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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A fresh warning: what GEO-6 means for India"
- Enforce - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Unsustainable - not capable of continuing at the same rate or level
- Extract - to remove something from a particular place
- Unmanageable - extremely difficult to control or organize
- Linear - involving ideas or events that are directly connected and follow one after the other
- Premature - happening too soon or before the usual time
- Mortality - death
- Insulate - to protect someone or something from harmful experiences or influences
- Pointer - a piece of advice or information
- Erratic - changing often or not following a regular pattern, so that it is difficult to know what will happen next
- Monsoon - a period of heavy rain in India and Southeast Asia
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Hotspot - a place where there is often a lot of violence or fighting
- Evidently - used for saying that something is obvious
- Business-as-usual - used for describing a situation in which everything happens normally, especially after a period of time when things happen in a different way
- Fossil fuel - a fuel such as coal or oil, made from decayed material from animals or plants that lived many thousands of years ago
- Toxic - poisonous and harmful to people, animals, or the environment
- Interventions - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry or rude way that shows you want to fight, attack, or argue with someone
- Monitor - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Scale-up - to make something larger in size, amount etc than it used to be
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Emission - a substance, especially a gas, that goes into the air
- Impetus - a force that helps something to happen or develop more quickly
- Significant - very important
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Renewable - renewable energy and natural materials replace themselves by natural processes, so that they are never completely used up
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Contamination - the process of making something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection
- Sewage - waste substances, especially waste from people’s bodies, removed from houses and other buildings by a system of large underground pipes called sewers
- Extractor - a piece of equipment or system that can remove something from another thing
- Augment - to increase the size, amount, or value of something
- Harvest - to collect or obtain something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Softer, slower: on Brexit vote"
- Brexit - an exit (= act of leaving) by the United Kingdom from the European Union (short for "British exit")
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- Majority - most of the people or things in a group
- Rule out - to stop considering something as a possibility
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Crash out - to be badly defeated so that you have to leave a competition
- Catastrophic - causing a lot of damage, or making a lot of people suffer
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Foreclose - to prevent something from being considered as a possibility in the future
- Perspective - a way of thinking about something
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Respite - a short period of rest from having to deal with a difficult or unpleasant situation
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Controversial - a controversial subject, opinion, or decision is one that people disagree about or do not approve of
- Emphatically - very firmly and clearly
- House of Commons - the part of the parliament in the UK or Canada that consists of politicians who have been elected by the people
- Silver lining - good aspect of a bad situation
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Die-hard - someone who is unwilling to change or give up their ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so
- Vote down - to stop or end something as the result of a vote
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
- Hardliner - someone, especially in politics, who is very severe, for example in refusing to allow something or to reduce or change their demands in any way
- Looming - (of something unwanted or unpleasant) about to happen soon and causing worry
- Indefinite - continuing into the future with no fixed end
- Tory - someone who supports or is a member of the Conservative Party in the UK
- Gambit - something that you say or do in an attempt to gain an advantage
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Concrete - practical
- Eurosceptic - someone, especially a politician, who thinks that their country should not be part of the European Union
- Delusion - an idea or belief that is not true
- Impervious - not affected by something or not seeming to notice it
- Disengage - to become physically separated from something, or to make two things become physically separated
- Inflict - to cause something unpleasant to happen
- Impede - to make it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
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