1. Tail wagging the dog
Phrase: a situation where a small part is controlling the whole of something.
Example: We needed respite after the decade of conflict, the decade of Constitution-writing, and times of communal polarization and foreign interventionism.
2. Respite [res-pit]
Noun: a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief; temporary suspension of the execution of a person condemned to death; reprieve.
Verb: to relieve temporarily, especially from anything distressing or trying; give an interval of relief from; to grant delay in the carrying out of (a punishment, obligation, etc.).
Synonyms: breather, breathing space, downtime, hiatus, interruption, layoff, letup, lull, recess, relaxation, relief, reprieve, truce, acquittal, adjournment, break, breath, cessation, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, ease, exculpation, five, forgiveness, halt.
Antonyms: continuation, advance, beginning, blame.
3. Polarization [poh-ler-uh-zey-shuh n]
Noun: a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
Synonyms: emission, broadcast, circulation, diffraction, diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, distribution, divarication, divergence, propagation, ramification, scattering, spread, transmission.
Antonym: collection.
4. Interventionism [in-ter-ven-shuh-niz-uh m]
Noun: the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
Example: The economic resurgence emanating from political stability would also serve the people well, as also India, especially the northern ‘peripheries’ of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.
5. Resurgent [ri-sur-juh nt]
Adjective: rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
Synonyms: comeback, rebirth, rebound, recovery, rejuvenation, renaissance, renewal, restoration, resurrection, revitalization, triumph, renascence, return, reawakening.
Antonym: failure.
6. Emanate [em-uh-neyt]
Verb: to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate; to send forth; emit.
Synonyms: arise, derive, emerge, emit, exude, originate, radiate, stem, birth, discharge, egress, exhale, exit, flow.
Antonyms: conceal, hold, keep, take.
7. Periphery [puh-rif-uh-ree]
Noun: the external boundary of any surface or area; the external surface of a body; the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area.
Synonyms: brink, fringe, perimeter, rim, verge, ambit, border, boundary, brim, circuit, circumference, compass, covering.
Antonyms: center, inside, interior, middle.
Example: The High Court rejected the appeals filed by the SIT against the acquittal of 63 people, and also its appeals seeking enhancement of sentences.
8. Acquittal [uh-kwit-l]
Noun: the act of acquitting; discharge; the state of being acquitted; release; the discharge or settlement of a debt, obligation, etc.
Synonyms: absolution, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, dismissal, exculpation, exemption, exoneration, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, reprieve, vindication, acquitting, discharging, dismissing.
Antonyms: employment, hiring, hold, retention.
Example: Spared the noose.
9. Spare [spair]
Verb: to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy; to deal gently or leniently with; show consideration for; to save from strain, discomfort, embarrassment, or the like, or from a particular cause of it.
Synonyms: unoccupied, unused, backup, emergency, free, lagniappe, leftover, option, over, supernumerary, surplus, additional, de trop, in excess, in reserve.
Antonyms: fat, necessary, thick.
10. Noose [noos]
Noun: a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled; a tie or bond; snare.
Verb: to secure by or as by a noose; to make a noose with or in (a rope or the like).
Synonyms: hitch, lariat, lasso, snare, tie, trap.
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