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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 28th October 2018 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Avoidable crisis: on Sri Lanka's political crisis"
- Avoidable - capable of being prevented
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Peril- danger
- Faction - a small group within a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions from the rest
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Deteriorating - to become worse
- Open secret - something that should be secret but is not because a lot of people know about it
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Catch someone unawares - to surprise someone, often making them feel confused or embarrassed
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Unfolding - to happen, or to develop
- Sink in - to become completely understood
- Sworn in - when someone is sworn in, they make a formal promise to be honest or loyal, either in a law court or when starting a new official job
- Beaming - if you beam, you smile in a very obvious way
- Chief - main or most important
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Unconstitutional - not allowed or not legal according to the constitution (=set of official rules or principles) of a particular country or organization
- Maintain - to continue to say that something is true, even if other people do not believe you
- Floor test - test of majority
- Expose - to allow something that is usually covered or hidden to be seen
- Garner - to collect or obtain a large amount of something useful or important
- Horse-trading - difficult and sometimes dishonest discussions between people who are trying to reach an agreement
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Amid - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Upheaval - a sudden or violent change, especially one that affects people’s lives
- Avoidable - capable of being prevented
- Fragility - the quality of being easily damaged or broken
- Plummeting - to fall straight down very quickly from a high position
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Blatant - done in an obvious way that shows you are not embarrassed or ashamed to be doing something bad or illegal
- Abuse - the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Betray - if you betray your country, or if you betray someone who needs your support, you deliberately do something that harms them or helps their opponents
- Utter - complete or extreme
- Disregard - the attitude of someone who does not respect something or consider it important
- Resort to something - to do something that you do not want to do because you cannot find any other way of achieving something
- Let down - to make someone disappointed by not doing something that they are expecting you to do
- Sizeable - fairly large
- 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
- Backed - supported
- Forum - an organized event or meeting at which people discuss something
- Clout - the authority to make decisions, or the power to influence events
- Thuggery - violent behaviour
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Bloodbath - a period of fighting in which a lot of people are killed or injured
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Grapple with - to try hard to understand a difficult idea or to solve a difficult problem
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Recede - to move back from a high point or level
- Exceptional - extremely good or impressive in a way that is unusual
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Irony - a strange, funny, or sad situation in which things happen in the opposite way to what you would expect
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Desire - a strong feeling of wanting to have or to do something
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- By hook or by crook - in whatever way is possible
- Reconvene - to start meeting again
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "More from less: on BJP-JD(U) seat sharing in Bihar for 2019 poll"
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- In principle - used for saying that something is possible in theory, although it has not yet been tried
- Specifics - the details of something
- Hurdle - one of several problems that you must solve before you can do something successfully
- Contest - a situation in which two or more people or groups are competing to gain power or an advantage
- Reliable - a reliable person is someone who you can trust to behave well, work hard, or do what you expect them to do
- Trustworthy - able to be trusted as being honest, safe, or reliable
- Gamble - to do something that involves risks but may result in benefits if things happen as you hope they will
- Vastly - to a great degree
- Substantially - by a large amount or degree
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Evidently - in a way that is easy to see
- Accommodative - willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- Pursue - to follow a course of activity
- First-past-the-post - a first-past-the-post system is one in which only the person or political party that gets the most votes is elected
- Trail - to be losing in a competition or election
- Constituent - someone who lives in a constituency and is allowed to vote in elections
- Add up - if small amounts add up, they gradually produce a large total
- Camp - a group of people within a larger group who have the same ideas or support the same person
- By-election - an election in one particular area to choose a new representative in parliament or on a council, or to replace someone who has died or left the job
- Morale - the amount of enthusiasm that a person or group of people feel about their situation at a particular time
- Booster - something that makes you feel more confident, more healthy etc
- Fancy - to believe that someone will be successful in doing something, especially winning a competition or fight
- Contend with - to have to deal with problems or difficulties, especially in order to achieve something
- Formidable - very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with
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