Vocabulary on 16th October 2024 (Words: 1. #EXHORT, 2. #MISSIVE, 3. #UPTICK, 4. #PLACATE, 5. #PRECLUDE; 6. #ABLAZE)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. EXHORT= উপদেশ; strongly encourage or urge to do something; call on; enjoin; adjure(সনির্বন্ধ অনুরোধ করা); charge; try to persuade; press; pressure; put pressure on; উত্সাহিত করা; cheer; induce; সনির্বন্ধ মিনতি করা; plead; পরামর্শ দেত্তয়া; counsel; advise; teach; monitor; instruct;

2. MISSIVE= প্রেরিত পত্রাদি; a letter, especially a long or official one; সরকারী পত্র; message; communication; letter; word; note; memorandum;

3. UPTICK= সামান্য বৃদ্ধি; a small increase or slight upward trend;

4. PLACATE=শান্ত করা; soothe; pacify; make less angry or hostile; appease; mollify(প্রশমিত কারা); conciliate(ঠাণ্ডা করা; সমঝোতা করা); propitiate(প্রসন্ন করান; অনুকূল করান); make peace with;

5. PRECLUDE= বর্জন করা; prevent from happening; make impossible; নিবারণ করা; repel; counteract; obviate(পরিহার করা); foreclose; avert; প্রতিরোধ করা; withstand; neutralize; fend; withhold;

6. ABLAZE= জ্বলন্ত; burning fiercely; alight; aflame; on fire; in flames; flaming; blazing;

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Sentences:

1. A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, EXHORTS Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease humanitarian suffering in the territory by lifting restrictions on the entry of assistance within 30 days or face unspecified policy “implications”.

2. The four-page MISSIVE, dated 13 October, was sent to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, and Ron Dermer, the strategic affairs minister, and came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.

3. After an UPTICK in assistance after communications between the US and Israel in March and April, aid volumes entering the strip in September fell to their lowest level.

4. Congressional Republicans have called on the White House to revoke NSM-20 calling it “redundant” and dismissing it as aimed at “PLACATING critics of security assistance to our vital ally Israel”.

5. Other relevant legislation that could be invoked include section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act and the Leahy Act, which PRECLUDE the US government from providing military assistance or selling arms to countries that restrict humanitarian aid or violate human rights.

6. Miller also said that Blinken had seen footages showing at least one Palestinian burned alive after an Israeli terrorist strike set tents ABLAZE outside a Gaza hospital.