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The Hindu Editorial (The right to love) – Sep 07, 2018

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: 

  1. further (adverb) – promote, advance, facilitate/help.
  2. frontier (noun) – border, boundary, limit.
  3. stirring (adjective) – exciting, stimulating, moving.
  4. decriminalise (verb) – make legal, legitimate, validate.
  5. morality (noun) – correctness, propriety, ethics/moral standards.
  6. trump (noun) – surpass, outdo, upstage/beat.
  7. reaffirmation (noun) – reestablishment, confirmation, endorsement.
  8. flagrant (adjective) – glaring, obvious, blatant/transparent.
  9. overturn (verb) – reverse, overrule, nullify/cancel.
  10. reasoned (adjective) – logical, rational, well thought out.
  11. 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.
  12. 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).
  13. belatedly (adverb) – later than expected; tardily.
  14. specious (adjective) – misleading, false, deceptive.
  15. grounds (noun) – factors, reason, cause.
  16. abide by (verb) – comply with, conform to, adhere to/respect.
  17. up_to (phrase) – the responsibility of someone.
  18. upheld (past tense of uphold) – uphold (verb) – confirm, justify, validate, verify.
  19. intimate (verb) – familiar, faithful, close.
  20. inherent (adjective) – fundamental, basic, essential.
  21. litigation (noun) – legal action, legal case, legal proceeding.
  22. intervening (adjective) – in the time between.
  23. take forward (phrase) – manage, sort out, deal with,.
  24. sexual orientation (noun) – a person’s sexual identity.
  25. jurisprudential (adjective) – relating to the theory or philosophy of law.
  26. discrimination (noun) – prejudice, bias/bigotry, intolerance/inequity.
  27. gender identity (noun) – the state of being male or female (irrespective of a person’s birth sex).
  28. facet (noun) – aspect, feature, characteristic/nuance.
  29. lay on (phrasal verb) – provide, give, impart.
  30. transformative (adjective) – life-changing, metamorphic, progressive.
  31. invoke (verb) – cite, refer to, adduce.
  32. non-retrogression (noun) – something (a doctrine/right) which can not be reversed/cancelled).
  33. underscore (verb) – underline, emphasize, highlight.
  34. unbridgeable (adjective) – relating to something which cannot be bridged (united)..
  35. poignant (adjective) – affecting/touching, moving, emotional.
  36. redress (noun) – justice, reparation/restitution, remedy.
  37. dilution (noun) – solution, suspension..
  38. heteronormative (adjective) –  relatingthe belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.
  39. the closet (noun) – a state of keeping secret of something, particularly homosexuality.

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