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 CONSULTATIVE body, found sexist behaviour increasing in “all spheres”, with many men believing violent and discriminatory behaviour to be acceptable.

3. “We see that sexism is a structural problem. It’s not just a question of discrimination in salaries and pensions or an increasing number of FEMICIDES, which are the visible part of the iceberg, but a whole mentality that needs to change,” El Khoury said.

4. We cannot just DEPLORE the situation we need to change it.