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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Back to life: on the belated acquittal of death row convicts"
- Belated - happening late
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Death row - the part of a prison for criminals who are going to be executed (legally killed)
- Death penalty - legal punishment by death, usually for a serious crime such as murder
- Kafkaesque - complicated, confusing, and threatening
- Nomadic - moving from place to place rather than staying in one place
- Gallows - a wooden frame used for killing criminals by hanging them from it with a rope around their neck
- Juvenile - relating to young people who have committed a crime or who are accused of committing a crime
- Offence - a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment
- Silver lining - a good aspect of a bad situation
- Elapse - if time elapses, it goes past
- Impose - to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc. to be obeyed or received
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison
- Carry out - to do a particular piece of work, research etc
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Unreliable - unreliable information is not definitely true or accurate
- Testimony - a formal statement about something that you saw, know, or experienced, usually given in a court of law
- Eyewitnesses - someone who has seen something happen, especially a crime or an accident
- Apprehend - to arrest someone
- Ornament - a small attractive object used for decoration or for making someone or something more beautiful
- Heinous - a heinous act or crime is extremely evil
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Condign - appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved
- Render - to provide a service, or to give help to someone or something
- Brushing aside - to refuse to accept that something is important or true
- Discrepancy - a difference between things that should be the same
- Hearing - a meeting of a court of law or official organization to find out the facts about something
- Accused - the person who is on trial in a law court
- Rope in - to persuade someone to do something that they do not really want to do
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Retention - the act of keeping or storing something
- Statute book - a book containing a list of all the statutes in a state or country
- Statute - a law passed by a government and formally written down
- Resort to - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Notorious - famous for something bad
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Disposal - the process of getting rid of something
- Redound - to produce a particular result that is a benefit to someone
- Alter - to make something or someone different
- Affluent - rich enough to buy things for pleasure
- Likelihood - the chance that something might happen
- Institutional - from or within a large organization
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Inconsistent - containing parts that do not match each other
- Clamour - an urgent request for something by a lot of people
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Altogether - completely
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Wiggle space: on SEBI's new rules"
- Wiggle - to make short quick movements from side to side, or to move something in this way
- Maturity - the time when the interest and profits on money that has been invested must be paid
- Mark-to-market - denoting or relating to a system of valuing assets by the most recent market price
- Amortisation - to pay back money that you owe by making payments at regular times
- Seemingly - in a way that appears to have a particular quality, even though this is probably not true
- Volatility - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- In the midst of something - while something else is happening
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Vastly - to a great degree
- Mandate - to give someone the authority to do something
- Exempt - to allow someone to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Incentive - something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this
- Investor - a person or organization that invests money
- Contrast - a noticeable difference between people or things
- Simultaneously - at the same time as something else
- Ascertain - to find out something
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