The Hindu Editorial (Relief for Pehlu’s sons) – Nov 01, 2019
The Rajasthan High Court’s order quashing the cow smuggling case against the sons of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer lynched by cow vigilantes in 2017, grants much-needed relief to the family. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Relief for Pehlu’s sons) – Nov 01, 2019.
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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Relief for Pehlu’s sons) – Nov 01, 2019:
- lynching (noun) – an act of punishing/killing someone by hanging for claimed offence by the group of people without legal trail.
- perversity (noun) – unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicality, inappropriateness.
- quash (verb) – cancel, reverse, repeal.
- vigilante (noun) – a member of the self-appointed group which unofficially punishing crimes.
- semblance (noun) – appearance, approximation; likeness, similarity.
- acquit (verb) – free/clear from a criminal charge, exonerate, declare innocent.
- slaughter (noun) – the killing of animals for food.
- charge sheet (noun) – an official document on which a police officer enters details of the charge against a person.
- manifest (adjective) – clear, evident, obvious.
- milch cow (noun) – a cow kept for milking; figuratively a cash cow.
- perversely (adverb) – irrationally, unreasonably, wrongly.
- narrative (noun) – a representation of a particular situation; portrayal/ account.
- mob (noun) – a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people
- succumb (verb) – die from, die of, pass away as a result of.
- erstwhile (adjective) – old, previous, former, then.
- bovine (adjective) – relating to cattle; cow-like, cattle-like, buffalo-like.
- make up for (phrasal verb) – make amends for, make reparation for, make redress for, compensate for.
- lapse (noun) – failure, mistake, blunder/oversight.
- face-saver (noun) – something which protecting/maintaining one’s reputation, credibility, or dignity.
- emblematic (adjective) – symbolic, representative, demonstrative.
- a wave of (noun) – a sudden increase in a certain phenomenon/happening.
- hate crime (noun) – any criminal offence that is carried out because of hostility or prejudice based on disability, race, religion, transgender identity or sexual orientation.
- intolerance (noun) – prejudice, bias, bigotry/partisanship.
- interference (noun) – intervention, meddling, unwarranted involvement.
- rig (verb) – cobble together, put together, devise, set up hurriedly.
- salvage (verb) – get back, reinstate, retain/retrieve.
- perpetrator (noun) – someone who does immoral, harmful and illegal activities.
- deliberately (adverb) – intentionally, purposely, knowingly/wittingly.
- secure (verb) – obtain, acquire, get.
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