The Hindu Editorial (Honour and exception) – Feb 06, 2024

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The Hindu Editorial (Honour and exception) – Feb 06, 2024:

honour (noun) – accolade, award, medal, reward, laurel, distinction.
exception (noun) – anomaly, irregularity, deviation, special case, departure, abnormality, oddity.
in tune with (phrase) – in agreement with, in accordance with, in line with.
Bharat Ratna (noun) – ‘Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian Award of the country, was instituted in the year 1954. Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for these awards. It is awarded in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour.
confer on (verb) – give to, grant to, award to, bestow on, present to, honour with.
socialist (noun) – a person who is following the principles of socialism. Socialism is an economic, social, and political system based on public ownership rather than private ownership of a country’s property, resources and means of production.
recipient (noun) – a person who is awarded something; receiver.
stimulant (noun) – encouragement, impetus, inducement, stimulus.
collective (adjective) – combined, united/joint, cooperative (by all people as a group).
consciousness (noun) – awareness, knowledge, realization, recognition.
collective consciousness (noun) – a set of beliefs, values, and attitudes shared by most people in society.
the collective (noun ) – a group of people with shared/common interests.
hold itself together (phrase) – to keep it together; regain your composure, get a grip on itself.
pedestal (noun ) – platform.
seek (verb) – try, aim, attempt.
reinforce (verb) – fortify, strengthen, bolster.
ideals (noun) – beliefs, principles, ideas, ideology, dogma.
defining (adjective) – critically important, significant weighty.
figure (noun) – an important or distinctive person, personality.
reminisce (verb) – remember, recall, recollect, reflect on, look back on, think back to, hark back to.
advancement (noun) – progress, progression, development, improvement, growth.
mentor (verb) – master, guru, advisor, guide.
campaign (noun) – an organized effort that seeks to influence the decision-making progress within a specific group; movement, drive.
course (noun) – way, direction, path.
constitutional order (noun) – a reasonably stable set of institutions through which a nation’s fundamental decisions are made over a sustained period, and the principles that guide those decisions; put simply, the constitutional order is the combination of institutions and principles.
faith (noun) – religion, religious belief, belief/ideology.
subject to (adjective) – conditional on, contingent on, dependent on, depending on, controlled by.
litigation (noun) – legal dispute, legal case, court case, legal proceeding, legal action.
extraordinary (adjective) – very great, huge, massive, enormous, substantial (or) unusual, uncommon, surprising, rare, strange.
assertion (noun) – statement, declaration, opinion, affirmation, pronouncement; upholding, insistence.
popular (adjective) – public.
sovereignty (noun) – supreme power or authority; a self-governing state/country.
popular sovereignty (noun) – a government based on its citizens’ wishes ; the doctrine or principle that sovereign power is vested in the people.
unanimously (adverb) – without opposition, agreed to (by everyone involved).
in favour of (phrase) – in support of, to the advantage of, approve of.
social justice (noun) – the equal access to wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
euphemism (noun) – an innocuous (inoffensive/harmless) or pleasant word/phrase/expression that is used as an alternative to something offensive & unpleasant; polite term, indirect term, mild alternative, understatement.
belt (noun) – region, area, territory, neighbourhood, locality.
hegemony (noun) – leadership, dominance, authority, control, power.
term (noun) – period of office; spell, stint, time, duration.
go through (verb) – undergo, experience, be subjected to, live through, endure.
self discovery (noun) – it is the process of understanding your true self: your values, your needs and wants, even what food you like and dislike.
scatter (verb) – break up, disband, separate, disintegrate.
strand (noun) – element, component, factor, aspect, feature.
align with (phrasal verb) – agree with; come together.
owe (verb) – have something because of; be indebted (to), be beholden to.
considerably (adverb) – substantially, appreciably, significantly.
ongoing (adjective) – current, existing, happening.
honour (verb) – award, reward, recognize, glorify.
in turn (phrase) – consecutively, in sequence, in succession.
back (verb) – suport, favour, approve, advocate, uphold, champion.
leg (noun) – support, underpinning; section, segment, part.
consolidation (noun) – strengthening, reinforcement, fortification.
field (noun) – area of activity; sphere, sector, domain, discipline.