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Crime in Kathua – The Hindu Apr 13, 2018
The 15-page chargesheet filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch on the abduction, rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district is chilling. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
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Today’s Word List-1 To Learn English And To Improve Vocabulary:
- charge sheet (noun) – an official document on which a police officer enters details of the charge against a person.
- abduction (noun) – kidnapping, hostage-taking.
- undermine (verb) – weaken, diminish, reduce.
- chilling (adjective) – frightening, terrifying, disturbing/horrifying.
- overlain past participle of overlie (verb) – surround, cover, enclose/wrap.
- heighten (verb) – intensify, magnify, amplify.
- vulnerability (noun) – infirmness, weakness, fragility.
- nomadic (adjective) – wandering, roaming, travelling/rambling. Nomads are people who have no permanent home, travel from place to place in search of food (for them and their animals).
- mutilated (adjective) – disfigured, mangled, maimed/damaged.
- by all accounts (phrase) – supposedly, apparently, seemingly/ allegedly.
- owe (verb) – have something needed to be done in a particular way.
- impartiality (noun) – fairness; treating all people and groups equally.
- conspirator (noun) – conspirer, plotter/schemer, intriguer.
- insinuation (noun) – hint, suggestion, implication/indication.
- entrust (verb) – assign, give the responsibility for, charge with a responsibility/trust.
- feeble (adjective) – ineffective/incompetent, spineless, weak.
- sectarian (adjective) – denoting a sect (a group of people); factional, partisan.
- undercurrent (noun) – (hidden) atmosphere, feeling, condition.
- evict (verb) – remove, expel, oust/throw out.
- instill ( verb) – introduce, inject, infuse.
- brunt (noun) – burden, pressure, strain.
- intimidation (noun) – frightening, threatening, oppression.
- tussle (noun) – scuffle, fight, struggle.
- brutality (noun) – cruelty, savagery, inhumanity/atrocity.
- pursue (verb) – engage in, follow, conduct.
- hate crime (noun) – a violent crime against someone because of their caste, religion & etc.
- tie in (phrasal verb) – correlate, coincide, dovetail.
- loaded (adjective) – biased, rigged, fixed.
Today’s Word List-1 To Learn English And To Improve Vocabulary:
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