Vocabulary on February 1, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. DERIDE, 2. PARAMILITARY, 3. HYSTERIC]

Word Meanings:

1. DERIDE= ঠাট্টা করা; ridicule; twit, mock, make fun of, joke, jest, বিদ্রূপ করা; gibe, taunt, quiz, chaff; উপহাস করা; laugh, laugh at, ভান করা; simulate, pretend, feign, assume, make believe; 

2. PARAMILITARY= আর্ধাসামরিক; (of an unofficial force) organized similarly to a military force; উপ-সামরিক; 

3. HYSTERIC= a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction; hysteria; মৃগীরোগ;; wildness; বন্যতা; দুর্দান্তভাব; irrationality; যুক্তিহীনতা; frenzy; উন্মত্ততা;

Sentences:

1. Nebenzya began the UN security council meeting by DERIDING western claims of a planned Russian attack as “hysterics” and blamed Ukraine for not abiding by the Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015, which were supposed to end the conflict between the Kyiv government and the Russian-backed separatists in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

2. Kyslytsya also said Russia was bolstering PARAMILITARY separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, which he estimated as 35,000-strong, including 3,000 Russian troops “in command posts and in other critical combat positions”.

3. “The deployment of Russian troops within our own territory has frequently occurred on varying scales before and has not caused any HYSTERICS whatsoever,” Nebenzya said, claiming that Russian troops were “in their own areas of deployment and barracks where they were before”.