The modern way – The Hindu (March 30, 2017)
The passage of the Mental Healthcare Bill in the Lok Sabha, putting it on course to become law and repealing the Mental Health Act of 1987, will potentially help India catch up with the advances made in the field by other countries. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
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Word List-1:
- repeal (verb) – revoke, cancel, nullify/invalidate.
- old-fashioned (adjective) – out of date, outdated, obsolete.
- sketchy (adjective) – incomplete, inadequate, limited.
- meagre (adjective) – inadequate, deficient, insufficient.
- provision (noun) – term, clause, requirement.
- explicit (adjective) – unrestrained, unreserved, unrestricted.
- agency (noun) – action, activity, effect.
- discrimination (noun) – inequity, intolerance, partisanship.
- concerted (adjective) – energetic, active, strong/intense.
- psychoses (noun) – mental illness.
- out-of-pocket (adjective) – (of an expense) payments made directly than put on account.
- ailment (noun) – illness, disease, disorder.
- seclusion (noun) – isolation, retreat/peacefulness, privacy.
- resort to (verb) – use, utilize, employ.
- asylum (noun) – psychiatric/mental hospital, mental institution.
- electro-convulsive (adjective) – relating to the treatment of mental disease by the use of electric shocks to the brain.
- rely on (phralsal verb) – depend, bank, lean.
- weed out (phrasal verb) – isolate, separate out, set apart.
- shady (adjective) – suspicious, dubious, illegal/dishonest.
- rehabilitation (noun) – the action of bringing (someone or something) back to a normal, healthy condition after an illness, injury, drug problem, etc (Courtesy: VOA Learning English).
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