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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Shot in the arm: on SC upholding Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code"
- Shot in the arm - something that quickly makes a bad situation much better
- Uphold - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Insolvency - (especially of a company) the condition of not having enough money to pay debts, buy goods, etc., or an occasion when this happens
- Bankruptcy - a situation in which a person or business becomes bankrupt
- Bankrupt - a person or business that is bankrupt has officially admitted that they have no money and cannot pay what they owe
- Ruling - a decision
- Ease - to make a problem, bad situation, or pain less severe
- Knotty - difficult to solve or understand
- In it's entirety - with all or everything included
- Major- important, serious, large, or great
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Landscape - the main features of a situation or activity
- Fledgling - new and without experience
- Severely - very seriously
- Enactment - to make a proposal into a law
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Loophole - something that has been left out of a law or legal document that people can use to avoid obeying it
- Default - to fail to pay money that you owe
- Asset - something such as money or property that a person or company owns
- Defaulter - someone who does not pay interest or other money that they owe, or who fails to do something that they should do by law
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- Apex - the top or highest part of something
- Stifle - to stop something from developing normally
- Vested interest - a special reason for wanting things to happen in a particular way, because you will benefit from this
- Creditor - a person or company that is owed money by another person or company
- Liquidation - a situation in which a business closes and sells everything it owns in order to pay money that it owes
- Workman - a man who does physical work, especially building or repairing things
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- High-profile - often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appearing on television
- Intelligible -clear or simple enough to understand
- Differentia -the properties that differentiate between one person or thing and another
- Avenue - one of the methods you can use to achieve something
- Stymie - to stop someone from achieving an aim, or to stop some process from continuing
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Infuse - to give someone or something a particular quality
- Entrepreneur - someone who uses money to start businesses and make business deals
- Thus - as a result of the fact that you have just mentioned
- Mere - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Ineligible - prevented by official rules from doing something
- Bidder - someone who makes bids for something, for example at an auction (=an event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money)
- Troubled asset - an asset on the balance sheets of financial institutions that has experienced a significant drop in value
- Constitute - if something constitutes something else, it is considered to be that thing
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Recalcitrant - refusing to obey orders
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Effortless brilliance: on Djokovic's win at Australian Open"
- Prone - likely to do something or be affected by something, especially something bad
- Absolute - very great, or complete: used for emphasizing an opinion, feeling, or statement
- Fiercely - used for emphasizing what you are saying, especially how strong or severe something is
- Enervated- enervated
- Grand Slam - a set of important competitions held in a sport during one year, especially in tennis, rugby or golf
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Unmatched - better than all others
- Demolition - an easy defeat in a game or competition
- Cusp - a time when one situation or stage ends and another begins
- Serb - someone from Serbia
- Transformation - a change into someone or something completely different, or the process by which this happens
- Staggering - extremely surprising
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Smitten - seriously affected by something such as an illness or emotion
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Be a far cry from - to be very different from someone or something
- Invincible - too strong to be defeated
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Astonishing - very surprising
- Elite - a small group of people who have a lot of advantages and keep the most power and influence
- Write off - to decide that someone or something will not succeed and so to stop giving them your attention and energy
- Look forward to - to feel happy and excited about something that is going to happen
- Irresistible - strong or powerful and impossible to control or defeat
- Gallant - brave
- Maiden - being the first of its type
- Temperament - someone’s temperament is their basic character, for example their tendency to be happy, angry etc
- Poise - a controlled and relaxed way of behaving, even in difficult situations
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