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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Unedifying episode: On Kolkata stand-off"
- Unedifying - unpleasant and without any useful or positive features
- Stand-off - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Defuse - to make a situation more relaxed by making people feel less angry or less worried
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Ostensibly - used for saying that although someone pretends to have one reason for something, there is in fact another reason
- Even-handed - dealing fairly with all the people involved in a situation
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- De-escalate - to (cause to) become less dangerous or difficult
- Face-off - if people or groups face off, they compete or fight with each other
- Moral victory - if you win a moral victory, you feel that you have shown you were right about something, even though someone else has officially won the argument
- Climb down - to admit that you were wrong, especially after expressing an opinion or argument very firmly
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry or rude way that shows you want to fight, attack, or argue with someone
- Posture - an attitude, or the way that someone behaves towards other people
- Restrain - to prevent someone or yourself from doing something
- Coercive - using force or threats to make someone do something
- Manhandle - to touch, push, or pull someone in a rough way
- Detain - to keep someone in a police station or prison and not allow them to leave
- Inexcusable - inexcusable behaviour is so bad or rude that you cannot forgive the person who behaved like that
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Belligerence - very unfriendly and angry
- Backing - support, help, or active approval
- Impromptu - not planned or prepared
- Obstruct - to physically prevent someone or something from moving along or through a path, passage, door etc by blocking it
- Prone - likely to do something or be affected by something, especially something bad
- Burnish - to improve your reputation or the way you appear to other people
- Dethrone - to remove a king or queen from power
- Agitation - an attempt to cause social or political changes by arguing or protesting, or through other activities
- Acquisition - the process of buying something or obtaining it in some other way
- Grinding halt - a situation in which something gradually stops operating completely
- Heeding - to pay attention or notice
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Allege - to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong or illegal, even though this has not been proved
- Supervise - to be in charge of a person or group of people and to check that they are behaving or working correctly
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Descend on - if people descend on a person or a place, a lot of them arrive, often unexpectedly
- Liable - legally responsible for causing damage or injury, so that you have to pay something or be punished
- High-handed - speaking or acting without considering other people’s opinions
- Browbeat - to make someone do something by asking or threatening them until they agree
- Embarrass - to make someone feel nervous, ashamed, or stupid in a social situation
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Timely review: On start-up tax"
- Start-up - a small business that is just being started
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Concession - something you give or allow to someone in order to reach an agreement
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Laundering - to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal businesses
- Bloated - larger or richer than necessary:
- Anguish - a feeling of great physical or emotional pain
- Cough up - to give money to pay for something, especially when you would prefer not to
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Deter - to make someone decide not to do something
- Shady - secret and probably dishonest or illegal
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Justifiable - if something is justifiable, there is a good reason for it
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Genuine - real, rather than pretended or false
- Broad-brush - very general and without many details
- Aggregate - total
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Unbridled - free or uncontrolled in your emotions
- Rein in - to control something and stop it increasing
- Nascent - beginning or formed recently
- Ecosystem - all the different activities, companies, systems etc that are involved in a particular area of business, especially new technology
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