Politics of positions – The Hindu (June 16, 2016)
Legal issues become needless controversies when politics casts a dark shadow on them. The issue of the President withholding assent to a Delhi government Bill seeking to protect its 21 parliamentary secretaries from incurring disqualification on the grounds of holding an office of profit, is a flagrant example. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Words:
- Cast a shadow (idiom) – diminish, spoil, discourage, let down.
- Withhold assent – reject, disagree, dissent.
- Incur (verb) – suffer, experience, to be liable, be subject to.
- Office of profit – a position/an office that provides to a person holding it some financial benefit.
- Flagrant (adjective) – blatant, glaring, obvious, transparent.
- Prevailing (adjective) – present, current, existing.
- Get around (phrasal verb) – evade, overcome, to deal with, take care of.
- Retrospective (adjective) – backdated, retroactive, backward looking, ex post facto.
- Pre-empt (verb) – prevent, forestall, get in before.
- Contend (verb) – assert, claim, argue, profess, affirm, insist.
- Perquisite (noun) – a benefit (perk/bonus/gratuity/reward/extra) someone gets from the job (apart from regular wages/salary).
- Remunerate (verb) – pay, pay off, reimburse, award.
- Appointee (noun) – one who is appointed to a job/position, representative, delegate, office holder.
- Strike down (phrasal verb) – abolish, annul, declare something invalid/illegal, nullify.
- Breach (verb) – violate, break, infringe, contravene, fail to comply with.
- Double standard (noun) – a set of rules/principles applied to a group of people differently than the other group.
Note:
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- Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.