1.Jingoism (noun)
Meaning: extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.
synonyms: extreme patriotism, blind patriotism, chauvinism, extreme nationalism, flag-waving, excessive loyalty to one’s country,
Example: There is first what I call the patriotic or jingoist framework, which sees the soldier as a patriotic bulwark of security, operating in the line of duty.
2.Seditious (adjective)
Meaning: inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
synonyms: rabble-rousing, inciting, agitating, fomenting, troublemaking, provocative, inflammatory
Example: In fact, Major Gogoi becomes the archetypal Indian Soldier and the body shield a dispensable instrument of his actions. Third, the shield, Farooq Ahmad Dar, is not seen as a person with rights, a legal voter who has just asserted his duties as a citizen by voting, but as a protester, a trouble-maker, creating chaos. Fourth, those protesting against the act are seen as seditious peaceniks.
3.Hagiography (noun)
Meaning: the writing of the lives of saints.
a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence.
Example: Finally, the very debate on the Gogoi episode shows the weakness of ethical debate in India. There is a sense of instrumentalism, a hagiography of machismo and violence that our society cannot afford. A moment of doubt, even the body language of apology might have altered the meaning of the event, instead of thickening the forces of unreason and hate on both sides. One wishes a Gandhi had been present to untangle the narrative into its ethical possibilities.
4.Dialect (noun)
Meaning: a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
synonyms: regional language, local language, local tongue, local speech, local parlance, variety of language;
Example: Finally, the very debate on the Gogoi episode shows the weakness of ethical debate in India. There is a sense of instrumentalism, a hagiography of machismo and violence that our society cannot afford. A moment of doubt, even the body language of apology might have altered the meaning of the event, instead of thickening the forces of unreason and hate on both sides. One wishes a Gandhi had been present to untangle the narrative into its ethical possibilities.
5.Fathom (verb)
Meaning: understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought.
synonyms: understand, comprehend, work out, fathom out, make sense of, grasp, catch, follow, perceive, make out.
Example: There’s been a linear movement of Hindi to become India’s national language, not just the official language. Moreover, the Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN), an RSS-affiliate and a part of the current dispensation’s brain trust, wants English to be removed as the medium of instruction. The implications are not hard to fathom.
