Naxalite
/ˈnaksəlʌɪt
/noun
(In South Asia) a member of an armed revolutionary group advocating Maoist communism.In one case a 10-year-old boy, labelled as a dreaded Naxalite, was arrested on an accusation of murder....
- Even the extreme radicals, the Maoist Naxalites, did not entirely ignore her.
- They became members of the Red Brigades, the Stern Gang, the Naxalites, the Shining Path.
Origin
1960s: from Naxal(bari), the name of an area of West Bengal, India, + -ite1.
- self-abasement
- self-abasing
- self-abnegating
- self-abnegation
- self-absorbed
- self-absorption
- self-abuse
- self-accusation
- self-accusatory
- self-acknowledged
- self-acting
- self-activating
- self-actualisation
- self-actualization
- self-addressed
- self-adhesive
- self-adjusting
- self-adjustment
- self-admiration
- self admirer
- self-admiring
- self-adulation
- self-advancement
- self-advertisement
- self-advertiser