of a situation or job
- Promulgating - to make an official announcement introducing a law or rule
- Espouse - to give your support to an idea, principle, or belief
- Mere - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Subversion - the action of trying to destroy a government or an established belief, especially by attacking it indirectly in written or spoken material
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Cognisable - clearly identifiable
- Pronounce - to formally state an official opinion or decision
- Compoundable - compoundable offences are those offences where, the complainant (one who has filed the case, i.e. the victim), enter into a compromise, and agrees to have the charges dropped against the accused
- Marital - relating to marriage
- Subsist - to exist
- Self-contradictory - expressing one thing that is the opposite of another thing that was already said; saying two things that cannot both be correct
- Offending - causing a problem, or breaking a rule
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Upping the ante: On the U.S.-China trade war"
- Up the ante - if you up the ante, you increase your demands or the risks in a situation in order to achieve a better result
- Trade - the activities of buying and selling goods or services
- Ratchet something up - to increase something in controlled stages over a period of time
- Slap - to order that something should be done immediately, especially as a punishment
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Skirmish - an argument or a disagreement, especially a political one
- Typical of - like most people or things of the same type
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry or rude way that shows you want to fight, attack, or argue with someone
- Retaliatory - intended to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Pursue - to follow a course of activity
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- To the tune of - used for emphasizing how large an amount is
- Make good - to become successful
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Escalation - to become or make something become greater or more serious
- Trajectory - the way in which a process or event develops over a period of time
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Concur - to agree with someone or something
- Shrinkage - the process of becoming smaller in size
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Considerable - large in size, amount, or degree
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Overproduction - a situation in which a factory, an economy etc produces too many goods
- Dumping - to get rid of someone or something that you no longer want or need
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Hyper-connected - characterized by the widespread or habitual use of devices that have Internet connectivity
- Indeed - used for adding a statement that supports and increases the effect of what you have just said
- Persist with - to continue to do or say something in a determined way
- Retreat - to avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation, especially by moving away from it
- Isolationism - a country’s policy of not having political or economic relationships with other countries
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- A myriad of something - an extremely large number of people or things, especially one that is too large to count
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Wither away - to become weaker or smaller and then disappear
- Fly in the face of something - to completely oppose, or be completely opposite to, something that most people believe or accept
- Credentialise - to provide a job history, life history or educational credential to establish validity or credibility
- Precisely - clearly
- Stave off - to stop something bad from happening, or to keep an unwanted situation or person away, usually temporarily
- Parochialism - the quality of showing interest only in a narrow range of matters, especially those that directly affect yourself, your town, or your country
- Engender - to cause a feeling or attitude to exist
- Horror - a very strong feeling of shock, fear or disgust caused by something extremely unpleasant
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