The Hindu Editorial (Status beyond faith) – Oct 10, 2022

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faith (noun) – religion, religious belief, belief/ideology.
panel (noun) – committee, council, commission, advisory group.
convert (noun) – new believer; a person who has been convinced/induced to change his/her religious faith
have one’s work cut out (phrase) – be faced with a tough task/work.
discrimination (noun) – prejudice, bias/bigotry, intolerance/inequity.
untouchability (noun) – the practice of ostracising (excluding) a minority group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate.
regardless of (phrase) – despite, notwithstanding, in the face of.
profess (verb) – state, affirm, declare, avow, confess, acknowledge publicly (one’s faith/allegiance in a religion).
fraught (adjective) – full of, filled with, fraught (with), charged with, loaded with, rife with.
head (verb) – lead, chair, be the leader of.
grapple with (verb) – face, confront, withstand, stand firm against, stand up to.
ideological (adjective) – relating to a system of ideas (ideology).
objection (noun) – protest, opposition, counter-argument, disapproval, disagreement, grievance, complaint.
address (verb) – tackle, deal with, attend to, try to sort out.
seminal (adjective) – influential, major, important.
constitutional (adjective) – relating to something as per the Constitution; legal, lawful, legitimate.
come up (phrasal verb) – arise, present itself, occur, happen, come about.
in the wake of (phrase) – as a result of some event, especially an unpleasant one; in the aftermath of, as a consequence of, on account of, because of, owing to.
in favour of (phrase) – in support of, to the advantage of, approving of.
material (noun) – information, data.
outline (verb) – define, indicate, summarize.
welcome (verb) – appreciate, accept, approve of.
go through (phrasal verb) – undergo, be subjected to, experience, suffer, live through.
in terms of (phrase) – with regard to, regarding, concerning, as to, in respect of, with reference to, in the matter of, in connection with.
implications (noun) – consequence/outcome, ramification, repercussion.
accord (verb) – give, provide, grant, confer.
linguistic (adjective) – relating to language; lingual.
National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities (noun) – also called Commission. It was constituted by Government of India on 29 October 2004 to look into various issues related to Linguistic and Religious minorities in India. It was headed by former Chief Justice of India Justice Ranganath Misra.
categorical (adjective) – clear, straightforward, definite, specific.
belong to (verb) – be associated with, be connected to, be linked to.
all-pervading (adjective) – comprehensive, all-inclusive.
phenomenon (noun) – circumstance, incident, event, situation.
stress (verb – emphasize, underline, underscore, highlight, draw attention to.
underlie (verb) – be the cause of, be the basis of, be the fundamental of.
tenet (noun) – principle, ideal, belief, conviction, aim.
ground reality (noun) – practical condition/situation.
counter-view (noun) – opposing view or opinion.
well-known (adjective) – familiar, common, conventional, established.
deprivation (noun) – hardship, destitution, neediness, distress.
consequence (noun) – result, outcome, effect, repercussion, reverberations, ramification.
social order (noun) – it refers to a stable state of society in which the existing social structure is accepted and maintained by its members.
incentive (noun) – motivation, encouragement, impetus, boost; attraction, encouragement, temptation, inducement.
reservation (noun) – a system of affirmative action in India that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment, and politics.
pie (noun) – a share of something.
shrink (verb) – lessen, reduce, decrease.
creamy layer (noun) – income ceiling for Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation under which children of persons having a gross annual income of Rs 8 lakh or above for a period of three consecutive years would fall under the creamy layer category and would not be entitled to the benefit of reservation available to Other Backward Classes (OBC).
scope (noun) – ambit, limits, purview, bounds, range.
beneficiary (noun) – recipient, receiver.
come up with (phrasal verb) – produce, propose, present, put forward.
definitive (adjective) – definite, specific, firm, positive, conclusive.