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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Nudged into action: on the Lokpal Act"
- Nudge - to move gradually in a particular direction
- Progress - the process of developing or improving
- Graft - dishonest or illegal activities in politics or business that involve giving people money or advantages in exchange for their help or support
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Assent - agreement with or approval of a plan or suggestion
- NGO - non-governmental organization: an organization which is neither a government department, nor a business operating for profit
- Contempt - behaviour that is illegal because it does not obey or respect the rules
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Groundwork - work that you do in order to prepare for something
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Expedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Manpower - all the people who are available to do a particular job or to work in a particular place
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Secretariat - a government department
- Admonish - to tell someone that you do not approve of what they have done
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Brush aside - to refuse to accept that something is important or true
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Eminent - important, respected, and admired
- Jurist - a legal expert, usually a judge
- Aggrieved - feeling angry and unhappy because you think you have been treated in an unfair way
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Shape of the slowdown: on China's economy"
- Slowdown - a period when there is less business activity than usual in a company, the economy, etc
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Juggernaut - something that is very powerful, especially something that has a bad effect
- Export - the practice or business of selling goods to another country
- Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Surplus - more of something than is necessary
- Contract - to become smaller
- Faltering - becoming less effective and successful
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Inject - to provide more money for something
- Prep - to prepare for something, or to prepare someone for something
- Stimulus - anything that encourages something to happen, develop, or improve
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Wean off - to make someone gradually stop depending on something that they like and have become used to
- Fuel - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Derail - to prevent something from continuing in the way that it was planned
- Steer - to influence the way that something happens or the way that people behave
- Wary - careful or nervous about someone or something because you think they might cause a problem
- Liquidation - a situation in which a business closes and sells everything it owns in order to pay money that it owes
- Uneconomical - involving high costs in money, time etc, but not providing reasonable results or profits
- Ample - enough, and often more than you need
- Bite the bullet - to force yourself to do something difficult or unpleasant that you have been avoiding doing
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