Vocabulary on March 7, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #POUND, 2. #COLOSSAL, 3. #BASTARD, 4. #PULVERIZE, 5. #INTRANSIGENCE]

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Word Meanings:

1. POUND= চূর্ণ করা; strike or hit heavily and repeatedly; আঘাত করা; থেঁতলান; beat; strike; hit; batter; thump; pummel; punch; rain blows on; belabor; hammer;; thrash;

2. COLOSSAL= প্রকাণ্ড; huge, enormous, gargantuan, vast, immense; বিশাল; huge, big, large, great, extensive; বৃহত্কায়; extremely large.

3. BASTARD= জারজ; illegitimate, wrongful, misbegotten, baseborn, base; অজাত; unborn, অজন্মা; without birth, illegitimate; অকুলীন; hybrid, lowborn, of mixed breed, অপ্রকৃত; improper, phony, phoney, unreal, hollow, adulterated; impure; inferior;

4. PULVERIZE=চূর্ণ করা; annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck;

5. INTRANSIGENCE= একগুঁয়েমি; refusal to change one's views or to agree about something; bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-opinionatedness, self-will, stubbornness, willfulness

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Sentences:

1. As Russian forces continued to POUND Ukrainian cities, including residential areas, with missile strikes and artillery fire, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian presidency also said civilians must be allowed to flee their homes through Ukrainian territory.

2. Kyiv continues to call for Nato to impose a no-fly zone over the country but the alliance has repeatedly warned that this would bring it into direct conflict with Russia, and Putin has threatened “COLOSSAL and catastrophic consequences” if the west attempts to keep Russian planes out of Ukrainian skies.

3. Responding to the incident, the Ukrainian president, vowed to punish “every BASTARD’” who committed atrocities during the invasion.

4. British military officials have compared Russia’s tactics to those Moscow used in Chechnya and Syria, surrounding and PULVERISING cities.

5. Western allies have imposed unprecedented sanctions against businesses, banks and billionaires in a bid to choke the Russian economy and pressure Moscow to halt its assault, but Putin has equated global sanctions with a declaration of war and warned that Kyiv’s INTRANSIGENCE is “putting in question the future of Ukrainian statehood”.