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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The right to love: on Section 377 verdict"
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Ruling - an official decision
- Further - to help the progress of something so that it is more likely to be successful
- Frontier - the most advanced or recent ideas about something
- Stirring - causing strong emotions
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- Decriminalise - to change the law so that something that was illegal becomes legal
- Gay - sexually attracted to people of the same sex
- Morality - principles of right or wrong behaviour
- Trump - to be better than, or have more importance or power than another person or thing
- Reaffirm - to formally and officially state something again
- Bench - the position of being a judge in a court of law
- Flagrant - done in an obvious way that shows you do not care if you break rules or offend people
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Reasoned - thought about and expressed in an intelligent sensible way
- Belatedly - late or too late
- Specious - seeming to be true but in fact wrong
- Abide by - to follow a rule, decision, or instruction
- Unnatural - different from what you normally expect or experience, often in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable
- Overrule - to officially change a decision that someone else has made
- Upheld - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Homosexual - a person who is attracted sexually to people of the same sex
- Intimate - relating to very private or personal things
- Inherent - an inherent quality is a basic or essential feature that gives something its character
- Privacy - the freedom to do things without other people watching you or knowing what you are doing
- Dignity - respect that other people have for you or that you have for yourself
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Litigation - use of the legal system to settle a disagreement
- Initiate - to make something start
- Voluntary - voluntary work is done for no pay
- Intervening - happening between two events or times
- Sexual orientation - the state of having sexual relationships with people of one sex rather than the other
- Jurisprudence - the system of laws that exists in a particular place or that affects a particular area of activity
- Concerning - about a particular subject
- Transgender - relating to someone whose gender is different from their biological sex
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Facet - an aspect of something such as a situation or someone’s character
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Transformative - causing great and positive change in someone or something
- Constitutionalism - support for a system of government that operates according to a constitution
- Dynamic - continuously changing, growing, or developing
- Progressively - gradually and steadily
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Doctrine - a set of principles or beliefs, especially religious, political or legal ones
- Retrogression - the act of returning to an older and worse state
- Unbridgeable - used for describing problems or differences between people that are so great that they will never be solved or agreed on
- Poignant - giving you feelings of sadness
- Owe - to need to pay or give something to someone
- Apology - a statement that tells someone that you are sorry for doing something wrong or for causing a problem
- Redress - something that you do for someone or money that you give to them as a way of improving a bad situation that you are responsible for
- Dilution - the action of making something weaker
- Departure - something new and different
- Heteronormative - believing or tending to suggest that heterosexuality is the only normal or valid sexual orientation
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Confront - to deal with a difficult situation
- Closet - to not tell people that you are gay
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Pieces of land: on land redistribution in South Africa"
- Redistribution - the process of sharing something out again in a different way, especially one that is fairer
- Apartheid - the political system that existed in the past in South Africa, in which only white people had political rights and power
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Seizure - the action of taking something or taking control of something, especially using power or force
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Tycoon - a rich and powerful person who is involved in business or industry
- Delicate - a delicate situation needs to be dealt with carefully so that people do not get upset or annoyed
- Expropriation - to take someone’s land, money, or possessions and use them for public purposes
- Compensation - money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them
- Skewed - opinions, ideas, or judgments that are skewed have been affected by something, making them strange or unfair
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group: can be followed by a singular or plural verb
- Statistics - a collection of numerical facts or measurements, as about people, business conditions, or weather
- Dispossessed - people who are dispossessed have had something valuable such as their land taken away from them
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Impatience - the annoyed feeling you get when something does not happen as quickly as you want it to or in the way you want it to
- Saw off - to remove something by cutting through it with a saw or a knife
- Hover around - to be at or near a particular level without changing much
- Drift - to move somewhere slowly as though you do not know where you are going
- Despair - the feeling that a situation is so bad that nothing you can do will change it
- Dissipated - spending too much time and money on physical pleasures that are not good for your health
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Pressing - very important and urgent
- Hamper - to prevent something from happening or progressing normally
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Obstacle - a difficulty or problem that prevents you from achieving something
- Poverty - a situation in which someone does not have enough money to pay for their basic needs
- Deficit - a lack of a quality, skill, or ability that you should have
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Explicit - clear and exact
- Speculative - based on guesses or on a little information, not on facts
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Mining - the process of getting coal or metal from under the ground
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Acumen - the ability to make good quick decisions and judgments
- Radical - a radical change or way of doing something is new and very different from the usual way
- Breakaway - consisting of people who have decided to separate from a larger group
- Instil - to make someone have a particular feeling or belief
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Competent - capable of doing something in a satisfactory or effective way
- Sack - to tell someone that they can no longer work at their job
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Transformative - causing great and positive change in someone or something
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Stand your ground - to refuse to change your opinions, beliefs, or decisions despite pressure to change them
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