Vocabulary on May 20, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #INCINERATE, 2. #BELITTLE]

 

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Word Meanings:

1. INCINERATE= পুড়িয়ে ছাই করে ফেলা; destroy (something, especially waste material) by burning; burn; burn up; reduce to ashes; consume by fire; carbonize; cremate; scald, singe, afflict, burn, calcine,

2. BELITTLE =তুচ্ছতাচ্ছিল্য করা; bypass, ignore; খর্ব করা; diminish, detract, belittle, reduce, play down, pare; খাট করা; shorten, reduce, abbreviate, lower, humble; অপ্রশংসা বলা; অবজ্ঞাচ্ছলে বলা; ছোট করা; make small, abbreviate; খেলো করা; humiliate; ছোটো করে দেখানো, lessen; তুচ্ছজ্ঞান করা, make nothing of, neglect; disparage; denigrate; run down; deprecate; depreciate; downgrade; play down; trivialize; minimize; make light of; treat lightly; undervalue; underrate; underestimate; make (someone or something) seem unimportant.

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Sentences:

1. Yuri Borisov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, told the country’s Channel One television station that the new Zadira directed-energy weapon could destroy targets up to 5km away, and had INCINERATED a drone in five seconds in a test.

2. But there was no immediate evidence to back up the claim, which was BELITTLED by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who described it as a “wunderwaffe” – a nonexistent “wonder weapon” which was originally a propaganda invention of the Nazis.