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, survey, exploration; observation; investigation, examination; inspection; probe; scrutiny, scan; patrol; search; expedition; reconnoitering; scouting out; spying out;

4. SURVEILLANCE= নজরদারি; observation; scrutiny; watch; view; inspection; monitoring; supervision, superintendence; spying; espionage; intelligence; undercover work; infiltration; reconnaissance;

 

Sentences:

1. Facebook bans seven ‘cyber MERCENARY’ companies from its platforms.

2. “Our hope is to contribute to the broader understanding of the harms this industry represents worldwide and call on the democratic governments to take further steps to help protect people and impose oversight on the sellers of UBIQUITOUS spyware,” the company said.

3. In its threat report, it described three stages clients of most of the companies it investigated use to target individuals. First, the RECONNAISSANCE stage, which involves “surveillance from a distance” to discern an individuals interests. Second is what Facebook calls an “engagement stage”, in which companies’ clients then establish contact with targets and seek to build trust and solicit information, and “trick them” into clicking on links and downloading files.

4. Finally, Facebook said the final move involves “hacking for hire”, in which individuals are hacked or otherwise targeted by malware. The company said that it was important to focus and disrupt the first two stages of invasive SURVEILLANCE, which have gotten less attention in media reports.