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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Give and take: on the RBI board meeting"
- Give and take - willingness to accept suggestions from another person and give up some of your own
- Board - a group of people who have the responsibility of managing important business or government activities
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Turn out - to develop in a particular way, or to have a particular result
- Muted - not as strong or extreme as usual
- Summary - a short account of something that gives only the most important information and not all the details
- Precipitate - to make something happen or begin to exist suddenly and quickly, especially something bad
- Apart from - except for someone or something
- Carry the day - to be successful in dealing with opposition or an opponent
- Resolution - a formal proposal that is considered by an organization and is usually voted on at a meeting
- Relaxation - the process of making rules, controls, conditions etc more relaxed
- Prompt Corrective Action - the process or mechanism under which the RBI take actions on weak and troubled banks
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Non-banking financial companies - financial institutions that offer various banking services, but do not have a banking license
- Stave off - to stop something from happening
- Exclusively - used for emphasizing that something is available to or limited to one specific person, thing, or group
- Bias - an attitude that you have that makes you treat someone in a way that is unfair or different from the way you treat other people
- Surpluse - an amount of money or goods that is left because a country or business has more than it needs
- Balance sheet - a written statement showing the value of a company at a particular time
- Partially - not completely
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Align - to give your support publicly to a group, political party, or country
- Recast - to change the way that someone or something is or appears to be
- Advisory - for the purpose of giving advice
- Thrash out - to discuss something until you find a solution or reach an agreement
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "When giants clash: on the US-China discord"
- Giant - someone who is very successful and important
- Discord - disagreement between people
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Wrap up - to finish something
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Communiqué - an official statement, especially to newspapers, radio, or television
- Rivalry - a situation in which people, teams, businesses etc compete with one another
- Segment - a separate part of anything
- Friction - disagreement
- Stem from - to be caused by something
- Administration - the activities involved in managing a business, organization, or institution
- Unfair - not morally right, or not treating people in an equal way
- Implicit - not stated directly, but expressed in the way that someone behaves, or understood from what they are saying
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Level - to make something equal
- Playing field - a particular type of situation
- Urge - to advise someone very strongly about what action or attitude they should take
- Intellectual property - something that someone has created or invented and that no one else is legally allowed to make, copy, or sell
- Cut back - to reduce the amount of something, especially money that you spend
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Pushback - resistance to a change that has been introduced
- Call upon - to officially ask a person or organization to do something
- Eschew - to avoid doing something, especially for moral reasons
- Plenary - a plenary meeting is intended for all the people in a particular group
- Mince words - to be careful about what you say in order to be polite or not offend someone
- Belt and Road initiative - a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia and Africa
- Landscape - the main features of a situation or activity
- Predominance - a situation in which there is more of a particular type of person or thing than of anything else
- Titan - a person or organization that is very important or successful
- Portend - to be a sign or warning of something that will happen
- Trading - the activity of buying and selling goods
- Mutual - felt or done in the same way by each of two or more people
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Ratchet up - to increase something in controlled stages over a period of time
- Unsurprisingly - in a way that you expected
- Retaliate - to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Reciprocal - done according to an arrangement by which you do something for someone who does the same thing for you
- Downgrade - to treat something in a way that shows that you think it is now less important than it was
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Institutional - from or within a large organization
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Interlocking - joined together by means of parts that fit into other parts
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Forge - to develop a successful relationship, especially in business or politics, with another country, organization, or person
- Painstakingly - very carefully and thoroughly
- At the heart of something - to be the most important part of something
- Attrition - the process of making an enemy physically and mentally weaker by continuously attacking them
- Maritime - involving ships or the business of moving people and goods in ships
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
- Poised - about to do or achieve something after preparing for it
- Vortex - a feeling or situation that has so much power or influence over you that you feel you are not in control
- Forthcoming - happening or coming soon
- Pull back from - to decide not to do something that will probably have bad effects
- Brink - the point in time when something very bad or very good is about to happen
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