The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 23rd June 2025

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary is highly useful for Bank and SSC exams, especially for the English section. Regular reading improves vocabulary, comprehension, and grammar. Editorials contain high-quality language, idioms, phrasal verbs, and advanced vocabulary frequently asked in exams. Learning 10–15 new words daily from editorials helps in scoring better in Cloze Tests, Reading Comprehension, Fill in the Blanks, and Synonyms-Antonyms. It also boosts confidence in descriptive writing and interviews. Consistent practice with these words, along with usage in sentences, enhances retention. Hence, the Hindu editorials serve as a rich and reliable source for English preparation in competitive exams.

Reading Comprehension passages are an integral part of the English section of government exams. However, for beginners, such passages can seem difficult. The Hindu Editorial is an excellent tool to improve the reading and understanding of passages. The language is very similar to the passages that generally appear in the English section of government exams, and each paragraph is filled with exam-relevant vocabulary and real-world topics. First, go through the vocabulary section and read the meanings of the words, their Hindi translations, synonyms, and antonyms. Once you know the meanings of the words, read the passage carefully, and you will feel that it is much easier to understand the main idea and tone of the passage. This method not only improves the understanding of reading comprehension passages but also builds a strong vocabulary base for cloze tests and sentence fillers in the exam. Doing this every day will boost your confidence in the English section and help improve your scores in sections such as Reading Comprehension, Cloze Tests, and Sentence Fillers.

Theft and compensation: On news publishers and AI models

Large language artificial intelligence models are fuelled by content on the Internet, and much of this content comprises news reports gathered, curated and published by media professionals and organisations with decades of experience. As creative industries reckon with their labour getting diffused into unaccountable clusters of graphics processing units that reproduce styles and spit out human-level artwork in mere seconds, the news industry has reason to fear the compounding of permission-less innovation into an existentially threatening heist of several lifetimes of work. Previous waves of digitisation peeled away captive audiences from print and broadcast media by replacing these with a web-charged attention economy, and Big Tech platforms further squeezed news media’s place in these rapid transformations by often short-changing the very sources of information that their businesses relied on to be useful to the public. In a landscape where even precarious business models in the Internet age are threatened by a reluctance to pay for news and declining public trust in professional news-gathering, AI may very well be a body blow. It is clear: AI firms, with their billions in market capitalisation, must not be permitted to just take what they want from the Internet, synthesise these inputs into monetised insights, and pretend that the whole process is a form of victimless, innovative progress. Publishers have a clear right to decide who gets to hoover up their entire corpuses, and to ensure that their businesses benefit from the AI wave. To this end, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade’s committee on copyright and AI is a welcome step.

This is not a decelerationist, or “decel” demand, as those who advocate for rapid AI development might be quick to say. The news industry has fought as search giants and social media companies profited enormously on the back of its content and set the terms for how the financial benefits flowed back to it. That cannot be permitted to happen — as social media platforms turn more and more into video-focused walled gardens, discouraging even a step outside their apps. For the news organisations, the avenues to earn are shrinking. As AI-generated overviews of news content with source links are reduced to a footnote, it is time for compensation to be negotiated at the time of publishers’ content being scraped from their websites in the first place. AI firms may claim “fair use” in model training, but there is nothing fair — morally or legally — about accessing and disseminating troves of news without taking the creators and processors into confidence. News publishers and policymakers must now fight for their share in the AI era.

1. Fuelled: increased something; made something stronger
Synonyms: driven, furthered
Antonyms: dampened, quelled

2. Heist: an act of stealing something valuable from a shop or bank
Synonyms: robbery, theft
Antonyms: return, release

3. Captive: having no freedom to choose alternatives or to avoid something
Synonyms: spellbound, enthralled
Antonyms: disillusioned, indifferent

4. Precarious: not safe or certain; dangerous
Synonyms: perilous, dicey
Antonyms: stable, secure

5. Advocate: to support something publicly
Synonyms: champion, endorse
Antonyms: oppose, condemn

6. Footnote: an extra piece of information that is given at the bottom of a page, below the main text
Synonyms: postscript, addendum
Antonyms: foreword, introduction

7. Troves: stores of valuable or delightful things
Synonyms: caches, stockpiles
Antonyms: lack, deficit

Phrasal verbs:

8. Reckon with: to deal with a difficult or powerful person or thing

9. Hoover up: To absorb or consume something with great enthusiasm, intensity, or eagerness

Idioms & Phrases:

10. Short-changing: treating somebody unfairly by not giving him or her what they have earned or deserve

11. Body blow: something that causes serious problems and disappointment for a person trying to do something

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