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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 11th November 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The Sri Lanka crisis deepens"
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Deepen - if a bad situation deepens, it becomes worse
- Dissolution - the process of officially ending the existence of a group or organization
- Negate - to make something have no effect
- Letter and spirit - understanding the real intent and heart/spirit of what has been said or written
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Dissolve - if a group or organization dissolves, or if someone dissolves it, it stops existing
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Majority - the number of votes by which a person or party wins an election
- Desperation - the worry and anger that someone feels because they do not know how to deal with a bad situation
- Controversial - a controversial subject, opinion, or decision is one that people disagree about or do not approve of
- Dismissal - an act of making someone leave their job
- Roil - to cause something to stop working in the usual or expected way
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Facilitate - to make it possible or easier for something to happen
- Swearing-in - an official ceremony in which someone beginning an important job formally promises to do their duty
- Legality - the fact that something is legal
- Buy time - to do something in order to get more time to do or finish something else
- Garner - to collect or obtain a large amount of something useful or important
- Defection - to leave a country, political party, or organization and go to another one
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Continuance - the process of continuing
- Untenable - impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Fig leaf - something that hides another thing that is considered morally wrong
- Summon - to arrange a formal meeting and tell people to come to it
- Prorogue - to discontinue a session of something, for example parliament. To postpone or defer.
- Enumerate - to name each one of a series or list of things
- Override - to be much more important than something else
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Expressly - in a way that is clear and definite
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Inclusive - deliberately aiming to involve all types of people
- Camp - a group of people within a larger group who have the same ideas or support the same person
- Democracy - a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Questionable - possibly not true, accurate, or complete
- Sacking - an act of removing someone from a job
- Crossroads - a point during the development of something when you have to make an important decision about what to do next
- Crucial - something that is crucial is extremely important because it has a major effect on the result of something
- Retreat - to avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation, especially by moving away from it
- Authoritarianism - the belief that people with power should control what other people can do, or a situation in which this happens
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Ripples of discord: on gravitational waves"
- Ripple - an emotion that spreads gradually through a person or a group of people
- Discord - disagreement between people
- Gravitational - relating to the force of gravity
- Forthcoming - happening or coming soon
- Illuminating - providing new or useful information, so that something becomes clearer and easier to understand
- Merger - the process of combining two companies or organizations to form a bigger one
- Black hole - an area in outer space where the force of gravity is so strong that light and everything else around it is pulled into it
- Distant - far away from the place where you are
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- Electrifying - extremely exciting
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Template - something that is used as a pattern or an example for something else
- Conjunction - a combination of two or more things
- Correlate - if two or more things correlate or are correlated, they are connected in a way that is not caused by chance
- Weeding out - to remove a person or thing that is not suitable or good enough, especially from a group or collection
- Et al - used after a name to mean ‘and other people whose names are not mentioned’, especially people who have written a book together
- Cryptic - expressing something in a mysterious or indirect way so that it is difficult to understand
- Encompass - to include a lot of people or things
- Lacuna - an empty space where something is missing
- Collaborator - someone you work with in order to produce something
- Transpire - to happen
- Defence - actions that you take to protect someone or something that is being attacked
- Put together - to produce or organize something using many different things
- Leaps and bounds - used for saying that someone or something improves or increases a lot
- Thoughtful - thinking seriously about something
- Critique - a careful written examination of a subject that includes the writer’s opinions
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Beyond - outside a particular area
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