Vocabulary on November 16, 2022 from The Guardian [ Words: 1. #INVOKE, 2. #GLOAT, 3. #SHITILY]

 

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Word Meanings:

1. INVOKE= ডাকা; call, summon, pray to, bid, bray; আবাহন করা; invite,

2. GLOAT=আগ্রহসহকারে দেখা; উল্লাস দৃষ্টিতে তাকান; তুষ্টির দৃষি্টতে তাকান; লোলুপনেত্রে দেখা; delight in; relish; take great pleasure in; enjoy greatly; revel in; rejoice in; glory in; exult in; triumph over; crow over; boast about; brag about; feel self-satisfied about; be smug about; congratulate oneself on; preen oneself about; pat oneself on the back about; rub one's hands together;

3. SHITILY = an act or situation that is not as good as it should be; something done in a very low quality manner.

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Sentences:

1. Article 5 cannot be INVOKED by just one member state, the former US ambassador to Nato, Ivo Daalder, said, adding it “requires Nato consensus”.

2. While the defence ministry claimed not to have anything to do with the missiles, Margarita Simonyan, the head of the RT propaganda channel, GLOATED over the implications of a Russian strike.

3. “If this isn’t a deliberate provocation, there’s one piece of good news here,” Simonyan said on Twitter. “A Nato country is so SHITILY defended that anyone can accidentally hit it with anything and all of Nato won’t even know who hit it, with what and why.”