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Vocabulary on 31st December 2023 from The Guardian [ Words: 1. #TROOPS, 2. #SKIRMISH, 3. #SHRUG OFF, 4. #CLUSTER, 5. #CONVOY]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. TROOPS = সৈন্যদল ; soldiers or armed forces; the army; the military; 2. SKIRMISH = হানাহানি ; an episode of irregular or unpremeditated fighting; fight; battle; clash; conflict; encounter; controntation; engagement; fray; contest; combat; tussle; scrimmage; fracas; affray; melee; 3. SHRUG OFF = to treat something as if it is not important or not a problem; গুরুত্ব কমিয়ে দেখা ; 4. CLUSTER =congregate; জড়ো হওয়া ;   gather; come together; assemble; একত্রিত করা বা হওয়া ; huddle; crowd; flock; press; pack; mass; swarm; 5. CONVOY = কাফেলা ; a group of ships or vehicles traveling together;  >>> Sentences: 1. Israeli planes bombed refugee camps in Gaza on Saturday as its terrorist TROOPS expanded ground operations and tens of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes, setting the stage for a new year as bloody and destructive as the last three months of 2023. 2. The threat of wider escalation also looms l...

Vocabulary on 28th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #SOLACE, 2. #ADRIFT, 3. #BIFURCATE]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. SOLACE = সান্ত্বনা ; comfort; assuagement; প্রবোধ ; awakening; consolation; enlightenment; প্রবোধ দেত্তয়া ; console; soothe; 2. ADRIFT = প্রবাহিত ; ভাসিতে ভাসিতে ; ভেসে - চলা ; so as to float without being either moored or steered; floating without being either moored or steered; drifting; unmoored; unanchored; 3. BIFURCATE = দ্বিখণ্ডিত করা ; bisect; rive; দ্বিশাখায় বিভক্ত করা ; divide into two or more branches; fork.  >>>> Sentences: 1. Through it all, however, Jameel, now 31, found SOLACE in friends and family. 2. But he never dreamed of a war like the one Gaza is suffering now, and he never imagined himself homeless, cast ADRIFT from his community and ferrying his children from place to place across the besieged territory in search of ever-elusive safety. 3. They put some food, clothes and important papers into rucksacks and followed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) evacuation order to move south ...

Vocabulary on 27th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #VOLLEY, 2. #AMPUTATE]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. VOLLEY = নিক্ষেপ ; through; throwing; cast; pitch; নিক্ষেপ করা ; throw down; emit; cast down; 2. AMPUTATE = অঙ্গচ্ছেদ করা ; mutilate; maim; hamble; scotch;  >>> Sentences: 1. Separately, Israel and the powerful Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah have traded near-daily VOLLEYS of missiles, airstrikes and shelling across the frontier since 7 October. 2. Doctors, overwhelmed with injured people and lacking basic medical supplies, say that in many cases they have been forced to AMPUTATE limbs that could have been saved under different circumstances.

Vocabulary on 25th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #MASSACRE]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. MASSACRE = হত্যাকাণ্ড ; an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people; বেপরোয়া হত্যাকাণ্ড ; Reckless murder; নির্বিচারে হত্যা ; indiscriminate killing; mass murder; mass homicide; mass destruction; annihilation; extermination;  >>> Sentences: 1. The Palestinian health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, said the death toll was likely to climb. “What is happening at the Maghazi camp is a MASSACRE that is being committed on a crowded residential square,” he told Reuters. #Israeli_Terrorism_Supported_by_America 

Vocabulary on 24th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #CEASEFIRE, 2. #STAVING_OFF, 3. #FRAYING, 4. #ORDNANCE, 5. #STAUNCHEST]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. CEASEFIRE = যুদ্ধবিরতি ; a temporary suspension of fighting, typically one during which peace talks take place; a truce; armistice; অস্ত্রসংবরণ ; truce; suspension of hostilities. 2. STAVE OFF = বন্ধ করা ; to prevent something bad from affecting you for a period of time; ঠেকিয়ে রাখা ; to delay something; প্রতিহত করা ; counteract; forfend; repel; repulse; বিলম্বিত করা ; put back; retard; 3. FRAYING= অবসন্ন করা বা হওয়া ; wear out; 4. ORDNANCE = কামান ; cannon; artillery; gun; firearm; gunstock; তোপ ; 5. STAUNCHEST= কট্টর ; loyal and committed in attitude; stalwart; স্থিরসঙ্কল্প ; loyal; faithful; trusty; committed; devoted; dedicated; dependable; reliable; steady; constant; hard-working; vigorous; stable; firm; steadfast;  >>> Sentences: 1. Issam al-Mughrabi, 56, was killed with his wife, five children and dozens of other relatives in a bombing near Gaza City, said the head of the UN development programm...

Vocabulary on 23rd December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #COMPLICIT, 2. #UNJUSTIFIABLE]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. COMPLICIT = অবৈধ কাজের সহযোগী ; involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing; 2. UNJUSTIFIABLE = অযৌক্তিক ; irrational; not able to be shown to be right or reasonable; অসমর্থনীয় ; indefensible; inexcusable; unforgivable; unpardonable; without justification; unreasonable; অসঙ্গত ; inconsistent;  >>> Sentences: 1. Anyone who votes in favour of the text as it is currently worded would bear responsibility for that, essentially becoming COMPLICIT in the destruction of Gaza. 2. The International Rescue Committee said: “From a humanitarian point of view, the failure of the [UN security council] to demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire is UNJUSTIFIABLE .”

Vocabulary on 22nd December 2023 from The Guardian [Word: 1. #IMPROPRIETY,]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. IMPROPRIETY = অনুচিত ; অন্যায় ; wrong; injustice; tort; enormity; inequity; অসঙ্গতি ; contradiction; inconsistency; incompatibility;   irrelevance; disharmony;  >>>   Sentences: Republicans have spent months investigating business dealings by Biden and his son Hunter in hopes of finding  IMPROPRIETIES  that could form a basis for an impeachment.

Vocabulary on 21st December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #HOSPICE]

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>>>  Word Meanings: 1. HOSPICE = অনাথশালা; orphanage;  >>> Sentences: 1. He said al-Ahli was a “shell of a hospital”, resembling a HOSPICE providing very limited care.

Vocabulary on 19th December 2023 from The Guardian: Words [1. #MULTITUDE, 2, #CONJUNCTION]

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. MULTITUDE = a large number of people or things; a lot; a great/large number; a great/large quantity; host; horde; mass;  2. CONJUNCTION = a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause;  >>> Sentences: 1. Divisions within the US administration have been growing with some officials saying the US is misunderstanding the scale of disillusionment in the Global South over US perceived hypocrisy in calling out Russian war crimes in Ukraine, but finding a MULTITUDE of reasons to justify the large scale killings of Palestinians in Gaza. 2. A UN call for a suspension of hostilities would in CONJUNCTION with other parts of the resolution put pressure on Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza at scale, and by land sea and air.

Vocabulary on 16th December 2023 from The Guardian [Word: 1. #CATACLYSM]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. CATACLYSM= বিধ্বংসী বন্যা ; a large-scale and violent event in the natural world; বিপর্যয় ; disaster; catastrophe; calamity; tragedy; devastation; crisis; holocaust ( ব্যাপক হত্যাকাণ্ড ); ruin; ruination; upheaval( অভ্যুত্থান ); convulsion; blow; shock; reverse; trouble; trial; tribulation; misfortune; mishap; accident; mischance; misadventure; woe; affliction; distress; meltdown; whammy( ঝাঁকুনি ); bale; mishanter;  >>> Sentences: 1. “This is a humanitarian CATACLYSM , and it is being done with American bombs and money. We need to face up to that fact – and then we need to end our complicity in those actions,” Sanders said in a statement.

Vocabulary on 15th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #ROULETTE, 2. #STRENUOUS]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. ROULETTE = জুয়া খেলাবিশেষ ; 2. STRENUOUS = কঠোর ; শ্রমসাধ্য ; rugged, arduous; laborious; tough; workaday; উত্সাহী ; passionate; enthusiastic; keen; impassioned;  >>>   Sentences: 1. They described the situation as a daily “Russian ROULETTE in which families are informed about the murder of a hostage in captivity”. 2. After the two-hour meeting, family members said they believed Biden was making STRENUOUS efforts to secure the release of family members.

Vocabulary on 14th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #BETRAY]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. BETRAY = বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা ; break one's promise to; be disloyal to; be unfaithful to; break faith with; play someone false; deceive, cheat,  >>> Sentences: 1.   People in Gaza feel that they are BETRAYED and abandoned by the international community.

Vocabulary on 13th December 2023 from The Guardian [ Words: 1. #CORVETTE, 2. #SPILLOVER]

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. CORVETTE = রণতরিবিশেষ ; ​frigate; একসারি কামানযুক্ত পালতোলা যুদ্ধজাহাজ ; 2. SPILLOVER = বাড়তি ; excess; residual; raise; growth; overplus;  >>> Sentences: 1. Following the attack, Israel’s military said it had deployed one of its most advanced warships, a Sa’ar 6 class CORVETTE , to the Red Sea. 2. Industry sources have warned that the cost of shipping goods through the Red Sea is rising as the Houthis step up their attacks, with fears that a SPILLOVER could disrupt global supplies sailing through the region.

Vocabulary on 9th December 2023 from The Guardian [Word: 1. #EVOKE]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. EVOKE = আবির্ভূত করান ; bring or recall to the conscious mind; bring to mind; মনে আনা ; call to mind; মনে করা ; put one in mind of; call up; conjure up; summon up; summon; invoke; আবাহন করা ; give rise to; bring forth; elicit; induce; kindle; জ্বালান ; stimulate; stir up; awaken; arouse; excite; raise; suggest; recall; echo; reproduce; encapsulate; capture; express;  >>> Sentences : 1. The Committee to Protect Journalists called for his release as Husam Zomlot, head of the Palestinian Mission in London, said on X the images EVOKED “some of humanity’s darkest passages of history”.

Vocabulary on 8th December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #DOMICIDE, 2. #DESOLATE]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. DOMICIDE = গৃহহত্যা; deliberate destruction of home; 2. DESOLATE = ঊষর; barren; arid; salty; jejune; bare; পতিত;  >>> Sentences : 1. The destruction of more than a third of Gaza’s homes as Israel bombards the territory in pursuit of Hamas is leading international legal experts to raise the concept of “ DOMICIDE ” – the mass destruction of dwellings to make the territory uninhabitable. 2. Human Rights Watch said on Monday: “In north-east Gaza, north of Beit Hanoun, once green agricultural land is now brown and DESOLATE .

Vocabulary on 3rd December 2023 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #MOUND]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. MOUND = ঢিবি; a large pile or quantity of something; heap; pile; stack; mass; collection; accumulation; aggregation;  >>> Sentences: 1. MOUNDS of rubbish now dot the landscape of southern Gaza, sprouting in the areas where the enclave’s population has clustered in search of safety from Israeli airstrikes.