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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Trail of destruction: on damages caused by Cyclone Gaja"
- Extent - the size and importance of a problem or situation
- Cyclone - a severe storm in which the wind spins in a circle
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Tsunami - a very large wave or series of waves caused when something such as an earthquake moves a large quantity of water in the sea
- Devastation - damage or destruction affecting a large area or a lot of people
- Heave a sigh - to let out a deep breath
- Death toll - the number of people who are killed on a particular occasion
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- Displacement - the situation in which people are forced to leave the place where they normally live
- Enormous - very large in size or quantity
- Distraught - extremely worried, upset, or confused
- Contaminate - made dirty, polluted, or poisonous by the addition of a chemical, waste, or infection
- Inaccessible - difficult or impossible to reach
- Render - to make someone or something be or become something
- Homeless - without a place to live
- Cripple - to damage something severely, or to prevent it from working properly
- Fertile - fertile land is able to produce good crops or plants
- Felling - to cut down a tree
- Livestock - animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs that are kept on farms
- Hobbling - to prevent something developing or being successful
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Administrative - relating to the management of a company, organization, or institution
- Undertake - to agree to be responsible for a job or a project and do it
- Overnight - in a very short time
- Assure - to tell someone that something will definitely happen or is definitely true, especially in order to remove doubt about it
- Stricken - affected by serious problems such as injury or illness
- Moratorium - an official agreement to stop an activity temporarily
- Compensation - money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them
- Invest - to use your money with the aim of making a profit from it
- Livestock - animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs that are kept on farms
- Long-term - continuing to exist, be relevant, or have an effect for a long time in the future
- Pauper - a very poor person
- Memorandum - a short written statement containing information about a particular subject, passed between officials in a government or organization
- Restoration - the act or the process of returning something to its original condition
- Rehabilitation - to return someone to a good, healthy, or normal life or condition
- Mitigation - a reduction in the harmful effects of something
- Horticultural - the activity of growing and studying garden plants
- Shattered - extremely upset
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Wrought - to cause very great harm or damage
- Devastation - damage or destruction affecting a large area or a lot of people
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Breathing space: on the strengthening rupee"
- Breathing space - a period of rest from a difficult activity that allows you to get your energy back or try a different solution
- Boost - to help something to increase, improve, or become more successful
- Consistently - in the same way and without changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Appreciation - an increase in the value of something
- Crude oil - oil that is still in its natural state and has not yet been refined for use by chemical processes
- Tanked - decreased
- Amid - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Uptrend - an improvement in the economy, or an increase in business activity
- Lasted - to continue existing or happening for or until a particular time
- In tandem - together and at the same time
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Barrel - a unit for measuring crude oil
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Disruption - a situation in which something cannot continue because of a problem
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Boom - a sudden major increase in trade, profits etc in a particular country or region
- Shale - a type of smooth dark rock that breaks into thin layers
- Faltering - becoming less effective and successful
- Macroeconomic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Relieve - happy and relaxed because something bad has not happened or because a bad situation has ended
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Break-even point - the point at which the total revenue of a business exactly matches the total costs, so that the business is making neither a profit or a loss
- Capitalise - to sell something you own for money that you need
- Preparedness - the state of being ready for something
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