The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary – Set 90

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary Words with Meanings for various Exams: SBI PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/Clerk, RRB, RBI, LIC, NABARD, SEBI, SSC, UPSC, IPPB, etc.

We are providing vocabulary words from the Editorial articles in The Hindu newspaper which is important for all the upcoming competitive exams. Add some more words to your English vocabulary words list.

 

TOPIC – Tigray’s woes

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops to Tigray, the country’s northernmost region, in November 2020, he promised it would be a short campaign against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Seven months later, when Ethiopia declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew, Mr. Abiy was indirectly accepting defeat. Government troops are now facing serious allegations of war crimes as bodies wash up in a river in Sudan that borders Ethiopia. The federal troops had initially ousted the TPLF from Mekele, the Tigrayan capital, and established a parallel government. But the TPLF retreated to the mountains, and then struck back. In June, it recaptured Mekele, forcing the federal troops to pull back. At least in defeat, Mr. Abiy could have accepted his mistakes and sought a settlement. But instead, he announced a blockade on Tigray, with even international aid deliveries stopped. The UN says at least 3, 50,000 people are facing a “severe food crisis” in the region. The TPLF says it will not stop fighting unless the government lifts the blockade and pulls back all opposing troops. The conflict has already spilled over into the Amhara and Afar regions, threatening the very regional makeup of ethnically divided Ethiopia. An influx of refugees has raised tensions with neighboring Sudan. Mr. Abiy, a Nobel Prize winner, went to war in Tigray as part of an ambitious plan to rewrite the country’s power balance. Since Ethiopia embraced democracy in 1995, the TPLF, which led the resistance against the military dictatorship, the ‘Derg’, had played a key role in the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Mr. Abiy, an Oromo, rose to power in 2018 amid growing ethnic tensions and protests as the EPRDF’s nominee. He ended the war with Eritrea, released political prisoners and promised more freedoms. But he also moved to end the TPLF’s clout in Addis Ababa, which led to a split in the EPRDF. He formed a different coalition, the Prosperity Party, and retained power, by cutting the TPLF off federal government networks. When a defiant TPLF challenged the government, he declared war on Tigray. He may have hoped that the federal troops could oust the TPLF from power and establish order quickly. But he seemed to have overlooked Ethiopia’s complex history of ethnic relations and the TPLF’s guerrilla warfare. The war may have helped him politically — his coalition won a huge majority in the delayed June Parliamentary elections which were held in all regions except in Tigray — but it has pushed Tigray into an endless rebellion and shaken up the country’s ethnic balance. It is time for Mr. Abiy to act like a statesman. He should stop the collective punishment of the Tigrayan people, end the blockade and be ready for talks with the TPLF for a mutually agreeable cessation of all hostilities.

 

The Hindu Editorial Words with meanings, synonyms, and antonyms 

 

Unilateral (adjective) – Involving only one part or side

Synonyms – Solipsistic, lopsided, maverick, polyhedral, unifoliolate

Antonyms – Tripartite, conjoint, tetramerous, equitable, generic

 

Initially (adverb) – At the beginning

Synonyms – Primitively, incipiently, preparatory, formerly, ahead

Antonyms – Latterly, belatedly, caudally, drastically, ensuing

 

Struck (adjective) – Affected by something overwhelming

Synonyms – Smitten, stricken, smacked, battered, afflicted

Antonyms – Apologist, glided, phlegmatic, unenthusiastic, weary of

 

Blockade (noun) – A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

Synonyms – Barricade, obstruct, siege, beleaguer, embargo

Antonyms – Adduce, aperture, barefaced, ameliorate, arcade

 

Influx (noun) – The process of flowing in

Synonyms – Inundation, incursion, affluent, ingress, infiltration

Antonyms – Exodus, evacuation, drizzle, effusions, paucity

 

Embraced (verb) – Accept willingly and enthusiastically

Synonyms – Clasped, cuddled, espoused, grasped, snuggled

Antonyms – Abhorred, brash, caviled, demurred, flinched

 

Clout (noun) – Special advantage or influence

Synonyms – Whack, smack, pummel, buffet, spank

Antonyms – Inaptitude, inferiority, debility, garrison, impotency

 

Retained (adjective) – Continued in your keeping

Synonyms – Adopted, adhered, heeded, reminisced, occupied

Antonyms – Relinquished, discarded, disgorged, ousted, ejected

 

Defiant (adjective) – Full of defiance

Synonyms – Recalcitrant, mutinous, obstreperous, brazen, intractable

Antonyms – Submissive, cringe, unassertive, amenable, derelict

 

Coalition (noun) – The state of being combined into one body

Synonyms – Coalescence, consortium, concretion, syndicate, cartel

Antonyms – Altercation, animosity, bickering, discrepancy, enmity

 

Cessation (noun) – Discontinuance

Synonyms – Respite, hiatus, denouement, abeyance, moratorium

Antonyms – Persistence, endurance, nexus, abhorrence, advent

 

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