Abdication: The failure to fulfill a responsibility or duty. (Usage: The government’s silence was seen as an abdication of its moral duties.)
Reprieve: A cancellation or postponement of a punishment. (Usage: The court’s order brought a brief reprieve to the arrested politicians.)
Precarity: A state of being uncertain, insecure, or unpredictable. (Usage: The sudden rupture in West Asia unleashed geopolitical precarity.)
Dissonance: A lack of harmony or agreement between beliefs and behaviors. (Usage: There is a moral dissonance in condemning meat-eating while ignoring ecological destruction.)
Reticence: The quality of being reserved or not revealing one’s thoughts readily. (Usage: India’s reticence on the targeted killings has surprised its allies in the Global South.)
Asphyxiation: The state or process of being deprived of oxygen, leading to unconsciousness or death. (Usage: The workers died of asphyxiation while cleaning the toxic sewerage.)
Hysteresis (Noun): The phenomenon where the state of a physical system depends on its history (e.g., Hydrological hysteresis).
Decapitation (Noun): Used geopolitically to mean a military strategy aimed at removing the leadership or command structure of a hostile government.
Sublime (Adjective): Of such excellence or grandeur as to inspire great admiration.
Albatross around the neck (Idiom): A heavy burden of guilt or an inescapable problem that becomes a severe obstacle to success.
Blithely (Adverb): In a way that shows a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.
Buoyancy (Noun): In economics, the ability of revenues/prices to remain strong or recover quickly.
Precocious (Adjective): Having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
Recalibration (Noun): The process of adjusting or changing the standard or method by which something is measured or operated (e.g., Constitutional recalibration).
