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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Shielding witnesses: on protection scheme"
- Shielding - to protect something
- Witness - someone who sees a crime, accident, or other event happen
- Robust - strong and successful
- In place - in the correct position
- Legislation - a law, or a set of laws
- Trial - the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Intimidation - the action of frightening or threatening someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do
- Undue - not necessary or reasonable
- Abysmal - very bad
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Inexcusable - nexcusable behaviour is so bad or rude that you cannot forgive the person who behaved like that
- Emphasise - to give particular importance or attention to something
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Incentive - something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this
- Turn up - to come somewhere
- Testify - to make a statement about something that you saw, know, or experienced, usually in a court of law
- Harassment - annoying or unpleasant behaviour towards someone that takes place regularly
- Tardy - slow to do something
- Seldom - not often
- Pathetic - useless or not effective in an annoying way
- Take someone for granted - to expect someone to always be there and do things for you even when you do not show that you are grateful
- Gratifying - making you feel pleased and satisfied
- Proactive - taking action and making changes before they need to be made, rather than waiting until problems develop
- Concrete - practical
- Minutiae - very small or unimportant details
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- At variance with - if one thing is at variance with another, they are completely different and seem to oppose each other
- Proximate - closest or most direct
- Anonymising - to remove any information that shows which particular person something relates to
- Testimony - a formal statement about something that you saw, know, or experienced, usually given in a court of law
- Parentage - your parents considered as belonging to a particular country, religion, or social class
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Ad hoc - done only when needed for a specific purpose, without planning or preparation
- Conceal - to hide something so that it cannot be found
- Vulnerable - someone who is vulnerable is weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Tottering - if a system or process totters, it becomes weak and looks as if it will soon stop or be destroyed
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Quick retreat: on French protests"
- Retreat - to avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation, especially by moving away from it
- Protest - sa strong complaint or disagreement
- Roll back - to remove something, or to reduce the influence of something
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- In the wake of - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Paradoxically - used for saying that something is strange because it is the opposite of what you expect
- Centrist - not extreme in your political beliefs
- Popular - a popular belief, feeling, attitude etc is one that many people have
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Tax-deferred - taxed at a later time
- Altogether - completely
- Levy - an amount of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax
- Induce - to cause something, especially a mental or physical change
- Cohesion - a situation in which people or things combine well to form a unit
- U-turn - a sudden and complete change of policy by a government or by someone in authority
- Emission - a substance, especially a gas, that goes into the air
- On the back foot - in a worse situation than other people or groups
- Reinstate - to start using or having something such as a law or benefit again
- Boost - to help something to increase, improve, or become more successful
- Dividend - a share of the profits of a company, paid once or twice a year to the people who own the company’s shares
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Buttress - to make someone or something stronger by supporting them in some way
- Concession - something you give or allow to someone in order to reach an agreement
- Social welfare - services provided by the government or private organizations to help poor, ill, or old people
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Constrain - to force someone to do something that they do not want to do
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Adherence - the action of continuing to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
- Stand-off - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Unwittingly - in a way that is not conscious or deliberate
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Combat - fighting
- Rally - a public meeting that a lot of people go to in order to support someone or something or to protest against someone or something
- Regain lost ground - to become successful again after having been delayed or having had problems
- Determine - to control what something will be
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Ward off - to prevent someone or something unpleasant from harming or coming close to you
- Ambition - something that you very much want to do, usually something that is difficult to achieve
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