👀DAILY HINDU EDITORIAL WORD BYTES -1 --> 13 APRIL👀

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👉abduction (noun) – kidnapping, hostage-taking.

Hindu Editorial usage : 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.

👉undermine (verb) – weaken, diminish, reduce.

Hindu Editorial usage : Attempts to undermine the investigation into a little girl’s rape and murder must be resisted

👉chilling (adjective) – frightening, terrifying, disturbing/horrifying.

Hindu Editorial usage : 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.

👉overlain past participle of overlie (verb) – surround, cover, enclose/wrap.

Hindu Editorial usage : An unspeakably horrific crime has been overlain with an ugly form of communal politics

👉vulnerability (noun) – infirmness, weakness, fragility.

Hindu Editorial usage : which has heightened the feeling of vulnerability among the Bakherwal nomadic community. 

👉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).

Hindu Editorial usage : which has heightened the feeling of vulnerability among the Bakherwal nomadic community. 

👉mutilated (adjective) – disfigured, mangled, maimed/damaged.

Hindu Editorial usage : On January 17, her mutilated body was found, bearing the marks of gang rape.

👉owe (verb) – have something needed to be done in a particular way.

Hindu Editorial usage : By all accounts, the demand owes less to any faith in CBI impartiality

👉impartiality (noun) – fairness; treating all people and groups equally.

Hindu Editorial usage :By all accounts, the demand owes less to any faith in CBI impartiality

👉conspirator (noun) – conspirer, plotter/schemer, intriguer.

Hindu Editorial usage : The chargesheet lists as the main conspirator the caretaker of the temple in Rasana where Asifa was allegedly held

👉insinuation (noun) – hint, suggestion, implication/indication.

Hindu Editorial usage : The insinuation that a local police force that reflects the multi-religious composition of the State cannot be entrusted with a case

👉feeble (adjective) – ineffective/incompetent, spineless, weak.

Hindu Editorial usage : the BJP has been so feeble in criticising the sectarian undercurrents.

👉sectarian (adjective) – denoting a sect (a group of people); factional, partisan.

Hindu Editorial usage : the BJP, has been so feeble in criticising the sectarian undercurrents.

👉undercurrent (noun) – (hidden) atmosphere, feeling, condition.

Hindu Editorial usage : the BJP, has been so feeble in criticising the sectarian undercurrents.

👉evict (verb) – remove, expel, oust/throw out.

Hindu Editorial usage : backdrop of drives to evict them from what they say are their traditional camping sites in forests.

👉instill ( verb) – introduce, inject, infuse.

Hindu Editorial usage :  One line of inquiry is that the motive for her abduction and assault was to instil fear among the nomads in pressing for their rights to the forests and commons.

👉brunt (noun) – burden, pressure, strain.

Hindu Editorial usage : But while it is understandable that the nomads are feeling the brunt of the intimidation 

👉intimidation (noun) – frightening, threatening, oppression.

Hindu Editorial usage : But while it is understandable that the nomads are feeling the brunt of the intimidation 

👉tussle (noun) – scuffle, fight, struggle.

Hindu Editorial usage : to superimpose the crime on the tussle over forest rights 

👉brutality (noun) – cruelty, savagery, inhumanity/atrocity.

Hindu Editorial usage : to superimpose the crime on the tussle over forest rights would be to diminish the brutality brought upon the little girl.

👉pursue (verb) – engage in, follow, conduct.

Hindu Editorial usage :  The investigation must be pursued for the hate crime it is.

👉hate crime (noun) – a violent crime against someone because of their caste, religion & etc.

Hindu Editorial usage :  The investigation must be pursued for the hate crime it is.

👉tie in (phrasal verb) – correlate, coincide, dovetail.

Hindu Editorial usage : It does not just tie in with her community’s rights 

👉loaded (adjective) – biased, rigged, fixed.

Hindu Editorial usage : it shows how loaded the system is against those seeking justice.

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