The Hindu Editorial (Checks and balance) – Feb 07, 2019

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1. checks and balances (plural noun) – a system in which all departments of a government organization have right to amend/limit the powers of the other departments in order to avoid dominance of one department.
2. glitch (noun) – problem, difficulty, issue/complication.
3. Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) – it is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballot-less voting system. it consists of physical paper records of voter ballots as voters have cast them on an electronic voting system.
4. regressive (adjective) – negative, unprogressive, retrograde.
5. plethora (noun) – excess, abundance, surplus/too many.
6. grievance (noun) – complaint, criticism, objection/protest.
7. fast track (verb) – quick, high-speed, expeditious.
8. adjunct (noun) – supplement, addition, extra.
9. deploy (verb) – position a troop for action.
10. misgiving (noun) – doubt, suspicion, apprehension.
11. tamper with (verb) – falsify, distort/alter, manipulate.
12. insider (adjective) – member, staff member, employee.
13. errant (adjective) – erring, offending, lawbreaking.
14. rule out (phrasal verb) – exclude, eliminate, reject.
15. factor in (phrasal verb) – included/added as a factor/point when making a decision.
16. electorate (noun) – all the people who entitled to vote in an election.
17. spooling (noun) – the process of sending data to a spool, or temporary storage area in the computer’s memory. Print spooling is where print jobs are sent to a print spool before being transmitted to the printer.
18. come down (phrasal verb) – decline, reduce, lessen.
19. curb (verb) – control, restrain, contain.

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