The Hindu Editorial (Calming Arunachal) – Feb 28, 2019

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Itanagar has decided not to act on the recommendations of a Joint High Power Committee granting permanent resident certificates (PRCs) to… For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Calming Arunachal) – Feb 28, 2019.

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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Calming Arunachal) – Feb 28, 2019:

1. foster (verb) – encourage, promote, develop.
2. arson (noun) – setting fire intentionally to damage/destroy public properties, particularly buildings.
3. de-escalate (verb) – diminish, lessen/decrease, dwindle (the intensity of a conflict).
4. on the same page (phrase) – in agreement.
5. avail (verb) – benefit, be useful to, be of advantage to, help/use.
6. chauvinistic (adjective) – jingoistic, strong nationalist, super patriotic.
7. buckle (verb) – bend, give way, yield/surrender (under pressure).
8. indigenous (adjective) – native/local, original, domestic.
9. vociferously (adverb) – loud & forcefully.
10. overblown (adjective) – exaggerated, affected, pretentious.
11. retaliation (noun) – revenge, vengeance, counter-attack.
12. blockade (noun) – disruption of the economical activities (ex:supply of essential goods and others) of an area; barricade, barrier, obstruction.
13. ethnic (adjective) – relating to a population subgroup (cultural, national, traditional/folk) with a common national or cultural tradition.
14. discord (noun) –  conflict, friction, hostility.
15. longstanding (adjective) – long-term, persistent, perennial.
16. eerily (adverb) – peculiarly, oddly, in a strange and frightening way.
17. trump (verb) – outshine, outclass, upstage.
18. escalate (verb) – increase, intensify, heighten.
19. incumbent on (adjective) –  mandatory, necessary, compulsory.
20. persist (verb) – continue/carry on, remain/linger/stay.
21. fester (verb) – (of a problem) to become worse or more intense due to long time negligence.
22. bane (noun) – torment, distress, hardship.

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