A damning indictment – The Hindu (April 11, 2017)

A damning indictment – The Hindu (April 11, 2017)

By cancelling the by-election to the Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, the Election Commission has gone well beyond indicting the ruling AIADMK (Amma), and….. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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Word List-1:

1. damning (adjective) – incriminating, condemnatory, damaging.
2. indictment (noun) – charge, accusation, citation.
3. debar (noun) – exclude, ban, disqualify.
4. indulge in (verb) – involve (in an undesirable action).
5. indict (verb) – charge with, accuse of, arraign for.
6. incur (verb) – suffer, sustain, experience/expose oneself to.
7. render (verb) – show, display; give/provide.
8. personnel (noun) – employees, staff, workforce.
9. provision (noun) – term, clause, requirement.
10. postpone (verb) – delay, defer, reschedule.
11. anguish (adjective) – pain, unhappiness, suffering.
12. sordid (adjective) – cheap, dishonest/shameful, corrupt.
13. tenor (noun) – the general meaning, content, character of something.
14. desperate (adjective) – in great need of, urgently requiring, craving/wanting.
15. stake (noun) – bet/wager/gamble; risk.
16. legitimacy (noun) – validity, justification, reasonableness.
17. unprecedented (adjective) – not done or experienced before.
18. deterrence (noun) – the act of deterring/stopping someone from doing something.
19. inducement (noun) – incentive, temptation, incitement.
20. no-frills account (noun) – normal/basic banking services provided to all (low-income group) citizens of the country with nil or minimum charges.
21. allurement (noun) – attraction, persuasion, enticement.
22. vitiate (verb) – spoil, impair, destroy.
23. irredeemably (adverb) – irreparably; in a way that something not able to be corrected/improved.
24. swiftly (adverb) – quickly, rapidly, fast.

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