Daily Newspaper Vocab: 4th March

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

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