Vocabulary on 4th May 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #REPARATION, 2. #CORONATION, 3. #DENIGRATION, 4. #TERRA_NULLIUS, 5. #FEALTY, 6. #AFFRONT, 7. #RENUNCIATION]

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Word Meanings:

1. REPARATION= ক্ষতিপূরণ; compensation; indemnification; amends; indemnity; restitution; পুনরুদ্ধার;

2. CORONATION=রাজ্যাভিষেক; enthronement;

3. DENIGRATION=অপমান; কলঙ্ক; scandal; reproach; blemish; stain; infamy; [denigrate=অপমান করা; কলঙ্কিত করা; tarnish;

4. TERRA NULLIUS = nobody's land; land that is legally deemed to be unoccupied or uninhabited.

5. FEALTY= আনুগত্য; formal acknowledgement of loyalty to a lord;

6. AFFRONT= অপমান; insult; offence; indignity; slight; snub; slur; aspersion; provocation; injury; put down; humiliation; outrage; atrocity; scandal; injustice; abuse; desecration; violation; slap in the face; kick in the teeth;

7. RENUNCIATION= ত্যাগ; the formal rejection of something, typically a belief, claim, or course of action; abandonment; ইস্তফা; resignation; abdication; surrender; waiving; forgoing; disclaimer; abnegation; demission;

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Sentences:

1. Australians have joined Indigenous leaders and politicians across the Commonwealth to demand King Charles III make a formal apology for the effects of British colonisation, make REPARATIONS by redistributing the wealth of the British crown, and return artefacts and human remains.

2. Days out from Charles’s CORONATION in London, campaigners for republic and reparations movements in 12 countries have written a letter asking the new monarch to start a process towards “a formal apology and for a process of reparatory justice to commence”.

3. Signatories are asking the king for an immediate commitment to discussions about reparations for “the oppression of our peoples, plundering of our resources, DENIGRATION of our culture and to redistribute the wealth that underpins the crown back to the peoples from whom it was stolen”.

4. Thorpe reiterated calls for the federal government to move towards a treaty with Indigenous Australians as part of the republic conversation, saying: “a republic that hasn’t resolved the injustices of TERRA NULLIUS continues the violent legacy of colonisation.”

5. The Australian Republic Movement has strongly criticised some facets of the coronation, including branding as “absurd” the request for Commonwealth subjects to pledge FEALTY to Charles.

6. Peris, ARM’s co-chair, called it “an AFFRONT to all Australians”, saying in a statement: “To think that any self-respecting nation would bow before a foreign king is astounding.”

7. The letter also asks the royal family to acknowledge the RENUNCIATION of the “doctrine of discovery” by Pope Francis last month, and to adopt the same stance in order to “start the process of consultation and reparations for the First Peoples who suffered the consequences of native genocide in fulfilment of that doctrine in the name of God”.