Vocabulary on 1st May 2023 from The Guardian [ Words: 1. #CONVOY, 2. #BEHEST, 3. #CONTEMPTUOUS, 4. #PENUMBRA, 5. #WARFARE]

 

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Word Meanings:

1. CONVOY= কাফেলা, company travelling together, পাহার দিয়ে নিয়ে যাওয়া; accompany (a group of ships or vehicles) for protection; পাহারা দেবার জন্য অনুগমন; escort; accompany; attend; flank; protect; guard; defend;

2. BEHEST= নির্দেশ; instruction; bidding; request; requirement; wish; desire; আদেশ; command; order; decree; edict; rule; ruling; directive; direction; charge; will; dictate; demand; insistence; injunction; mandate; precept; say-so; rescript;

3. CONTEMPTUOUS= অবমাননাকর; ঘৃণাপূর্ণ; hateful; scornful; cynical; loathsome; loathful; sardonic;

4. PENUMBRA= উপচ্ছায়া; ghost; phantom; fantom;

5. WARFARE= যুদ্ধ; যুদ্ধবিগ্রহ; hostilities; সংগ্রাম; struggle; fight; battle; war; warfare; সঙ্ঘর্ষ; percussion; conflict; bump; jar; friction;

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Sentences:

1. People try to flee the fighting in Khartoum by taking buses that travel in CONVOYS at night to neighbouring countries.

2. A warlord in one conflict helps out another in a second, at the BEHEST of a distant power.

3. In this conflict frontiers have no significance, control of resources is the primary prize, with forces arising in borderlands seeking their revenge on once CONTEMPTUOUS metropolitan elites.

4. All of this happens in a shadowy PENUMBRA defined by backroom deals, obscure alignments of interests, brutal realpolitik and disinformation.

5. Proxy WARFARE was a hallmark of the cold war everywhere, and in the 1990s many conflicts across the world saw multiple states, great and small, backing local actors to bloody effect.