Vocabulary on November 30, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #APART, 2. #BOUT, 3. #OUTCAST, 4. #FIZZLE OUT]

 

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Word Meanings:

1. APART= পৃথক্, separately, aloof, severally, differently; দূরে সরাইয়া; একান্তে, confidentially, in private, aloof, aside; দূরে সরিয়া; বিচ্ছিন্ন করিয়া;

2. BOUT= লড়াই; a short period of intense activity of a specified kind; পালা; turn, dice, offshoot, branch, story; খেপ; casting, round; দফা; point, clause, round, item, time; উপলক্ষ; occasion, purpose, aim, instance, turn; উত্সব; festival, gala, feast day, fete, fiesta; পর্যায়; stage, period, echelon, generation, turn;

3. OUTCAST= নির্বাসিত; সমাজচু্যত, castaway; পরিত্যক্ত; abandoned, desert, derelict, forsaken, forlorn; সামাজিকভাবে পতিত, low; সামাজিকভাবে অনুন্নত, low; ব্রাত্য; অচ্ছুত; leper; a person who has been rejected by society or a social group;

4. FIZZLE OUT= ব্যর্থ হত্তয়া; fail, fall through, flop, miscarry, flinch, বাজে হইয়া যাত্তয়া;

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Sentences:

1. It was a very mixed crowd, all ages. Protesters were chanting for the release of two cars full of people who were arrested on Saturday in a different protest. Police pushed them APART and closed the road.

2. The problem here is that the whole thing feels more like BOUTS of collective venting, which may as well turn into something thoughtful, well planned and purposeful, but until then it’s going nowhere.

3. Since Friday we’ve been asked to do a daily PCR test – you get a notification on WeChat asking you to do a test. If you don’t have a negative test, you get a yellow code [which] renders you an OUTCAST – you can’t go to grocery shops.

4. I think [these protests] may FIZZLE OUT but then there will be something else.