The Hindu Editorial (For honour’s sake) – Jan 28, 2019

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Today’s word list-1 The Hindu Editorial (For honour’s sake) – Jan 28, 2019:

for someone’s sake (phrase) – benefit, advantage, good/gain.
consideration (noun) – factor, issue/point, motive.
propensity (noun) – (natural) tendency, inclination, predisposition.
confer (verb) – grant, bestow, present/give.
evoke (verb) – invoke, give rise to, bring forth.
catch off guard (phrase) – surprise someone when not expected (in a good or bad way) to feel confused.
fevered (adjective) – excited, agitated, frantic; excessive degree of something.
speculation (noun) – conjuncture/supposition, guesswork, opinion/surmise.
statesman (noun) – senior politician, respected political figure, political leader.
bemused (adjective) – confused, bewildered, puzzled.
hold out (phrasal verb) – continue, remain, last/keep on.
unsympathetically (adverb) – disagreeably/objectionably, antagonistically, opposedly/inimically.
embrace (verb) – accept, be in favour of, support.
thwart (verb) – prevent, block, impede/hinder.
hold (noun) – influence, power, authority.
idolise (verb) – deify, worship, look up to.
secular (adjective) – non-religious, worldly.
rite (noun) – observance, ritual, worship.
veneration (noun) – idolization, respect, reverence.
strive for (verb) – try, attempt, make an effort.
pursuit (noun) – search for, quest for, striving towards.
partisan (adjective) – biased, prejudiced, one-sided.
overshadow (verb) – conceal, obscure, outshine/eclipse.
cynical (adjective) – sceptical, doubtful, distrustful.
assertion (noun) – declaration, statement, contention/protestation.
elite (noun) – a select group of people (with power and influence).
clamour (noun) – protest, complaint, outcry/commotion.
plural (adjective) – diverse.
majesty (noun) – nobleness, pride; sovereignty/authority.
posthumous (adjective) – awarded after someone’s death.
slippery slope (noun) – a series of actions that can’t be controlled over once it has begun and the series of actions are going to create a lot of problems.
arbitrariness (noun) – the quality of being “determined by personal chance, whim (desire), or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle”.
contest (verb) – debate, argue about, dispute.