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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Voters’ choice: on Maldives presidential polls"
- Cynicism - the belief that people care only about themselves and are not sincere or honest
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Interim - temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists
- Resounding - complete: used for emphasizing how successful or unsuccessful someone or something is
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Usher in - to make an activity or process begin
- Regardless of - without being affected or influenced by anything else that happens or exists
- Affiliation - connection with an organization, especially a political or religious one
- To begin with - used for introducing the first thing in a list of things you are going to say
- Turnout - the number of voters in an election
- Disprove - to prove that something is not correct or true
- Integrity - the quality of always behaving according to the moral principles that you believe in, so that people respect and trust you
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Frontrunner - the person or thing considered the most likely to win a competition, game, election etc
- Disqualify - to not allow someone to do something because they have committed an offence
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Behind bars - in prison
- Charge - an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime
- Coup - an occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force
- Misgiving - a feeling of fear or doubt about whether something is right or will have a good result
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Belie - to make someone or something appear to be different from how they really are
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Heartening - to make someone feel happier and more hopeful
- Downward spiral - a situation gets worse and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Indebted - owing money
- Clamp down - to make a determined attempt to stop people doing something bad or illegal
- Renew - to arrange for something to continue for a longer period of time
- Station - to send someone to a particular country or place in order to do a job, especially for the armed forces
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Tug of war - a situation in which two people or groups try in a very determined way to get something that they want
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Language matters: on Amit Shah's 'termite' remark"
- Termite - a small insect that eats wood and can damage buildings
- Shrill - shrill words are repeated often and in a very firm way
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Claim - to officially ask for something as a right
- Objection - a statement that shows that you disagree with a plan, or a reason for your disagreement
- Fraught with - full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Recourse - the use of something so that you can get what you want or need in a difficult situation
- Ultimately - after a process or activity has ended
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Grapple with - to try hard to understand a difficult idea or to solve a difficult problem
- Bureaucracy - a complicated and annoying system of rules and processes
- Assert - to state firmly that something is true
- Legitimate - allowed by the law, or correct according to the law
- Assurance - a feeling or attitude of confidence
- Condemn - to say publicly that you think someone or something is bad or wrong
- Undocumented - not supported by written proof
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Wherewithal - the money and ability that give you the power to do a particular thing
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Poverty - a situation in which someone does not have enough money to pay for their basic needs
- Empathy - the ability to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them
- Refuge - a place where you go to protect yourself from something dangerous or threatening
- Pretext - a reason that you pretend to have in order to hide your real reason or intention
- Outreach - the practice of providing help and advice to people in a community before they have to ask for it
- Xenophobia - a strong fear and dislike of people from other countries and cultures
- Demographic - relating to populations
- Fault line - a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail
- Rally - to join other people in order to support someone or something when they are having problems
- Infiltrator - a person who secretly becomes part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way the group thinks or behaves
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Eat away - to gradually destroy something
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Diplomacy - the ability to deal with people in a sensitive way that does not upset or offend them
- Analogy - a comparison between two situations, processes etc that is intended to show that the two are similar
- Pest - an insect or small animal that damages plants or supplies of food
- Staple - a regular and important part or feature of something
- Polarising - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Regrettably - used for saying that you are sad or sorry about something
- Determined - not willing to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
- Mobilisation - the act of organizing or preparing something, such as a group of people, for a purpose
Read Previous Posts of THE HINDU English Vocabulary from here
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