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Vocabulary on February 28, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #QUIRKY; 2. #ABERRATION, 3. #CRASS; 4. #ATONEMENT]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. QUIRKY = অদ্ভুত ; characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits; eccentric; idiosyncratic; unconventional; unusual; off-center; strange; bizarre; weird; peculiar; odd; freakish; outlandish; offbeat; বেখাপ্পা ; খাপছাড়া ; out of the ordinary; Bohemian; ভবঘুরে ; যাযাবর ; alternative; zany; নির্বোধ ব্যক্তি ; ভাঁড় ; outre; bizarro;   2. ABERRATION = বিকৃতি; স্খলন ; falling, slipping, loosening, shedding, detachment; বিকার , decomposition, morbidity, delirium, perversion, corruption; বিপথগমন , perversion, divergence, divergency, excursion; নীতিভ্রংশ ; immorality; মতিভ্রংশ , mistake; বিপথগামিতা , obliquity; সাময়িক স্মৃতিভ্রংশ ; 3. CRASS = lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence; সংবেদনহীন ; অনুভূতিশূন্য , senseless, insensible, impassible; বোকা; foolish, stupid, mindless, goofy, simple, নির্বোধ; mindless, foolish, stupid, brainless, dopey, নিতান্ত; shocking, 4. ATONEMENT = প্রায়শ্চিত্ত , expiation, ransom, penance, purge; ক...

Vocabulary on February 27, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #RAMPAGE]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. RAMPAGE =   প্রচণ্ড উত্তেজনাপূর্ণ আচরণ; rush around in a violent and uncontrollable manner; ছোটাছুটি; তাণ্ডব; ক্রোধোন্মত্ত আচরণ করা; উত্তেজিত হয়ে এদিক-ওদিকে ছোটাছুটি করা; rush wildly/madly; riot; run riot; run amok, go berserk; নিষ্ঠুর ; পাগল; ক্ষিপ্ত; খেপা; storm; charge; tear; rave;  >>> Sentences: 1. The RAMPAGE occurred shortly after the Jordanian government, which hosted Sunday’s talks at the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, said both sides had agreed to take steps to de-escalate tensions and would meet again next month before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Vocabulary on 11th February 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SUBSIDENCE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. SUBSIDENCE = অধঃপতন ; the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land; ধসা ; collapse; caving in; falling in; giving way; sinking; settling; অবনমন ; relegation, bending down, Depressions; বিশেষ্য ; প্রশমন ; mitigation, mollification, fall; দমন ; repression, restraint, check, break, subdual; হ্রাস ; decrease, loss, reducing, decrement, fall, diminution; অপগম ; flight, departure, removal, death, retreat; অপগমন ; flight, departure, removal, death, retreat; অধোগতি ; descent, stoop, subsidence, aggravation, impairment, depravity; অধোগমন ; aggravation, descent, stoop, impairment, depravity; >>> Sentences: 1. There are wider geological implications to the quake that may have consequences in the longer term slowly coming into focus. In the coastal city of İskenderun, there appears to have been significant SUBSIDENCE , which has resulted in flooding, while the quake has left many hillsides around the country at a serious risk of la...

Vocabulary on 9th February 2023 from The Guardian [ Words: 1. #BEDRAGGLED]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. BEDRAGGLED = dirty and dishevelled; বিকৃত ; অপরিচ্ছন্ন ; untidy, scruffy, grubby, unclean;  >>> Sentences : At a tent city set up in a stadium in Kahramanmaras, long lines of BEDRAGGLED residents queued up to receive steaming kebabs and dug through bags of donated warm clothing.

Vocabulary on 7th February 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #HEAP]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. HEAP = স্তূপাকার করা ; accumulate, pile up; গাদা করা ; stack, pile; পুঁজিভূত করা ; cumulate, gather, mass; পাঁজা করা ; pile, bundle; পাঁজা করিয়া সাজান ; pile, bundle; টাল করা , demand; টাল দেত্তয়া , put in a crisis, put in danger; স্তূপে পরিণত করা ; wad; স্তূপাকার হত্তয়া ; accumulate, bulk; জড় করা ; assemble, muster, gather, congregate, mass, get together; জমান ; save up, lay down, multiply, save, accumulate, amass;  >>> Sentences: 1. The early-morning quake and dozens of aftershocks brought down entire apartment blocks in Turkey and HEAPED more destruction on Syrian communities already devastated by over a decade of war.

Vocabulary on February 6, 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #DE FACTO]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. DE FACTO = কার্যত ; as good as; বস্তুত ; indeed, in reality; in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not;   in practice; in effect; in fact; in reality; really; actually; in actually;  >>> Sentences : 1. The minister also highlighted the weapons that Ukraine has gradually obtained from the west over the past year, from 155mm artillery to tanks, and argued that “therefore we can say today we are DE FACTO a Nato country”.

Vocabulary on 5th February 2023 [Words: 1. #REPARATION, 2. #EXPUNGE, 3. #REPUGNANT]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. REPARATION = ক্ষতিপূরণ ; compensation, indemnification, amends, indemnity, restitution; খেসারত ; compensation, amends, indemnity; 2. EXPUNGE = নির্মূল করা ; মুছিয়া ফেলা ; erase, wipe, strike out, obliterate, deface; 3. REPUGNANT =extremely distasteful; unacceptable; অরুচিকর ; ; stink, unlovely, repugnant, repellent, unpalatable, unsavoury; আপত্তিকর ; offensive, undesirable, noisome, repugnant, unspeakable; অপ্রীতিকর ; unacceptable, crummy, bete noire, not very nice, repugnant, ungrateful; বিরোধী ; antagonist, contradictory; abhorrent; ঘৃণ্য ;  >>> Sentences: 1. The Trevelyan family, which has many notable ancestors, is also paying REPARATIONS to the people of Grenada, where it owned six sugar plantations. 2. “I had no idea. It became apparent that no one living in the family knew about it. It had been EXPUNGED from the family history,” said Dower. 3. Dower says that slavery was and is unacceptable and REPUGNANT . Its d...