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Vocabulary on 27th February 2025 (Words: 1. #ONE_GO; 2.#APPALLING; 3. #CATASTROPHE)

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. ONE GO = একবারে ; At once ; ​পুরোপুরি ; 2. APPALLING = ভয়াবহ ; আতঙ্কজনক ; terrifying; awe-inspiring; সাংঘাতিক ; outrageous; grievous; dread; 3. CATASTROPHE = বিপর্যয় ; সর্বনাশ ; damnation; kaput( সর্বনাশ / সব শেষ / দফা রফা ); আকস্মিক মহাদুর্ঘটনা ; accident;  >>> Sentences: 1. The Israeli prison authorities did not specify whether the Palestinians would be freed in ONE GO . 2. “Nothing justifies the APPALLING manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza which consistently breached international law”, said Volker Türk, while presenting a new report on the human rights situation in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to the human rights council in Geneva. 3. “The level of devastation in Gaza is massive – from homes, to hospitals to schools”, Türk said, adding that “restrictions imposed by Israel ... have created a humanitarian CATASTROPHE .”

Vocabulary on 26th February 2025 (Words: 1. #LURCH; 2. #HYPOTHERMIA; 3. #FROSTBITE)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. LURCH = ঝুঁকে পড়া; make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger(টলতে টলতে চলা walk unsteadily); stumble; sway; reel; roll; weave; flounder; falter; totter; wobble; slip; বিপদের মুখে ফেলে রেখে সরে পড়া; 2. HYPOTHERMIA = অস্বাভাবিকভাবে শরীরের কম তাপমাত্রা; The condition of having an abnormally low body temperature, typically one that is dangerously low. 3. FROSTBITE = তুষারস্পর্শে দেহের অসাড়তা; তুষারস্পর্শে দেহের প্রদাহ; injury to body tissues caused by exposure to extreme cold  >>> Sentences: 1. Official internationally mediated negotiations on how to implement the second stage – which would involve a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territory – were supposed to begin weeks ago, but have been repeatedly postponed as the fragile truce has LURCHED from crisis to crisis. 2. In Gaza, Palestinian medics said that six infants had died from HYPOTHERMIA in the last two weeks, ...

Vocabulary on 25th February 2025 (Words: 1. #COMPLICITY; 2. #ACCESSORIAL; 3. #GROTESQUE)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. COMPLICITY = কুকর্মের সহকারিতা;; the state of being involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing; involvement; abetment; conspiracy; collaboration; connivance; দুষ্কর্মে সহায়তা বা অংশগ্রহণ; active or passive consent to wrongdoing; 2. ACCESSORIAL = অনুপূরক; Supplementary; contributing to or aiding an activity or process, especially a crime; আনুষঙ্গিক; 3. GROTESQUE = অদ্ভুত; comically or repulsively ugly or distorted; বিদঘুটে; awkward; outlandish; gawky; >>> Sentences: 1. A US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for COMPLICITY in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. 2. The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday, urges the ICC to investigate Biden, as well as former secretary of state Antony Blinken and former defense se...

Vocabulary on 24th February 2025 (Words:1. #RESEMBLE; 2. #OBLIGE)

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. RESEMBLE = অনুরূপ হওয়া; সদৃশ হত্তয়া; become like; take after; match; assimilate; tally; মিল থাকা; have in common with; 2. OBLIGE =বাধ্য করা; force; compel; coerce; constrain; peddle; কৃতজ্ঞতাপাশে আবদ্ধ করা; বাধিত করা; অনুগ্রহ করা; favor; smile on; smile upon; befriend; benefit; সন্তুষ্ট করা; satisfy; please content; conciliate; gratify; শপথবদ্ধ করা; be on oath; >>> Sentences: 1. Today the camps RESEMBLE urban slums, and have long functioned as bastions of armed resistance to the occupation. 2. A senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Mardawi, said: “There will be no dialogue with Israel through the mediators at any stage before the release of the Palestinian prisoners. The mediators must OBLIGE Israel to implement the agreement.”

Vocabulary on 23rd February 2025 (Words: 1. #JEOPARDY; 2. #PRECARIOUS; 3. BLATANT)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. JEOPARDY = বিপদ; peril; venture; calamity; danger; hazard; ঝুঁকি; risk; chance; gamble; 2. PRECARIOUS = অনিশ্চিত; uncertain; erratic; problematic; insecure; dubious; নিরাপত্তাহীন; insecure; বিপজ্জনক; dangerous; risky; perilous; breakneck; পরের ইচ্ছাধীন; দৈবাধীন; fateful; 3. BLATANT =অমার্জিত; rugged; vulgar; hillbilly; crude; uncouth; ভীষণ; tremendous; terrible; dire; horrendous; horrible; নির্লজ্জ; অশিষ্ট; impolite; ungracious; uncivil; mannerless;  >>> Sentences: 1. Hamas released six Israeli hostages on Saturday, but Israel suspended the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in exchange, putting the five-week-old ceasefire agreement once more in JEOPARDY . 2. The delay imposes further strain on the PRECARIOUS truce, which is at a particularly vulnerable moment, between first and second phases. 3. “The [Israeli] occupation’s failure to comply with the release of the seventh batch of pr...

Vocabulary on 21st February 2025 (Words: 1. #PATSY; 2. #PERSONA NON GRATA; 3. #PARITY; 4. PARIAH)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. PATSY = যাকে সহজে ঠকানো যায়; a person who is easily manipulated or victimized; যে ব্যক্তি সহজেই শিকার হয়; PUSHOVER; a person who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. 2. PERSONA NON GRATA = অবাঞ্ছিত ব্যক্তিত্ব; an unacceptable or unwelcome person. 3. PARITY =সমতা; সমমূল্যতা; সমমর্যাদা; equality; equivalence; uniformity; sameness; consistency; correspondence; congruity; congruence; levelness; unity; coequality; parallelism; evenness; 4. PARIAH = নীচ জাতি; an outcast;   Sentences: 1. He parades as a strongman, but in fact he’s weak, weak, weak. In the face of America’s adversaries Donald Trump is, as he might put it, a PATSY , a sucker, a pushover. 2. He has brought Russia in from the diplomatic cold after three years of ostracism following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, whose anniversary is nearly upon us. Sergei Lavrov, Putin’s foreign minister, was meant to be PERSONA NON G...

Vocabulary on 20th February 2025 (Words: 1. #ECSTATIC; 2. #PETRIFY; 3. #SHRUG; 4. #EMBRACE; 5. #EUPHEMISTIC; 6. #PALE; 7. #CONQUEST)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. ECSTATIC = উচ্ছ্বসিত; পরমানন্দদায়ক; delightful; delightsome; rapturous; 2. PETRIFY = ভয়ে অসাড় করা; make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move; terrified; terror-stricken; terror-struck; horrified; horror-stricken; প্রস্তরীভূত করা; 3. SHRUG =কাঁধ ঝাঁকানো; raise (one's shoulders) slightly and momentarily(ক্ষণিকের জন্য) to express doubt, ignorance, or indifference. 4. EMBRACE =সাগ্রহে গ্রহণ করা; welcome; accept or support (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically; আলিঙ্গন করা; squeeze; cuddle; clasp; strain; embosom; 5. EUPHEMISTIC = উচ্চারণমূলক; using or of the nature of a euphemism(শ্রুতিকটু পদের পরিবর্তে কোমলতর পদের প্রয়োগ). 6. PALE = ফ্যাকাশে; বিবর্ণ; light in color or having little color; discolored; rusty; bleaky; ghastly; faint; 7. CONQUEST = বিজয়; victory; success; triumph; advancement; দখল; appropriation; অধিকৃত অঞ্চল বা দেশ;  >>> Sentences: 1. When President Donald Trump issued a...

Vocabulary on 19th February 2025 (Words: 1. #AVERT; 2. #OVERHAUL; 3. #SMITHEREENS)

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>>>  Word Meanings: 1. AVERT = এড়ানো; ঠেকানো; প্রতিহত করা; resist; defend; fend; stave; put back; আটকানো; inhibit; catch; intercept; knit; ব্যাহত করা; impede; thwart; hamper; frustrate; encumber; বাধা দেত্তয়া; obstruct; check; clog; stop; 2. OVERHAUL =সংস্কার; ঢেলে সাজানো; recast; reshape; repair; mend; fix up; patch up; rebuild; renovate; revamp; recondition; remodel; refit; refurbish; modernize; regulate; adjust; 3. SMITHEREENS = ক্ষুদ্র টুকরা কণা; small pieces; snip; scrap; bit; smithers;  >>> Sentences: 1. Trump also seemed to blame Kyiv for Moscow’s invasion – even as he said he was more confident of a deal to end the war after US-Russia talks – claiming Ukraine could have “made a deal” to AVERT war. 2. The US president also suggested that he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before the end of the month as Washington OVERHAULS its stance towards Russia in a shift that has alarmed European leaders. 3. “We have a situation where w...

Vocabulary on 18th February 2025 (Words: 1. #SOLITUDE; 2. #STAKE; 3. #BACKSTOP)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. SOLITUDE = একাকীত্ব; নির্জনতা; secrecy; desolation; seclusion; নিঃসঙ্গতা; loneliness; aloneness; নির্জনস্থান; cloister; privacy; নি:সঙ্গতা; offishness; destitution; 2. STAKE = ঝুঁকি; risk; পণ / বাজি; bet; wager; betting; feat; legerdemain(ইন্দ্রজাল / বিভ্রান্তকারী বাক্যজাল / বাজি / হস্তকৌশল); 3. BACKSTOP = সুরক্ষা; সমর্থনকারী বা শক্তিবৃদ্ধিকারী; a person or thing placed at the rear of or behind something as a BARRIER, SUPPORT, or REINFORCEMENT.  >>> Sentences : 1. Le Monde led with “Europe challenges the Trump-Putin axis” and also carried a sub story headlined “Zelenskyy’s great SOLITUDE ”, noting how the US “coup de force” had destabilised the Ukrainian president. 2. In Spain, El Mundo headlined its main story “The European ‘urgency’ on military spending traps Sánchez”, reporting that the Spanish prime minister “admits that ‘European security’ is at STAKE but avoids setting a date for the investment of 2% of GDP”. ...

Vocabulary on 17th February 2025 (Words: 1. #BACKLASH; 2. #VILIFY)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. BACKLASH = নেতিবাচক প্রতিক্রিয়া ; a strong and adverse reaction by a large number of people, প্রবল বা তীব্র প্রতিক্রিয়া ; 2. VILIFY = অপমান করা ; নিন্দা করা ; speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner ; disparage; denigrate; defame; revile; berate;  >>> Sentences: 1. News finally came of a successful family reunification – but instead of being able to feel a moment of relief for this one family, we’ve had to face a vicious political and media BACKLASH . 2. The judge made it explicitly clear that the Ukrainian scheme was irrelevant to the case, yet Keir Starmer has chosen to pledge to “close the loophole” while the media VILIFY the family’s success, using inflammatory language such as “opening the floodgates” to justify inhumane policies.

Vocabulary on 16th February 2025 (Words: 1. #RIVIERA; 2. ADAMANT)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. RIVIERA = সমুদ্র সৈকত সহ উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল যেখানে লোকেরা ছুটি কাটাতে যায়; coastal area with beaches and resorts where people go on holiday; a coastal region frequented as a resort area and usually marked by a mild climate; 2. ADAMANT = অনড়; as firm as a rock; Impassive; Moveless; Statuesque((মূর্তিমান/ অনড়); অনমনীয়; Uncompromising; Buckram(শক্ত); Obdurate; Ossify=become rigid or fixed in attitude or position; Rock-Ribbed; Stiffness, Rigidity;  >>> Sentences: 1. Palestinians say the US president will never succeed in his plan to force them from their homes to build a ‘ RIVIERA ’. 2. He was displaced 10 times over the course of the war and is ADAMANT that no new conflict nor Trump will make him, his family, or the 2 million other Palestinians in Gaza give up their homes and land once more, to make way for a beach resort.

Vocabulary on 15th February 2025 (Words: 1. #APPARENT; 1. #EMACIATED)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. APPARENT = স্পষ্টভাবে প্রতীয়মান ; discernible; স্পষ্ট ; frank; licid; luminous paint; overt; tangible; 2. EMACIATED = শীর্ণ ; ক্ষয়প্রাপ্ত ; attenuated; chivied; exhausted; overweary;  >>> Sentences: 1. The stage bore a poster which showed Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa compound, visible through a hole in the wall of a destroyed building, along with the slogan: “No displacement except to Jerusalem”, an APPARENT reference to Donald Trump’s proposal that Palestinians in Gaza be relocated to other countries. 2. Men queued to embrace him, while the hall filled with teenagers and young boys who had come to catch a glimpse of the EMACIATED veteran, who looked stunned and exhausted.

Vocabulary on 13th February 2025 (Words: 1. #BOLSTER; 2. #FRAGILE)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. BOLSTER = শক্তিশালী করা ; support or strengthen; prop up; reinforce; make stronger; boost; fortify; give a boost to; buoy up; shore up; hold up; maintain; buttress; brace; stiffen; uphold; aid; assist; help; supplement; augment; feed; add to; increase; revitalize; invigorate; renew; regenerate; 2. FRAGILE = ভঙ্গুর ; easily broken or damaged; brittle ( সহজে ভাঙ্গা যায় এমন ); breakable; frail; friable; দুর্বল ; asthenic( অশক্ত ); faint; feckless; feeble; flabby;  >>> Sentences: 1. Arab mediators are scrambling to save the Gaza ceasefire as the Israeli military BOLSTERS troop and tank deployments to the strip’s periphery in advance of the possibility the truce breaks down this weekend. 2. The Gaza health ministry says Israeli fire has killed at least 92 Palestinians and wounded more than 800 others since the FRAGILE ceasefire took hold on 19 January.

Vocabulary on 12th February 2025 (Words: 1. #REBUFF; 2. #BUDGE)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. REBUFF = অপ্রত্যাশিত প্রত্যাখ্যান; reject (someone or something) in an abrupt or ungracious manner; তিরস্কার করা; আকস্মিক বাধা; set down; আকস্মিক ধমক; 2. BUDGE = অতি সামান্য সরানো; make or cause to make the slightest movement; move; shift; change position; give away; go; move; dislodge; relocate; reposition; get/set going;  >>> Sentences: 1. King Abdullah REBUFFS Trump’s push for Jordan to take in displaced Palestinians. 2. Speaking alongside the Arab country’s ruler in the White House, Trump signaled he would not BUDGE on his idea that involves moving the Gaza Strip’s shell-shocked residents and transforming the war-ravaged territory into what he billed a “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Vocabulary on 11th February 2025 (Words: 1. #OUTRAGE; 2. #NON-STARTER, 3. # ETHNIC_LEANSING)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. OUTRAGE = ক্ষোভ ; an extremely strong reaction of anger, shock, or indignation. 2. NON-STARTER = যে ব্যক্তির সাফল্যসংভাবনা নাই ; 3. ETHNIC CLEANSING = জাতিগত নির্মূল ; the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.  >>>   Sentences: 1. The remarks are the latest effective endorsement of ethnic cleansing by the US president, who announced his plan last week during a summit with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the OUTRAGE of the Arab world and the surprise of even his closest aides. 2. At the same time, he continued to endorse a plan for the Palestinians to be resettled in Egypt and Jordan, a plan that both countries have rejected and the region’s largest Arab states have declared is a NON-STARTER . 4. On Sunday, the head of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Navi Pillay, told Politico,...

Vocabulary on 8th February 2025 (Words: 1. UNVEIL; 2. FLURRY)

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. UNVEIL = উন্মোচন করা ; evolve; express; disclose; bring out; breathe; unveil; 2. FLURRY = ঝড়ো হাওয়া ; আকস্মিক প্রবাহ ; Flush;  >>> Sentences: 1. Donald Trump is reigniting his alliance with the Christian right, UNVEILING a FLURRY of actions that include an aggressive executive order establishing a dedicated taskforce to combat what he claims is “anti-Christian bias” across federal agencies.