A journey for liberty – The Hindu (Aug 16, 2016)
‘Jai Bhim’ and ‘Azadi, Azadi’ are the two signature slogans of the Dalit Asmita Yatra from Ahmedabad to Una that culminated in a massive rally on August 15. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Word List:
- Culminate (verb) – come to a climax; come to an end with, terminate with.
- Affiliation (noun) – connection, association, coalition, union.
- En route (adverb) – on the way, on the journey, coming/going, proceeding.
- Shoestring (noun) – a small/inadequate (budget).
- Skin (verb) – remove the skin from an animal.
- Outrage (noun) – indignation, anger, shock, fury, resentment.
- Personnel (noun) – staff, employees, workforce.
- Sober (adjective) – serious, thoughtful, solemn, sensible.
- Rabble-rouse (verb) – agitate, to stir up the emotions of the public.
- Pledge (verb) – promise, swear, take an oath, commit, affirm.
- Procession (noun) – parade, march, progression; a group of people moving in an orderly way.
- Solidarity (noun) – unanimity, unity, like-mindedness, agreement, community of interest, harmony.
- Inhuman (adjective) – heartless, merciless, unkind, pitiless.
- Humiliating (adjective) – shameful, undignified, demeaning, embarrassing.
- Wrath (noun) – anger, rage, fury, indignation, outrage.
- Elite (noun) – a group of powerful people who has influence in a society.
- Discrimination (noun) – prejudice, racism, chauvinism.
- Resentment (noun) – bitterness, indignation, hostility, dissatisfaction, hatred, resentfulness, hard/bad feelings.
- Atrocity (noun) – act of barbarity/brutality/savagery, cruelty, inhumanity.
- Backlash (noun) – adverse reaction/response, counteraction; retaliation; fallout.
- Nuance (noun) – fine/subtle/delicate/minute distinction/difference.
- Intellectual (adjective) – rational, psychological, conceptual, theoretical.
- Sympathise (verb) – agree, support, favour, approve of.
- Patronising (adjective) – treat condescendingly, treat as inferior; condescending, superior, imperious, contemptuous.
- Denunciation (noun) – public condemnation; censure, rebuke, excoriation, reprimand.
- Myriad of (noun) – a large/great number of, magnitude.
- Live through (phrasal verb) – survive, endure, experience something bad, deal with difficulty.
- Multi-pronged (adjective) – having different aspects/elements.
- Superiority complex (noun) – it is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person’s feelings of superiority counter or conceal his or her feelings of inferiority (Courtesy: Wikipedia)..
- Inferiority (noun) – lowliness, inferior status/position.
- Prejudice (noun) – partiality, bigotry, bias, discrimination, inequity.
- Intervention (noun) – involvement, interposition; mediation, arbitration, conciliation.
- Fallout (noun) – bad effect/result, adverse effect/result.
- Isolated (adjective) – remote, outlying, in the hinterlands, inaccessible, cut-off, unreachable.
- Ubiquitous (adjective) – omnipresent, ever-present, everywhere, all-over.
- Feudalism (noun) – bondage, servitude, enslavement, subjection; the state of being a slave; it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. It is a social system that existed in Europe between the medieval (9th and 15th) centuries. (Courtesy: Wikipedia).
- Progressive (adjective) – increasing, ongoing, intensifying; radical, reforming, revolutionary.
- Overt (adjective) – undisguised, unconcealed, clear, noticeable, observable.
- Covert (adjective) – secret, furtive, concealed, hidden.
- Rein in (verb) – restrain, check, curb, constrain, hold back, restrict, control.
- Dearly (adverb) – very much, greatly, extremely; at great cost, at a high price, with great loss.
Note:
- Click each one of the words above for their definition, more synonyms, pronunciation, example sentences, phrases, derivatives, origin and etc from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ .
- Definitions (elementary level) & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.
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