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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Disquieting decision: on CBI tussle"
- Disquieting - making you feel very worried or nervous
- Tussle - a disagreement between two people who are both
- Unseemly - unseemly behaviour is embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Echelon - one of the levels of status or authority in an organization, or the people at that level
- Bureau - an organization that provides information or services
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Denouement - the end of a book, play, or series of events, when everything is explained
- Unseemly - unseemly behaviour is embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Episode - an event or set of events that forms part of a longer series but is considered separately
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Couched as something - to be expressed a particular way
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Even-handed - dealing fairly with all the people involved in a situation
- Expose - to allow something that is usually covered or hidden to be seen
- Interference - the process of deliberately becoming involved in a situation and trying to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Reinstate - to give someone their previous job or position again
- Unconditional - without limits or conditions
- Diveste - to take away someone’s power, rights, or authority
- Convene - to arrange a formal meeting, or to gather for a meeting
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Dissent - to express strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what most people think
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- On the ground - in the place being discussed, especially a place where there is a war or another serious situation
- Vigilance - the activity of watching a person or situation very carefully so that you will notice any problems or signs of danger immediately
- Inquiry - an official examination of a crime, accident, problem etc, in order to get information or the truth
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Untenable - impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism
- Standpoint - a way of considering something
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Precedent - an action or event in the past that is used as an example or reason for a present action or event
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Unseat - to remove someone from a position of power
- Complainant - in a court of law, the person who has asked the court to judge their case
- Bipartisan - involving two political parties with different ideas or policies
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Thwart - to prevent someone from doing something that they want to do
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Politicise - to bring an issue, organization, way of doing something etc to the attention of the public so that it can be discussed
- Shutdown - an occasion when a business or large piece of equipment stops operating, usually for a temporary period
- Populist - representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Paved the way - if something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
- Morass - a complicated and confusing situation that is difficult to deal with
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Bickering - to argue about things that are not important
- Stalemated - if people or discussions are stalemated, they are unable to make progress
- Furlough - to allow or order someone to leave work for a period of time
- Polarisation - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- On the one hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Crude - crude words or actions are offensive because they refer to sex in an unpleasant way
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Prospective - likely to be or become a particular thing
- Insistence - a very firm statement that something must happen or that something is true
- Appropriation - the action of taking something, especially when you have no right to take it
- Logjam - a situation in which one problem is stopping anything else from being done
- Double down - increase one's efforts or focus
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- National emergency - a situation in which a government is empowered to perform actions that it would normally not be permitted
- Status quo - the present situation, or the way that things usually are
- Disquieting - making you feel very worried or nervous
- Veracity - truth, or honesty
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Blatant - done in an obvious way that shows you are not embarrassed or ashamed to be doing something bad or illegal
- Tout - to praise someone or something because you want other people to think they are good or important
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Acerbic - showing criticism in a way that is clever and funny, but rather cruel
- Back-and-forth - moving first in one direction and then in the opposite direction many times
- Congressional - relating to the US Congress
- Malaise - a general feeling of being worried, unhappy, or not satisfied
- Profound - very great
- Melting pot - a situation in which there are many different types of people, ideas, religions etc existing together
- Squander - if you squander something such as money, time, or an opportunity, you do not use it in a sensible way
- Claw back - to get something again that you had lost such as power, especially gradually and with difficulty
- Reckon - to believe that something is true
- In order - actions or statements that are in order are suitable for a particular situation
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