Vocabulary on 21st January 2025 (Words: 1. #EUPHORIA; 2. WREAK; 3. AGGRANDISE; 4. EXTREMIST; 5. ORDNANCE; 6. DECIMATE)

 
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Word Meanings:

1. EUPHORIA=উচ্ছ্বাস; a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness; elation; happiness; joy; joyousness; delight; glee; excitement; exhilaration; animation; jubilation(জয়ধ্বনি); exultation(উল্লাস); ecstasy; bliss; rapture; rhapsody (উচ্ছাসপূর্ণ উক্তি); rhapsodies; intoxication; cloud nine; heaven; paradise;

2. WREAK=ধ্বংস করা; প্রতিহিংসা গ্রহণ করা; retaliate; avenge(প্রতিশোধ নেওয়া); revenge; pay off;

3. AGGRANDISE= শক্তি, সম্পদ, সম্মান বৃদ্ধি করা; Increase power, wealth, honor;

4. EXTREMIST= চরমপন্থী; ultra;

5. ORDNANCE = অস্ত্রশস্ত্র; guns; cannon; artillery; weapons; arms; munitions; military supplies;

6. DECIMATE= ধ্বংস করা; kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of; destroy; shatter; annihilate; obliterate; demolish;

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Sentences:

1. The truce that took effect on Sunday with the release of the first three hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 90 Palestinians from Israeli jails was greeted with EUPHORIA as a large influx of desperately needed aid supplies entered the strip.

2. By Monday, however, the celebrations largely gave way to shock and sorrow, as the strip’s 2.3 million population began to assess the scale of the devastation WREAKED by Israel terrorism.

3. “The nation watched with no little dread when dozens of Hamas gunmen, hailed by a large cheering crowd, commandeered Gaza City’s Saraya Square for a wild, self-AGGRANDISING daylight ceremony before a vast global audience,” a Times of Israel op-ed said.

4. Overnight, Israeli EXTREMISTS set homes and cars on fire in three West Bank villages.

5. Within northern and southern Gaza, however, displaced civilians have started making the long journey back to their towns, villages and refugee camps, by foot or using donkey-drawn carts on roads littered with unexploded ORDNANCE.

6. The WHO has said that restoring Gaza’s DECIMATED medical infrastructure will cost $10m, as only half of the strip’s 36 hospitals are still partially operating.