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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Familial face: on Priyanka Gandhi becoming party secretary"
- Familial - relating to families
- Campaigner - someone who tries to achieve political or social change by persuading other people or the government to do something
- Flesh out - to add more details or information to something
- Probably - used for saying that you think something is likely
- Outweigh - to be more important, useful, or valuable than something else
- Decry - to say publicly that you do not approve of someone or something
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Dynastic - related to a family whose members rule a country or region for a long period of time
- High-stakes - a high-stakes activity or situation involves a lot of risk or serious consequences
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Leave someone high and dry - to put someone in a very difficult or unpleasant situation that they cannot escape from
- Sorely - veru much
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Fortunes - good luck
- Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Formal - in appearance or by name only
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Charisma - a strong personal quality that makes other people like you and be attracted to you
- Intangible - not able to be touched or measured, and difficult to describe or explain
- Nonetheless - despite what has just been said
- Crowd - a large number of people in the same place
- Borough - a town or a division of a large town
- Lineage - the people in your family who lived in the past, especially when you come from a rich or important family
- Resemblance - if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar, especially in their appearance
- Long-term - continuing to exist, be relevant, or have an effect for a long time in the future
- Reliance - the state of depending on a particular person or thing
- Consultation - discussion between people or groups before they make a decision
- Centralise - to give control of a country, organization, or industry to one central group of people
- Routinely - as part of the usual way of doing something
- Step back - to stop for a moment in order to consider something
- Accommodation - a change in behaviour or attitude that helps people work together or end a disagreement
- Allied - related because of having shared qualities or interests
- Opposition - the political parties in a country that are not part of the government
- Tactical - a tactical action is one that you do as part of a plan for achieving what you want
- Array - a large group of people or things that are related in some way
- Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Murky - involving activities that are not clearly known and that people think are dishonest or morally wrong
- Crop up - to happen suddenly or unexpectedly
- Revitalise - to make something that is failing or weak become strong and successful again
- Inclusive -deliberately aiming to involve all types of people
- Egalitarian - supporting a social system in which everyone has equal status and the same money and opportunities
- Privilege - a special advantage or authority possessed by a particular person or group
- Above all else -used for referring to something that is more important than any of the other things you could mention
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Season’s worst: on the influenza outbreak"
- Influenza - a very common infectious disease that lasts a short time and makes you feel hot or cold, weak, and tired
- Outbreak -the sudden start of war, disease, violence etc
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Tackle - to make an organized and determined attempt to deal with a problem, often a social problem such as crime or unemployment
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Spurt - a sudden increase in something
- Cry out - to make a loud noise because you are in pain or because you are afraid or shocked
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Death toll - the number of people who are killed on a particular occasion
- No excuse for something - used for saying that someone should definitely do something
- Welfare - the health and happiness of people
- Depute - to give someone official authority to do something that you are responsible for doing
- Contain - to control
- Pertinent - relevant to something
- Preventive - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Elderly - an elderly person is old.
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Preventive - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
- Mass - a large quantity or number
- Profiteer - to make large profits by charging high prices for things that people need and cannot get anywhere else
- Address - to try to deal with a problem
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Umbrella scheme - the scheme which provides protection and empowerment
- Mass media - newspapers, television, radio etc that communicate news and information to large numbers of people
- Respiratory - relating to the process of breathing air in and out
- Etiquette - a set of rules for behaving correctly in social situations
- Transmission - a process by which a disease spreads from one person to another
- Upgrading - to improve the quality of a service or product
- Consistent - continuing or developing steadily in the same way
- Mutation - a change in the genes of a plant or animal that causes it to become different from others of its type
- Periodically - happening regularly though not frequently
- Database - a large amount of information stored in a computer in an organized way that allows individual pieces of information to be found quickly
- Diagnostic - used for finding out what physical or mental problem someone has
- Infection - a disease or other medical condition that is caused by bacteria or by a virus or a parasite
- Genetic - relating to genes, or to the study of genes (a pattern of chemicals within a cell that carries information about the qualities passed to a living thing from its parents)
- Insight - a chance to understand something or learn more about it
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Anti-viral - an antiviral drug or treatment is used to cure an infection or disease caused by a virus
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Resurface -to start to have an effect again
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
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