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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Draconian move: the arrest of 'Nakkheeran' Gopal"
- Draconian - extremely strict and severe
- Misuse - the use of something in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose
- Haul up - to make someone go to a person in authority to answer questions about something they have done
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Objectionable - unpleasant and offensive
- Trumped-up - deliberately made up in order to connect someone with a crime
- Extraordinary - very unusual and surprising
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Abuse - the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Citing - to mention something as an example, explanation, or proof of something else
- Seldom - not often
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Functionary - an official who works for a government or a political party, especially one with unimportant or boring office duties
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Compel - to force someone to do something, or to get something from someone using force
- Restrain - to prevent someone from doing something
- Plain as day - very easy to understand, see, or hear
- Exercise - to use your power or rights
- Overawe - feeling slightly afraid of something that is extremely impressive or powerful
- Restraint - the limit or control of the expression of strong emotion or opinion
- In question - the person, thing, time etc in question is the one that you are talking about at the present time
- Offensive - unpleasant or insulting, and likely to make people upset or embarrassed
- Derogatory - showing that you have a bad opinion of something or someone, usually in an insulting way
- Reflexively - in a way that is caused by an uncontrolled physical reaction
- Commend - to praise someone or something formally or publicly
- Absurd - completely stupid, unreasonable, or impossible to believe
- Decline - to say politely that you will not accept something or do something
- No stranger to something - to have no/a lot of experience of something
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Overawe - feeling slightly afraid of something that is extremely impressive or powerful
- Ridiculous - silly or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed at
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Intention - a plan in your mind to do something
- Induce - to cause something, especially a mental or physical change
- Compelling - able to persuade someone to do something or persuade them that something is true
- Refrain from - to stop yourself from doing something. This word is often used in official announcements or signs
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Lure - to persuade someone to do something by making it look very attractive
- Unfounded - not supported with facts or evidence
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Redress - to correct a wrong
- Spotlight - a situation in which you get a lot of public attention
- Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Deadly roads in India"
- Fatality - a death caused by an accident, war, violence, or disease
- Injury - physical damage done to a person or a part of their body
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Cripple - to damage something severely, or to prevent it from working properly
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Incremental - increasing gradually
- Transformation - a change into someone or something completely different, or the process by which this happens
- Glaring - used to say that something bad is very obvious
- Public interest - the fact that the public has a right to know about something because it affects them
- Petition - a document signed by many people that asks someone in authority to do something
- Constitute - if several people or things constitute something, they combine to form it
- Fulfil - to do a particular job, or to have a particular purpose
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that something happens, especially that people obey a law or rule
- Statistically - related to the collection of numerical facts or measurements, as about people, business conditions, or weather
- Insignificant - not large or important enough to be worth considering
- Commuter - someone who travels regularly to and from work
- Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Scholar - a person with great knowledge, usually of a particular subject
- Transportation - the activity of moving people or things from one place to another, or the system used for doing this
- For instance - for example
- Cumulatively - developing or increasing gradually as a result of more and more additions
- Hospitalisation - the act of taking someone to hospital and keeping them there for treatment
- Professionalism - the qualities and skills that someone with a professional job is expected to have
- Water down - to make something such as a statement or newspaper article less offensive, powerful, or detailed
- In spite of something - used for referring to a fact that makes something else surprising
- Endanger - to put someone or something into a situation where they might be harmed or damaged
- Tenure - the period of time during which someone has an important job or is an elected official
- Paradigm shift - a basic change in ideas or methods
- Dismal - very bad
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
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