Abattoir

A place where animals are butchered.

Amensty

Pardon

Allegiance

Commitement

Assiduous

Hard working and systematic

 

Namrata Tiwari’s performance had all the signs of an assiduous training.

Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.

Aspersion

A disparaging remark

Groundless aspersions

S. IRFAN/PTI 

The bereaved family of the Shopian victims with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.

 The Final Report records on page 96: “Dr. Haseeb Mughal, S.P. assisting the Commission, has prepared extensive note indicating involvement of possible persons in the commission of the present crime. The Report is taken on the file and is marked as Annexure-z2.

 

The aspersion is, at once, groundless, irrelevant to the inquiry, and contradicted by his own findings of rape and murder and disposal of the bodies by a security agency. Whom was Muzaffar Jan seeking to please and whose purpose did he try to serve? Never in all the annals of commissions of inquiry have such irrelevant and disgraceful remarks been made. Even a magistrate knows that in law, rape is rape even if the victims be of bad morals. A lawyer, Abdul Kaleem Shopiani, reported that during the hearings “relations of the victims, it is said, shouted in protest at Justice Jan for his insensitive and humiliating way of questioning” (Greater Kashmir, July 15). The proceedings were not open to the public

Askance

Look with suspicion or disapproval

A meal to relish People dining at the new Idly Hut restaurant  

Not surprising, as Idly Hut serves the no-nonsense kind of wholesome food quite reasonably priced too. Of course, a purist looking for a true-blue traditional idly experience may look askance at the Noodles Dosa on the menu card, but Srilatha says that is there for a reason. “When families come with their kids and we serve nothing but the idly-dosai menu, they may not want to come back. 

Asinine

Inane

Action comedy: Rush Hour 2.

The only sequel that did well was the Jackie Chan, Chris Rock politically incorrect asinine Rush Hour - II.