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