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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The death debate: on Justice Joseph’s views on capital punishment"
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Capital punishment - the punishment of being legally killed
- Abolish - to officially get rid of a law, system, practice etc
- Consideration - careful thought before making a decision or judgment about something
- Merit - an advantage or good quality that someone or something has
- Retain - to keep someone or something
- Death penalty - legal punishment by death, usually for a serious crime such as murder
- Re-ignite - to make something such as a disagreement or worry that was disappearing grow stronger
- Uphold - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Ethical - involving the principles used for deciding what is right and what is wrong
- Practical - involving or relating to real situations and events
- Wisdom - the ability to make good decisions based on knowledge and experience
- Underscore - to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Discourse - serious spoken or written discussion of a particular subject
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Uneven - not of the same quality in all its parts
- Freakishly - in a very unusual or unexpected way, especially by being unpleasant or strange
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Revolves around something - to have something as a very important part or purpose
- Gravity - the seriousness or importance of something
- Fatality - a death caused by an accident, war, violence, or disease
- Outrage - a strong feeling of anger and shock at something that you feel is wrong or unfair
- Deterrence - the idea that people will decide not to do something if they believe that something unpleasant could happen to them as a result
- Clamour - an urgent request for something by a lot of people
- Befitting - to be suitable for someone or something
- Render - to provide a service, or to give help to someone or something
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Retributive - punishment that someone deserves because they have done something very bad
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Restorative - making you feel strong, healthy, full of energy, or happy again
- Heinous - a heinous act or crime is extremely evil
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Inconsistent - containing parts that do not match each other
- Condign - appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved
- Regardless - without being affected or influenced by someone or something
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Curative - able to cure or cause to get better
- Death row - the part of a prison for criminals who are going to be executed (=legally killed)
- Humanise - to make a process or system less severe or easier for people to understand and deal with
- Sovereign - having the highest power or being completely independent
- Clemency - a decision not to punish someone severely, made by someone in a position of authority
- Prevail - to exist at a particular time or in a particular situation
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Arbitrary - based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason
- Lasting - continuing to exist or have an effect for a long time
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Wage drag: on ILO’s Global Wage Report"
- Robust - strong and successful
- Equitable - fair and reasonable because everyone is treated in the same way
- Put into sharp relief - to make something very obvious
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Worrying - causing you to feel worried
- Rapid - happening, moving, or acting quickly
- Skew - to affect facts or information so that they are not accurate
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Tepid - not very excited or enthusiastic
- Pace - the speed at which something happens or is done
- Ease - to make a problem, bad situation, or pain less severe
- Excluding - used for saying that you are not including someone or something in what you are saying
- Stall - if a process stalls, or if someone stalls it, it stops making progress
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Deceleration - to happen or make something happen more slowly
- Slid - a situation in which an amount becomes less
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Restrained - controlled and not emotional
- Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
- Acceleration - an increase in the rate at which something happens, changes, or grows
- Aggregate - to put things together in a group
- Absolute - very great, or complete
- Inadequate - not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
- Intensification - the fact of becoming greater, more serious, or more extreme, or of making something do this
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Globalisation - the idea that the world is developing a single economy and culture as a result of improved technology and communications and the influence of very large multinational companies
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Bargain - something you buy that costs much less than normal
- Decouple - to separate two objects, ideas, or processes
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced, especially in relation to the time, money, and workers needed to produce them
- Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Buttress - to make support for an idea or argument stronger by providing a good reason for it
- Inequality - a situation in which people are not equal because some groups have more opportunities, power, money etc than others
- Household - the people who live in a house or flat when they are considered as a single unit
- Policymaker - someone who develops policies
- Reap - to get something as a result of something that you do
- Demographic - relating to populations
- Dividend - a share of the profits of a company, paid once or twice a year to the people who own the company’s shares
- Expansion - the process of increasing in size and filling more space
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