The Hindu Editorial (​​Double trouble) – Mar 05, 2025

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The Hindu Editorial (​​Double trouble) – Mar 05, 2025:

1. Electors Photo Identification Card (EPIC) (noun) – Voter ID; The electors registered in the electoral roll are issued with Electors Photo. Identity Card (EPIC). The number of the EPIC issued is printed on the electoral roll (voter list).
2. default (adjective) – preferred, ideal, obvious, favourite, automatic, standard.
3. bet (noun) – option, choice.
4. integrity (noun) – honesty, probity, uprightness, righteousness, morality, ethics.
5. confidence (noun) – trust, belief, faith, conviction, reliance, dependence.
6. repose (verb) – be placed, be positioned.
7. prospective (adjective) – potential, eventual, possible, likely.
8. participatory (adjective) – involving by participation.
9. draw (verb) – be the cause of (a specified response); attract.
10. flak (noun) – strong criticism, censure, disapproval, condemnation, castigation, lambasting, denunciation.
11. overblown (adjective) – extravagant, pompous, over-elaborate, flowery, overwrought, overripe, pretentious, bombastic, oratorical, rhetorical.
12. civil society (noun) – civil society refers to space for collective action around shared interests, purposes, and values, generally distinct from government and commercial for-profit actors. It refers to a wide array of organizations: community groups, non-governmental organizations [NGOs], labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, professional associations, and foundations. Civil society – sometimes called the “third sector” (after government and commerce) – has the power to influence the actions of elected policy-makers and businesses.
13. activist (noun) – a person who supports a political change or cause; (or societal change/cause).
14. (Legislative) Assembly (noun) – Assembly/Vidhan Sabha; a legislative body in the states and union territories of India.
15. discrepancy (noun) – contradiction, difference, variance, variation, deviation, dissimilarity, disagreement, paradox, incongruity.
16. electorate (noun) – all the people who entitled to vote in an election.
17. vociferously (adverb) – clearly, distinctly, vocally, outspokenly.
18. as to (phrase) – about, relating to, concerning, with reference to.
19. adequately (adverb) – satisfactorily.
20. disclosure (noun) – report, communication, declaration, announcement.
21. credibility (noun) – trustworthiness, reliability, integrity.
22. worrisome (adjective) – distressing, upsetting, worrying, troublesome, unpleasant, dismal/awful.
23. prima facie (adjective) – “It is a Latin expression meaning ‘at first sight/look/view’, at firs appearance, based on first impression. It may be used as an adjective meaning ‘sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted’. It is used for a belief that is accepted as correct until proven otherwise; It literally means ‘at first face’.
24. aver (verb) – assert, claim, state, affirm, avow.
25. call into question (phrase) – cast doubt on something, have doubts about, feel apprehensive about, make something seem less certain; distrust, mistrust, suspect.
26. migrant (noun) – a person who moves from one region to another – either within a country or across national borders in order to find work or better living conditions.
27. held past participle of hold (verb) – conduct, organize, arrange.
28. in  succession (phrase) – one after another, consecutively, successively, in sequence.
29. biometric (adjective) – relating to the metrics with human (physical & behavioural) characteristics used for identification and access control.
30. foolproof (adjective) – infallible unfailing/unerring, effective.
31. supplement (verb) – augment, complement, complete.
32. electoral roll (noun) – voter list.
33. result in (phrasal verb) – cause, bring on, bring about, call forth, give rise to.
34. profiling (noun) – a method of categorising (people).
35. community profiling (noun) – the recording/preparing and analysis of a person’s community status & further related details.
36. racial profiling (noun) – the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity or religion, rather than on individual suspicion. 
37. mask (verb) – hide, conceal, veil, cover up.
38. besides (preposition) – apart from, other than, barring, excluding.
39. de-duplication (noun) – a method of eliminating redundant/duplicate copies of data.
40. open (adjective) – available; receptive, responsive, amenable; 
41. undertake (verb) – start, begin, initiate, commence, embark on.

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