Daily editorial vocabulary · 4 November 2026
The Hindu editorial, 4 November 2026
What today's editorials said in short, then 10 hard words with the meaning they have in that sentence. Select any word on this page to see how ftak explains it.
Business, unusual: On engaging with the Myanmar junta
Myanmar's military still bombs its own villages, months after a rigged election made junta chief Min Aung Hlaing President. China, India, ASEAN members, Japan and the U.S. are all reaching out to the regime anyway, for pipelines, transit projects or rare earths. The editorial calls this short-sighted: trade needs peace, and a junta that has killed its own people and blocked democracy can't deliver it unless its generals answer for war crimes.
Read the full editorial on The HinduComing of age: On the Binance hack
Binance lost $6.3 billion in the biggest crypto exchange hack yet, but paid back about 95% of user assets within four days, using an emergency fund built from trading fees plus its own money. The editorial says the lesson for India is not that crypto is unsafe. It argues that refusing to regulate crypto and taxing it heavily pushes Indians to the black market or foreign exchanges, and that India should regulate it now, perhaps with an industry-run emergency fund.
Read the full editorial on The HinduVocabulary from the editorials
1.sham (adjective)
fake; made to look real when it is not
“…Months after a sham election that installed junta chief Min Aung Hlaing…”
Similar: fake, bogus
2.impunity (noun)
freedom from punishment for doing something wrong
“…a shifting geopolitical situation to act with impunity…”
Similar: exemption, immunity
3.tacitly (adverb)
in a way that is understood or allowed without being said openly
“…Beijing, which tacitly allowed three ethnic armed organisations to launch an offensive…”
Similar: silently, implicitly
4.flouted (verb)
openly ignored a rule or agreement
“…a regime that has flouted every point…”
Similar: defied, disregarded
5.overtures (noun)
friendly moves made to start talks or a relationship
“…What these short-sighted overtures miss is that trade thrives…”
Similar: approaches, advances
6.scuttled (verb)
deliberately ruined or stopped a plan
“…has scuttled every move towards democracy…”
Similar: wrecked, torpedoed
7.indictment (noun)
something that shows a system or idea is bad or has failed
“…the hack is not an indictment of the crypto space itself…”
Similar: condemnation, criticism
8.prudential (adjective)
careful about money and risk, the way regulators expect banks to be
“…Large crypto companies are employing prudential practices…”
Similar: cautious, careful
9.proliferate (verb)
to grow quickly in number
“…the black market, where such scams proliferate…”
Similar: multiply, spread
10.prohibitive (adjective)
so high that it stops people from doing something
“…taxing it at a prohibitive rate…”
Similar: excessive, crippling
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