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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 14th October 2018 (Sunday)
- Untenable - impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Resign - to state formally that you are leaving a job permanently
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
- Defend - to protect someone or something from attack
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Offensive - used for attacking
- Dismissing - to refuse to accept that something might be true or important
- Sexual harassment - the offensive or threatening behaviour of a person who regularly makes sexual comments or touches someone in a sexual way
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- A tissue of lies - a story that is just a series of lies
- Unconvincing - if an explanation or story is unconvincing, it does not sound or seem true or real
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Spate of - a large number of things of the same type, usually bad things, that suddenly happen in a very short period of time
- Disclosure - the process of giving information to people, especially information that was secret
- Round the corner - coming very soon
- Motivated - caused by a particular belief or emotion
- Gravamen - the essence or most serious part of a complaint or accusation
- Vague - not clearly or fully explained
- Unsubstantiated - an unsubstantiated argument, claim etc is one for which you have no evidence
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Innuendo - the use of statements with a second possible meaning, usually referring to sex and intended as a joke, or one of these statements
- Outright - without hiding your feelings
- Molestation - the act of molesting someone (= touching or attacking them in a sexual way)
- Loom - if something unpleasant or difficult looms, it seems likely to happen soon
- Heft - power or strength
- Tarnish - if something tarnishes your reputation or image, it makes people have a worse opinion of you than they did before
- Misdemeanour - an action that is bad or wrong, but not in a serious way
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Resisting resistance: on antibiotic misuse"
- Resist - to oppose or fight against someone or something
- Antibiotic - a drug that cures illnesses and infections caused by bacteria
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Infectious disease - an infectious disease is one that can spread from one person to another
- Apocalypse - a situation in which many people die and many things are destroyed
- Investigation - the process of trying to find out all the details or facts about something in order to discover who or what caused it or how it happened
- Veterinary - relating to the care of animals that are ill or injured
- Poultry - birds such as chickens that are used for meat or eggs
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Comply - to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do
- Self-defeating - causing the same problems that you were intending to solve
- Crude - not exact or accurate, but often good enough for a particular purpose
- Mortality - the number of deaths within a particular area, group etc
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Veterinary - relating to the care of animals that are ill or injured
- Contamination - the process of making something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection
- Pharmaceutical - relating to the production or sale of medicines and drugs used for treating medical conditions
- Cosmetics - substances that you use on your skin to make yourself look more attractive
- Prescription - a piece of paper that a doctor gives you that says what type of medicine you need
- Pharmacy - a shop where medicines are prepared and sold
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Antimicrobial - a drug that is used to combat microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi
- Last-resort - used for saying that you will do something only after trying everything else to solve a problem
- For instance - for example
- Massive - very large in amount or degree
- Sewer - an underground pipe or passage that carries sewage
- Explosion - a very large increase in the size, amount, or importance of something over a very short period of time
- Waterbody - a body of water forming a physiographical feature, for example a sea or a reservoir
- Sewage - waste substances, especially waste from people’s bodies, removed from houses and other buildings by a system of large underground pipes
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Formulate - to develop a plan, system, or proposal carefully, thinking about all of its details
- Antibiotic - a drug that cures illnesses and infections caused by bacteria
- Alarming - frightening or worrying
- Estimate - a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something might be
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