👀DAILY HINDU EDITORIAL WORD BYTES - 2 --> 21 APRIL👀

💥Daily Word Bytes - 2  from editorial - Conscience call - On Rohingya Crisis💥

conscience call (noun) – an appeal/need/necessity to be made on inner voice, moral sense, sense of right and wrong.

Hindu Editorial usage : Conscience call: On Rohingya crisis

humanitarian crisis (noun) – humanitarian disaster; it is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well being of a community or large group of people. It may be an internal or external conflict and usually occurs throughout a large land area.

Hindu Editorial usage : The scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by Rohingya refugees was highlighted this month when Myanmar claimed it had repatriated a family of five. 

repatriate (verb) – send (a person) back to his/her own country.

Hindu Editorial usage : The scale of the humanitarian crisis faced by Rohingya refugees was highlighted this month when Myanmar claimed it had repatriated a family of five. 

struck past participle of strike (verb) –  sign, reach, arrive at.

Hindu Editorial usage : Late last year, the two countries had struck an agreement for their return.

persecution (noun) – ill treatment/hostility, discrimination, oppression.

Hindu Editorial usage : Facing persecution at home in Myanmar, Rohingya have for years been fleeing in the most hazardous of ways, 

flee (verb) – run away, take flight, escape. flight (noun) – fleeing, departure, escape.

Hindu Editorial usage : Facing persecution at home in Myanmar, Rohingya have for years been fleeing in the most hazardous of ways, 

hazardous (adjective) – risky, dangerous; unsafe/perilous.

Hindu Editorial usage : Facing persecution at home in Myanmar, Rohingya have for years been fleeing in the most hazardous of ways, 

reckon (verb) – calculate, work out; estimate/evaluate.

Hindu Editorial usage : the UN reckons there were already 200,000 refugees in Bangladesh before the mass flight began in August,

forefront (noun) – vanguard, leading position, driving force.

Hindu Editorial usage : with most refugees now concentrated in Cox’s Bazar. Bangladesh has been at the forefront of seeing to the needs of the refugees,

precariously (adverb) – insecurely; unsafely, weakly/unsteadily, uncertainly, dependently.

Hindu Editorial usage : Rohingya refugees living precariously on its territory, and as a regional power that is failing this time round to keep up its legacy of providing succour to those fleeing persecution.

legacy (noun) – tradition, inheritance, bequest/heritage.

Hindu Editorial usage : Rohingya refugees living precariously on its territory, and as a regional power that is failing this time round to keep up its legacy of providing succour to those fleeing persecution.

succour (noun) – aid/help/support, assistance, relief.

Hindu Editorial usage : Rohingya refugees living precariously on its territory, and as a regional power that is failing this time round to keep up its legacy of providing succour to those fleeing persecution.

confront (verb) – trouble, bother, burden.

Hindu Editorial usage : At the heart of the human rights problem that confronts the world is that no one is confident that conditions obtain in Myanmar to receive the refugees. 

obtain in (verb) – be present in, exist, prevail.

Hindu Editorial usage : At the heart of the human rights problem that confronts the world is that no one is confident that conditions obtain in Myanmar to receive the refugees. 

conducive (adjective) – favourable, beneficial, advantageous.

Hindu Editorial usage : The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said last week that “conditions in Myanmar are not yet conducive for the voluntary, safe,

ethnic (adjective) – relating to a population subgroup (cultural, national, traditional/folk) with a 
common national or cultural tradition.

Hindu Editorial usage : Myanmar refuses to recognise the Rohingya, who are mostly Muslim, as a separate ethnic group and denies them citizenship. 

implications (noun) – consequence/outcome, ramification, repercussion.

Hindu Editorial usage :  which has its own implications for their rights as inhabitants of the country.

inhabitants (noun) – people, public, community, folk.

Hindu Editorial usage :  which has its own implications for their rights as inhabitants of the country.

ethnic cleansing (noun) – the mass expulsion or killing of an ethnic group members in a place by an another one, particularly a majoritarian group in that place.

Hindu Editorial usage :  It has been rightly termed a case of ethnic cleansing.

plaudits (noun) – praise/acclaim, kudos, commendation.

Hindu Editorial usage : Pressure on Myanmar, which won plaudits for its recent democratic transition, to recognise the rights of a people who trace their ancestry in Rakhine for generations has so far yielded nothing. 

ancestry (noun) – line of descent, family tree, origin/heredity.

Hindu Editorial usage : Pressure on Myanmar, which won plaudits for its recent democratic transition, to recognise the rights of a people who trace their ancestry in Rakhine for generations has so far yielded nothing. 

yield (verb) – produce, provide, generate/realize.

Hindu Editorial usage : Pressure on Myanmar, which won plaudits for its recent democratic transition, to recognise the rights of a people who trace their ancestry in Rakhine for generations has so far yielded nothing. 

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