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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Inflation conundrum"
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Conundrum - a difficult problem that seems to have no solution
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Retail - relating to the sale of goods directly to the public for their own use
- Wholesale - relating to the business of selling large quantities of goods, especially to people who are going to sell them in a shop
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Policymaker - someone who develops policies
- Central bank - a national bank that controls a nation’s policies on money and interest rates (RBI in India)
- Consumer Price Index - a measure of inflation (=the rate at which the cost of living is rising or falling). It consists of a list of the prices of some basic goods and services, which is published each month.
- Blindside - to surprise someone, usually with harmful results
- Projection - a calculation of the way that something will change and develop in the future, especially of how fast it will grow or become smaller
- Pronouncement - an official public statement
- Calibrated -measured and careful
- Neutral - not showing strong feelings or opinions in the way that you speak or behave
- Reassess - to think again about something in order to decide if you should change the way you feel about it or deal with it
- Robust - strong and unlikely to break or fail
- Contraction -the process of becoming smaller
- Throw a curveball - to do something unexpected that makes someone confused or causes problems
- Divergent - things that are divergent are different from each other
- Rural - relating to the countryside, or in the countryside
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Curiously - in an unusual and interesting way
- Allude to something - to mention someone or something in an indirect way
- Volatility - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Lagging behind - to move or make progress so slowly that you are behind other people or things
- Nominal - used about something that is officially described in a particular way when it is not really true or correct
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Prominent - important and well known
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A wide Democratic field"
- Capitalise on - to use an event or a situation to help you to achieve something or to get an advantage
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Primary - an election in which people in a particular state in the US choose their candidate for president
- Array - a large group of people or things that are related in some way
- Hopeful - someone who wants to succeed or who seems likely to win
- Considerably - a lot
- Potential - possible or likely in the future
- Entrant -someone who enters a competition or examination
- Sit on the fence - to refuse to support either side in an argument
- Aspirational - wanting to be successful and have a better job, home etc than you already have
- Senator - someone who is a member of a senate
- Senate - the group of politicians who have the most power to make laws in a government
- Immigrant - someone who comes to live in a country from another country
- Arena - the people and activities involved with a particular subject or activity
- Accumulate - to get more and more of something over a period of time
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Grill - to ask someone a lot of difficult questions for a long period of time
- Nervous -feeling excited and worried, or slightly afraid
- Nevertheless - despite a fact or idea that you have just mentioned: used as a way of showing how a sentence, phrase, or word is related to what has already been said
- Democrat - someone who supports democracy as a political system
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Unnecessary - used for describing something that should not have happened because it could have been avoided
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Ancestry - the people related to you who lived a long time ago
- Ballot - the process of voting secretly to choose a candidate in an election or express an opinion about an issue
- At the heart of something - to be the most important part of something
- At this juncture - now
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Inherit - to have responsibility for a situation that someone has started and left for you to deal with
- Swirl - to move quickly in circles
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Medicare - a system in the US in which the government pays part of the cost of medical treatment for people who are over 65 years old
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Agenda - a plan or aim that is kept secret
- Looms - if something unpleasant or difficult looms, it seems likely to happen soon
- Gauge - a fact or event that can be used for judging someone or something
- Pollster - a person or organization that prepares a poll
- Nativist - a person who supports the idea of 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)
- Populism - politics that represents the interests and opinions of ordinary people
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