Nowhere people – The Hindu (Sep 09, 2017)

Nowhere people – The Hindu (Sep 09, 2017)

India took extraordinary care to stay on Myanmar’s right side this week by resisting any show of sympathy to the Rohingya people. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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1. unprecedented (adjective) – not done or experienced before.
2. fortnight (noun) – a period of two weeks.
3. abstain (verb) – refrain, desist, hold back.
4. wary (adjective) – cautious, careful; doubtful.
5. humane (adjective) – compassionate, kind-hearted, civilised.
6. deport (verb) – expel, banish, exile.
7. unfold (verb) – happen, take place, occur.
8. flee (verb) – run, run away, leave/escape.
9. rickety (adjective) – shaky, unsteady, unsafe/broken-down.
10. exodus (noun) – mass departure, evacuation, leaving.
11. sustained (adjective) – continuous, uninterrupted, non stop.
12. reprisal (noun) – retaliation, counterattack; revenge/retribution.
13. enumerate (verb) – calculate, compute, count.
14. irony (noun) – paradox, incongruity, peculiarity.
15. alienation (noun) – isolation, detachment, estrangement/separation.
16. sectarian (adjective) – denoting a sect (group of people).

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