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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Signs of a turnaround: on RBI's Financial Stability Report"
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Stability - a situation in which things happen as they should and there are no harmful changes
- Regulatory - a regulatory organization or company controls an activity, process, or industry
- Vigil - a purposeful watch maintained, esp at night, to guard, observe, pray, etc
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Gross - total
- Fog - a confused or confusing situation or state
- Shrouding - to cover or hide something
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Non-performing asset - a non performing asset (NPA) is a loan or advance for which the principal or interest payment remained overdue for a period of 90 days
- Bad loan - a loan where repayments are not being made as originally agreed between the borrower and the lender, and which may never be repaid
- Varying - not all the same
- Macro-economic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Baseline - a quantity, value, or fact used as a standard for measuring other quantities, values, or facts
- Prognosticate - to say what you think will happen in the future
- Peer - a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group
- Fiscal - relating to a period of 12 months, or a part of that period, used by a company to calculate and report its financial information
- Posit - to say that something is true or that something should be accepted as true
- Disproportionate - if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else
- Account for something - to be the reason why something exists or happens
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Contagion - a situation in which feelings or ideas spread very quickly from one person or place to another
- Sovereign - an old unit of money in the form of a gold coin worth one pound
- Solvency - a situation in which you have enough money to pay your bills and other debts
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Bear the brunt of something - to receive the worst part of something that has a bad effect
- Mala fide - illegal or dishonest
- Justifiably - if something is justifiable, there is a good reason for it
- Spotlight - to make people pay a lot of attention to someone or something, for example by writing about them in a newspaper
- Oversight - something that you do not notice or think of that causes problems later
- Conglomerate - a large business organization formed when several different businesses join together
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Meltdown - a sudden and complete failure of a company, organization, or system
- Ripple - an emotion that spreads gradually through a person or a group of people
- Mutual fund - an organization through which you can buy shares in many different businesses
- Foreword - a short introduction to a book, usually written by someone other than the writer
- Underscore - to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Prudence - the state of being careful in the way you make decisions or spend money so that you avoid unnecessary risks
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- Insulate - to protect someone from unpleasant knowledge or harmful experiences
- Fiasco - a complete and embarrassing failure
- Democratic - based on the principle that all people are equal and should be able to share in making decisions
- Senator - someone who is a member of a senate
- Likely - probably going to happen, or probably true
- Candidacy - the fact that someone is a candidate in an election
- Racial - happening between people of different races
- Inequality - a situation in which people are not equal because some groups have more opportunities, power, money etc than others
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Muscle - strength
- Senate - the more senior part of a law-making institution that has two parts
- Decline - to say politely that you will not accept something or do something
- Thin-skinned - easily upset or offended by what other people say about you
- Racist - someone who does not like or respect people who belong to races that are different from their own and who believes their race is better than others
- Bully - to frighten or hurt someone who is smaller or weaker than you
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Heritage - the art, buildings, traditions, and beliefs that a society considers important to its history and culture
- Epithet - a word or phrase that describes the main quality of someone or something
- Provoke - to deliberately try to make someone angry
- Smear - to try to damage someone’s reputation by telling lies about them
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Antecedent - something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Blip - a minor problem or delay that does not last very long
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Hail from - to be from a particular place
- Blue-collar - blue-collar workers do work that involves using physical strength or skill with their hands rather than working in an office
- Credential - personal qualities, achievements, or experiences that make someone suitable for something
- Multiracial - including or involving people of many different races
- Deflect - to direct criticism, attention, or blame away from yourself towards someone else
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Considerable - large in size, amount, or degree
- Formidable - very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with
- Millennial - born in the 1980s, 1990s, or early 2000s
- Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future
- Professed - admitting publicly that you have a particular feeling or belief
- Populist - someone who supports or expresses the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Hypothetically - based on situations or events that seem possible rather than on actual ones
- Persuasion - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Deride - to criticize someone or something by suggesting that they are stupid, unimportant, or useless
- Out-of-touch - to no longer have recent knowledge or information about something
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- 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
- Moorings - the ropes or chains that keep a boat from moving away from a particular place
- Inconceivable - impossible to think about or imagine
- Bitterly - in a way that shows that you are extremely angry, upset, or disappointed about something
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
- Liberalism - an attitude of respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour
- Dismayed - very upset, disappointed, or annoyed about something surprising or shocking that has happened
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