"Tryst with Destiny" Speech

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  1. tryst
    a secret rendezvous, especially a romantic one
    Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now that time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
  2. destiny
    the ultimate agency predetermining the course of events
    Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now that time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.
  3. quest
    the act of searching for something
    At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries which are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures.
  4. torch
    a light usually carried in the hand
    On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the father of our nation, who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us.
  5. homage
    respectful deference
    And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.
  6. suppressed
    held in check or kept back with difficulty
    A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
  7. grandeur
    the quality of being magnificent or splendid
    At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries which are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures.
  8. strive
    attempt by employing effort
    At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries which are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures.
  9. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we might fulfill the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.
  10. sovereign
    a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
    The responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India.
Created on Mon Aug 15 10:47:47 EDT 2016 (updated Mon Aug 15 10:49:27 EDT 2016)

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