Vocabulary on September 25, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #UNRAVEL, 2. #TACK, 3. #ESCALATE, 4. #STYMIE, 5. #STUPEFY, 6. #DENIGRATE, 7. #HITHERTO, 8. #VASSAL, 9. #BLUNDER; 10. #SMOULDERING, 11. #CONSCRIPT]

 
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Word Meanings:

1. UNRAVEL= পাক খুলা; ravel; স্পষ্ট করা; elucidate, demonstrate, bring out, clarify, explain; পাক খুলিয়া দেত্তয়া; unroll, ravel, unfold, warp; পাক খুলিয়া যাত্তয়া; unroll, ravel, develop; সমাধান করা; solve, resolve, evolve, receive, read;

2. TACK= জাহাজের পথ পরিবর্তিত করা; অবস্থান পরিবর্তন করা; পেরেক দিয়া আটকান; fasten or fix in place with tacks.

3. ESCALATE= ধাপে ধাপে বৃদ্ধি করা  হত্তয়া; increase rapidly; soar; rocket; shoot up; mount; surge; spiral; grow rapidly; rise rapidly; climb; go up;

4. STYMIE= কোণঠাসা করা; prevent or hinder the progress of; impede; interfere with; hamper; hinder; obstruct; inhibit; frustrate; thwart; foil; spoil; stall; shackle; fetter; stop; check; block; cripple; handicap; scotch; put paid to; put the kibosh on; snooker; scupper;

5. STUPEFY= হতবুদ্ধি করা; befuddle, বিভ্রান্ত করা; baffle, confound, puzzle, , embarrass;  স্তম্ভিত করা; amaze, knock out; বেকুব বানান; stultify; স্তব্ধ করা;

6. DENIGRATE= কলঙ্কিত করা; stain, tarnish, besmirch, scandalize, shame; কালিমালিপ্ত করা; হেয় করা; abase, debase,

7. HITHERTO= এখন পর্যন্ত; এযাবৎ; till now, yet; এই সময় পর্যন্ত; until now or until the point in time under discussion; এই স্থান পর্যন্ত; so far; thus far; to date; as yet; until then; up until now; up to now;

8. VASSAL= মুখাপেক্ষী ব্যক্তি; satellite; ক্রীতদাস; slave, thrall, bondman, bondservant, Mameluke, bondsman; পোষ্য ব্যক্তি; pensioner, বেতনভোগী অনুচর; সামন্ত; suzerain;

9. BLUNDER= সাঙ্ঘাতিক ভুল; howler; গুরুতর ভুল করা; a stupid or careless mistake; error; fault; slip; oversight; inaccuracy; botch; debacle; fiasco; faux pas; ভুল পদক্ষেপ;

10. SMOULDERING= ধিকিধিকি; shimmering; ধূমায়িত; smoldering, fumigating, ধূমায়মান; fuming, the process of burning slowly with smoke but no flame.

11. CONSCRIPT= বাধ্যতামূলকভাবে সৈন্যদলে নিযুক্ত; enlist compulsorily into the armed services.

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Sentences:

1. The scale of the Kremlin’s strategic failures in Ukraine is epic – and the exploded myth of Russian power may lead to the UNRAVELLING of the regime.

2. In Ukraine, that was not necessarily true until now. Putin’s speech last week, mobilising reserves, preparing territorial annexations, and threatening nuclear war, might easily have followed a different TACK.

3. Instead of ESCALATING, he could have claimed victory, declared a ceasefire.

4. An offer of negotiations would have wrongfooted Kyiv, STYMYING its advance, freezing the conflict and dividing Moscow’s enemies.

5. The extent to which Putin is getting it wrong again over Ukraine is STUPEFYING.

6. The Nato alliance, blamed by Putin for causing the conflict and DENIGRATED by his admirer, Donald Trump, is stronger than ever.

7. Even Putin was forced to take notice when China, HITHERTO straddling the fence, expressed “concern” at the damage he is doing.

8. Putin was turning Russia into a “VASSAL state”.

9. None of these BLUNDERS takes into account the war’s destabilising impact on what was once called Russia’s “near abroad”.

10. Central Asia is SMOULDERING.

11. Anti-mobilisation street protests and an exodus of fleeing CONSCRIPTS are the latest omens of change.