The Hindu Editorial (Rewriting history) – Oct 19, 2019
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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Rewriting history) – Oct 19, 2019:
- militate against (verb) – work against, resist, hinder/oppose.
- historiography (noun) – the writing of history & the study of written histories.
- contested (adjective) – disputed, debated, argued.
- territory (noun) – domain, area of concern, area of interest; field.
- interpretation (noun) – meaning, understanding, explanation.
- phenomenon (noun) – occurrence, event, happening.
- right-wing (adjective) – conservative, rightist, alt-right.
- glorify (verb) – praise, honour, laud.
- reading (noun) – understanding, account, interpretation.
- medieval (adjective) – Relating to the Middle Ages (lasted from the 5th to the 15th century).
- narrative (noun) – a representation of a particular situation; report.
- invasion (noun) – attack, incursion, assault/assailing.
- blinkered (adjective) – narrow-minded, inward-looking, conventional.
- reductionist (adjective) – relating to an approach where you break the system down to its pieces to reason about it from the properties of these pieces.
- ideological (adjective) – relating to a system of ideas.
- moorings (noun) – stabilizing influence/power.
- rely on (phrasal verb) – depend on; resort to, bank on.
- build upon (phrasal verb) – develop, enhance, improve.
- extant (adjective) – present, existent, existing/surviving.
- scholarship (noun) – knowledge, academic achievement, intellectual attainment.
- anathema (noun) – a curse; bane, evil.
- scripture (noun) – sacred text/writings.
- corpus (noun) – collection, compilation, aggregation.
- inscription (noun) – engraving, wording, writing.
- exhortation (noun) – urging/pushing, pressure, insistence.
- legacy (noun) – footprint, effect/outcome (something received from a predecessor or from the past).
- free-floating (adjective) – not assigned to a particular category.
- notion (noun) – idea, belief, concept.
- glory (noun) – fame, honour, eminence, reputation/recognition.
- civilisational (adjective) – relating to civilisation (culture, customs, way of life).
- hubris (noun) – excessive pride, feeling of superiority, self-confidence.
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