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Vocabulary on December 24, 2021 from The Guardian [Words: 1. CASUS BELLI, 2. PARATROOPER, 3. PUNDIT, 4. DEFLECT]

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. CASUS BELLI =an act or situation that provokes or justifies a war; কোনো কাজ বা পরিস্থিতি যা যুদ্ধকে উস্কে দেয় বা ন্যায্যতা দেয়। 2. PARATROOPER = প্যারাশূট বাহিনীভুক্ত সৈনিক; a member of a paratroop regiment or airborne unit. 3. PUNDIT = পণ্ডিত; scholar, egghead, authority, master, bookman, an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public. 4. DEFLECT = বদল করা; change, alter, alternate, exchange, remove; পরিবর্তন করা; change, alter, innovate, barter, alternate;  >>> Sentences: 1. Analysts have said Russia may be seeking a CASUS BELLI as it stations more than 100,000 soldiers, along with tanks and artillery, within striking distance of the Ukrainian border. 2. On Thursday, Russia’s defence ministry announced it would deploy hundreds of Russians PARATROOPERS to hold drills in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and nearby Krasnodar region. 3....

Vocabulary on December 23, 2021 from The Guardian: [Word: 1. BACKLASH]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. BACKLASH = নেতিবাচক প্রতিক্রিয়া; adverse reaction/response, প্রবল বা তীব্র প্রতিক্রিয়া; counteraction; counterblast, comeback; recoil; retaliation; reprisal; repercussions; reverberations; fallout; backwash.    >>> Sentences: 1. Intel faces BACKLASH in China after banning products and labour from Xinjiang.

Vocabulary on December 22, 2021 from The Guardian: [Words: 1. INFLAMMATORY, 2. FAECES]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. INFLAMMATORY = প্রদাহজনক; জ্বালাময়ী ; incendiary; জ্বালা - ধরানো ; barbed, causing inflammation; causing swelling; irritant; provocative; provoking; inflaming; inciting; agitating; agitational; 2. FAECES = মল ; stool, , excretion, excreta, excrement, flux; বিষ্ঠা ; crap, shit, defecation, excrement, excretion, শিটা ; grout, excrement, feculence , draff, ground; গাদ ; scum, excrement, dregs, sediment, গাঁদ ; গোবর ; muck, cow dung,  >>> Sentences: 1. Microplastics may be linked to INFLAMMATORY bowel disease, study finds. 2. People with IBD have 50% more microplastics in their FAECES but more research needed to confirm connection.  

Vocabulary on December 21, 2021 from The Guardian [Words: 1. RAIL]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. RAIL = গালি বর্ষণ করা ; গালিগালাজ করা ; objurgate [ আপত্তি করা, rebuke severely; scold. ], অপমান করা ; affront, shame, insult, dishonor, be insolent; গাল দেত্তয়া ; abuse, curse, গালিগালাজ করা ; rail, তিরস্কার করা ; blow up, lesson, sail into, reprove, blame, ভর্ত্সনা করা ; chide, reproach, reprehend, reprove, censure, ধর্মনিন্দা করা ;  >>> Sentences: 1. The Russian president has RAILED against Nato enlargement since the fall of the Soviet Union and accused the west of turning Ukraine against Russia.  

Vocabulary on December 19, 2021 from The Guardian [Words: 1. HARRIED, 2. INCARCERATE, 3. BESEECH, 4. DYSTOPIAN, 5. RETRIBUTION]

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  Word Meanings: 1. HARRIED = নিপীড়িত ; oppressed, afflicted, downtrodden, pressed, repressed; উদ্বেজিত ; worried, anxious, demented; নিগৃহীত ; coerced, harassed, persecuted, quelled; 2. INCARCERATE = কারারূদ্ধ করা ; confine, imprison, immure, jug, quod; অবরুদ্ধ করা ; enclose, imprison, inclose, check, impale; 3. BESEECH = সাগ্রহে প্রার্থনা করা ; হাতে ধরিয়া বলা ; মিনতি করা ; beg, supplicate, solicit, implore, call on; সনির্বন্ধ প্রার্থনা জানান ; অনুনয় করা ; solicit, implore, entreat, petition, push, 4. DYSTOPIAN = relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice; of, relating to, or being an imagined world or society in which people lead dehumanized, fearful lives; 5. RETRIBUTION = প্রতিশোধ; punishment, revenge, retaliation, requital, retributory punishment;   Sentences: 1. What Almas Nizamidin knows of his wife’s arrest and disappearance is second-hand: the HARRIED reports relayed by his relatives ...

Vocabulary on December 18, 2021 from The Guardian [Words: 1. VET, 2. BROOK, 3. SUFFRAGE, 4. DISBAND]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. VET = পরীক্ষা করা; make a careful and critical examination of (something); Screen; assess; evaluate; appraise; weigh up; examine; look over; review; consider; scrutinize; study; inspect; investigate; censor; check; redact; check out; check up on; probe; research; look into; delve into; dig into; search into; 2. BROOK = সহ্য করা; undergo, endure, bear, pass through, tolerate, tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition). 3. SUFFRAGE = ভোটাধিকার, the right to vote in political elections; Franchise; right to vote; voting rights; the vote; enfranchisement; ballot; voice; say; option; choice; 4. DISBAND = বিচ্ছিন্ন করা; ভঙ্গ করা ; break, interrupt, transgress, discontinue, split; বিগঠিত করা ; unmake, dissolve; বিগঠিত হত্তয়া ; disperse; break up; demobilize; scatter; separate; go separate ways; part company;  >>> Sentences: 1. The new government VETTING judges the past behaviour and current sinceri...

Vocabulary on December 17, 2021 from The Guardian [Words: 1. MERCENARY, 2. UBIQUITOUS, 3. RECONNAISSANCE, 4. SURVEILLANCE]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. MERCENARY = ভাড়াটে ; Money-oriented; (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics; অর্থ বা পুরুস্কারের জন্য কাজ করিতেছে এমন ; grasping ( লোলুপ ); greedy; acquisitive( অর্জনপ্রয়াসী ); avaricious( লোভী, অর্থলোভী ); covetous; rapacious( শিকারী, লোভাতুর, হিংস্র) ; bribable;   venal( অর্থের বিনিময়ে অন্যায়ভাবে কাজ করিতে ইচ্ছুক, showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery) ; materialistic; 2. UBIQUITOUS = সর্বব্যাপী: Omnipresent; everpresent; present everywhere; everywhere; all-over; all over the place; pervasive; all-pervasive; universal; worldwide; global; rife; prevalent; predominant; very common; popular; extensive; wide-ranging; far-reaching; inescapable; encyclopaedic, global, inclusive, thoroughgoing, encyclopedic; present, appearing, or found everywhere; 3. RECONNAISSANCE = প্রাথমিক নিরীক্ষণ; reconnoiter ( প্রাথমিকভাবে নিরীক্ষা করা) , preliminary survey, s...

Vocabulary on December 16, 2021 from The Guardian [Words: 1. COMMUNIQUE, 2. UNWAVERING, 3. VARIED]

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  >>> Words: 1. #COMMUNIQUE, 2. #UNWAVERING, 3. #VARIED, >>> ·          Word Meanings: 1. COMMUNIQUE = প্রজ্ঞাপন; notification, propaganda, publicity; সরকারী ইস্তাহার; সরকারি কাগজপত্র; dispatch, সরকারি বিজ্ঞপ্তি; advertisement, announcement, bulletin, notice, notification, posting, release; 2. UNWAVERING = অটল ; steady, firm, constant, faithful, resolute; অবিচল ; unmoved, firm, unmoving, faithful, uniform; দ্বিধাহীন ; doubtless, unhesitating, unshrinking; অবিচলিত ; steady, unperturbed, firm, stolid, unfaltering; অচল ; obsolete, untenable, firm, invalid, static; অচঁচল ; sober, quiet, lasting, firm, steady; স্থির ; standstill, at rest, immobilize, moveless, placid; দোলাচলহীন ; 3. VARIED = বিভিন্ন ; different, various, several, diverse, variant; বিবিধ ; variant; নানাপ্রকার ; অবিরত পরিবর্তনশীল ;  >>> ·          Sentences: 1. The message will be sent to t...

Vocabulary on December 15, 2021 from The Guardian

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  Words: 1. # CAREEN, 2. # BRAKE, 3. #ACCELERATE,  >>> Word Meanings: 1. CAREEN= একপেশে হত্তয়া : কাত করা ; cant; turn on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair; to sway from side to side; 2. BRAKE= গতিরোধ করা ; make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake; ব্রেক কসিয়া থামান ; slow down; slow; decelerate ( গতি হ্রাস করা) ; reduce speed; put on the brakes; hit the brakes; 3. ACCELERATE= ত্বরান্বিত করা , begin to move more quickly;   to move faster; to gain speed; to progress from grade to grade more rapidly than usual; to cause to move faster; to hasten the progress or development of; increase; escalate; expand; mount;  >>> Sentences: 1. Given the speed and the trajectory of the vehicle, which struck multiple objects as it CAREENED down the street, there were initially suspicions of a malfunction such as a stuck accelerator. 2. Tesla’s safety record has been questioned in the past over a series of fatal acc...

Vocabulary on December 14, 2021 from The Guardian

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 >>> Words: 1. # PURVIEW, 2. # RECOMMIT,  >>> Word Meanings: 1.  PURVIEW = পরিধি; the scope of the influence or concerns of something; আওতা; ken, ambit; ব্যাপকতা; prevalence, amplitude(প্রশস্ততা), wide, spread, wideness; এলাকা; region, territory, district, place, fiel; আত্ততা; shade, care, guardianship, custody, control; মনোদিগন্ত; horizon; 2.  RECOMMIT =পুনরায় প্রতিশ্রুতি; commit again; পুনরায় বিবেচনার জন্য পেশ করা; >>> Sentences: 1. Adding climate change to the security council’s  PURVIEW  would only deepen global divisions that were pointed up by last month’s climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the opponents said. 2. The talks ended in a deal that  RECOMMITTED  to a key target for limiting warming and broke some new ground but fell short of the UN’s three big goals for the conference.

Vocabulary on December 13, 2021 from The Guardian

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  >>> Words: 1. #SKIRT, 2. #GROTTY, >>>   ·        Word Meanings: 1. SKIRT= উপেক্ষা করার চেষ্টা ; attempt to ignore; avoid dealing with; এড়িয়ে   চলার চেষ্টা; avoid; evade; steer clear of; sidestep; dodge; circumvent; bypass; pass over; fight shy of; ignore; overlook; gloss over; fail to mention; 2. GROTTY= অপ্রীতিকর; unpleasant, horrible, unsavory, displeasing, galling( পীড়াদায়ক) ,    >>> ·          Sentences: 1. New Zealand health authorities are investigating claims that a man received up to 10 Covid-19 vaccination doses in one day on behalf of other people, in the latest effort by members of the public to SKIRT tough restrictions on the unvaccinated. 2. We know that higher doses result in more general vaccine reactions, like fever and headaches and pains, so you might anticipate he would feel pretty GROTTY the next day.

Vocabulary on December 12, 2021 from The Guardian

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 >>> Words: 1. #FASCISM, 2. #DISPENSATION, 3. # FLURRY,  >>> Word Meanings: 1. FASCISM = কর্তৃত্বমূলক জাতীয়তাবাদের একটি রূপ ; a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition; ফ্যাসিবাদ;   কর্তৃত্ববাদী শ্রেণীবদ্ধ সরকার; a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power , forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy; 2. DISPENSATION = নিয়ম থেকে অব্যাহতি, exemption from a rule or usual requirement; Immunity; exception; exclusion; exoneration(অব্যাহতি); freedom; release; relief; reprieve; remission; relaxation; absolution; impunity; 3. FLURRY =আকস্মিক প্রবাহ; flush; swirl( ঘূর্ণি ); whirl; eddy( ঘূর্ণিবায়ু ); billow; shower; gust; rush; b...

Vocabulary on December 11, 2021 from The Guardian

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 >>> Words: 1. #MALEFACTOR, 2. #UBIQUITOUS, 3. #CRUCIAL,  >>> ·          Word Meanings: 1. MALEFACTOR = অপরাধী ; transgressor, stigme, কুকর্মকারী ; delinquent, অপকারী ; wrongdoer; অসঙ্গলসাধক ; ক্ষতিসাধক ; দণ্ডার্হ অপরাধী ; criminal; অপকারক ; culprit; offender; villain; lawbreaker; felon; evil-doer; convict; sinner; outlaw; black hat; scoundrel( বখাটে ); wretch; reprobate( দুশ্চরিত্র ); rogue( দুর্বৃত্ত ); rascal; malfeasant; misfeasor; 2. UBIQUITOUS = সর্বব্যাপী ; encyclopaedic, global, inclusive, thoroughgoing, encyclopedic; সর্বত্র বিদ্যমান ; omnipresent; বিশ্বব্যাপী ; cosmos, বিশেষ অঞ্চলে বিদ্যমান ; সর্বত্রচারী ; সর্বগত ; universal; present, appearing, or found everywhere; ever-present; everywhere; all-over; all over the place; pervasive; all-pervasive; worldwide; global; rife; prevalent, predominant; very common; popular; extensive; wide-ranging; far-reaching; inescapable; 3. CRUCIAL = অত্যন্ত গুরুত্ব...

Vocabulary on December 10, 2021 from The Guardian

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>>>   Words: 1. #TROPICAL, 2. #TAKEAWAY, 3. #BIOMASS, 4. # PERTAIN,  >>> ·          Word Meanings: 1. TROPICAL = গ্রীষ্মপ্রধান ; of, typical of, or peculiar to the tropics; উষ্ণপ্রধান ; torrid (very hot and dry) 2. TAKEAWAY = মনে রাখার মত মূল ধারণা , a key fact, point, or idea to be remembered, typically one emerging from a discussion or meeting; লইয়া যাত্তয়া; 3. BIOMASS = কোনো নির্দিষ্ট স্থানের সমগ্র জীবসমষ্টি; the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume. 4. PERTAIN = সংসৃষ্ট হত্তয়া; belong, অধিকারভুক্ত হওয়া; be related to; সম্পর্কযুক্ত হওয়া; >>>   ·          Sentences: 1. TROPICAL forests can bounce back with surprising rapidity, a new study published today suggests. 2. The TAKEAWAY message is that we don’t necessarily need to plant more trees when nature is doing it by itself, Poorter said. 3. Soil takes an averag...

Vocabulary on December 9, 2021 from The Guardian

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>>> Words: 1. #HEADWAY, 2. #JAW, 3. #EASTWARD, >>>   ·          Word Meanings: 1. HEADWAY = অগ্রগতি; progress, advance, progression, advancement, development, অগ্রগমন; forward movement, move, progress; উন্নতি; prosperity, improvement, growth, 2. JAW = বিজ্ঞ বক্তৃতা; lecture, বেশি কথা বলা; বকা; talk, prattle( বকবক করা) , talk at length; chatter. 3. EASTWARD = পূর্বদিকে; পূর্বাভিমুখে; in an easterly direction; toward the east; >>>   ·          Sentences: 1. Biden and Putin appeared to make little HEADWAY during their virtual summit on Tuesday, trading accusations over the Russian military buildup near Ukraine and the potential for new economic sanctions against Moscow. 2. “Putin-Biden video call has been useful,” wrote Dmitry Trenin, the head of the Moscow Carnegie Center. “Acknowledging each other’s security concerns is key. Reviving channel on [Ukraine] can help avo...

Vocabulary on December 7, 2021 from The Guardian

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>>> Words: 1. #POLITBURO, 2. #HEADWINDS, 3. #PRUDENT, 4. #KNIFE-EDGE , 5. #CALIBRATE, >>> ·          Word Meanings: 1. POLITBURO = পলিটব্যুরো; the principal policymaking committee of a communist party. 2. HEADWIND = একটি শক্তি বা প্রভাব যা অগ্রগতিকে বাধা দেয়; a force or influence that inhibits progress; a wind blowing from directly in front, opposing forward motion; 3. PRUDENT = বিচক্ষণ ; discreet, unobtrusive( বাধাহীন ), sensible, shrewd, astute; দূরদর্শী , prescient, percipient( দূরদর্শী ), long-sighted, forward-looking; সমীচীন ; expedient, reasonable, proper, condign (যথোপযুক্ত) ; প্রাজ্ঞ ; wise, learned; বিবেচক ; calculating, considerate, thoughtful, judicious; 4. KNIFE-EDGE = a very tense or dangerous situation;   খুব উত্তেজনাপূর্ণ বা বিপজ্জনক পরিস্থিতি, 5. CALIBRATE = to determine the correct value of (something); ক্রমাঙ্ক নির্ণয় করা; শক্তির পরিমাপ করা; mark (a gauge or instru...

Vocabulary on December 6, 2021 from The Guardian

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  >>> Words: 1. #RAM, 2. #FLASHMOB, 3. #IRATE,  >>> Word meanings: 1. RAM = প্রচণ্ড শক্তিতে ঘা করা; ধাক্কা দেওয়া; kick, ঠাসিয়া ভরা; cram into, cram, ঠাসা; press down, press, stuff, thrash, roughly force (something) into place; thrust; plunge; stab; sink; dig; stick; 2. FLASHMOB = a large public gathering at which people perform an unusual or seemingly random act and then disperse, typically organized by means of the internet or social media. 3. IRATE = রাগাম্বিত; রুষ্ট; indignant, angry, wroth, resentful, ক্রুদ্ধ; glaring, Ireful, moddy, resentful, shirty; >>> Sentences: 1. Three people were feared dead and at least 15 arrested after Myanmar security forces RAMMED into an anti-coup protest in a car in Yangon, witnesses and a protest organizer have said. 2. A “ FLASHMOB ” protest had been rammed minutes after it started, witnesses said. 3. As IRATE villagers burned two army vehicles, the soldiers fired at them, killing nine more pe...