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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Lokpal, at last"
- Graft - dishonest or illegal activities in politics or business that involve giving people money or advantages in exchange for their help or support
- Unjustified - not fair, or not based on any good reason
- Nevertheless - despite a fact or idea that you have just mentioned
- Ought to - used for saying what is the right or sensible thing to do, or the right way to behave
- Milestone - an event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process
- Ombudsman - someone whose job is to deal with complaints that people make about an organization or particular type of business
- Enact - to make a proposal into a law
- Unreasonable - not fair
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Asset - something valuable belonging to a person or organization that can be used for the payment of debts
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Ultimately - after a process or activity has ended
- Stern - a stern action is so firm that you cannot oppose it
- Ultimatum - a statement that orders someone to do something and threatens to punish or attack them if they do not
- Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
- Eminent - important, respected, and admired
- Jurist - a legal expert, usually a judge
- Short-list - a list of the people or things that you think could be suitable for a job, prize, team etc, chosen from a larger number of people or things
- Pertain to - to be directly related to something
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Viable - able to be done, or worth doing
- Avenue - one of the methods you can use to achieve something
- Redress - something that you do for someone or money that you give to them as a way of improving a bad situation that you are responsible for
- Agency - a government department, or an organization connected with a government, that deals with a particular subject
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Live up to - to be as good as what was expected or promised
- Popular - used about something that many people want or like to have
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Papering over: tough balancing act for BJP in the Northeast"
- Paper over - to try to hide a problem or disagreement instead of finding a satisfactory solution to it
- Balancing act - a situation in which someone has to do several different things at the same time
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Underpin - to be an important basic part of something, allowing it to succeed or continue to exist
- Contradiction - a difference in two or more statements, ideas, stories etc that makes it impossible for both or all of them to be true
- Acute -used for emphasizing that a feeling, often an unpleasant one, is very strong
- Patchy - happening or existing in some places but not in other places
- Historically - used for saying that something has existed or happened for a long time
- Foothold - a position from which you can improve your status or become more successful in an organization, profession, or market
- Rope in - to persuade someone to do something that they do not really want to do
- Remarkable - unusual in a way that surprises or impresses you
- Aggression - an angry feeling that makes you want to attack or defeat someone els
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Distinct - separate and different in a way that is clear
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Revive - to make someone become conscious or alive again
- Indigenous - indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there
- Progressive - supporting social and political change that aims to make a system fairer
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Foray - an attempt at doing something new or something that you do not usually do
- Sophistry - arguments or explanations that seem clever and correct but are really false and used for tricking people
- Manoeuvring - clever or dishonest behaviour that allows you to get something that you want
- Saturate - to fill something completely with a large number of things or with a large amount of something
- Stronghold - a place where the majority of people have the same political or religious beliefs
- Compulsion - a very strong feeling of wanting to do something, especially a feeling that you cannot control
- Terrain - an area of land, usually one that has a particular physical feature
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- On the periphery - only slightly involved with something, and not a very important part of it
- Scant - very little, or not enough
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- Soft-pedal - to make something seem less important or less unpleasant than it really is
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Contradiction - a difference in two or more statements, ideas, stories etc that makes it impossible for both or all of them to be true
- Ethnicity - the fact that someone belongs to a particular ethnic group
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
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