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

 

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 as it rapidly unfolded.

2. She remains INCARCERATED in Xinjiang Women’s Prison, sentenced to seven years’ jail on “disturbing social order” charges her family says are baseless.

3. Nizamidin has urged the Australian government to do more to help reunite his family. Every year he visits Canberra, tirelessly walking the corridors of parliament house, BESEECHING political support from ministers and backbenchers alike.

4. Amnesty International has described Xinjiang as a “DYSTOPIAN hellscape” for hundreds of thousands of detained Uyghurs.

5. In Adelaide, Nizamidin longs to see his wife again. He says he does not fear RETRIBUTION for speaking out. “They have taken my wife, my child, and my mother from me. What else can they do to me?”