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Vocabulary on December 29, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SETTLEMENTS, 2. #WILDCAT]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. SETTLEMENTS = বসতি ; 2. WILDCAT = উন্মত্ত ; furious, riotous, desperate, rampant, bacchanal, বেহিসেবী ; uneconomic, আকস্মিক ; contingent, বেসরকারি ; unofficial, অননুমোদিত ; unauthorized, Disallowed, বেপরোয়া ; defiant, desperado, daring, Flagrant, insouciant,  >>> Sentences: 1. Most of the international community considers Israel’s West Bank SETTLEMENTS illegal and an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians. 2. In the coalition agreement between Likud and Religious Zionism, Netanyahu pledges to legalise WILDCAT settlement outposts considered illegal even by the Israeli government.

Vocabulary on 28th December 2022 from The Guardian [Word: 1. #SURGE]

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. SURGE = ঢেউ ; wave, ripple, billow, kiss-curl; ঊর্মি ; wave, billow; স্ফীতি ; bulge, swelling, lump, tumor, knob, উত্থাল তরঙ্গ ; a sudden powerful forward or upward movement; gush; rush; outpouring; stream, flow, sweep; swell; swelling; heaving; billowing; rolling; roll; bulging; eddying; swirling; tide;  >>> Sentence : 1. For now, the SURGE in cases is not deterring those desperate to fly to China to visit loved ones.

Vocabulary on December 21, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #STAVE OFF, 2. #ALLUDE]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. STAVE OFF = ঠেকিয়ে রাখা ; প্রতিহত করা ; Counteract, forfend, repel, repulse, বিলম্বিত করা ; put back, retard, wait; 2. ALLUDE = উল্লেখ করা ; mention, refer, note, notice, speak; নাম করা ; name, call, mention, cite, advert; নজির দেত্তয়া ; নজির দেখান , allege; অজুহাত দেত্তয়া ; পরোক্ষভাবে উল্লেখ করা ; ইঙ্গিত করা ; indicate; suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at. >>>   Sentences: 1. It comes as lawmakers are due to vote on a year-end spending package that includes about $45bn in emergency assistance to Ukraine and the US prepares to send Patriot surface-to-air missiles to the country to help STAVE OFF Russia’s invasion. 2. In a video released by his office from the Bakhmut visit, Zelenskiy was handed a Ukrainian flag and ALLUDED to delivering it to US leaders.

Vocabulary on December 20, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #APPREHEND, 2. #OVERTURN]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. APPREHEND = গ্রেপ্তার করা ; attach, bust, cop, lag; পাকড়ানো ; taking, catch hold of, gripe, lay hands on somebody, lay hands on something; 2. OVERTURN = বিনষ্ট করা ; perish, nip, destroy, kill, annihilate; উলটাইয়া দেত্তয়া ; turn over, tip, jib; উলটান ; capsize, reverse, turn over, tumble, annul; বিপর্যস্ত করা ; upset, entangle, disorder, overset, disrupt; নাশ করা ; ruin, exterminate, destroy, annihilate, kill, undo;  >>> Sentences: 1. John Roberts, the chief justice of the court, on Monday, at the request of Republican officials in 19 states, blocked the Biden administration from ending a pandemic-era policy of rapidly expelling most migrants APPREHENDED or turning themselves in at the US-Mexico border . 2. A group of Republican-led states sought to OVERTURN last month’s ruling by intervening in a case originally brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of migrants denied entry under the T...

Vocabulary on December 13, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #FUSION, 2. #SEMINAL, 3. #MAINSTAY]

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  Word Meanings: 1. FUSION = একীকরণ ; একীভবন ; গলন ; melting, rot, entrance; গলাইয়া মিশ্রণ ; গলিয়া মিশ্রণ ; গলিত মিশ্রণ ; একীভবন বা একীকরণ ; সন্মিলন ; fraternity; সমন্বয় ; co-ordination, harmonization; 2. SEMINAL = গঠনমূলক ; influential; formative; groundbreaking; যুগান্তকারী ; pioneering; original; creative; innovative; imaginative; productive; major; important; 3. MAINSTAY = প্রধান অবলম্বন ; a person or thing on which something else is based or depends; central component; centrepiece; prop; linchpin; অপরিহার্য উপাদান ; আসল লোক বা জিনিস ; cornerstone; pillar; bulwark; buttress; chief support; backbone; anchor; foundation; base; bastion; tower of strength; key player; sinew; right-hand-man/woman; right arm, atlas;  >>> Sentences: 1. Researchers have reportedly made a breakthrough in the quest to unlock a “near-limitless, safe, clean” source of energy: they have got more energy out of a nuclear FUSION reaction than they put in. 2. This SEMIN...

Vocabulary on December 12, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #PURGE, 2. #PRETEXT, 3. #COGNITIVE, 4. #FURORE, 5. #TIGHTROPE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. PURGE = [noun] বিশোধন ; refining, refinement, purification, catharsis, correction; [Verb] রেচন করা , loosen; পরিষ্কার করান ; রেচন করান , evacuate; হাগান ; বিশোধিত করা ; purify, refine; অভিযোগমুক্ত করা ; অবাঞ্ছিত পদার্থ বা ব্যক্তিবর্গ হইতে বিমুক্ত করা ; 2. PRETEXT = অজুহাত ; plea, salvo, pretense, cause, pretence; ছুতা ; excuse, plea, pretense, pretence; বায়না ; advance, pledge, imprest; ব্যাজ ; badge, simulation, hindrance, interest; অছিলা ; instrumentality, pretense, plea, excuse, means; ধুয়া ; chorus, refrain, platitude, fashion; দোহাই ; plea, appeal, call, oath, cause; মিথ্যা ওজর ; 3. COGNITIVE = জ্ঞানীয় ; জ্ঞান সম্বন্ধীয় ; cognitional; 4. FURORE = ক্ষোভ ; উন্মাদনা , furor, rage; প্রচণ্ড উত্সাহ , furor; সোৎসাহ সম্বর্ধনা ; হৈচৈ ; uproar, hurly, kerfuffle, rumpus; উন্মত্ততা ; distraction, manhood; খ্যাপামি ; Fad, lunacy, 5. TIGHTROPE = a rope or wire stretched tightly high above the ground, on which acrobats pe...

Vocabulary on December 10, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #GIRD, 2. #REVEL]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. GIRD = বেষ্টিত করা ; encircle (a person or part of the body) with a belt or band; prepare oneself for something difficult or challenging. 2. REVEL = স্ফূর্তি করা ; rejoice; আমোদপ্রমোদ করা ; enjoy, play, dice; পানভোজনোত্সব করা ; revelry; ফুর্তি করা ; recreate, have a ball, have a good time, হৈচৈ করে আনন্দ মেতে থাকা ; হৈহুল্লোড় করা , roister; enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing.  >>> Sentences: 1.   The remarks came just days after Putin appeared to be GIRDING Russians for a protracted war in Ukraine, saying that his military operation could be a “long-term process”. 2. Those remarks came a day after Putin appeared to REVEL in recent Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.

Vocabulary on December 6, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #INGENUITY, 2. #UNIDIRECTIONAL, 3. #FRIGATE, 4. #INGENIOUS, 5. #WARY]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. INGENUITY = [Noun] বুদ্ধিমত্তা ; the quality of being clever, original, and inventive; অকপটতা ; sincerity, openness, candor, plainness, freedom; উদ্ভাবনী দক্ষতা ; উদ্ভাবনকুশলতা ; উদ্ভাবনপটুতা ; ingeniousnss; নির্মাণকুশলতা ; নির্মাণকৌশলের অভিনবত্ব ; 2. UNIDIRECTIONAL = একমুখী ; one-way; moving or operating in a single direction; 3. FRIGATE = রণতরিবিশেষ ; corvette; ; দ্রুতগামী পথপ্রদর্শক রণতরী ; মাঝরি আকারের যুদ্ধজাহাজ ; a warship with a mixed armament, generally heavier than a destroyer (in the US Navy) and of a kind originally introduced for convoy escort work. 4. INGENIOUS = [Adjective] বুদ্ধিমান ; প্রতিভাশালী , talented, gifted, capable, able; প্রতিভাধর ; gifted, talented, capable, able; প্রতিভাসম্পন্ন ; gifted, talented, capable, able, great; উদ্ভাবক ; inventive, inventing, designing, devising, creative; উর্বরমস্তিষ্ক ; উদ্ভাবনক্ষম , original; বুদ্ধিকৌশলময় ; উদ্ভাবনশক্তিবিশিষ্ট ; উদ্ভাবনপটু ; নির্মাণকুশল ; সুদক্ষ ; skilled, ...

Vocabulary of December 5, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #ONLOOKERS, 2. #LIMERICK]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. ONLOOKERS = প্রত্যক্ষদর্শী; congregation; জনসভা; crowd; gallery; gathering; market; public; 2. LIMERICK =মজাদার আজগুবি ছড়া; a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.  >>> Sentences: 1. Professors, programmers and journalists could all be out of a job in just a few years, after the latest chatbot from the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI foundation stunned ONLOOKERS with its writing ability, proficiency at complex tasks, and ease of use. 2. In the days since it was released, academics have generated responses to exam queries that they say would result in full marks if submitted by an undergraduate, and programmers have used the tool to solve coding challenges in obscure programming languages in a matter of seconds – before writing LIMERICKS explaining the functionality.    

Vocabulary on December 4, 2022 from The Guardian [Word: #DANGLE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. DANGLE = ঢুলান ; wave, rock; ঝোলা ; hang, swing, depend; ঝোলান ; hang, hang up, suspend, tuck up; দোলা , sway, vibrate, swing, oscillate, rock; দোলান , sway, vibrate, swing, oscillate, rock; দোলায়মান হত্তয়া ; swing, totter, oscillate, vacillate, waver; দোল খাত্তয়া ; swing, oscillate; দোল দেত্তয়া ; swing, oscillate;  >>> Sentences: 1. The portable PCR testing booth DANGLED in the air over a dark Beijing street, captured on camera as it was winched away by a crane in the middle of the night.

Vocabulary on December 3, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #INAUSPICIOUS, 2. EXTRADITE]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. INAUSPICIOUS = অশুভ ; evil, sinister, ominous, bad, ill; অমঙ্গলসূচক , bodeful, ill, ominous, angry, ill-omened; অলক্ষণ ; sinister, ill-omened; খারাপ ; bad, evil, wicked, worsened, ill; দুর্ভাগ্যপূর্ণ ; untoward, untowardly, ill-omened; অশ্রেয় ; harmful, baleful, evil; অপ্রশস্ত ; narrow, disreputable, improper, short, little; ঋষ্ট ; 2. EXTRADITE = যোগ্য কর্তৃপক্ষ হস্তে সমর্পন করা ; hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed; deport; send back; send home; repatriate; expel; banish;  >>> Sentences: 1. The decision has come at an extremely INAUSPICIOUS moment, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent descent into international isolation. 2. Kucherena said on Friday that Snowden was “happy” and that Russian citizenship would prevent him from being EXTRADITED .

Vocabulary on December 1, 2022 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #BEAM, 2. #FAR-FLUNG; 3. #IRE]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. BEAM = প্রেরণ করা ; transmit (a radio signal or broadcast) in a specified direction; সম্প্রচার করা ; broadcast; relay; send/put out; disseminate; direct; aim; televise; show; telecast; put on the air/airwaves; 2. FAR-FLUNG = দূর - দূরান্তের ; সুদূরপ্রসারিত ; sweeping, 3. IRE = ক্রোধ ; wrath, anger, rage, dander, passion; রাগ ;  >>> Sentences: 1. The technology, which uses more than 3,000 low Earth orbit small satellites to BEAM a broadband signal and is operated by the firm SpaceX, will initially be trialled at three remote locations. 2. Ensuring everyone can get a quality internet connection is crucial to our levelling up plans and these trials aim to find a solution to the prohibitively high cost of rolling out cables to FAR-FLUNG locations. 3. Musk drew the IRE of Ukrainians last month when he posted a tweet suggesting a Ukraine-Russia peace deal that included formally annexing Crimea to Russia and holding UN-su...