Dawn Newspaper Vocabulary – Ban on BBC in India Petition Dismissed
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Learn 15 Dawn newspaper vocabulary. The Supreme Court dismissed the Hindu Sena’s petition on February 10 seeking the banning of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in India and investigating it and its employees’ “anti-India and anti-Indian government” reportage. The Dawn Newspaper and The Hindu published articles reporting it. I have selected 15 Newspaper vocabulary words from both of these articles and explained their meanings.
I have selected these newspaper vocabulary words from following articles:
1. Furore (Noun)
• Meaning:
A sudden excited or angry reaction to something by a lot of people
2. Rhetoric ( Noun)
• Meaning:
A speech or writing intended to persuade people
3. Riot (Noun)
• Meaning:
A violent public disorder
4. Accusation (Noun)
• Meaning:
A charge or claim that someone has done something wrong or illegal
5. Exonerate (verb)
• Meaning:
A charge or claim that someone has done something wrong or illegal
6. Surreptitiously (Adverb)
• Meaning:
Without anyone knowing or seeing, secretly
7. Integrity (Noun)
• Meaning:
The quality of being honest and have good morals
8. Misconceive (Verb)
• Meaning:
fail to understand something correctly
9. Contend (Verb)
• Meaning:
To say something is true and a fact
10. Yield (Verb)
• Meaning:
• To produce or provide
11. Discredited (Adjective)
• Meaning:
Having lost respect and credibility
12. Objectivity (Noun)
• Meaning:
Free from bias
13. Blatantly (Adverb)
• Meaning:
In an open and unashamed way
14. Defy (Verb)
• Meaning:
• Openly refuse to obey
15. Swarm ( Verb)
• Meaning:
Move somewhere in large number
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