The Hindu Editorial (Dangerous skies) – Dec 30, 2024

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The Hindu Editorial (Dangerous skies) – Dec 30, 2024:

1. pose (verb) – present, constitute, cause, produce, give rise to (a problem/danger).
2. conflict (noun) – war, warfare, armed conflict, military action, armed clash.
3. Embraer 190 (noun) – a commercial jet aircraft designed by Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace company; It is the third largest producer of civil aircraft worldwide after Boeing and Airbus.
4. en route (adverb) – on the way, on the move, coming, going.
5. centre around (phrasal verb) – to have something as the most important subject of discussion or interest.
6. bird strike/hit (noun) – a collision between a bird and a moving vehicle (usually an aircraft).
7. increasingly (adverb) – more and more, steadily more, continuously more, gradually more.
8. misguided (adjective) – misplaced, ill-advised, ill-considered, badly planned.
9. drone (noun) – unmanned aircraft/missile.
10. depressurisation (noun) – also known as decompression the act/process of releasing/reducing the pressure inside a container or vehicle.
11. airborne (adjective) – (of an aircraft) in the air; in flight, flying.
12. eventually (adverb) – ultimately, finally, at last, in the end.
13. as the crow flies (phrase) – in a straight line; in the most direct path between two points.
14. possibly (adverb) – may be, perhaps, likely.
15. loopy (adjective) – having many loops.
16. norm (noun) – standard, convention, regulation.
17. civilian (noun) – non-military person, ordinary citizen.
18. cockpit (noun) – the pilot’s compartment in an aircraft.
19. Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) (noun) – a device used to record the audio environment in the flight deck for accidents and incident investigation purposes. The CVR records and stores the audio signals of the microphones and earphones of the pilots’ headsets and of an area microphone installed in the cockpit.
20. Flight Data Recorder (FDR) (noun) – a device used to record specific aircraft performance parameters. The purpose of an FDR is to collect and record data from a variety of aircraft sensors onto a medium designed to survive an accident.
21. black box (noun) – The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) popularly known as ‘black box’.
22. sovereignty (noun) – authority, control, power.
23. be party to (phrase) – be involved in, get involved in, be associated with, be a participant in.
24. stakeholder (noun) – a person with an interest in something.
25. cause (noun) – reason, basis.
26. course of events (noun) – a series of actions/incidents that happen over a period of time.
27. jamming system (noun) – the deliberate blocking of wireless communications (signals) by transmitting electromagnetic energy.
28. official (noun) – authorities, officialdom, the people in charge, the administration, the bureaucracy, the system.
29. apologise (verb) – say sorry, express regret, make an apology, ask forgiveness, beg pardon.
30. the fact that (phrase) – used to refer to a specific situation under consideration/discussion.
31. half-hearted (adjective) – unenthusiastic, apathetic, indifferent, unconcerned, dispassionate, uninterested.
32. short of (phrase) – less than.
33. acknowledge (verb) – accept, recognize, realize.
34. collateral damage (noun) – any death, injury, or other damage inflicted that is an unintended result of a particular operation.
35. ally (noun) – a country/state with an alliance with another one in which they promise to support each other militarily and to defend each other.
36. state (noun) – condition, situation, circumstances.
37. warfare (noun) – war, conflict, armed conflict, military action, armed clash.
38. centrestage (noun) – the most prominent position.
39. strike (noun) – attack, assault.
40. surveillance (noun) – monitoring, observation, scrutiny, inspection.
41. broad (adjective) – wide, large, big.
42. swathe (noun) – a wide area of something; area, region, stretch, tract, territory, piece of land, parcel of land.
43. call for (phrasal verb) – require, publicly ask/necessitate, demand.
44. de-escalation (noun) – reduction, lessening, decrease (the intensity of something).
45. preponderantly (adverb) – predominantly, prevalently. 
46. invasion (noun) – attack, assault, onslaught, raid, act of war, incursion, offensive.
47. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (noun) – NATO was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
48. result in (phrase) – cause, bring about, lead to, give rise to, effect, produce.
49. actor (noun) – participants (in an action).
50. pull into (phrasal verb) – to involve someone in something, particularly that which unpleasant/undesirable.

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