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Vocabulary on July 31, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SCRAP]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. SCRAP = বর্জন করা ; omit, throw away, throw out, boycott, exclude; ছাঁটিয়া ফেলা ; clip, snuff, pare, prescind; মারামারি করা ; fight, hassle; কুস্তি করা ; grapple; >>> Sentences: 1. China said it was conducting military exercises off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to SCRAP possible plans to visit the island democracy.

Vocabulary on April 15, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #MADE-UP, 2. #PRETEXT]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. MADE-UP = কল্পিত; মিশ্রিত ; mixed, diluted, compounded, medley, dilute, যৌগিক ; composite, compound, made, multiple, decomplex, গড়া ; fabricated, made, built, founded, shaped, অঙ্গীভূত ; embodied, made, ancillary, included, 2. PRETEXT = অজুহাত ; plea, salvo, pretense, cause, pretence; ছুতা ; excuse, বায়না ; advance, pledge, imprest; ব্যাজ ; badge, simulation, hindrance, interest; অছিলা ; instrumentality, means; ধুয়া ; chorus, refrain, platitude, fashion; দোহাই ; plea, appeal, call, oath, cause;  >>> Sentences: 1. The Russian gas firm said gas flow was down because one of the last two operating turbines had to be halted due to a “technical condition of the engine” – an argument the German government in strong terms dismissed as a MADE-UP PRETEXT .

Vocabulary on July 21, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #DEPOSITION, 2. #PERJURY, 3. #C-SUITE, 4. #PLAINTIFF]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. DEPOSITION = এজাহার ; statement; জবানবন্দি ; attestation; সাক্ষ্য ; testimony, witness, testament, vestige; প্রত্যায়ন ; attestation, পদচ্যুতি ; Dismissal, deprivation; 2. PERJURY = শপথভঙ্গ ; lying under oath; মিথ্যা হলফ ; violation of an oath; the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation. 3. C-SUITE =A term used to describe high-ranking executive titles in an organization. The letter C, in this context, stands for "chief," as in chief executive officer and chief operating officer. 4. PLAINTIFF = বাদী ; complainant; ফরিয়াদী ; accuser, denunciator; অভিযোক্তা ; accuser, complainant, denunciator; কারণ - বাদী ; complainant, demandant, a person who brings a case against another in a court of law.  >>> Sentences: 1. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Facebook parent company Meta, will face a six-hour DEPOSITION over the way the company handled user data relating to the C...

Vocabulary on July 20, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SILO, 2. #DETRIMENT, 3. #ALOOF]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. SILO = a tower or pit on a farm used to store grain. 2. DETRIMENT = ক্ষতি ; damage, harm, loss, evil, hurt, অপকার ; 3. ALOOF = নির্লিপ্ত ; unconcerned, disinterested, detached, impassible, passionless; দূরে ; একান্তে ; aloof; পৃথক্ ; separate, different, by, discrete, distinct, দূরবর্তী ; remote, distant, far, faraway, outlying, একান্তে স্থিত ; অনালাপী ; uncommunicative, unsocial, dissociable, offish, >>> Sentences: 1. More than 25m tonnes of grain that is urgently needed in Africa and the Middle East is currently being held in SILOS . 2. Khamenei expressed his broad objections to a fresh Turkish incursion, saying this would definitely be to the DETRIMENT of Syria, Turkey and the region. 3. Erdoğan, speaking at the start of the trilateral meeting, appeared to assert his unilateral right to mount an invasion, saying it was “not possible to expect Turkey to sit idle and ALOOF from this problem”.

Vocabulary on July 19, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #FIRESTORM, 2. #ADRIFT, 3. #OMINOUS, 4. #FORCE_MAJEURE, 5. #CULPABLE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. FIRESTORM = অগ্নিঝড় ; an intense and destructive fire (typically one caused by bombing) in which strong currents of air are drawn into the blaze, making it burn more fiercely. 2. ADRIFT = ইতস্তত ভাসমান অবস্থায় ; so as to float without being either moored or steered. 3. OMINOUS = অশুভ ; evil, sinister, inauspicious, bad, ill; অমঙ্গল ; evil, demonic, daemonic, demonical, daemonical; অমঙ্গলজনক ; unlucky, 4. FORCE MAJEURE = an unexpected event such as a war, crime, or an earthquake which prevents someone from doing something that is written in a legal agreement; 5. CULPABLE = দোষী ; deserving blame; নিন্দনীয় ; reprehensible, blameworthy, naughty, blameful; অপরাধমূলক ; offensive, delinquent; শাস্তির যোগ্য ;  >>> Sentences: 1. Desperate efforts in Italy to prevent the fall of Mario Draghi’s government are only the latest political FIRESTORM in Europe tied to Vladimir Putin’s tests of the west’s powers of endurance....