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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Justice, 34 years on: on the conviction in the anti-Sikh riots case"
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Riot - a violent protest by a crowd of people
- Glimmer - a very slight feeling or look that is not easily noticed
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Pogrom - an occasion in which a large group of people are killed according to an official plan because of their race or religion
- Rioters - a group of people who meet in a public place and behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way, often as a protest
- Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Significance - the importance that something has because it affects other things
- Mob - a large crowd of people that is dangerous or difficult to control
- Shop-keeper - someone who owns or manages a shop
- Resurrect - to make something exist again, or to start to use something again after it
- Wounded - injured, especially with a cut in your flesh
- Transporter - a vehicle or aircraft used for carrying large things such as military equipment or other vehicles
- Sentence - when a judge sentences someone, they officially state what someone’s punishment will be
- Trial - the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent
- Brush aside - to refuse to accept that something is important or true
- Minor - not very important
- Discrepancy - a difference between things that should be the same
- Testimony - a formal statement about something that you saw, know, or experienced, usually given in a court of law
- Key - main / important
- Witness - someone who sees a crime, accident, or other event happen
- Injured - hurt in an accident or attack
- Cogent - a cogent argument is reasonable and sensible
- Reliable - trusted to be accurate
- Frenzy - a state of uncontrolled activity or emotion
- Assassination - the murder of a famous or important person, especially for political reasons
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Communal - relating to a particular community
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Riot - a violent protest by a crowd of people
- Investigator - someone whose job is to officially find out the facts about something, especially a crime or an accident
- Prosecutor - a lawyer whose job is to prove in court that someone accused of a crime is guilty
- Seldom - not often
- Nailing - to prove that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Henchman - a supporter of a powerful person, especially one who is willing to behave in an immoral or violent way
- Impunity - freedom from any risk of being punished for doing something wrong or bad
- Prosecution - the process or act of accusing someone of a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Butcher - someone who has killed someone, often a lot of people, in a cruel and violent way
- Commute - to change a punishment to one that is less severe
- Severely - very seriously
- Hamper - to prevent something from happening or progressing normally
- Connive - to plan secretly, especially to do something that is illegal or immoral
- Functionary - an official who works for a government or a political party, especially one with unimportant or boring office duties
- Excruciating - used for emphasizing how bad something is
- Manipulate - to influence someone, or to control something, in a clever or dishonest way
- Shoddy - shoddy work, services, or products are of a very low standard
- Prominent - important and well known
- Evade - to avoid accepting or dealing with something that you should do
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Efflux - an ending; expiration
- Impediment - something that makes it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "War without end? On the attack on Kabul"
- Horrific - so shocking that it upsets you
- Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Gathering - a group of people meeting together
- Scholar - someone who studies a particular subject and knows a lot about it, especially a subject that is not scientific
- Cleric - a leader of any religion
- Descent - the act of moving down to a lower place or position
- Chaos - a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess
- Prophet - according to some religions, a man sent by God to lead people and teach them their religious beliefs
- Suicide bomber - someone who attacks a person or a place with a bomb and who intends to die while killing or destroying them, usually for political aims
- Seditious - encouraging people to oppose the government or not obey the law
- Allude - to mention someone or something in an indirect way
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Venerate - to respect or worship someone or something
- Sacrilegious - not showing respect for a holy place, object, or idea
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Deteriorate - to become worse
- Markedly - in a clear and noticeable way
- Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
- 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
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Backers - supporters
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Envoy - an official who represents their country in another country, with a rank below an ambassador
- Insurgency - an attempt by a group of people to take control of their country by force
- Insist - to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- Precondition - something that must happen or be done before something else can happen
- Troops - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Pullout - an occasion when an army or business leaves a place
- Ceasefire - an agreement to stop fighting for a period of time, especially in order to discuss permanent peace
- Seize the moment - a short period of time when you have the opportunity to do something
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Indeed - used to express that something is correct
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