The Hindu Editorial (Perverse intent) – Apr 09, 2024

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The Hindu Editorial (Perverse intent) – Apr 09, 2024:

perverse (adjective) – illogical, irrational, unreasonable; wrong, incorrect.
intent (noun) – intention, plan, objective, scheme, goal, target.
Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) (noun) – The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 seeks to grant citizenship to religious minorities of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, who had to flee their homeland facing persecution. The six minority groups that have been specifically identified are Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, and Parsis.
narrow (adjective) – restricted, limited, inward-looking, narrow-minded, short-sighted, small-minded, conventional, intolerant, illiberal, partisan, sectarian, discriminatory.
persecution (noun) – oppression, victimization, harassment, ill treatment, discrimination.
arbitrariness (noun) – the quality of being “determined by personal chance, whim (desire), or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle”; irregularity, changeability, inconstancy, fickleness, volatility.
migrant (noun) – a person who moves from one region to another – either within a country or across national borders in order to find work or better living conditions.
fled past & past participle of flee (verb) – escape, abscond, run away, take flight, leave abruptly/hastily.
country of origin (noun) – the country from where someone comes from; birthplace, homeland, native land.
humane (adjective) – compassionate, considerate, sympathetic, kind-hearted.
endeavour (noun) – activity, deed, pursuit, move, action; aim, effort, attempt.
nation-state (noun) – a state (country) in which a great majority shares the same culture and is conscious of it. The nation-state is an ideal in which cultural boundaries match up with political boundaries. An independent state consists of people from one particular national group.
welcome (verb) – appreciate, accept, be pleased by.
measure (noun) – action, step, procedure.
arbitrary (adjective) – capricious, random, personal (whim/choice), erratic/irregular; irrational, illogical, groundless, unjustifiable.
neighbouring (adjective) – adjacent, bordering, abutting, surrounding; nearby.
narrow (verb) – shrink, make smaller, constrict, reduce, decrease.
further (adjective) – more, additional,
constrict (verb) – tighten, make smaller, narrow, restrict, limit.
atheist (noun) – unbeliever, doubter, irreligious person.
agnostic (noun) – sceptic, doubter, cynic, questioner, unbeliever, non-believer, rationalist.
suggest (verb) – indicate, denote, point to, signify.
reasoning (noun) – rationale, reason, justification, cause, grounds, explanation.
have —- to do with (noun) – be connected with; to be about something.
humanitarianism (noun) – humaneness, humanism, kindheartedness, kindness, altruism, philanthropy.
warped (adjective) – abnormal, strange, weird.
Act (noun) – law, statute, ordinance, legislation, stipulation.
go against (phrasal verb) – oppose, be contrary to; be in violation of, fail to agree with; be unfavourable, be disadvantageous.
ethos (noun) – attitudes, beliefs, principles.
constitution (noun) – body of law; system of rules; regulations, fundamental principles, charter.
The Constitution of India (noun) – India, also known as Bharat, is a Union of States. It is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a parliamentary system of government. The Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950.
short-sighted (adjective) – narrow-minded, unimaginative, lacking foresight, illiberal.
legislation (noun) – law, decree, statute, rule, ordinance, act.
merit (verb) – deserve, warrant, justify.
asylum (noun) – protection provided by a foreign country to somebody who is unable or unwilling to return to their home country due to fear of persecution (harm, harassment or oppression).
linguistic (adjective) – relating to language; lingual.
discrimination (noun) – prejudice, intolerance, inequity, unfairness (against an individual or group of individuals by society and its institutions (basically in the procedures, policies, or objectives) as a whole.
erstwhile (adjective) – old, previous, former.
besides (preposition) – apart from, other than, barring, excluding; as well as, in addition to, moreover, additionally.
render (verb) – cause to be/become.
stateless (adjective) – relating to a person who is not considered as a national by any state.
deliberate (adjective) – intentional, intended, conscious, done on purpose, knowing, purposeful, premeditated, pre-planned, prearranged, preconceived, predetermined.
genocidal (adjective) – relating to the deliberate mass murder/killing.
regime (noun) – government.
profess (verb) – declare, announce, state, assert, affirm, proclaim.
sect (noun) – religious group, religious order, faith community.
subject to (adjective) – susceptible to, prone to, vulnerable to, likely to suffer from, in risk/danger of, easily affected by.
oppression (noun) – persecution, ill treatment, suppression, repression, exploitation, suffering.
applicant (noun) – candidate; petitioner, claimant.
effectively (adverb) – practically, virtually, in effect, actually, in reality.
renounce (verb) – abandon, give up, relinquish, surrender, forgo, disclaim.
violative (adjective) – subjected to violation (breach, contravention, infringement, breaking, non-observance).
1951 refugee convention & 1967 Protocol (noun) – the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, adopted in 1951, is the centrepiece of international refugee protection. (1) The Convention entered into force on 22 April 1954, and it has been subject to only one amendment in the form of a 1967 Protocol, which removed the geographic and temporal limits of the 1951 Convention. The 1951 Convention consolidates previous international instruments relating to refugees and provides the most comprehensive codification of the rights of refugees at the international level.
convention (noun) – agreement, treaty, pact, accord, protocol.
refugee (noun) – displaced person, asylum seeker, exile, deportee, stateless person, émigré.
Protocol (noun) – agreement, accord, treaty, compact, pact.
provision (noun) – term, clause, requirement, specification, stipulation.
signatory (noun) – the person who signed an official document/agreement. (in this context, it is a country that signs an agreement).
as to (phrase) – concerning, respecting, with respect to, on the subject of, as regards, regarding.
fall foul of/run afoul of (phrase) – get into trouble, come into conflict with, go against (by not following rules/standards).
unconstitutional (adjective) – undemocratic, autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian.
revoke (verb) – nullify, annul, cancel, quash, overturn, overrule.
implementation (noun) – execution, carrying out, fulfilment, realization, accomplishment, achievement, attainment.
selective (adjective) – particular, picky, choosy, discriminatory.
norm (noun) – standard, convention, regulation.