First editorial is about Visakhapatnam gas leak
1. paramount - more important than anything else.
Eg: There are many priorities, but reducing the budget deficit is paramount/is of paramount importance.
Hindu usage - The gas leak tragedy is a reminder that safety is paramount when exiting the lockdown.
2. rendered - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state.
Hindu usage: Several deaths took place as people tried to flee, and the chemical rendered them unconscious.
3. accountability - the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it, or the degree to which this happens.
Hindu usage - These aspects must be probed in the inquiry to fix accountability.
4. grievously - very seriously, or in a way that causes great pain.
Eg : The President had been shot and was grievously wounded.
Hindu usage : The Andhra Pradesh government must focus immediately on the medical needs of those who have been grievously affected by the gas leak, which has inevitably led to comparisons with the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.
5. inevitable - certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented.
Eg: The accident was the inevitable consequence/result/outcome of carelessness.
Hindu usage: Given above
6. Solatium - something, for example money, that is given to someone to make them feel better when they have suffered in some way.
Eg: A solatium in the form of an apology was offered to the Prime Minister.
Hindu usage: Solatium payments and compensation for the victims and families are important, but so is access to the highest quality of health care for the victims.
Second Editorial is on the COVID-19 spread in India.
1. exponentially - in a way that becomes quicker and quicker as something that increases becomes larger
Eg: We are growing exponentially in resources, people, and financing.
Hindu usage: While severely affected countries such as Italy, Spain, the U.K., France, Germany, Turkey and Iran finally seem to be experiencing a relative slowdown in the growth of new cases, emerging economies such as Brazil and Russia have shown no flattening of the curve as cases continue to exponentially increase in these countries.
2. stringent - having a very severe effect, or being extremely limiting.
Eg: The most stringent laws in the world are useless unless there is the will to enforce them.
Hindu usage: The fact that despite two extensions to one of the most stringent lockdowns in the world, India has not managed to flatten the curve suggests that the lockdown might have been necessary but it is not sufficient.
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