English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 10th July 2016
Topic 1 : "Ending impunity under AFSPA"
- Impunity - freedom from punishment or from the unpleasant results of something that has been done
- Accountability - responsibility
- Established - having existed or done something for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted
- Acquired - to get something
- Significance - the quality of being worthy of attention / importance
- Armed forces - a country's army, navy, and air force
- Excesse - an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable
- Statutory - decided or controlled by law
- Counter-insurgency - military or political action taken against the activities of revolutionaries
- Provisions - the action of providing or supplying something for use
- Purported - appear to be or do something, especially falsely
- Immunity - a situation in which you are protected from legal action
- Invincible - too powerful to be defeated or overcome
- Yield - produce / provide something
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Retaliatory - harmful to someone who has done something to harm you
- Preservation - the act of keeping something the same or of preventing it from being damaged
- Casualties - people killed or injured in a war or accident
- Extrajudicial - not legally authorized
- Verdict - a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case
- Context - situation
- Repealed - if a government repeals a law, it causes that law no longer to have any legal force
- Amended - make minor changes inorder to improve something
- Circumstances - results of an event
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time; current
- Consternation - a feeling of worry, shock, or confusion
- Victims - people harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action
- Dreaded - causing strong feeling of fear or worry
- Insurgent - someone who is fighting against the government in their own country
- Immune - not able to be punished or damaged by something
- Notion - a belief or idea
- Ipso facto - used to say that it is reasonable to state or believe something based on facts that are already known
- Probed - enquire into something closely
- Sniper - someone who shoots at people from a place where they cannot be seen
- Racial - happening between people of different races (groups / castes)
- Wound - a problem or great unhappiness
- Picked at something - to select something from a group
- Protest - an action expressing disapproval to something
- Simmering - boiling
- Disproportionately - too large or too small in comparison to something else
- Institutionalised - to make something become part of a particular society, system, or organization
- Tolerance - willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them
- Racism - the belief that people's qualities are influenced by their race and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own
- Threatened - to be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone
- Gulf - difference between the ideas, opinions, or situations of two groups of people
- Strived - make great efforts to achieve or obtain something
- Mediating - to talk to two separate people or groups involved in a disagreement to try to help them to agree or find a solution to their problems
- Reforms - make changes in something in order to improve it
- Deliberately - intentionally / on purpose
- Potential - having the capacity to develop into something in the future
- Assassin - a person who murders an important person for political or religious reasons
- Agenda - a list of aims
- Protesters - someone who shows that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Grief - very great sadness, especially at the death of someone
- Demon - evil spirit
- Demented - unable to think or act clearly because you are extremely worried, angry, or excited by something
- Viciously - cruelly (planning to hurt someone or something very badly)
- Polarising - to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Unswerving - always strong and never becomes weaker
- Evidence - one or more reasons for believing that something is true (proof)
- Negotiate - to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Aftermath - the period that follows an unpleasant event or accident, and the effects that it causes
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