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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "GST shortfall"
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want, or the amount that you lack
- Recalibrate - to change the way you do or think about something
- Inflow - an amount of something such as money or goods that comes into a place
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Spate of - a large number of things of the same type, usually bad things, that suddenly happen in a very short period of time
- Rationalisation - to make an organization more effective
- Persist - to continue to do or say something in a determined way
- Woo - to try to persuade people to support you or to buy something from you, especially by saying and doing nice things
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Forbearance - the ability to be polite, calm, and patient in difficult situations
- Disinvestment - the act of taking money out of a particular country, industry, or business, and investing it somewhere else
- Via - using a particular method or person to send or deliver something
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Populist - representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Credentials -personal qualities, achievements, or experiences that make someone suitable for something
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Uneven - not fairly balanced or equally shared
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Bound to - something that is bound to happen will almost certainly happen
- Compensate - to change or remove the bad result of something
- Fiscal deficit - the difference between total revenue and total expenditure of the government
- Expenditure - money spent by a government, organization, or person
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Onset - the beginning of something
- Fervour - very strong feeling or enthusiasm
- Uptick - a small increase, especially in the price of something
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Consumption - the use of something such as fuel or energy, or the amount that people use
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "On detention of Canadians in China: Caught in a crossfire ?"
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Crossfire - bullets coming from two directions, fired by two people or armies who are shooting at each other
- Spat - a short argument
- Trade war - a situation in which two or more countries raise import taxes and quotas (= limits on numbers of goods) to try to protect their own economies
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Detriment - harm caused to something as a result of something else
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Standoff - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Custody - a situation in which someone is kept in prison until they go to court for trial
- Founder - someone who starts a school, organization, business, or community
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem
- Breach - a failure to follow a law or rule
- Sanctions - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
- Speculation - ideas or discussion about why something has happened or what might happen
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Invoke - to use a law or rule in order to achieve something
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Determine - to control what something will be
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Intellectual property - something that someone has created or invented and that no one else is legally allowed to make, copy, or sell
- Abuse - the use of something in a bad, dishonest, or harmful way
- Arouse - to cause an emotion or attitude
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Persistence - the attitude or behaviour of someone who continues to do, or try to do, something in a determined way
- Indigenous - naturally existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place
- Speculate - to consider or discuss why something has happened or what might happen
- Emerge - to become known
- Surpassing - better or greater when compared with others
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Retribution - punishment that someone deserves because they have done something very bad
- Lenient - if a person or system is lenient, they punish someone less severely than they could
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison
- Convicted - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Diplomat - an official whose job is to represent their government in a foreign country
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Embassy - a group of officials who represent their government in a foreign country
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Transgression - to do something that is not allowed by a law, custom, or religion
- Mistrust - a feeling that you should not trust someone or something
- Dispel - to get rid of unpleasant feelings or false beliefs
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Bargaining chip - something that you can use to persuade someone to give you what you want
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Conceivable - possible, or possible to imagine
- De-escalate - to (cause to) become less dangerous or difficult
- Pave the way for something - to create a situation that makes it possible or easier for something to happen
- Cede - to allow someone to take something such as power or land away from you
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
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