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Vocabulary on January 29, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SABOTAGE, 2. #SALVAGE]

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  >>>  Word meanings: 1. SABOTAGE = নাশকতা; অন্তর্ঘাত; নাশকতা ; destructiveness; কূটঘাত ; deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage. 2. SALVAGE = উদ্ধার; rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea; rescue; save; recover; retrieve; raise; reclaim; get back; restore; reinstate;  >>> Sentences: 1. In July, Iran said it had arrested a SABOTAGE team made up of Kurdish militants working for Israel who planned to blow up a “sensitive” defence industry centre in Isfahan. 2. Israel has long threatened military action against Iran if indirect talks between Washington and Tehran fail to SALVAGE a 2015 nuclear pact.

Vocabulary on January 28, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #PROVOCATEUR; 2. #WAD]

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>>>  Word Meanings: 1. PROVOCATEUR = উত্তেজক ; a person who intentionally encourages people to do something illegal, usually so that they can be arrested; 2. WAD = প্রস্ত , set, suite; কেতা ; parcel, set, suit, batch, fashion; বাণ্ডিল ; bundle, bunch; পিণ্ড ; lump, loaf, conglomeration, hunch, ball, খড় কাগজ প্রভৃতির দলা ; wad; আঁটি ; seed, truss, bunch, bundle, fascicle, স্তূপ ; pile, heap, bulk, agglomeration, mound, >>>  Sentences: 1. The holy book was set alight last Saturday near Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm by a far-right politician and anti-Islam PROVOCATEUR , Rasmus Paludan, a dual Danish-Swedish national, with a reputation for carrying out similar acts. 2.   As Frick, a former Sweden Democrats official, pulled out a WAD of rouble notes from a recent trip to Russia, he told the reporter: “Here is my real boss! It’s Putin!”

Vocabulary on January 27, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: #DAYBREAK, 2. #WAFT]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. DAYBREAK =   প্রভাত ;   উষা ; dawn, dayspring;   ঊষা ; aurora, dawn, dayspring;   ঊষাসমাগম ;   ভোর ; dawn, morning, cockcrow;   অরূণোদয় ; sunrise, dawn; the time in the morning when daylight first appears; dawn. 2. WAFT =   জল   বা   বাতাসের   মধ্য   দিয়া   ভাসানো   বা   ভাসা ; pass or cause to pass easily or gently through or as if through the air;  >>> Sentences : 1. Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers arrived at DAYBREAK at several entrances of the Jenin refugee camp. 2. Teargas had probably WAFTED inside the hospital from the clashes nearby.

Vocabulary on January 24, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #MACHO, 2. #CONSULTATIVE, 3. #FEMICIDE, 4. #DEPLORE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. MACHO = পৌরুষপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি ; man; showing aggressive pride in one's masculinity; (aggressively) male; (unpleasantly) masculine; manly; virile; বীর্যবান ; পুরুষোচিত ; red-blooded; swashbuckling; বেপরোয়া বা হঠকারী এবং চালবাজ ; 2. CONSULTATIVE = পরামর্শমূলক ; পরামর্শদায়ক , exhortative, exhortatory; উপদেশক ; advisory, monitory, exhortative, exhortatory; 3. FEMICIDE = নারীহত্যা ; the killing of a woman or girl, in particular by a man and on account of her gender. 4. DEPLORE = অনুশোচনা করা ; পরিতাপ করা ; be sorry, lament; বিলাপ করা ; mourn, croon, bewail, yammer, lament; দু : খ প্রকাশ করা ; sorrow, regret, wail, bewail, mourn; আক্ষেপ করা ;   Sentences: 1. The survey also detected a male “backlash” across French society to the #MeToo movement, with “ MACHO raids” on social media seeking “to reduce women to silence or discredit them”. 2. The study of 2,500 people by the High Authority on Equality (HCE), a CONSULTATIV...

Vocabulary on January 21, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. ADRIFT, 2. #SCRAWL]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. ADRIFT = ভাসিতে ভাসিতে ; ভেসে - চলা ; ইতস্তত ভাসমান অবস্থায় ; so as to float without being either moored or steered. 2. SCRAWL = write (something) in a hurried, careless way; হিজিবিজি ; scribble, লিখন ; writing, composing, entry, writ, আঁকিবুকি বা হিজিবিজি কাটা ; scrabble,  >>>   Sentences : 1. The Colombian navy has rescued a man from Dominica who says he survived 24 days ADRIFT in the Caribbean on a sailboat by eating ketchup, garlic powder and seasoning cubes. 2. Elvis François, 47, from Dominica, had SCRAWLED the word ‘help’ in English on the boat’s hull.

Vocabulary on January 12, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #AIDE, 2. #CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. AIDE = সহায়তাকারী ; booster, supporter, assistant; সাহায্যকারী ; helper, assistant, booster, backer, collaborator, সহায়ক ; assistant, booster, pander; সহযোগী ; associate, partner, collaborator, assistant, ally; an assistant to an important person, especially a political leader; helper; adviser; 2. CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT = CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET documents; Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, and mishandling of the material can incur criminal penalties. >>> Sentences: 1. Then came a report from the NBC News network, followed by other media outlets, that said the president’s AIDES had found another set of classified documents at a separate location. 2. Congressman Jim Jordan, chair of the House of Represen...

Vocabulary on January 8, 2023 from The Guardian [ Words: 1. #DISMANTLE, 2. #HELM, 3. #SLUR]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. DISMANTLE = ভাঙ্গিয়া ফেলা ; demolish, destroy, pull down, knock down, take down, অনাবৃত করা ; uncover, take off the wrapes, unmask; নিরাবরণ করা ; peel; চূর্ণ করা ; pull down, tear down, demolish, grind, pound; নগ্ন করা ; strip, bare, denude, strip naked, deplenish; take (a machine or structure) to pieces. 2. HELM = [Noun] হাল ; state, situation, status, tire, plough; [Verb] হাল ধরা ;, steer; চালনা করা ; drive, urge, wield, govern, move; পরিচালনা করা ; manage, handle, conduct, operate, lead; 3. SLUR = কলঙ্ক ; scandal, reproach, blemish, stain, infamy, slur; নিন্দা ; blame, condemnation, reproach, slander, censure, slur; দোষারোপ ; blame, accusation, condemnation, slur, reproof, nagging;  >>> Sentences: 1. The move adds to longstanding concerns that new owner Elon Musk is DISMANTLING the company’s regulation of hateful content and misinformation. 2. With Musk at the HELM , Twitter has suffered a public relat...

Vocabulary on January 7, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #ABRASIVE, 2. #DAZED, 3. #SCOWL, 4. #MISERY, 5. #STALLION]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. ABRASIVE = ঘর্ষণকারী; caustic; দগ্ধকারক; ক্লেশদায়ক; showing little concern for the feelings of others; harsh; cutting; grating; কর্কশ; biting; acerbic; vitriolic; rough; hard; tough; sharp; curt; brusque; অশিষ্ট (abrupt or offhand in speech or manner); stern; severe; wounding; nasty; cruel, callous; insensitive; unfeeling; unsympathetic; inconsiderate; acerb; 2. DAZED = হতবাক; unable to think or react properly; bewildered; 3. SCOWL = চোখ রাঙ্গান; browbeat, মুখ গোমড়া করে থাকা; an angry or bad-tempered expression; frown; glower; glare; grimace; black look; 4. MISERY = দুর্বিপাক; misery, mishap, affliction, convulsion, blow, bale; দুর্দশা; teen, misery, adversity, grief, straits, woe; দৈন্য; misery, poorness, penury, indigence, affliction, distress; কষ্ট; pain, hardship, anguish, misery, annoyance, straits; ক্লেশ; calamity, agony, misery, trouble, privation, pain; যন্ত্রণা; torture, torment, trouble, anguish, distress, misery; 5. STALLION = ঘোটক; গণি...

Vocabulary on January 5, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #INCONCLUSIVE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. INCONCLUSIVE = অমীমাংসিত ; unreconciled; মীমাংসাহীন ; নিষ্পত্তিহীন ; অসমাধিত ; unsolved, indecisive, unresolved; অনিষ্পন্ন ; unresolved; অপ্রামাণিক ; not leading to a firm conclusion; not ending doubt or dispute; indecisive; providing nothing; resolving noting; leaving matters open; indefinite; indeterminate; undetermined; unresolved; unproved; unsettled; still open to question; still open to doubt; debatable; unconfirmed; not yet established; moot; vague; ambiguous;  >>> Sentences : 1. The House held three INCONCLUSIVE votes in the speakership election on Wednesday, mirroring the three votes held a day earlier.

Vocabulary on January 4, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SMEAR]

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   >>>   Word Meanings: 1. SMEAR = লেপন করা dab, coat, coat with, anoint, bedaub, বিলেপন কর , anoint, অঙ্গে লেপন করা , coat, besmear মাখা , mold, daub, impaste, mould;  >>> Sentences: 1. It is a blatant attempt to SMEAR blame … The only real solution to prevent this in the future is to not place personnel en masse in big buildings.

Vocabulary on January 3, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #CONSCRIPT]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. CONSCRIPT = বাধ্যতামূলকভাবে সৈন্যদলে নিযুক্ত ; enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services; আইনবলে কাউকে সৈন্যদলে যোগ দিতে বাধ্য করা; call up; enlist; recruit; mobilize; সৈন্যযোজন করা ; raise; muster; draft;  >>> Sentences: 1. Even if the total numbers are lower, the strike in Makiivka would be one of the deadliest attacks involving CONSCRIPTS and will add further pressure on Moscow’s military leaders.