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Note : Click on titles to read Editorials from THE HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Death traps: on Meghalaya's illegal mines"
- Death trap - a place, building, or vehicle that is in such bad condition that it could be dangerous to people
- Mine - a hole or system of holes in the ground where substances such as coal, metal, and salt are removed
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Tardy - slow to do something
- Plight - a sad, serious, or difficult situation
- Expose - to allow something that is usually covered or hidden to be seen
- Labour - the workers in a particular country, industry, or company considered as a group
- Welfare - the health and happiness of people
- Call someone to account (for something) - to say that someone is responsible for something that has gone wrong and expect them to explain it, deal with it, or be punished for it
- Levy - an amount of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Royalty - an amount of money paid to land owners when oil, coal, etc. is taken from their land
- Extract - to remove something from a particular place
- Evasive - not talking or answering questions in an honest way
- In spite of something - used for referring to a fact that makes something else surprising
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Claim - if a storm, crime, or other violence claims someone’s life, the person was killed suddenly as a result of that event
- Subsequent - happening or coming after something else
- In the wake of - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Rehabilitate - to return someone to a good, healthy, or normal life or condition
- Impoverished - an impoverished person or place is very poor
- Interpret - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Flagrant - done in an obvious way that shows you do not care if you break rules or offend people
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Diversify - to develop new products or activities in addition to the ones that you already provide or do
- Primitive - at a very simple stage of development, before modern technology
- Constitute - if several people or things constitute something, they combine to form it
- Overdue - if something is overdue, it should have been done before now
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The wizards in Oz: India's series win in Australia"
- Wizard - someone who is very good at something
- Oz - Australia
- Cast a spell over someone - to use magic to make something happen to someone
- Hold off - to deliberately delay doing something
- Flourish - to be very successful
- Solitary - in a place or situation where there are no other people
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Validation - to prove that something is correct
- Ignominy - a situation where you feel embarrassed and lose other people’s respect
- Rescue - to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- Retain - to keep someone or something
- Triumph - a great victory or success
- Elude - if something such as success eludes you, you do not manage to achieve it
- Squad - a sports team
- Maiden - being the first of its type
- Powerhouse - a person or thing that has a lot of strength or energy
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Humble - to completely defeat someone who seemed better or stronger than you
- Turf - an area that one person or group considers to be their own
- Wilt - if a person wilts, they have less energy, confidence, or enthusiasm
- Unconquerable - not able to be defeated, or not able to be successfully controlled or dealt with
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
- Fiery - becoming angry very easily and quickly
- Marauding - going from place to place in order to find people to attack or things to steal or destroy
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Down under - to or in Australia or New Zealand
- Contend with - to have to deal with problems or difficulties, especially in order to achieve something
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Subcontinent - a large area of land that forms part of a continent, especially the part of Asia that contains the countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
- Enfeebled - no longer strong or effective
- Tampering - to touch something that you should not touch, and to change it in some way, often because you want to spoil it
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Jettison - to get rid of something that is not useful or successful
- Malfunction - to fail to work or operate correctly
- Choke - to stop someone or something from developing or being successful
- Ambiguity - a confusing mixture of feelings or ideas that makes something hard to understand
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Conspiracy theory - the idea that a group of people secretly worked together to cause a particular event
- Injury - physical damage done to a person or a part of their body
- Amassing - to collect a lot of something such as money or information over a period of time
- Incisive - expressed in a clear and direct manner
- Savour - to enjoy an experience, activity, or feeling as much as you can and for as long as you can
- Frontier - a border between two countries
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