Vocabulary on 16th November 2024 (Words: 1. #TEPID, 2. #MINUSCULE, 3. #BESIEGED, 4. CAVE, 5. #DISDAIN, 6. #EGREGIOUS, 7. #SQUANDER, 8. #LEGACY, 9. #COMPLICIT, 10. FLOUT)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. TEPID=ঈষৎ উষ্ণ; কোমল; showing little enthusiasm; unenthusiastic; apathetic; halfhearted; indifferent; cool; lukewarm; uninterested; unconcerned; offhand; perfunctory; desultory; limp; listless;

2. MINUSCULE = অণুমাত্র; extremely small; tiny; insignificant; small; very small;

3. BESIEGED= অবরোধ; surrounded by armed forces aiming to capture it or force surrender; obstructed; confined; bolted; halted; closed; enclosed; inclosed; shut in; surrounded;

4. CAVE=পরাজয় স্বীকার করা; give in; knuckle; climb down;

5. DISDAIN = অবজ্ঞা; contempt; scorn; neglect; disregard; peeve(অনাদর); antipathy(বিদ্বেষ/বিরাগ); arrogance; aversion; derision(উপহাস); dislike; hatred; pride; ridicule; scorn(ঘৃণার পাত্র);

6. EGREGIOUS=জঘন্য; মর্মান্তিক; grievous; cutting; caustic; গুরুতর; heavier; very serious; major; grave; great; outstandingly bad; outrageous; atrocious; deplorable; extreme; flagrant; glaring; grievous; heinous; intolerable; nefarious; scandalous; shocking;

7. SQUANDER=অপব্যয় করা; নকড়া-ছকড়া করা; neglect; waste in a reckless and foolish manner; misspend; misuse; throw away; dissipate(নষ্ট করা / অপচয় করা / নয়ছয় করা); fritter away(অপচয় করা); run through; lose; lavish; spend recklessly; spend unwisely; make poor use of; be prodigal with; spend money like water;

8. LEGACY= উত্তরাধিকার; succession; hereditament;

9. COMPLICIT= জড়িত; involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

10. FLOUT = অবজ্ঞা করা; openly disregard; disregard(উপেক্ষা করা); defy; refuse to obey; go against; rebel against; scorn; disdain;

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Sentences:

1.  Biden is as free from political constraints as he’s ever been. Yet he has chosen to seal his legacy as Israel’s TEPID enabler.

2. On Tuesday, the Biden administration quietly ignored its own deadline for Israel to increase the MINUSCULE amount of humanitarian aid it allows to enter Gaza.

3. Despite the US ultimatum, the amount of aid reaching the BESIEGED territory in October had dropped to its lowest level in 11 months.

4. As the deadline passed, the Biden administration did what it has done for more than a year: it CAVED and continued sending weapons to the government of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the devastation and famine Israel has inflicted on Gaza.

5. It’s the latest in a long series of decisions by Biden over the past 13 months that show his DISDAIN for Palestinian lives.

6. But his lack of action this week is especially EGREGIOUS because Biden is politically unrestrained: the presidential election is over, and Donald Trump won.

7. Yet he SQUANDERED this final opportunity to make the right and moral choice – and help end the Gaza war before leaving office.

8. Biden’s decision to keep supplying weapons to Israel reinforces his LEGACY as the primary enabler of the slaughter in Gaza, and Netanyahu’s campaign to expand the war into Lebanon.

9. Biden has been fully COMPLICIT in Israel’s destruction of Gaza, in which more than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed, although the true figure is probably much higher.

10. By May, the state department sent a 46-page report to Congress full of bureaucratic double-speak to justify Biden’s decision to FLOUT US and international laws to protect Netanyahu.