Vocabulary on 23rd September 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #DISSOLVE, 2. #SIESTA, 3. #PRAETORIAN, 4. #PEDAGOGICAL, 5. HARBINGER, 6. #HETEROGENEOUS]

  

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Word Meanings:

1. DISSOLVE=দ্রবীভূত করা; melt; solve; liquefy; বিলীন করা; fade; vanish; absorb; অদৃশ্য করা; disperse; অদৃশ্য হত্তয়া; অবসান করা; end; break; break off; determine;

2. SIESTA= মধ্যাহ্নকালীন নিদ্রা; a nap or rest especially in the afternoon.

3. PRAETORIAN = an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army

4. PEDAGOGICAL= শিক্ষাবিজ্ঞানগত; শিক্ষা-সংক্রান্ত; educational; শিক্ষাগত;

5. HARBINGER= অগ্রদূত; ambassador; pioneer; precursor; forerunner; vanguard; অপরের আগমন-বার্তাবাহী দূত;  

6. HETEROGENEOUS= ভিন্নধর্মী; নানাধর্মী; diverse in character or content;

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Sentences:

1. Migration could be “a DISSOLVING force for the European Union” due to deep cultural differences between European countries and their long-term inability to reach a common policy, the EU’s most senior diplomat has said.

2. In a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian reflecting on how the EU had been changed by the war and where the bloc fits in this new world order, he said European countries had been forced to wake from a SIESTA on defence spending, in which they had lived under the American nuclear umbrella.

3. He described the Wagner group, the Russian mercenary outfit, as “the PRAETORIAN guard of the African dictators”.

4. I believe in democracy as a PEDAGOGICAL exercise, and I believe that people understand the reasons.”

5. Asked if the disputes between some eastern European countries and Ukraine over grain exports are a HARBINGER of the conflicts that might arise if the country joins the EU, he said: “Everybody knows, it’s going to be difficult, because Ukraine, first of all, is at war and is being destroyed, literally.

6. He admitted he was no fan of the term “global south” to describe such a HETEROGENEOUS group of people but that an entity existed that “consider themselves part of an alternative to the western models”.