The Hindu Editorial (The right to love) – Sep 07, 2018
The stirring message from the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment decriminalising gay sex is that social morality cannot trump constitutional morality. It is a reaffirmation of the right to love. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (The right to love) – Sep 07, 2018.
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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (The right to love) – Sep 07, 2018:
- further (adverb) – promote, advance, facilitate/help.
- frontier (noun) – border, boundary, limit.
- stirring (adjective) – exciting, stimulating, moving.
- decriminalise (verb) – make legal, legitimate, validate.
- morality (noun) – correctness, propriety, ethics/moral standards.
- trump (noun) – surpass, outdo, upstage/beat.
- reaffirmation (noun) – reestablishment, confirmation, endorsement.
- flagrant (adjective) – glaring, obvious, blatant/transparent.
- overturn (verb) – reverse, overrule, nullify/cancel.
- reasoned (adjective) – logical, rational, well thought out.
- read down (phrase) – an instance of a court urging that a statute must be construed/interpreted legally, if fairly possible, so as to save it from being declared illegal.
- LGBT Community– lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Community. The last letter Q (in LGBTQ) can mean either ‘questioning’ or ‘queer (queer is anything that exists outside of the dominant narrative or it means all of first four letters).
- belatedly (adverb) – later than expected; tardily.
- specious (adjective) – misleading, false, deceptive.
- grounds (noun) – factors, reason, cause.
- abide by (verb) – comply with, conform to, adhere to/respect.
- up_to (phrase) – the responsibility of someone.
- upheld (past tense of uphold) – uphold (verb) – confirm, justify, validate, verify.
- intimate (verb) – familiar, faithful, close.
- inherent (adjective) – fundamental, basic, essential.
- litigation (noun) – legal action, legal case, legal proceeding.
- intervening (adjective) – in the time between.
- take forward (phrase) – manage, sort out, deal with,.
- sexual orientation (noun) – a person’s sexual identity.
- jurisprudential (adjective) – relating to the theory or philosophy of law.
- discrimination (noun) – prejudice, bias/bigotry, intolerance/inequity.
- gender identity (noun) – the state of being male or female (irrespective of a person’s birth sex).
- facet (noun) – aspect, feature, characteristic/nuance.
- lay on (phrasal verb) – provide, give, impart.
- transformative (adjective) – life-changing, metamorphic, progressive.
- invoke (verb) – cite, refer to, adduce.
- non-retrogression (noun) – something (a doctrine/right) which can not be reversed/cancelled).
- underscore (verb) – underline, emphasize, highlight.
- unbridgeable (adjective) – relating to something which cannot be bridged (united)..
- poignant (adjective) – affecting/touching, moving, emotional.
- redress (noun) – justice, reparation/restitution, remedy.
- dilution (noun) – solution, suspension..
- heteronormative (adjective) – relatingthe belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.
- the closet (noun) – a state of keeping secret of something, particularly homosexuality.
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