{"id":7587,"date":"2017-07-08T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2017-07-08T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:20:37","slug":"vocabulary-words-08-07-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-words-08-07-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary Words 08.07.2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.Foster (<\/span>verb<\/span>)<\/span>
\nMeaning:<\/span> encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable).<\/span>
\nsynonyms:<\/span> encourage, promote, further, stimulate, advance, forward, cultivate, nurture, strengthen, enrich, help, aid, abet, assist, contribute to, support, endorse, champion, speak for, proselytize, sponsor, espouse, uphold, back, boost, give backing to, facilitate<\/span>
\nExample:<\/span> What about the role of Pakistan? History shows us that they have tried to foster an anti-India jihad in Jammu and Kashmir since 1947 but without much success until the late 1980s, by which time Article 370 of the Constitution had been rendered a dead letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.Traitorous (<\/span>adjective<\/span>)<\/span>
\nMeaning:<\/span> relating to or characteristic of a traitor; treacherous.<\/span>
\nsynonyms:<\/span> treacherous, disloyal, treasonous, back-stabbing.<\/span>
\nExample:<\/span> But our failure to seize windows for political reconciliation has played into Pakistani hands and it is doing so again, while we waste our time in futile debates about who is more nationalist amongst Indians and who is more traitorous amongst Kashmiris.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.Dissident (<\/span>noun<\/span>)<\/span>
\nMeaning:<\/span> a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.<\/span>
\nsynonyms:<\/span> dissenter, objector, protester, disputant.<\/span>
\nExample:<\/span> As innumerable commentators have pointed out, the best way to prevent Pakistan from making hay is for talks with Kashmiri dissidents.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.Precursor (<\/span>noun<\/span>)<\/span>
\nMeaning:<\/span> a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner.<\/span>
\nsynonyms:<\/span> forerunner, predecessor, forefather, father, parent, antecedent, ancestor, forebear, progenitor;<\/span>
\nExample:<\/span> A collection of addresses by Justice K.K. Mathew along with excerpts from his judicial opinions, published in 1978 under the title Democracy, Equality and Freedom, became the first work of its kind in Indian legal literature. Regrettably, it was also the last! The hope expressed by its editor, Prof. Upendra Baxi, that it would be the precursor of similar literary ventures in the future remained unfulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.Expound (<\/span>verb<\/span>)<\/span>
\nMeaning:<\/span> present and explain (a theory or idea) in detail.<\/span>
\nsynonyms:<\/span> present, put forward, set forth, proffer, offer, advance, propose, propound, frame, give an account of, recount;<\/span>
\nExample:<\/span> But for the illuminating and exhaustive 86-page introduction expounding the judicial creativity and craftsmanship of the judge, K.K. Mathew would have been just one judge out of a roll-call of 186 judges who had sat in India\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.Foster (verb) Meaning: encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable). synonyms: encourage, promote, further, stimulate, advance, forward, cultivate, nurture, strengthen, enrich, help, aid, abet, assist, contribute to, support, endorse, champion, speak for, proselytize, sponsor, espouse, uphold, back, boost, give backing to, facilitate Example: What about the role of Pakistan? History shows us that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}