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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 13th December 2018 from HERE
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
- Alliance - a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims
- Intractable -very difficult or impossible to deal with
- Reconcile - to find a way to make ideas, beliefs, needs etc that are opposed to each other capable of existing together
- Prospective - likely or expected to happen
- Play hard to get - to pretend that you are less interested in someone than you really are as a way of making them more interested in you
- Majority - the number of votes by which a person or party wins an election
- Reap - to get something as a result of something that you do
- Materialise - to happen or to become real
- First-past-the-post -a first-past-the-post system is one in which only the person or political party that gets the most votes is elected
- Accommodative - willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- Forestall - to prevent something from happening by saying or doing something before it can happen
- Yield - to make a profit
- Nose ahead -to get into a position that is slightly in front of someone or something else
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Deploy - to use something
- Indifferent - not very good
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Homeward bound?: on extradition of Vijay Mallya"
- Homeward bound - travelling towards home
- Extradition - to send someone accused of a crime back to the country where the crime was committed for a trial
- Flee - to escape from a dangerous situation or place very quickly
- Establish - to make something start to exist or start to happen
- Charge - an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime
- Fugitive - someone who has done something illegal and is trying to avoid being caught by the police
- Jurisdiction - the right or power to make legal decisions
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Middleman - someone who helps to arrange business deals and discussions between other people
- Bureau - an organization that provides information or services
- In the throes of something - involved in a difficult or unpleasant situation or activity
- Raging - happening with a lot of force or violence
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Tussle - a disagreement between two people who are both trying to get or to achieve something
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Susceptibility - the tendency to be easily affected or influenced by something
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Overcrowded - containing too many people or things
- Appalling - very unpleasant and shocking
- Inmate - someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital, or other institution
- Preliminary - coming before the main or most important part of something
- Evidence - facts or physical signs that help to prove something
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Categorical - clear and definite about what you mean
- Defraud - to get money from a person or organization in a dishonest way
- Consortium - a group of companies or people with similar interests or aims who have agreed to work together
- Defunct - not existing or working any more
- Portray - to show or describe someone or something in a particular way
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Predicament - a difficult or unpleasant situation that is not easy to get out of
- Beset - to cause someone difficulty or danger over a period of time
- Aviation - the practice of flying planes
- Profligate - wasting money or other things
- Flamboyant - behaving or dressing in a way that deliberately attracts attention
- Disbursement - an amount of money that is paid from a fund (=an amount of money available for a particular purpose)
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Subsequent - happening or coming after something else
- Liability - legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something
- Money-laundering - to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal businesses
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