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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 17th March 2019 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Lapse and collapse: on Mumbai's pedestrian bridge accident"
- Lapse - a period of time between two events
- Collapse - if a building or other structure collapses, it suddenly falls down
- Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
- Creak - a high sound that something, especially something wooden, makes when it moves or when you put weight on it
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Upgrade - to improve the quality of a service or product
- Terminus - the end of a bus or train line
- Underscore - to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Irony - a strange, funny, or sad situation in which things happen in the opposite way to what you would expect
- Stampede - if a group of animals or people stampede, they all start to run in a very fast uncontrolled way because they are
- Overcrowding - unpleasant conditions caused by too many people or things being in the same place
- Rickety - a rickety structure or piece of furniture is likely to break if you put any weight on it, often because it is old
- Acute - very serious or severe
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Chronic - a chronic problem is always happening or returning and is very difficult to solve
- Toll - the total number of people who have been killed or hurt
- Dismal - very bad
- Metropolis - a big city, especially considered as somewhere that is very busy and exciting
- Auditor - someone whose job is to officially examine the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Civic - relating to a town or city, especially to its government and public activities
- Mollify - to make someone feel less angry or upset
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Lapse - a gradual or temporary change to a worse or more unusual type of behaviour or activity
- Far-reaching - affecting a lot of people or things in an important way
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Extraordinary - very unusual and surprising
- Determine - to officially decide something
- Virtually - used for emphasizing that a statement is almost completely true
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Overburden - to give someone more work or problems than they can deal with
- In the wake of - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Expansion - the process of increasing in size and filling more space
- Levy - an amount of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax
- Distortion - a change that makes something no longer true or accurate
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Mobility - the ability to travel from one place to another
- Prioritise - to treat a particular job or issue as being more important than any others
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Christchurch massacre: a wake-up call"
- Massacre - an act of killing a lot of people
- Wake-up call - a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Supremacist - someone who believes their own race is much better than others, and believes they should have power and control
- Cult - extreme admiration for someone or something
- Suspect - to believe that someone has done something, usually something bad
- Livestream - to broadcast video and sound of an event over the internet as it happens, or to be broadcast in this way
- Manifesto - a formal statement expressing the aims and plans of a group or organization
- Invader - a country, army etc that uses force to enter another country
- Intelligence - information collected about the secret plans and activities of a foreign government, enemy etc
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Carry out - to do a particular piece of work, research etc
- Semite - someone who belongs to any of several groups of people who originally came from the Middle East, including Jews and Arabs
- Ideology - a system of ideas and principles on which a political or economic theory is based
- Fatigues - simple loose clothes worn by soldiers
- Laud - to praise someone or something
- 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
- On the fringes - people or activities that are considered strange or extreme
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Stabbed to death - to someone by pushing a knife or other sharp object into their body
- Synagogue - a building used by Jewish people for worship and religious study
- Obsessed - considering someone or something as so important that you are always thinking about them, in a way that seems extreme to other people
- Resemble - to be similar to someone or something, especially in appearance
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Islamophobic - feeling or connected with unreasonable dislike or fear of Muslims or Islam
- Contour - the shape of the outside edge of something
- Semitic - someone who is Semitic belongs to the group of people originally from the Middle East that includes Jews and Arabs
- Isolated - feeling alone and unhappy, with no friends to support you
- Irrational - done or happening without clear or sensible reasons
- Supremacism - to believe your own race is much better than others, and believe you should have power and control
- Apparatus - the machines, tools, and equipment needed for doing something, especially something technical or scientific
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