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Vocabulary on 27th February 2024 from The Guardian [Word: #VYING]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. VYING = প্রতিযোগীতা ; present participle of vie. ( VIE = প্রতিযোগিতা করা ; compete; contend; contest; struggle; fight; battle; cross swords; lock horns; jockey; jostle; grapple; wrestle; war; wage war; feud; প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতায় নামা ;  >>> Sentences: 1. The situation has become politically complicated for Biden, who is VYING for votes in the US presidential primary elections. During elections in Michigan on Tuesday, activists have urged Democrats to mark their ballots “uncommitted” rather than support Biden, to push the president to change course and call for a permanent ceasefire.

Vocabulary on 26th February 2024 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #GRIM, 2. #CONTOUR]

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. GRIM = ভয়ানক ; terrible; outrageous; frightening; dire; horrible; হিংস্র ; fierce; violent; ferocious; wild; নির্মম ; ruthless; brutal; cruel; unforgiving; unrelenting; ভীষণ ; forbidding; ghastly; gruesome; hidrosis; truculent; 2. CONTOUR = সীমাসূচক রেখা ; সীমাসূচক রেখা ; outline; shape; form; lines; curves; figure; silhouette; মসীবর্ণ ছায়া - পরিলেখ ; profile;  >>> Sentences: 1. The death toll in Gaza is likely to pass the GRIM milestone of 30,000 this week, as negotiators try to pin down a ceasefire and hostage-release deal, and the Israeli terrorist government presses ahead with plans for an attack on Rafah. 2. Negotiators from Israel, Qatar, Egypt and the US have agreed the “basic CONTOURS ” of an arrangement during weekend talks in Paris, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN, but the final details still have to be hammered out.

Vocabulary on 25th February 2024 from The Guardian [Word: #RUTHLESSNESS]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. RUTHLESSNESS = নির্মমতা ; the quality of lacking pity or compassion for others.    >>> Sentences : 1. The petition continued: “Refusing to release the body of Alexei Navalny to his family will be perceived as a manifestation of RUTHLESSNESS and inhumanity.”

Vocabulary on 24th February 2024 from The Guardian [Word: #CONFLAGRATION]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. CONFLAGRATION =   ব্যাপক ও বিধ্বংসী অগ্নিকাণ্ড ; an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property. ; উদ্দীপনা ; fire; blaze; flames; inferno; firestorm; holocaust;  >>>   Sentences: 1. There are widespread concerns among observers that an imminent Israeli offensive on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza will cause further extensive civilian casualties and that the start of Ramadan in less than three weeks could ignite widespread unrest in the occupied West Bank and exacerbate risks of a regional CONFLAGRATION .    

Vocabulary on 19th February 2024 from The Guardian [ Word: #IMPASSE]

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   >>> Word Meanings : 1. IMPASSE = অচলাবস্থা ; a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a deadlock; কানাগলি ; blind alley; কোণঠাসা অবস্থা ; চরম সংকট ; dead end;  >>> Sentences : 1. The diplomatic IMPASSE was met with dismay by the 2.3 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, where almost 29,000 people have been killed by Israeli Terrorist Forces, 85% of the population displaced from their homes and one in four are starving, according to the UN.

Vocabulary on 12th February 2024 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #CATASTROPHE, 2. #BRUSH_ASIDE]

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>>>  Word Meanings: 1. CATASTROPHE = বিপর্যয় ; calamity; disaster; সর্বনাশ ; damnation; নরকভোগ ; kaput; বারোটা ; দফা রফা ; নাটকের চরম পরিণতি ; anagnorisis; 2. BRUSH ASIDE = ভ্রূক্ষেপ না করা; brush away; গ্রাহ্য না করা; hang on; reject; dismiss;  >>> Sentences: 1. Despite mounting warnings from aid agencies and the international community that an assault on Rafah would be a CATASTROPHE , Netanyahu has reiterated his intention to extend Israel’s military operation against Hamas. 2. Israeli PM BRUSHES ASIDE warnings that assault on Gaza’s southernmost town would be a ‘human catastrophe’

Vocabulary on 7th February 2024 from The Guardian [Words: 1. # PLOY, 2. #STANDALONE, 3. #WIELD]

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. PLOY = RUSE; ফন্দিফিকির ; চালাকি ; কায়দা ; a  CUNNING PLAN  or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage; tactic, move; device; stratagem; scheme; trick; gambit= a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end; cunning plan; maneuver; চাতুর্যপূর্ণ মতলব বা গতিবিধি ; contrivance; কৌশল ;   expedient; সুবিধাজনক ; উদ্দেশ্যসাধক উপায় ;   dodge; subterfuge; এড়ানর কৌশল ; game; wile; কূটবুদ্ধি ; 2. STANDALONE = স্বতন্ত্র ; separate; single; discrete; 3. WIELD = চালনা করা ; drive; urge; govern; helm; move; নিয়ন্ত্রিত করা ; rein; regulate; condition; প্রভাব বিস্তার করা ; sway;  >>> Sentences: 1. Opponents called the Israel legislation a political PLOY by Republicans to distract from their opposition to a $118bn Senate bill combining an overhaul of US immigration policy and new funding for border security with billions of dollars in emergency aid for Ukraine, Israel and partners i...

Vocabulary on 6th February 2024 from Aljazeera [Word: #INCURSION]

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>>>  Word Meanings: 1. INCURSION = অনুপ্রবেশ ; an invasion( আক্রমণ ) or attack, especially a sudden or brief one; attack on; assault on; raid on; invasion of; storming of; overrunning of; foray into; blitz on; sortie into;   বহিরাক্রমণ ; raid;  >>>   Sentences: 1. Wafa also reported that Israeli forces carried out a large-scale military INCURSION on Sunday night into the village of Ramin, east of Tulkarem, the northern occupied West Bank, said local sources.

Vocabulary on 4th February 2024 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #ELICIT, 2. #CONCILIATORY]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. ELICIT = প্রকাশ করা ; reveal; publish; put; express; disclose;   টানিয়া বাহির করা ; corkscrew; exhale; educe; obtain; bring out; draw out; extract; জোর করিয়া আদায় করা ; evoke; bring about; bring forth; induce; excite; give rise to; call forth; prompt; generate; engender; 2. CONCILIATORY = সমঝোতামূলক ; বন্ধুত্বপূর্ণ ; friendly; amicable; neighbourly; matey;  >>>   Sentences: 1. In the wake of the strikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria, Hussein al-Mosawi, spokesperson for Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the main Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, said Washington “must understand that every action ELICITS a reaction”. 2. But in an AP interview in Baghdad, he also struck a more CONCILIATORY tone. “We do not wish to escalate or widen regional tensions,” he said.  

Vocabulary on 3rd February 2024 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #RETALIATORY, 2. #CALIBRATE]

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. RETALIATORY = প্রতিশোধমূলক ; characterized by a desire for revenge. 2. CALIBRATE = শক্তির পরিমাপ করা ; mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings; balance; correct; fine-tune; fix; improve; overhaul; readjust; সামঞ্জস্য করা ; regulate; tighten;  >>>   Sentences: 1. US RETALIATORY airstrikes on targets in Iraq and Syria will not be the last. 2. The US response was CALIBRATED to minimise the risk of a direct US-Iran conflict, while maximising the destruction of weaponry Iran has stockpiled in Syria and Iraq.

Vocabulary on 2nd February 2024 from The Guardian [Words: 1. #IRREVERSIBLE]

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. IRREVERSIBLE = অপরিবর্তনীয় ; unchanging; constant; immutable; নিত্ ; unchangeable; fixed;  >>>   Sentences: 1. Lord Cameron said the issue of recognising a Palestinian state would be part of a diplomatic process in which the Palestinian people would have to be shown “ IRREVERSIBLE progress”.