Quadriplegic: Severe paralysis affecting all four limbs and the torso (Context: The medical condition of the euthanasia patient).
Doux Commerce: An 18th-century concept suggesting that commerce and trade tend to civilize people and promote peaceful relations (Context: Shashi Tharoor’s editorial on the end of globalization).
Geoeconomics: The use of economic instruments to produce beneficial geopolitical results (Context: US-China trade tensions).
Attrition: The action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure (Context: Trade being used as a tool of geopolitical attrition).
Ex parte: A legal proceeding brought by one person in the absence of and without representation or notification of other parties (Context: Delhi HC stay on excise policy trial).
Depredation: An act of attacking, plundering, or damaging. (Usage: Crop depredation by elephants).
Subservient: Prepared to obey others unquestioningly; considered less important than something else. (Usage: The State’s interest becomes subservient to human dignity).
Vindicate: To clear someone of blame or suspicion; to show or prove to be right or justified.
Precarious: Not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse; dependent on chance.
Precocious: Having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
Vestige: A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
Laconic: (of a person, speech, or style of writing) Using very few words.
Chastening: Having a restraining or humbling effect.
Unruffled: Not disordered or disarranged; calm and unperturbed.
