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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 2nd December 2018 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Slowdown signals: on Q2 growth estimates"
- Estimate - to say what you think an amount or value will be, either by guessing or by using available information to calculate it
- Shoring up - to give support or help to something that is having problems or is likely to fail
- Statistics - a group of numbers that represent facts or that describe a situation
- Expansion - the process of increasing in size and filling more space
- Predictably - as expected
- Robust - strong and successful
- Dampen - to make something such as a feeling or hope less strong
- Utility service - any products, services, and equipment related to energy, telecommunications, water and sewerage
- Defence - actions that you take to protect someone or something that is being attacked
- Broadcasting - to send out messages or programmes to be received by radios or televisions
- Buck the trend - to succeed in doing something, even though there is a general tendency for this not to happen
- Ease - to become less severe
- Foodgrain - any of a variety of grains that are grown for human consumption, such as wheat, oats, etc
- Kharif - a crop that is planted before the monsoon (= the season of heavy rain during the summer) then cut and collected in autumn
- Inch up - to cause someone or something to ascend, progress, or approach by small degrees or steps
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Monsoon - a period of heavy rain in India and Southeast Asia
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want, or the amount that you lack
- Rabi - the grain crop that is cut and collected in spring
- Sowing - to plant seeds in the ground
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Hinterland - an area that is a long way from a town or city
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Expenditure - money spent by a government, organization, or person
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Cause for concern - reason to worry
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Becalmed - unable to move
- Acceleration - an increase in the rate at which something happens, changes, or grows
- Constitute - if something constitutes something else, it is considered to be that thing
- Discernible - able to be seen, noticed, or understood
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Posit - to say that something is true or that something should be accepted as true
- Cyclical - cyclical events happen again and again in the same order or at the same times
- 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
- Pressure point - in business, a factor or situation that could expose a company to high levels of risk
- Invariably - always, or almost always
- Crowd out- to become stronger or more successful than another group so that they fail or can no longer compete with you
- Reassuring - making you feel less worried
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Loom - if something unpleasant or difficult looms, it seems likely to happen soon
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Sliding - to become smaller in amount
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Symbol of a lost order: On George H.W. Bush"
- Cold War - the unfriendly relations that existed between the Soviet Union and the West from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s
- Passing - death
- Contextualise - to consider an idea, event, activity etc together with everything relating to it in order to understand it better
- Turbulence - a confusing or uncontrolled situation
- Liberal - accepting different opinions and ways of behaving and tending to be sympathetic to other people
- Dissolution - the process of officially ending the existence of a group or organization
- Set something in motion - to make a series of events or a process start happening
- Churn - if your mind or emotions churn, you are upset or worried about a situation
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- Rhetorical - relating to a style of speaking or writing that is effective or intended to influence people
- Flourish - to be very successful
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
- Depiction - a description of something
- Evil - morally bad and causing great harm, especially to society in general
- Empire - a number of countries ruled by one person or government
- Successor - someone who has an important position after someone else
- Rousing - making you feel emotional, excited, or enthusiastic
- Oratory - the skill of making effective and impressive public speeches
- Coin - to use a word or phrase that no one has used before
- Turned out - to develop in a particular way, or to have a particular result
- Defining - a defining event or moment is one that decides everything that happens afterwards
- Triumph - a great victory or success
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Freer - free
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Terror - violence used for making people very frightened in order to achieve political aims
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- Quest - a long difficult search
- Evict - to legally force someone to leave the house they are living in, usually because they have not paid their rent
- Invade - to take or send an army into another country in order to get control of it
- Address - to speak or write to someone
- Haunting - beautiful, but in a sad way and often in a way that cannot be forgotten
- Unravelling - to understand something complicated by thinking about it for a long time
- Concomitant - happening at the same time as something else
- Turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity
- Coincidence - a situation in which separate things happen by chance at the same time or in the same way
- Bravado - a brave and confident way of behaving, especially when you do not really feel like this
- Arrogance - behaviour that shows that you think you are better or more important than other people
- Ignorance - lack of knowledge or facts about a situation or a particular subject
- Prominence - the state of being important or well known
- Presidency - the job of being president, or the period of time that someone has this job
- Criticise - to say what you think is wrong or bad about something
- Overlook - to fail to notice or do something
- Folly - a way of thinking or behaving that is stupid and careless, and likely to have bad results
- Relative - having a particular quality when compared with something else
- Unfair - not fair or reasonable
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
- Veteran - someone who was in the armed forces, especially during a war
- Bygone - happening or existing during a period of time in the past
- Middle ground - opinions and attitudes that are not extreme and that a lot of people can agree with
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Restrain - controlled and not emotional
- Triumph - a great victory or success
- Introspective - tending to examine your own feelings, thoughts, or ideas rather than communicating with other people
- Streak - a part of someone’s character, or a type of behaviour that is different from the rest of their character
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- Lament - to show publicly that you feel sad or disappointed about something
- Moderation - opinions and actions, especially in politics, that are reasonable and not extreme
- On the horizon - in the near future
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Strident - loud, unpleasant, and rough
- Deny - to say that something is not true
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