Newspaper Words - MECO

📚 Chickened out ❓Definition: Got scared or nervous and decided not to do something 🪞Synonym: Backed out 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ The Congress was quick to criticise the government over its decision to abstain, saying that India had “chickened out”. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Hyphenate ❓Definition: Here, linking two countries together as if they are always part of the same issue or identity 🪞Synonym: Clubbed, coupled, bracketed 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ New Delhi must avoid the pitfalls of being “hyphenated” with Pakistan, allowing bilateral matters to become internationalised, or needing mediation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚Baulk ❓Definition: To be unwilling to do something because it is difficult, dangerous, etc: 🪞Synonym: Hesitate, dither, reluctant, flinch 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ The government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not baulked at national, war-like mobilisations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Zealot ❓Definition: A person who is extremely enthusiastic about something, especially religion or politics. 🪞Synonym: Fanatic 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ This view holds that Pakistan is the Afghanistan of 2001 — a nation coming apart with only religious zealots holding it together using terror as the only statecraft ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Whimsical ❓Definition: Unpredictable often without a solid or rational basis. 🪞Synonym: Capricious, spontaneous, imaginative 🗞️ Today in newspaper:    ➥ U.S. President Donald Trump is not whimsical. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @mecoWords

📚 Asphyxiate ❓Definition:Die by being deprived of air 🪞Synonym: Choked, suffocated. 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ It appears,yet again, that many of the victims were asphyxiated - smoke is as much a deadly killer as the flames themselves. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Skirmish ❓Definition: A short fight between small groups of soldiers, etc., especially one that is not planned: 🪞Synonym: Scuffle, fray 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ Skirmishes across LoC continue for 7th day in J&K . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Nefarious ❓Definition: Morally bad, wicked. 🪞Synonym: Sinister, Malevolent 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ State surveillance must be subject to systemic checks and supervision and not mirror the nefarious activities of the dark underworld. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords