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Wean To wean it away from sponsoring terror India has to play a long game with many counters |
If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think it is bad for them. |
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Proactive India will need to be proactive rather than reactive where Pakistan is concerned |
Proactive actions are intended to cause changes, rather than just reacting to change. I |
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Afoot This is not an argument against peace talks, which may be engaged in, but with full awareness that Pakistan’s deep state has other games afoot |
If you say that a plan or scheme is afoot, it is already happening or being planned, but you do not know much about it. |
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Containment It could learn a few lessons from the west's containment |
Containment is the action or policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable limits or boundaries. |
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Lobbying This must include lobbting the US towards changing its current schizophrenic Pakistan policy |
f you lobby someone such as a member of a government or council, you try to persuade them that a particular law should be changed or that a particular thing should be done. |
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Interdict The culture must change fast and India must anticipate and interdict terror strikes better |
f an armed force interdicts something or someone, they stop them and prevent them from moving. If they interdict a route, they block it or cut it off. |
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Sheer, rattle The sheer size of silent protests being organised by the Maratha community in Maharashtra has rattled both the government and political leadership of the state |
You can use sheer to emphasize that a state or situation is complete and does not involve or is not mixed with anything else If something or someone rattles you, they make you nervous. |
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Legitimize Mandal and OBC reservations legitimized the idea that govt owes even agriculyurally domiant castes reservations an jobs |
To legitimize something, especially something bad, means to officially allow it, approve it, or make it seem acceptable. |
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Covet More reservations will not help as there is only a limited pie of coveted govt jobs |
If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself. |
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Cadge I wad at to see if they could cadge a handout to buy themselves sth to eat |
f someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it |
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Discreet I was abt to discreetly slip them a few bucks by way of charity |
If you are discreet, you are polite and careful in what you do or say, because you want to avoid embarrassing or offending someone. |
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Feud , patriarch The surprise elevation of Amar Singh from a mere Rajya Sabha member to the national general secretary of Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) has added a new chapter to the ongoing feud within the family of patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. |
A feud is a quarrel in which two people or groups remain angry with each other for a long time, although they are not always fighting or arguing. the male head of a family or tribal line. |
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Dubbed For singh who was dubbed as an outsider by mulayam's cousin |
If someone or something is dubbed a particular thing, they are given that description or name. |
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Assert Now when akhilesh has asserted yis authority a few months vefore the assembly elections |
If you assert your authority, you make it clear by your behavior that you have authority. |
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Complemented Merging railway and union budgets is helpful but needs to be complemented by other key changes |
If one thing complements another, it goes well with the other thing and makes its good qualities more noticeable. |
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Suboptimal Unless there are improvements all through, public spending will remain suboptimal |
Below optimal level |
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Intuitive Having been made so intuitive, this gizmo has becomr as psycho as us |
If you have an intuitive idea or feeling about something, you feel that it is true although you have no evidence or proof of it |
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Asylum, dissident Delhi shud provide asylum to Pakistani dissidents to put islamabad im the doghouse |
If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons. Dissidents are people who disagree with and criticize their government, especially because it is undemocratic |
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Expatiate, mutate, epicenter It is ironic should Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif choose to expatiate on human rights violations in Kashmir New York today while turning a blind eye to his own country having mutated into an epicentre of regional and global terror. |
If something mutates into something different, it changes into that thing. a focal point, as of activity |
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Proliferate It is not worth pointing out that Pakistan is the world's worst proliferator |
f things proliferate, they increase in number very quickly. |
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Logjam If the logjam in Indian courts is terrible today, it’s only going to get worse tomorrow – unless major course correction is undertaken with urgency |
To break the logjam means to change or deal with a difficult situation which has existed for a long time |
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Struck Last oct, the apex court struck down the National Judicial Appointment Commission |
To dexlare a law illegal and unenforcable |
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Pendency Many other doable reform can help eliminate the pendency problem |
the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement. |
