Vocabulary on June 12, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #COG, 2. #CIRCUMVENT, 3. #OVERTURE]

 

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Word Meanings:

1. COG= চাকার দান্ত; a wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge, which transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar.

2. CIRCUMVENT= পাশ কাটিয়ে যাওয়া; find a way around (an obstacle); avoid; get around; find a way around; evade; get past; bypass; sidestep; dodge; overcome; outwit; outmaneuver; foil; end-run;

3. OVERTURE= প্রস্তাব; proposal, offering, proposition, tender

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Sentences:

1. While the beauty industry is a small COG in the machine, the decision by western allies to sever financial and trade ties with Russia has plunged the country’s economy into a deep recession, with the OECD forecasting a 10% contraction this year and a fall of more than 4% in 2023.

2. At the beginning of the invasion, many people believed the west would impose only weak sanctions and that Moscow would find allies to CIRCUMVENT the most damaging ones. Ash says neither assumption has proved to be true.

3. Yakov Feygin, a Russia expert at the Berggruen Institute in the US, agrees that China has rejected Putin’s OVERTURES to circumvent sanctions.