Destitute quiescent

Poor enough to need help from others Completely wanting or lacking Not active or activated

fears of a destitute peasantry Since the nationwide student-led protests of 1989, the educated urban elite has mostly been politically quiescent. Barbarians were in awe of the empire and rapacious foreigners had not yet begun hammering at the door In less than a decade China could become the worlds largest economy. Foreigners are again agape. Emotions ranging from pride to Schadenfreude permeate official rhetoric. Diplomats treat their Western counterparts with a tinge of condescension. What is great about socialism, crowed the prime minister, is that it enables China to make decisions efficiently, organise effectively and concentrate resources to accomplish large undertakings the past couple of years the shengshi has brought the recalcitrant island closer

rapacious agape permeate condescend

Excessively greedy and grasping With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe Spread or diffuse through The trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity Dwell on with satisfaction; Express pleasure verbally

crowed

recalcitrant inexorable inexorable phlegmatic reverberate fractious galvanised Usury mired volition

Stubbornly resistant to authority or control Not to be placated, appeased or moved by entreaty Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason Showing little emotion Have a long or continuing effect ; Be reflected as heat, sound,, light or shock waves Stubbornly resistant to authority or control Unpredictably difficult in operation To stimulate to action The act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest Entangled or hindered The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention The act of positioning close together Exemption from punishment or loss

To some observers in an insecure West, the balance of global power is shifting inexorably in Chinas favour. phlegmatic African street-traders selling handbags triggering a financial crisis that would reverberate round the world. The ruling partys fractious legislators, galvanised by fears they might lose power, rallied behind George Papandreou using, Weaponized Usury on the citizens of Haiti Islam's "golden age" flourished while Europe was mired in the Dark Ages. advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts Along with the shock of the murders lay another, more hidden, surprise: the juxtaposition of his aberrant actions with his unremarkable personal life. People are enraged by the impunity of the well-connected.

juxtaposition
impunity

bickered impediments

Quotidian Premonition/admonitory /monitory Nostrum/ Panacea Proclivity/propensity Manumit/emancipate Reprobate/Miscreant Scruples Parvenu Recidivist/relapse/reversi onist Compunction/Remorse Ebullient Demurred

Argue over petty things Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress Any structure that makes progress difficult Routine early warning; feeling of evil to come hypothetical medicine sought by an alchemists Natural inclination free from slavery person without moral scruples conscience has risen economically but not accepted in that class habitual criminal; false back to bad behavior feeling of deep regret Joyously unrestrained Take exception to; a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings Rule by thieves A final climactic stage A gradual decrease in magnitude or extent The trait of great self denial Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects An expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; Deviating from what is considered moral, right, proper or good Lack of sophistication or worldliness Good natured tolerance of delay or incompetence Deeply absorbed in thought; filled with bewilderment Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; Making a false outward show lawlessness & disorder deprive of by deceit make plain & comprehensible

As parliamentarians bickered, rolling power cuts were imposed because of a strike by workers, whose union is high on many peoples list of impediments to sensible change.

Kleptocracy Apogee Waning Austerity Besotted

Pedantic Technocrats Deprave depraved(Adj) naivete forbearance bemused furtive masquerade Anarchy Swindle Explicate

Obliterate
unbridled

mark for deletion; remove completely; Not restrained or controlled ; unbridled rage An idiomatic term for being in disfavor Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear Anxious embarrassment Sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation Full of high; spirited delight; Exhibiting self importance Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world ; Marked by blithe unconcern In an abundant manner A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence being of the property owning class and exploitive of the working class; A member of the middle class The leading units Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; Make a mess of, destroy or ruin A prerequisite Guilty of a misdeed; Failing in what duty requires Move or jerk quickly and involuntarily A serious crime Free from emotional agitation or nervous tension Something desired as a necessity Express or state clearly Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness A conflict of people's opinions, actions or characters Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind Express criticism towards The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage Subject to limits or subjected to limits
unbridled marketing of multiple loans by MFI in the doghouse The Andhra ban on coercive collections is a palliative

doghouse palliative discomfiture contrition cock a hoop blas Nonchalant Copiously Quarry

Such guilt made for an elusive quarry

Bourgeois Vanguard Botched sine qua non delinquent tremble felonies Unruffled/unpertubed desideratum enunciated Disingenuous dissonance disparate upbraid graft circumscribed

Fearless investigation is a sine qua non' of exposure of delinquent greats' and if the investigative agencies tremble to probe or make public the felonies of high office, white-collar offenders in the peaks may be unruffled by the law. An independent investigative agency to be set in motion by any responsible citizen is a desideratum. Fearless investigative agency as enunciated by Justice Krishna Iyer Bringing the Prime Minister under the Lokpal's scrutiny would mean a parallel government being put in place. This objection is disingenuous. This absence of communication is made worse by the dissonance generated by disparate voices from the ruling party and government. Dr. Singh's biggest blunder, however, was to upbraid the CAG. PMs remarks are further evidence of the unwillingness of this government to seriously tackle the problem of graft. The NSG waiver for India now seems to have been circumscribed

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prowess

Back up with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm (often followed by 'of') a large number or extent A sudden forceful flow A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation Distinguished bravery or courage, especially in battle Puffed up with vanity Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry Kindly endorsement and guidance a poor job; a mess With a lack of courage and determination Easily irritated or annoyed Radiating or as if radiating light The property of being extremely abundant Take the place of A tendency to be negligent and uncaring With efficiency; in an efficient manner

However, given the nature of the crime alleged, corroborative evidence is difficult to come by. This immediately provoked a spate of protests in the popular Press

No more testimony in favour of his prowess was needed. None of this had any effect on a pompous self-important little group There was no brunt to bear, unless it was borne by Esparza and his vociferous group The club, under their competent American aegis, have made a dog's dinner of their managerial situation. The reaction was so vicious that Real cravenly scrapped his contract. Regardless of his petulant attitude, Balotelli has been seen to be very generous refulgent brilliance of Lionel Messi profusion of little men in Barcelona Toure was usurped by Sergio Busquets in the pecking order. Judges consulting a mathematical formula can thus seem like dereliction of duty For India and China, the challenge is to expeditiously tighten macroeconomic policies. Austerity measures do not guarantee an exodus from the reality of an economic crisis Fleecing the middle class

pompous vociferous aegis Dog s dinner cravenly Petulant refulgent profusion usurped dereliction Expeditiously

exodus Fleecing pique discourse

A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment Rip off; ask an unreasonable price A sudden outburst of anger; Stimulate; cause a feeling of interest or curiosity Extended verbal expression in speech or writing proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition; tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects Emotionally hardened Impossible to subdue Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood Occurring without motivation or provocation Cannot be removed or erased

Art does not exist without being regarded as art, in other words without a discourse on itself So, as a product of its own discursive practices, it is political Both works attacked the callous attitude of those in control to those they oppressed. indomitable hope in children veneer of change The wanton destruction of such necessary elements of the infrastructure It also stands to represent the

discursive

Callous indomitable veneer wanton indelible

indelible imprint left behind by man on many natural systems

Ensorcelled Inimitable disdainful searing embellishments ruses

Under a spell Defying imitation; matchless Expressing extreme contempt; Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy Severely critical Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative A deceptive maneuver An authoritative declaration; an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom Have and exercise; Handle effectively Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation Deserving or inciting pity An accusation of wrongdoing Passing reference or indirect mention >disguised reference Intense adverse criticism Being essentially equal to something Fail by aiming too high or trying too hard; Beat through cleverness and wit

Ensorcelled once more by that inimitable, smoke-filled voice, But he grew disdainful of Babylons corrupting materialism had a searing sense of social and racial justice This is where the lies and embellishments creep into some asylum seekers narratives. immigration judges try to discover the claimants ruses the Supreme Court of India declared earlier this week, upturning Cicero's dictum to pronounce a historic judgment Modern constitutionalism, the court noted, posits that no wielder of power should be allowed to claim the right to perpetrate ... violence against anyone, much less its own citizens, unchecked by law and notions of innate human dignity of every individual. the Supreme Court has acted out of concern for the hapless tribal population the verdict was neither an indictment against drinking nor a call for total prohibition The courts have often used allusions to support landmark decisions and ground them in a rights-based framework. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court has received flak for its observations in these cases to suggest that the court's remarks in these cases are tantamount to judicial overreach is ridiculous and far-fetched. the Supreme Court in these verdicts has neither chastised the neoliberal policies of the state nor prescribed a course correction

dictum Posits wielder perpetrate

hapless indictment

Allusions-> Allude

flak tantamount overreach

Chastised/ castigate

Censure severely Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others In a court of trial ; -> questioned Make sense of; assign a meaning to Give extra weight to (a communication)

Overtures in the dock Construe Underscore

The same court that now finds itself in the dock for ideological overtures has in the past quoted Adam Smith

If the words of Joseph Conrad and Joseph Stiglitz have found their way

dreary enervating vignettes subterfuges pugnacious Persecute communion extolled deference alchemy seminal predicated

Lacking in liveliness, charm or surprise Causing debilitation A brief literary description Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity Tough and callous by virtue of experience Cause to suffer The act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; The sharing of personal thoughts and feelings Praise, glorify, or honor Courteous regard for people's feelings The way two individuals relate to each other Containing seeds of later development Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic Spread or diffuse through; Fill, soak, or imbue totally Avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of A short moral story A subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed, exalted or be in awe of Characterized by lust Supply with provisions Morally degraded; unpleasant; slovenly Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception; The quality of being crafty Beguiling but harmful

into these judgments, it is only to underscore the point her book draws on the same collection of sketches of daily life in Cuba a dreary, enervating routine of food shortages little vignettes of reality. She has used similar subterfuges just to post her blog. charming but pugnacious slice-oflife portraits of life in Cuba, After the collapse of the atheist Soviet Union, state persecution of religion came to an end in Russia Just five per cent of Russians seek communion, which is a key act of faith for a true believer. The Kremlin finds useful the traditional orthodox values extolled by the Church submission and deference to authority the alchemy of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship has since changed almost unrecognisably from both ends. Pakistan's cooperation in the U.S.led war - starting from the seminal understanding reached between the two countries - has been predicated on the American pledge that Islamabad would be a key player in any Afghanistan settlement. Washington is today imbued with the hidden agenda of the U.S.' regional strategies The series eschewed the moral, philosophical, and religious undercurrents of The Chronicles of Narnia books, and the mystical allegories of Lord of the Rings. His former staff still venerate him There would be no point in producing a new red-top that purveys only salacious content The News of the World, 4, published increasingly sordid stories about sexual shenanigans "slovenly appearance" ,Dr. Singh's apparent lack of political guile is actually a big selling point for the Congress party. I developed an insidious fear of wasting money

imbued eschewed allegories undercurrents Venerate/venerate salacious purveys sordid shenanigans slovenly guile insidious

polemical eviscerate scrimp

Of or involving dispute or controversy Having been disemboweled; Take away a vital or essential part of Subsist on a meager allowance A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance ; Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong A gaping grimace Any long and tedious address or recital Used as an intensifier; actual The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor A blank gap or missing part In a prominent way; In a manner tending to attract attention to deal with something in a way that is not completely honest Having a bad disposition; surly; Rude and boorish A state of guilt Struck with fear, dread, or consternation Attack verbally with harsh criticism Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans Be a sign of something to come, esp. something important or bad A final climactic stage

Since the book is polemical in nature, Ambedkar did not elaborate much on the sufferings of the Sudras, Take away a vital or essential part of we nation-build in Afghanistan and scrimp at home To the ire of the papers Connor Wickham was a long-term Liverpool target who ended up at Sunderland instead. like Andy Carroll with a rictus grin at Liverpool. Coaches came up with a veritable litany of key elements: work, professionalism, dedication. Three clubs will do so under the tutelage of new managers. Although these stipulations seek to remove a serious lacuna in the regulation of microfinance, they will be difficult to enforce. If the Cabinet reshuffle was intended to refurbish the tainted image, it has conspicuously failed to do so. Even now, the public perception is that the CBI is pulling its punches. In arguing its case, the State government put forth a desperate and churlish set of arguments It sought to reduce its culpability by asserting that the youngsters appointed had voluntarily sought to engage in counter-insurgency operations The Court was rightly aghast at such a suggestion, But it is also precisely for this reason that we ought not to belabour it The ideological position espoused in the preamble may have generated a fierce debate country's warlords and what their influence portends The referendum itself was the culmination of a 2005 peace treaty that came after a four-decade long armed struggle

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rictus litany veritable tutelage lacuna conspicuously Pull your punches churlish

culpability aghast belabour espoused portends culmination