{"id":12416,"date":"2021-12-20T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:23:05","slug":"the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-dec-20-2021-day-198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-dec-20-2021-day-198\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary\u2013 Dec 20, 2021; Day 198"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Difficult Word\/ Phrase<\/td><td>Contextual Sense<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Allegation&nbsp;<\/td><td>(law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Personage&nbsp;<\/td><td>A person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Warrant&nbsp;<\/td><td>Provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Consortium&nbsp;<\/td><td>A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business or to promote a common interest<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cede&nbsp;<\/td><td>Give over<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stonewall&nbsp;<\/td><td>Obstruct or hinder any discussion<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stick to one\u2019s guns&nbsp;<\/td><td>Hold fast to a statement, opinion, or course of action<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bogey&nbsp;<\/td><td>something that causes fear, often without reason<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Plant&nbsp;<\/td><td>Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceiv<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Behove&nbsp;<\/td><td>Be appropriate or necessary<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/exams\/banking\/sbi-po\/?refcode=3280&amp;utm_source=Blog_The+Hindu+Editorial+Vocabulary%E2%80%93+Dec+20%2C+2021%3B+Day+198_201221_SBIPM&amp;utm_medium=Link&amp;utm_campaign=SBIPM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SBI_PO_Mains_Freee_Mock-1024x128.jpg\" alt=\"SBI_PO_Mains_Freee_Mock\" class=\"wp-image-12231\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Persist with probe: On inquiry into Pegasus surveillance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fresh report of Pegasus use flags the need to take inquiry to its logical conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It is difficult to disagree with the argument that there cannot be a parallel probe by any inquiry commission into the <strong>allegations ((law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law)) <\/strong>of unlawful surveillance using the Pegasus spyware after the Supreme Court ordered an independent inquiry. It is no surprise, then, that the top court has stayed the functioning of the Commission constituted by the West Bengal government and headed by retired judge, Justice Madan B. Lokur. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had taken note of the allegations of surveillance that possibly targeted <strong>personages (A person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events) <\/strong>in West Bengal, and was on good legal ground when she took the first legal step towards unearthing the truth. It was a step that was <strong>warranted (Provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)) <\/strong>by the circumstances then, given the Union government\u2019s refusal to acknowledge that it possessed such spyware or whether those identified by an international media investigation as targets were subject to any sort of surveillance in the country. Reports by an international <strong>consortium (A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business or to promote a common interest) <\/strong>of journalists said that 300 out of 50,000 likely targets of Pegasus spyware were Indians. Subsequently, the Government also refused to <strong>cede (Give over) <\/strong>any ground in the Supreme Court, and declined to give a simple \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 reply to the Court\u2019s questions. <strong>Stonewalling (Obstruct or hinder any discussion) <\/strong>attempts to raise it in Parliament and <strong>sticking to its guns<\/strong> in Court, the Government inevitably invited an order from the Court for an independent investigation. It is significant that the Bench, headed by the Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana, ruled that the <strong>bogey (something that causes fear, often without reason) <\/strong>of national security was not an adequate reason not to have a credible inquiry into the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fresh report suggesting that Pegasus was used to target jailed activist Rona Wilson\u2019s mobile phone underscores the urgent need to persist with the investigation into the illegal use of the spyware in India. U.S. forensic investigation company Arsenal Consulting has said Mr. Wilson\u2019s phone was attacked as many as 49 times and it was successfully infected by the time he was arrested in June 2018 for alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon case. Earlier, the firm had claimed that NetWire, a remote access Trojan, was used to <strong>plant (Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceiv) <\/strong>letters on Mr. Wilson\u2019s computer. Advocate and co-accused Surendra Gadling was also targeted in the same manner. These developments raise suspicion about the genuineness of the evidence being relied upon to try him and others for an unsubstantiated Maoist plot. There is little doubt that the Court-ordered probe by experts supervised by a panel headed by the retired Supreme Court judge, Justice R.V. Raveendran, should be taken to its logical conclusion and the country be told whether Pegasus, or any other spyware, was used to infect mobile phones and other devices of lawyers, activists and journalists, among others. There is much riding on this judicially overseen inquiry, and it <strong>behoves (Be appropriate or necessary) <\/strong>the government of the day to extend its full cooperation and not pose any impediment to its independent functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/exams\/banking\/sbi-po\/?refcode=3280&amp;utm_source=Blog_The+Hindu+Editorial+Vocabulary%E2%80%93+Dec+20%2C+2021%3B+Day+198_201221_SBIPM&amp;utm_medium=Link&amp;utm_campaign=SBIPM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SBI_PO_Mains_Freee_Mock-1024x128.jpg\" alt=\"SBI_PO_Mains_Freee_Mock\" class=\"wp-image-12231\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to improve your vocabulary further?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/vocabulary\/the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-download-free-pdf\/\">Download the Lists of Word-Meanings of Previous Months here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your vocabulary updated with the help of our articles where we highlight 10 difficult words\/ phrases and explain their contextual sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25,5,48,1312,2,19,1315,31,49,47],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibps-clerk","category-ibps-po","category-ibps-so","category-nabard-grade-a","category-nhb","category-rbi-assistant","category-rbi-grade-b","category-sbi-cbo","category-sbi-clerk","category-sbi-po","category-vocabulary","tag-editorials-difficult-words-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary\u2013 Dec 20, 2021; 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