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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 9th October 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Five States: on upcoming Assembly polls"
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Pointer - something that shows you an existing or developing situation
- Witness - to see something happen
- Principal - main, or most important
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Morale - the amount of enthusiasm that a person or group of people feel about their situation at a particular time
- Functionary - an official who works for a government or a political party, especially one with unimportant or boring office duties
- Particularity - great attention to detail
- For instance - for example
- Overwhelmingly - used for emphasizing the amount or strength of something
- Cash in - to use an opportunity to make a profit or gain an advantage
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Unreasonable - not fair
- Incumbency - an official position
- Dissolution - the process of officially ending the existence of a group or organization
- Uncouple - to separate two things, or to become separate
- Proximate - closest or most direct
- Result in - to cause something, or to produce something
- Surge - a sudden increase in the strength of a feeling
- Surviving - still alive or remaining after others are dead or destroyed
- Landmine - a bomb hidden under the ground that explodes when a person or vehicle moves over it
- Drastic - a drastic action or change has a very big effect
- Volatile - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Encroach upon - to gradually take something such as power or authority from someone else
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Allege - to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong or illegal, even though this has not been proved
- Put off - to delay doing something, especially because you do not want to do it
- Rlly - a public meeting that a lot of people go to in order to support someone or something or to protest against someone or something
- Postponement - a delay to an event because someone plans or decides that it should happen at a later date or time
- Defer - to arrange for something to happen at a later time than you had planned
- Citing - to mention something as an example, explanation, or proof of something else
- Monsoon - a period of heavy rain in India and Southeast Asia
- Above all - used for referring to something that is more important than any of the other things you could mention
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Hard justice: Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation"
- Republican - someone who supports the idea of a republic as a system of government
- Republic - a country that is ruled by a president or other leader that people vote for, rather than by a king or queen
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Senate - the more senior part of a law-making institution that has two parts
- Nomination - an official suggestion that someone should get a job or a prize, or the decision to give them a job or a prize
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- 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
- Narrow - limited in range or variety
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Furore - a lot of anger, excitement, or activity caused by a particular event or situation
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Misconduct - seriously bad or dishonest behaviour, especially by someone who has a position of responsibility
- Came forward - to offer help or information
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Inquiry - an official examination of a crime, accident, problem etc, in order to get information or the truth
- Predetermined - happening or developing in a particular way because of things that have existed, happened, or been decided before
- Constraint - something that limits your freedom to do what you want
- Conclusive evidence - conclusive evidence, proof, or information proves that something is true
- Wrongdoing - behaviour that is illegal or not moral
- Swing voter - a voter who has not decided who to vote for in an election
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Legality - the fact that something is legal
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Jurisprudence - the system of laws that exists in a particular place or that affects a particular area of activity
- Rightward - on or towards the right
- Tilt - to move something so that one side is lower than the other
- SCOTUS - acronym for the Supreme Court Of The United States
- Intensify - if something intensifies, or if you intensify it, it becomes greater, stronger, or more extreme
- On the brink of - the point in time when something very bad or very good is about to happen
- Epoch - a long period of time in the history of a people or place
- Herald - a sign that something is going to happen soon
- Rollback - an occasion when the influence of particular laws, rules, etc. is reduced
- Hard-fought - fought with a lot of effort, especially against a very determined opponent
- Reproductive - relating to the process of having babies or producing young animals or plants
- LGBTQ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans(gender) and Queer: used to refer to people with those sexual and gender identities
- Racial - happening between people of different races
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- 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
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Assault - a physical attack on someone, or the crime of physically attacking someone
- Weapon - an object that can be used to hurt people or damage property, for example a gun, knife, or bomb
- Abortion - a medical operation in which a developing baby is removed from a woman’s body so that it is not born alive
- Immune - not influenced or affected by something
- Impeach - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job, especially in the US
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Magnitude - great size, importance, or effect
- Reinsert - place (something) back into its previous position
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