Vocabulary on 15th November 2024 (Words: 1. #GENOCIDE, 2. #STARVATION, 3. #APARTHEID, 4. #EN_MASSE, 5. #STILLBIRTH, 6. #LIKEN)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. GENOCIDE = গণহত্যা; the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group; racial killing; massacre; wholesale slaughter; mass slaughter; wholesale killing; indiscriminate killing; mass murder; mass homicide; mass destruction; annihilation; extermination; elimination; liquidation; eradication; decimation; butchery; bloodbath; bloodletting; pogrom; ethnic cleansing; holocaust;

2. STARVATION= অনাহার; suffering or death caused by hunger; extreme hunger; lack of food; famine; undernourishment; malnourishment; deprivation of food; death from lack of food;

3. APARTHEID= জাতিবিদ্বেষ; race hatred; a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race; বর্ণবাদ;

4. EN MASSE= ব্যাপকভাবে; in a group; all together; সার্বজনীনভাবে; দল বাঁধিয়া; as a group; in a body; as a whole; in a mass; wholesale; all at once; at the same time;

5. STILLBIRTH= মৃতপ্রসব; the birth of an infant that has died in the womb

6. LIKEN= তুলনা করা; compare; assimilate; উপমা দেত্তয়া; find a similar for;

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Sentences:

1. A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of GENOCIDE”.

2. The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using STARVATION as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

3. It said its research raised “serious concerns of breaches of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including starvation as a weapon of war, the possibility of genocide in Gaza and an APARTHEID system in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem”.

4. “Civilians have been indiscriminately and disproportionally killed EN MASSE in Gaza,” the report added.

5. It also referred to the “life-threatening conditions imposed on Palestinians in Gaza through warfare and restrictions on humanitarian aid – resulting in physical destruction, increased miscarriages and STILLBIRTHS”.

6. UN special committee LIKENS Israeli policy in Gaza to genocide