👀DAILY HINDU EDITORIAL WORD BYTES -1 -> 1 JUNE👀

💥Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial -Polls and polarisation💥

polarisation (noun) – separation of two contrasting groups (based on different opinions/beliefs).
Hindu Editorial usage : Polls and polarisation

evoke (verb) – bring to mind, awaken, suggest.
Hindu Editorial usage : Of all the Lok Sabha by-elections in this round, Kairana in Uttar Pradesh evoked special interest because of the coming together of the opposition parties against the Bharatiya Janata Party

broad-based (adjective) – wide-ranging, general.
Hindu Editorial usage : Tabassum Hasan, and she won as a representative of a broad-based coalition, which included the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress.

erosion (noun) – destruction, deterioration, decline.
Hindu Editorial usage : That the RLD chose a Muslim candidate was significant as the party had suffered an erosion in its support base after the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 involving Jats and Muslims. 

rapprochement (noun) – reconciliation, agreement, cooperation.
Hindu Editorial usage : but RLD leader Ajit Singh was encouraged not only by the process of rapprochement on the ground over the last few months, 

backing (noun) – support, assistance, help/aid.
Hindu Editorial usage : but also by the backing of the three major opposition parties in U.P. Mr. Singh knew he needed the support of all the anti-BJP votes

portend (verb) – foretell, indicate, signal.
Hindu Editorial usage : What should worry the BJP is what this portends for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Instead of a communal polarisation

first-past-the-post (phrase) – it is an electoral system in which a candidate with the most votes in each constituency wins and becomes the MP/MLA for that seat.
Hindu Editorial usage : The BJP’s very success in the first-past-the-post system appears to have created the conditions for its defeat: a forced coming-together of disparate parties

disparate (adjective) – contrasting, different, dissimilar.
Hindu Editorial usage : The BJP’s very success in the first-past-the-post system appears to have created the conditions for its defeat: a forced coming-together of disparate parties

 rainbow_coalition (noun) – a political group of several minority parties (of different ethnic, political, or religious backgrounds).
Hindu Editorial usage : With less than a year to go for the big election, this rainbow coalition is likely to stay the course. Nothing succeeds like success.

stay the course (phrase) – make effort till the end to accomplish the task.
Hindu Editorial usage : With less than a year to go for the big election, this rainbow coalition is likely to stay the course. Nothing succeeds like success.

wrest (verb) – wrench, snatch, take control of (power).
Hindu Editorial usage : In Bhandara-Gondia, the Nationalist Congress Party wrested the seat from the BJP.

at stake (phrase) – in question.
Hindu Editorial usage : the Assembly seat of Palus-Kadegaon was retained by the Congress. The other Lok Sabha seat at stake, 

to no one’s surprise (phrase) – as expected, expectedly.
Hindu Editorial usage :  To no one’s surprise, the Assembly seats in Punjab, Karnataka and Meghalaya went to the Congress, and the Left Democratic Front retained its seat in Kerala. 

far from (phrase) – not, not at all, nowhere near.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Overall, the main message from these results from different parts of the country is far from comforting for the BJP.

comforting (adjective) –  supportive, relieving, encouraging.
Hindu Editorial usage :  Overall, the main message from these results from different parts of the country is far from comforting for the BJP.

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