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;

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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. Russian state television PUNDITS have also grown increasingly aggressive, openly discussing the possibility of a conflict with Nato.

4. Over the four hours, Putin took three questions on the possibility of a war with Ukraine, while also DEFLECTING questions on flagging vaccination rates (Europe’s are just as bad, he claimed), Gazprom’s role in the European gas crisis (which he claimed was invented), his crackdown on internal dissent (“exaggerated”) and the search for the masterminds of the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov (“exhaustive”, Putin said).