The Hindu Editorial (Homeward bound) – Feb 14, 2024

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The Hindu Editorial (Homeward bound) – Feb 14, 2024:

1. homeward bound (phrase) – traveling towards home; going towards home.
2. personnel (noun) – forces, crew, employees, workforce, staff.
3. quiet diplomacy (noun) – sometimes called soft power; a form of diplomacy in which one state (i.e. country) makes efforts to impact the behavior and decisions of other states through covert (secret) negotiations and conduct of actions. This means quiet diplomacy relies upon back doors or backchanneling rather than open or public talks. It may also involve strategic partnership and deal-making with more benefits than penalties. Quiet Diplomacy brings soft power by indirectly influencing the state’s leaders by holding meetings with civil society representatives.
4. brinkmanship (noun) – the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous results by engaging in a dangerous issue or event to the edge of safety, especially in politics, by pushing dangerous events.
5. sentence (noun) – conviction, judgement, verdict, prison term.
6. sailor (noun) – a person who works on a boat or ship; mariner, boatman, yachtsman.
7. sparse (adjective) – insufficient, inadequate, scanty, meagre, paltry.
8. accuse (verb) – charge, allege, incriminate.
9. espionage (noun) – the act of spying; obtaining secret or confidential (political or military) information of a country and/or disclosing it without the permission of that country; undercover work, infiltration, counter-intelligence.
10. possibly (adverb) – maybe, perhaps, it may/could be.
11. namely (adverb) – that is to say; explicitly; to be specific, specifically.
12. charge (noun) – accusation, allegation, indictment.
13. invoke (verb) – cite, mention, refer to, point to, adduce, turn to, resort to.
14. death penalty (noun) – capital punishment, execution, killing (by hanging) as a punishment.
15. appeal (noun) – plea, request, petition, entreaty, application.
16. commute (verb) – reduce, lessen, scale down (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death).
17. imprisonment (noun) – custody, incarceration, arrest, restraint, confinement, internment, detention, captivity.
18. uphold (verb) – confirm, stand by, justify, endorse/approve, vindicate/validate.
19. conviction (noun) – sentence, judgement, verdict.
20. to one’s credit (phrase) – used to mention that someone deserves praise/admiration.
21. bring about (phrasal verb) – cause, give rise to, lead to, result in, achieve, effect.
22. attributable to (adjective) – considered as an outcome/result caused by.
23. strategy (noun) – plan of action (in order to achieve a more expansive set of political, economic, and security interests).
24. employ (verb) – use, utilize, apply, make use of, avail oneself of, bring into play, have recourse to.
25. pursue (verb) – engage in, conduct, take part in (an activity).
26. the accused (noun) – the suspected person.
27. legal aid/support (noun) – the provision of free legal services in civil and criminal matters for those poor and marginalized people who cannot afford the services of a lawyer for the conduct of a case or a legal proceeding in any Court, Tribunal or Authority.
28. counsel (noun) – advice, direction, instruction, guidelines. (Counsel also means lawyer, legal practitioner, legal adviser, legal executive, legal counsellor, advocate, barrister, attorney, solicitor).
29. escalatory (adjective) – increasing, intensifying, worsening (rapidly). 
30. rhetoric (noun) – bombast, loftiness, hyperbole/extravagant language.
31. sparring (adjective) – disputing, fighting, quarreling; argument/dispute, fight, quarrel..
32. unscheduled (adjective) – spontaneous, unpremeditated, unplanned, improvised, impromptu, accidental, coincidental, random.
33. leg (noun) – part, stage, phase, step.
34. signify (verb) – denote, indicate, signal, point to.
35. timely (adjective) – prompt, well timed, at the right time, opportune, appropriate.
36. geopolitical (adjective) – relating to (the study of) the geographical factors (a country’s position on the earth, size, climate, and natural resources &, etc.) in world politics and inter-state relations.
37. conflict (noun) – dispute, friction, strife, disagreement, difference of opinion.
38. at stake (phrase) – at issue, at risk; or in question.
39. heft (noun) – influence, ability; weight/strength.
40. conflict (noun) – war, warfare, armed conflict, military action, armed clash.
41. interlocutor (noun) – a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
42. Hamas (noun) – Hamas is an Islamist militant group based in Gaza.
43. ties (noun) – association, relationship, bond, connection.
44. dependable (adjective) – reliable, trustworthy, constant, steady.
45. boycott (verb) – avoid, shun, reject, refuse.
46. neighbour (noun) – a country that is next to another country; (bordering) country.
47. natural gas (noun) – colourless, odorless highly flammable gaseous hydrocarbon consisting primarily of methane and ethane occurring naturally underground. It is a fossil fuel formed from the remains of plants and animals.
48. need (noun) – requirement.
49. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) (noun) – Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been cooled to a liquid state, at about -260° Fahrenheit (-162.2° C), for shipping and storage.
50. seal the deal (phrase) – successfully negotiate/complete an agreement (officially).
51. by then (phrase) – by that time.
52. bring in (phrasal verb) – earn a specific amount of money.
53. remittance (noun) – payment, transfer of funds, (money) settlement.
54. seek (verb) – try, aim, attempt.
55. intervention (noun) – the process of intervening in something; involvement, interference, mediation, arbitration, conciliation.
56. convict (verb) – find guilty, declare guilty, sentence. 
57. counter (verb) – act in opposition to.
58. diplomatic (adjective) – tactful, sensitive, subtle, delicate; consular, foreign-policy.
59. countermeasure (noun) – corrective action; solution, answer, antidote, cure.
60. in the aftermath of (phrase) – as a result of, in the wake of, as a consequence of, on account of, because of, owing to.
61. assassination (noun) – murder, killing.
62. eventually (adverb) – finally, in the end, ultimately.
63. outcome (noun) – consequence, implications, ramification, repercussion.
64. satisfactory (adjective) – acceptable, adequate, all right, good enough, fair.

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