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A shattered peace – The Hindu (Jun 14, 2017)

Peace in West Bengal’s Darjeeling hills has been shattered again, with the key hill party, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, renewing its demand for a separate Gorkhaland state. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

Courtesy: The Hindu

shattered (adjective) – very upset, worried, distressed.
suspicion (noun) – misgiving, doubt, qualm.
spiral (verb) – increase, rise rapidly, escalate.
decree (noun) – order, dictum, fiat.
a host (of) (noun) – lot, large number, great quantity.
call out (phrasal verb) – summon someone to do an emergency work.
stay put (phrase) – remain somewhere without moving.
semblance (noun) – appearance; resemblance; similarity (archaic).
purview (noun) – range, scope, ambit.
flush (noun) – a period at which something is new & fresh.
eyeball-to-eyeball (idiom) – face to face or direct (argument).
spell (verb) – lead to/cause, result in, bring about.
refrain (verb) – abstain/desist, withhold; stop.
make inroad (noun) – conquer, capture, win.
clip (verb) – remove, cut out, detach.
ethnic (adjective) – relating to a population subgroup (cultural, national, traditional/folk) with a common national or cultural tradition.
spell out (phrasal verb) – explain, make clear, elucidate/clarify.
quell (verb) – calm, soothe, pacify/settle.

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