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The Hindu Editorial (Recording crimes) – Oct 23, 2019

The Hindu Editorial (Recording crimes) – Oct 23, 2019

After a delay of two years, the Crime in India Report for the year 2017 was finally released by the National Crime Records Bureau on Monday. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Recording crimes) – Oct 23, 2019.

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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Recording crimes) – Oct 23, 2019:

snapshot (noun) – summary, a brief look.
lackadaisical (adjective) – careless, casual, lazy.
hate crime (noun) – any criminal offence that is carried out because of hostility or prejudice based on disability, race, religion, transgender identity or sexual orientation.
mob (noun) – a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.
lynching (noun) – an act of punishing/killing someone by hanging for claimed offence by the group of people without legal trail.
Khap panchayats (noun) – the self-appointed village courts.
insurgent (adjective) – dissenting, agitational, rebel.
extremist (noun) – fundamentalist, activist, militant.
keen on (phrasal verb) – interested in, passionate about, attracted/fascinated by.
call for (phrasal verb) – require, necessitate, demand.
enforcement (noun) – imposition, implementation, execution.
jurisprudence (noun) – body of laws/rules; legal system.
time and again (phrase) – repeatedly, frequently, often.
curb (noun) – restraint, restriction, control.
as of now (phrase) – from now on, henceforth, in future.
pertinent (adjective) – relevant, to the point, applicable.
surpass (verb) – be greater than, exceed, outdo/eclipse.
outcry (noun) – protest, objections, opposition.
assessment (noun) – opinion, analysis, evaluation.
unwieldy (adjective) – cumbersome, unmanageable, unhandy.
relatively (adverb) – quite, comparatively/proportionately.