Vocabulary on March 9, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SPIGOT, 2. #ENTREATY, 3. #FRIGID, 4. #CHILLED, 5. #PARIAH]

 

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Word Meanings:

1. SPIGOT= ছিপিবিশেষ; the plug of a faucet(tube,) or cock;

2. ENTREATY=সনির্বন্ধ অনুরোধ; insistence, appeal, conjuration, prayer; an earnest or humble request; plea; request; cry from the heart, suit; application; claim; beseeching; pleading; begging; solicitation; importuning; supplication; bidding; exhortation; urge; demand; enjoyment;

3. FRIGID= নির্জীব; lifeless, languid, languorous, spiritless; নিস্তেজ; dull, limp, tame, faint, feeble, নিরাবেগ; passionless, dispassionate, impassible, impassive, insensible; নিরূত্সাহ; discouraged, disheartened, lackadaisical, dejected; নীরস; uninteresting, dry, gray, tame, glacial, হিমশীতল;

4. CHILLED= উদ্যম বা অনুভূতির উষ্ণতার দমন/বাধা; a check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling;

5. PARIAH= নীচ জাতি; outcast; সামাজিকভাবে অনুন্নত; persona non grata

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Sentences:

1. “There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen,“ a US official said of a plan for Saudi Prince Mohammed and Biden to speak. “It was part of turning on the SPIGOT [of Saudi oil].”

2. Last week, OPEC+, which includes Russia, declined to increase oil production despite western ENTREATIES.

3. But reports of FRIGID communications come as the Biden administration seeks to increase oil supply after formally banning Russian oil imports on Tuesday, pushing oil prices to $130 a barrel, the highest level in 14 years.

4. Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia have CHILLED during the Biden administration over American policy in the Gulf region.

5. During Biden’s election campaign he vowed to treat the kingdom as a “PARIAH” state, saying there is “very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.”