Modicum

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Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:
a fairly small amount, especially of sth good or pleasant
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Usage Examples -

• modicum of peace/joy/truth/time/luck/common sense.
• Everything else, so long as you maintain a modicum of decorum, is permissible
• The newspapers have the opportunity of distributing some modicum of it.

Tip to remember the word: Modicum of mercy



A Mughal army's soldier receiving water from Bhai Kanhaiya. A modicum of mercy, in the
form of water was everything for wounded soldiers.

Bhai Kanhaiya was a sikh. During the clashes between Guru Gobind Singh ji' Sikhs and Mughal armies (1704-5 AD) he used to carry water in a Mashak (A pouch made of goat's skin to carry water) and serve water to wounded soldiers on the battlefield. He used to do this service with love and affection without any discrimination of religion.

Read about Bhai Kanhaiya