The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary – Set 91

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 – Not always fair game

Good intentions do not always make for good legislation. The Tamil Nadu government’s effort to protect its youth from the temptations of online gambling by amending a colonial gaming law to ban online rummy and poker, has not survived judicial scrutiny. Its amendment to the Tamil Nadu Gaming Act, 1930, has been struck down by the Madras High Court, which found the prohibition unreasonable because it sought to bring even games predominantly of skill under the label of gambling, if there was an element of betting or even prize money or any other stake involved. The State’s intention was acceptable to the extent that it sensed the danger involved in allowing addictive games. However, it erred in failing to make a distinction between games of skill and games of chance, and in seeking to treat as ‘gaming’ anything that involved stakes, contrary to judicial pronouncements circumscribing the term to games that are based on chance. In an audacious move that the court found completely unacceptable, the amending Act sought to “turn the statute on its head” by replacing a section that provided exemption to ‘games of skill’ from its purview with one that said it would apply to even games of skill if played for wager, bet, money or stake. The court rightly found that this would actually render illegal even offline games that were played for prize money. It said, “What was once the exemption or escape provision has now been given the most claustrophobic stranglehold and has the possibility of bringing about the most ridiculous and unwanted results if applied in letter and spirit.” One of the problems of political populism is that the state takes its paternalistic role too seriously. It assumes that large sections of society require guidance, lest their ideas of freedom lead them to uncharted zones where lack of restraint and self-control land them in debt and penury. Notions of individual freedom and choice tend to be forgotten. Another problem is that the moral element is predominant in such laws, often to the detriment of the reasonableness of their provisions. Some activities are associated with sin more than with commerce, and these are susceptible to the government’s regulatory reach and banning instincts. The court, while understanding the law’s intent, has rightly questioned the lack of proportionality in banning something that could have been regulated. It notes that excessive paternalism could descend into authoritarianism and curb an activity individuals are free to indulge in. It could not sympathies with the State’s contention that online games were invariably open to manipulation and no distinction need be made between games of chance and those of skill. However, it did remember to observe that appropriate legislation regulating betting and gambling activities is still possible, but something that conforms to constitutional propriety.

The Hindu Editorial Words with meanings, synonyms, and antonyms 

 

Predominantly (adverb) – Much greater in number or influence

Synonyms – Customarily, prevalently, eminently, commandingly, centrally

Antonyms – Barely, conclude, trivially, ultimately, negligibly

 

Stake (noun) – Legal share of something

Synonyms – Hazard, venture, punt, picket, impale

Antonyms – Conceal, dissuade, hobble, impede, obscure

 

Audacious (adjective) – Contempt of law

Synonyms – Courageous, brazen, intrepid, impudent, brash

Antonyms – Mousy, timorous, affrighted, appalled, craven

 

Wager (noun) – The act of gambling

Synonyms – Parlay, speculate, pledge, imperil, endanger

Antonyms – Recoup, shelter, conserve, reclaim

 

Claustrophobic (adjective) – Abnormally afraid of closed-in places

Synonyms – Confined, cramped, suffocating, pinched, melancholy

Antonyms – Cavernous, dauntless, doughty, intrepid, stalwart

 

Ridiculous (adjective) – Unworthy of serious consideration

Synonyms – Ludicrous, preposterous, farcical, risible, derisory

Antonyms – Solemn, prudent, viable, staid, discerning

 

Paternalistic (adjective) – Benevolent but sometimes intrusive

Synonyms – Patriarchal, dismissive, agnatic, overprotective, authoritarian

Antonyms – Contentious, unfatherly, apple-polishing, buttering up

 

Penury (noun) – A state of extreme poverty

Synonyms – Indigence, pauperism, destitution, beggary, mendicancy

Antonyms – Affluence, opulence, bounty, cornucopia, plethora

 

Susceptible (adjective) – Easily impressed emotionally

Synonyms – Pliant, receptive, tractable, gullible, credulous

Antonyms – Adamant, impervious, impregnable, stoic, insuperable

 

Instincts (adjective) – Unreasoning

Synonyms – Hunches, urges, intuitive, perceptions, faculty

Antonyms – Abhorrence, detestation, malice, rancor, antipathy

 

Descend (adverb) – Move downward and lower

Synonyms – Plunge, tumble, deign, subside, nosedive

Antonyms – Ascend, aspire, escalate, burgeon, augment

 

Indulge (verb) – Give satisfaction to

Synonyms – Gratify, coddle, cosset, oblige, regale

Antonyms – Afflict, agitate, desolate, grieve, daunt

 

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