Vocabulary Tricks Part 17: Moral Education

There is a dire need to evolve a new education system to inculcate moral values in students. Moral education can nourish our national consciousness. Education has a great role in fostering the personality by continuously developing innate qualities.
Morality means being honest and renunciation of jealousy, hatred, and lies. But today people are preoccupied in pursuit of material things. There is continuous deterioration of moral values. The concerted efforts made to imbibe moral values in the last decades showed no results.
There is a need to start at a grassroots level. Moral education is more successful if it is indirect, rather than coercive.

WORDS WITH MEANING AND ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES

Dire

Meaning: Extremely serious or urgent
Example: She is in dire need of help.
Synonym: terrible, dreadful, appalling, desperate, pressing

Evolve

Meaning: Develop gradually
Example: Each company must evolve its own way of working.
Synonym: develop, progress, make headway, mature

Inculcate

Meaning: Instil (an idea, attitude, or habit) by persistent instruction
Example: Teachers try to inculcate in their pupils an attitude of inquiry.
Synonym: imbue, infuse, inspire

Nourish

Meaning: Provide with the food or other substances necessary for growth, health, and good condition
Example: Spiritual resources nourished her in her difficult times.
Synonym: feed, provide for, sustain, maintain

Consciousness

Meaning: A person's awareness or perception of something
Example: The political consciousness is not clear and coherent.
Synonym: awareness of, knowledge of the existence of, alertness to

Foster

Meaning: Encourage the development
Example: The teacher's task is to foster learning.
Synonym: stimulate, advance, forward, cultivate, nurture, strengthen

Innate

Meaning: Inborn; natural
Example: Children have no innate fear of water and must be carefully supervised.
Synonym: inbred, congenital, inherent, intrinsic, instinctive

Renunciation

Meaning: The formal rejection of something
Example: They were compelled to make formal renunciations of their rights.
Synonym: repudiation, rejection, abandonment, forsaking, forswearing

Preoccupied

Meaning: Take up someone's whole attention
Example: Her mother is preoccupied with paying the bills.
Synonym: engross, concern, absorb, dominate, pensive, brooding, absent-minded

Deterioration

Meaning: The process of becoming progressively worse
Example: The condition of the patient is deteriorating.
Synonym: worsening, decline, decay, collapse, failure

Concerted

Meaning: Done with great effort or determination
Example: You must make a concerted effort to curb this.
Synonym: strenuous, vigorous, energetic, active

Imbibe

Meaning: Absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge)
Example: There is a need to imbibe the culture.
Synonym: assimilate, absorb, soak up, take in

Decade

Meaning: A period of ten years
Example: She worked for the company for a decade.

Grassroots 

Meaning: The most basic level of an activity or organization
Example: They are improving the game at grass-roots level

Coercive

Meaning: Relating to or using force or threats
Example: Coercive measures are usually not effective.
Synonym: overbearing, authoritarian, imperious, high-handed