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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 19th October 2018 (Vijayadashami)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Keep the peace: on Sabarimala"
- Dial down - to reduce the level of tension or intensity in a situation
- Riotous - behaving in a noisy and violent way
- Pathway - a path that you can walk on
- Ought to - used for saying what is the right or sensible thing to do, or the right way to behave
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Irrespective - despite a particular fact, situation, or quality
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Keep the peace - to avoid or prevent an argument
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Shrine - a religious place built to remember a particular holy person or event
- Irrespective - despite a particular fact, situation, or quality
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Consume - to destroy something completely, especially by burning it
- Sizeable - fairly large
- Devotee - someone who follows a particular religion or religious leader
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Unseemly - not suitable or polite
- Turn away - to refuse to let someone come into a place
- Activist - someone who takes part in activities that are intended to achieve political or social change, especially someone who is a member of an organization
- Augur - to be a sign of what may happen in the future
- Terrain - an area of land, usually one that has a particular physical feature
- Render - to provide a service, or to give help to someone or something
- Transpire - to happen
- Genuine - real, rather than pretended or false
- Provocation -something that causes you to react in an angry or violent way, often something that is intended to cause such a reaction
- Entitle - to give someone the right to do something
- Volatile - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Merely - only / just
- Score a point - to gain an advantage over other people, especially by saying or doing something that makes a particular person or group of people like you
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Apex - the top and most important
- Resurface - to start to have an effect again
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Fritter something away - to waste money, time, or an opportunity
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Recur - to happen again
- Incident - something that happens, especially a violent, criminal, or dangerous event
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Unfound - not found
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Taliban surge: on Kandahar attack"
- Surge - a sudden increase in something
- Srike a blow - to do something to harm or oppose an idea, movement, or group
- Compound - an enclosed area where a particular group of people live
- Deteriorate - to become worse
- Infiltrate - to secretly join an organization or go into a place in order to find out information about it or damage it
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Ambassador - a senior official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country there
- Assault - a physical attack on someone, or the crime of physically attacking someone
- Troops - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Unhurt - not injured
- Conflicting - describes two or more things that cannot all be right or cannot all happen at the same time
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
- Survive - to stay alive despite an injury, illness, war etc
- Instrumental - involved in an important way in making something happen
- Coordinate - to organize the different parts of a job or plan so that the people involved work together effectively
- Vacuum - a feeling that something is missing, or a situation in which something is missing
- Offensive - used for attacking
- Dire - very severe or serious
- Gathering - a group of people meeting together
- Overstretched - without enough money, people etc to operate effectively
- Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Envoy - an official who represents their country in another country, with a rank below an ambassador
- Drift - to go from one state to another without realizing it
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Outright - used for emphasizing that something happens or is done completely at one time or in a single process
- Clueless - having no knowledge of something, or of things in general
- Advance - a forward movement towards someone or something, especially by an army
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