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;

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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.

2. “A boat without a rudder goes ADRIFT,” said Ferruccio Resta, the president of the Conference of Italian University Rectors – a metaphor that could apply, to Putin’s satisfaction, to much of Europe as governments come under growing pressure over the perceived domestic cost of the war in Ukraine.

3. The signs are OMINOUS.

4. Gazprom has already said in a private letter to gas customers that it cannot guarantee gas supplies and declared FORCE MAJEURE.

5. German politicians are not disguising from the electorate the scale of the threat, part of an effort to ensure they understand that Putin is CULPABLE.