👀DAILY HINDU EDITORIAL WORD BYTES -1 --> 12 APRIL👀

💥Daily word bytes - 1  from editorial - End to Cattle Curbs - on withdrawl of sale ban 💥

👉curb (noun) – restriction, restraint, stricture.

Hindu Editorial usage : End to cattle curbs

👉ill-conceived (adjective) – absurd, ridiculous, not carefully planned.

Hindu Editorial usage : The withdrawal of ill-conceived restrictions

👉livestock (noun) – farm animals (cattle, goats & etc).

Hindu Editorial usage : on livestock trade is welcome

👉prevail (verb) – succeed, win through, triumph.

Hindu Editorial usage : Good sense appears to have prevailed at last.

👉at last (phrase) – finally, in the end, eventually.

Hindu Editorial usage : Good sense appears to have prevailed at last.

👉climate change (noun) – a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on 
Earth .

Hindu Editorial usage : Environment, Forests and Climate Change notified the rules 

👉surreptitiously (adverb) – secretively/secretly, indirectly, furtively.

Hindu Editorial usage : the government was surreptitiously throttling the cattle trade 

👉throttle (verb) – suppress/restrict, crack down on, stop/end. (throttle generally means cause a person/animal unable to breathe properly by blocking the air flow through the throat).

Hindu Editorial usage : the government was surreptitiously throttling the cattle trade 

👉dietary habits (noun) – food choices preferred by persons in their daily life.

Hindu Editorial usage : interfering with dietary habits.

👉cumbersome (adjective) – complicated, complex; awkward/hard to deal with.

Hindu Editorial usage : buyers of animals from cumbersome paperwork and procedural requirements

👉lairage (noun) – a resting place; a place where sheep or cattle may be rested during transport to a market or slaughter.

Hindu Editorial usage : The definition of ‘animal markets’ will no more include any lairage adjoining a slaughter-house,

👉vicinity (noun) – surrounding area, neighbourhood, local area.

Hindu Editorial usage : resting place in the vicinity of a market.

👉provision (noun) – term, clause, requirement/condition.

Hindu Editorial usage : The draft retains good provisions

👉barring (verb) – excluding, omitting, leaving out.

Hindu Editorial usage : earlier notification barring cruelty in the treatment and transport of animals.

👉set off (phrasal verb) – cause, prompt, trigger.

Hindu Editorial usage : The notification had set off a storm last year,

👉storm (noun) – disturbance/trouble, commotion; controversy.

Hindu Editorial usage : The notification had set off a storm last year,

👉stridently (adverb) – in a forceful way.

Hindu Editorial usage : with some Chief Ministers stridently opposing it

👉jurisdiction (noun) – authority, command, power.

Hindu Editorial usage : Even assuming that the Centre had jurisdiction under the law

👉non-starter (noun) – failure, fiasco, catastrophe/mess.

Hindu Editorial usage : the notification was a non-starter. 

👉adversely (adverb) – unfavourably, disadvantageously, badly.

Hindu Editorial usage : There was further concern whether the regulations would adversely impact poor villagers,

👉countryside (noun) – a rural area.

Hindu Editorial usage : as animal markets are predominantly in the countryside. 

👉guise (noun) – posture/appearance, pretence, outward form/false show.

Hindu Editorial usage : There was an impression that under the guise of stiff regulations,

👉slaughter (verb) – kill animals for food.

Hindu Editorial usage :  a term that covers cows, buffalo, bulls and camels, to be slaughtered even for food, 

👉explicitly (adverb) – categorically, without any doubt, clearly/directly.

Hindu Editorial usage : recognising explicitly that animals 

👉tendency (noun) – inclination, disposition/penchant, direction/movement.

Hindu Editorial usage :  Any transformation from a tendency to advance pet 

👉sectarianism (noun) – excessive attachment to a particular sect or party, especially in religion.

Hindu Editorial usage : Good governance is not only about regulating human and economic activities, but also about avoiding perceptions of sectarianism

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