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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Stunted, wasted: on Global Nutrition Report 2018"
- Stunted - unable or not allowed to develop or to do well
- Nutrition - food considered as something that keeps you healthy
- Framework - a system of rules, laws, agreements etc that establish the way that something operates in business, politics, or society
- Longevity - the fact of having a long life or existence
- Well-being - the satisfactory state that someone or something should be in, that involves such things as being happy, healthy, and safe, and having enough money
- Stunt - prevent from growing or developing properly
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Efficiency - the ability to work well and produce good results by using the available time, money, supplies etc in the most effective way
- Empowerment - the process of gaining freedom and power to do what you want or to control what happens to you
- Acknowledge - to accept or admit that something exists, is true, or is real
- Incorporate - to add or include something as a part of something else
- Lactate - if a woman or female animal lactates, she produces milk in her breasts in order to feed her baby
- Rigorous - thorough and careful
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Quantity - the amount of something
- Maternal - relating to being a mother
- Antenatal - relating to the medical care of pregnant women, or to the time before a baby is born
- Malnutrition - a medical condition in which you are weak or ill because you do not eat enough or do not eat enough of the right foods
- Be incumbent on - to be necessary for someone
- Determining - controlling your decision to do something
- Saturated - completely filled with things or people
- Processed food - the food which was freezed / dried to preserve nutrients and freshness
- Superior - better than someone or something else in quality or skill
- Invest - to use your money with the aim of making a profit from it
- Prosperity - the state of being successful and having a lot of money
- Welfare - the health and happiness of people
- Budgetary - relating to a budget
- Formulation - the development of a plan, system, or proposal
- Economic Survey - Finance Ministry of India's view on the annual economic development of India
- Insignificant - not large or important enough to be worth considering
- Decline - to become less or worse
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A moving menace: on mob violence"
- Menace - someone or something that is dangerous and likely to cause harm
- Mob - a large crowd of people that is dangerous or difficult to control
- Shredding - to destroy something
- Take toll - to harm or damage someone or something, especially in a gradual way
- On account of - because of someone or something
- Crack down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- Vigilante - someone who tries to catch and punish criminals by themselves, without waiting for the police
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Rumour - unofficial information that may or may not be true
- Carcass - the body of a dead animal
- Vicinity - the area near a particular place
- Curious - unusual and interesting
- Coincidence - a situation in which separate things happen by chance at the same time or in the same way
- Hate crime - a crime that is done by someone because they hate the group that the victim (=person who is attacked) belongs to
- Lynch - if a crowd of people lynch someone who they believe is guilty of a crime, they kill them without a legal trial
- Beef - the meat from a cow
- Possession - something that you own
- On the one hand...on the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Slaughter - the killing of animals, usually for their meat
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Reveal - to let something become known, for example a secret or information that was previously not known
- Organically - happening or developing in a natural and continuous process
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
- Communal - relating to a particular community
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Confrontation - a situation in which people or groups are arguing angrily or are fighting
- Din - a very loud unpleasant noise that lasts for a long time
- Pledge - to promise seriously and publicly to do something
- Justify - to show that there is a good reason for something, especially something that other people think is wrong
- Prohibit - to officially stop something from being done, especially by making it illegal
- Purportedly - said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true
- Cattle - cows and bulls kept by farmers for their milk or meat
- Trader - someone who buys and sells things
- Passersby - someone who is walking past a place, especially when an accident or violent event happens
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Murderous - very violent and causing deaths
- Outnumber - if one group outnumbers another, there are more in the first group than in the second
- Play down - to try to make a problem or difficult situation seem less important than it is
- Gravity - the seriousness or importance of something
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Road rage - violent behaviour by a driver towards another driver
- Impunity - freedom from any risk of being punished for doing something wrong or bad
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