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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Mass messaging: on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill"
- Mass - a large quantity or number
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Recklessly - not thinking about the possible bad effects of your actions
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Fault line - a problem that may not be obvious and could cause something to fail
- Protest - a strong complaint or disagreement
- Adventurism - a way of managing a business, government, or the armed forces that is considered dangerous and might have negative results
- Confer - to give something such as authority, a legal right, or an honour to someone
- Persecute - to treat someone extremely badly, or to refuse them equal rights, especially because of their race, religion, or political beliefs
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Community - the people who live in an area
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Exclusion - a situation in which someone is deliberately prevented from being involved in an activity or from entering a place
- Ploy - a way of tricking or confusing someone in order to get an advantage or to make them do what you want
- Legitimise - to make something seem morally right or reasonable
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Redraft - to write something again in order to make some changes
- Assurance - a feeling or attitude of confidence
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Densely - containing a lot of things or people close together
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Demographic - relating to populations
- Succour - to help someone
- Indigenous - indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Nativist - relating to nativism ( the idea that people who were born in a country are more important than people who have come to the country from somewhere else)
- Blowback - negative reactions or results that were not intended, such as criticism, protest, or anger
- Valley - a low area of land between mountains or hills, usually with a river flowing through it
- Offset - to balance the effect of something, with the result that there is no advantage or disadvantage
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
- Resurrect - to make something exist again, or to start to use something again after it has disappeared, been forgotten, or stopped being used
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that something must be done
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Stipulate - to say what is allowed or what is necessary
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Assuage - to make an unpleasant or painful feeling less severe
- Merge - if two things merge, they combine or become mixed so that you can no longer tell the difference between them
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Populace - the people who live in a particular country or area
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Aid - to make it easier for someone to do something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Korean consensus? : on Kim Jong-un’s visit to China"
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Significant - very important
- Distinct - separate and different in a way that is clear
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Thaw- to become more friendly
- Culminate - to happen or exist as the final result of a process or situation
- Coincide - to happen at the same time as something else
- Resumption - the start of something again after a temporary stop
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
- Dialogue - a process in which two people or groups have discussions in order to solve problems
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Resonate - to produce an emotional effect on someone
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Hurdle - of several problems that you must solve before you can do something successfully
- Overlook - to fail to notice or do something
- Denuclearisation - the process of removing nuclear weapons from a country or countries
- Ambiguous - not clear and therefore capable of being understood in more than one way
- Specifics- the details of something
- Raise the stakes - to make a situation more urgent or more difficult to ignore
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Nicety - a way of behaving that people consider to be correct
- Sound bite - a short comment by a politician or other famous person that is taken from a longer conversation or speech and broadcast alone because it is very interesting or effective
- Address - to speak or write to someone
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Clout - the authority to make decisions, or the power to influence events
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Insist - to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Rapprochement - the development of greater understanding and friendship between two countries or groups after they have been unfriendly
- Exemplify - to be a typical example of something
- Demilitarise - to remove military forces from an area
- Disarm - to take someone’s weapons so that they can no longer use them
- Make headway - to make progress with something that you are trying to achieve
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
- Indication - a sign that something will happen, is true, or exists
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Tactical - tactical aircraft, missiles, and other weapons are designed to be used over short distances
- Concession - something you give or allow to someone in order to reach an agreement
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Posture - to do things only because you want people to notice you, admire you, or be afraid of you
- Sustaine - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Respite - a short period of rest from having to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Impatient - annoyed because something is not happening as quickly as you want or in the way you want
- Stockpile - a large collection of things that may be needed
- Anxious - worried because you think something bad might happen
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