Wednesday, 24 June 2009

India's colleges confront quotas

wipe PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Hide phonetics
verb [T]
to slide something, especially a piece of cloth, over the surface of something else, in order to remove dirt, food or liquid:
Have you got a cloth that I can wipe the floor with?
I'll just get a sponge and wipe the crumbs off the table.
Don't wipe your nose on your sleeve!
Someone has wiped their dirty hands on my nice clean towel!
lau, chùi

discriminate (TREAT DIFFERENTLY) PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Hide phonetics
verb [I]
to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, religion, sex, etc:
She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age.
In order to increase the number of female representatives, the selection committee decided to discriminate in favour of women for three years
phân biệt đối xử

caste PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Phonetic PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Hide phonetics
noun [C or U]
a system of dividing Hindu society into classes, or any of these classes:
the caste system
tầng lớp xã hội


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