English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 4th January 2016

Composite - made up of several parts or elements
Euphoria - a feeling of great excitement and happiness
Gesture - an action that expresses your feelings or intentions
Game-changer - something that affects a situation very much
Sidestep - to avoid talking about somethng by starting to talk about something else
Crackdown - to start dealing with bad or illegal behaviour in a painful way
Sustain - to support emotionally
Destabilise - to upset something
Provoke - to cause a reaction (especially a negative one)
Saboteurs - people who damage a situation on purpose
Insulated - protected
Momentum - the force that keeps an event developing after it has started
Resolution - a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
Low-hanging fruit - goals which are easily achievable and which do not require a lot of effort
Dispute - a disagreement or argument
Extensive - covering or affecting a large area
Militias - a military force whose members are trained soldiers but who often have other jobs
Firmly - strongly and tightly
One-upmanship - a situation in which someone does or says something in order to prove that they are better than someone else
Hamper - to prevent someone doing something easily
Gordian knot - an extremely difficult problem / situation
Disentangle - to separate things that have become joined or confused
Strangle - to stop something from developing

Secular - not connected with religious or spiritual matters.
Verdict - an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given
Hacked - to cut in a rough and violent way (here : attack with a knife)
Machete - a large heavy knife
Wielding - holding
Convict - to declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the judge
Extremist - someone who has beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable (person with extreme opinions)
Steadfastly - strongly and without stopping
Consistently - in a systematic manner
Execution - putting a criminal to death (hanging)
Wrath - extreme anger
Up the ante - to increase your demands or the risks in a situation in order to achieve a better result
Reliance - dependence on or trust in someone or something
Apparently - as far as one knows or can see
Hit list - a list of people to be killed for criminal or political reasons
Trigger - an event that causes something bad to start
Waging - carry on
Comprehensive - complete (including everything that is necessary)
Merely - just / only