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- Gerrymandering (Noun): The practice of manipulating the boundaries of an
electoral constituency to favor one political party or class.
- Abdication (Noun): Failure to fulfill a responsibility or duty; renouncing a
throne.
- Impervious (Adjective): Unable to be affected by; not allowing fluid to pass
through.
- Chokepoint (Noun): A point of congestion or blockage, particularly in
strategic geographical features like the Strait of Hormuz.
- Platitude (Noun): A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content,
that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.
- Extricate (Verb): To free (someone or something) from a constraint or
difficulty.
- Galvanise (Verb): To shock or excite someone into taking sudden action.
- Impervious (adjective): Unable to be affected by something. (e.g., India cannot remain impervious if its citizens are hurt in the conflict.)
- Obduracy (noun): The quality of being stubbornly resistant to changing one’s
opinion or course of action.
- Pejoratively (adverb): In a way that expresses contempt or disapproval. (e.g., The community was pejoratively referred to by a certain term.)
- Conduit (noun): A person or organization that acts as a channel for the
transmission of something.
- Bête noire (noun): A person or thing that one particularly dislikes.
- Asymptotic (adjective): (In geopolitics/growth) Surging rapidly closer to a
limit or parity but never completely intersecting.
- Subsume (verb): Include or absorb something in something else.
