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Vocabulary on 25th March 2025 (Words: 1. #STRIKE; 2. #PROJECTILE; 3. #WOUNDED)

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. STRIKE = আঘাত হানা ; hit; lay; হানা ; inflict; 2. PROJECTILE =   প্রক্ষিপ্ত ; a missile designed to be fired from a rocket or gun; 3. WOUNDED = আহত ; injured; >>>  Sentences: 1. Sunday’s STRIKE on Nasser hospital was the second on a health facility in Gaza in three days. On Friday, Israel blew up central Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, Gaza’s only specialised cancer treatment hospital, which had already been severely damaged by Israeli airstrikes since October 2023. 2. The International Committee of the Red Cross said its office in the southern Gaza Strip was damaged by an explosive PROJECTILE on Monday (24th March 2025). 3. The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 50,082 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and another 113,408 have been WOUNDED  by the Israeli Terrorism.

Vocabulary on 19th March 2025 (Words: 1. #CASUALTY; 2. #INDESCRIBABLE; 3. #RENEGE)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. CASUALTY = হতাহত ; ক্ষয়ক্ষতি ; loss; casualty; lesion; disaster; ruin; 2. INDESCRIBABLE = অবর্ণনীয় ; inexpressible; inscrutable; indefinable; ineffable; 3. RENEGE = প্রতিজ্ঞা ভঙ্গ করা ; কথার খেলাপ করা ; break one’s word; to go back on a promise or commitment;  >>> Sentences: 1. Within hours, the death toll in the conflict had risen by more than 400, according to local health authorities, to almost 49,000 people, mostly civilians. Medical staff in Gaza reported many women and children among Tuesday’s CASUALTIES . 2. “We saw the orders [from the Israeli army] and we started gathering some clothes. We do not have enough food or gas. Now, we are heading to my sister’s house in a safer area. Our feelings right now are INDESCRIBABLE – anger, exhaustion, anxiety, fear, terror, and grief. It feels like the weight of the world is on us,” Ghaitam said. 3. Hamas says Israel broke the deal by RENEGING on its commitment...

Vocabulary on 18th March 2025 (Words: 1. #PREEMPTIVE; 2. #DISMEMBERED; 3.UNILATERALLY; 4. #CEASEFIRE)

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. PREEMPTIVE = পূর্ববর্তী ; serving or intended to preempt or forestall ( প্রতিরোধ করা ) something, especially to prevent attack by disabling the opposite faction. PREEMPT=take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) from happening 2. DISMEMBERED = খণ্ডিত ; having had the limbs cut off. 3. UNILATERALLY = একতরফাভাবে ; used to indicate that something is done by only one person, group, or country involved in a situation, without the agreement of others. 4. CEASEFIRE = যুদ্ধবিরতি ; a temporary suspension of fighting; a truce.  >>> Sentences : 1. The Israeli military “has launched a series of PREEMPTIVE terrorist strikes targeting mid-ranking military commanders, leadership officials and infrastructure belonging to the Hamas organization,” the official, who declined to be named, said, adding that the terrorist operation “will continue as long as Israel wish, and will expand beyond air strikes”. 2. A reporter wro...

Vocabulary on 17th March 2025 (Word: COSMONAUT)

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. COSMONAUT = মহাকাশচারী ; spaceman; astronaut;  >>> Sentences: 1. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian COSMONAUT aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, which arrived at the ISS early on Sunday.

Vocabulary on 15th March 2025 (Word: #STINT)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. STINT = কর্মজীবন; সীমা; limit; boundary; border; line; >>>  Sentences: 1. They will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal STINT , after springing Wilmore and Williams free.  

Vocabulary on 13th March 2025 (Words: 1. #SLUR; 2.# RAMBLING; 3. #BIGOT)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. SLUR = অপবাদ ; কলঙ্ক ; scandal; reproach; blemish; stain; infamy; নিন্দা ; blame; condemnation; slander; censure; 2. RAMBLING = অসংলগ্ন ; disjointed; incoherent; desultory( অগোছালো ); unattached; inarticulate; এলোমেলো ; baffling; grubby; 3. BIGOT = গোঁড়া ; ধর্মান্ধ ; fanatic; zealot( অতি গোঁড়া লোক );  >>> Sentences: 1. “President Trump’s use of the term ‘Palestinian’ as a racial SLUR is offensive and beneath the dignity of his office,” said Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or Cair. 2. “Schumer is a Palestinian,” Trump said, amid RAMBLING and incoherent remarks about Democrats in Congress, the war in Ukraine, conflict between Israel and Hamas and a looming government shutdown, which Democrats can avoid if enough of their senators vote with Republicans who hold the chamber, putting Schumer in a difficult political position. 3. Halie Soifer said: “These comments ...

Vocabulary on 12th March 2025 (Word: #OUTPOUR)

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   >>> Word Meaning: 1. OUTPOUR = প্রবাহিত হত্তয়া ; flow; stream; flux; emanate; run; ঢালিয়া পড়া ; overflow;  >>> Sentences: 1. “It is clear the love that people have for him from the OUTPOUR of love I have been receiving from everyone he has crossed paths with.”    

Vocabulary on 11th March 2025 (Words: 1. #DISREGARD; 2. #INDISCRIMINATE; 3. #ERRAND)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. DISREGARD = অবহেলা করা ; neglect; bypass; slack; ignore; disrespect; উপেক্ষা করা ; pass; pass by; omit; overlook; 2. INDISCRIMINATE = নির্বিচারে ; বাছবিচারহীন ; sweeping; বিচারহীন ; unjust; blind; এলোমেলো ; baffling; desultory; fitful; grubby; incoherent; 3. ERRAND = কাজ ; আদেশ ; command; order; commandment; decree; bidding;  >>> Sentences: 1. “Israel’s complete DISREGARD for international law in the war in Gaza is now being replicated to the West Bank,” said B’Tselem’s executive director, Yuli Novak. 2. “Israel’s activity there, as yet on a smaller scale than in Gaza, is already causing INDISCRIMINATE and disproportionate killing and destruction.” 3. Rigd Gasser, father of 14-year-old Ahmad Rashid Jazar, said his son was hit in the chest by a single bullet on 19 January while leaving a shop in his home village of Sebastia, where he had been on an ERRAND to get bread.

Vocabulary on 9th March 2025 (Word: #REPEL)

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. REPEL = তাড়াইয়া দেত্তয়া ; beat off; beat; expel; oust; chase; হঠাইয়া দেত্তয়া ; repulse;   প্রতিহত করা ; নিবারণ করা ; counteract; obviate; foreclose; avert; prevent; ব্যাহত করা ; impede; thwart; hamper; frustrate; encumber; >>>  Sentences: 1. On Sunday, Ukraine’s general staff said it had REPELLED an extraordinary attack by Russian sabotage and assault groups via a gas pipeline.

Vocabulary on 8th March 2025 (Words: 1. #BOTCH; 2. #OBLAST)

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. BOTCH = বিশৃঙ্খল করিয়া ফেলা ; mull; যেমন তেমন করিয়া তালি লাগান ; যেমন তেমন করিয়া মেরামত করা ; তালগোল পাকান ; fluff; muddle( গোলমাল করা ); make a mess of ; mess about; mismanage; 2. OBLAST = অঞ্চল ; area; an administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and in some of its former constituent republics;  >>> Sentences: 1. Senior US and Ukrainian officials plan to meet in Saudi Arabia next week as Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his advisers seek to revive relations with the US after a BOTCHED summit in the Oval Office during which Trump told Zelenskyy he was “gambling with world war three”. 2. According to Ukrainian media, North Korean troops have made significant gains in Russia’s Kursk OBLAST , where Ukrainian combat groups seized territory seven months ago.

Vocabulary on 7th March 2025 (Words: 1. #INTERCEPTED; 2. #EAVESDROPPING; 3. #SIFT; 4. #INVASIVE)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. INTERCEPTED = আটকানো ; রূদ্ধ ; close; choked; shut; corked; obstructed (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination. 2. EAVESDROPPING = আড়ি পাতা ; secretly listen to a conversation; spy; intrude; monitor; tap; wiretap; record; overhear; snoop; earwig; stickybeak; 3. SIFT = চালুনির সাহায্যে আলাদা করা ; examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important or useful; search through; look through; rummage through; root around in; 4. INVASIVE = আক্রমণাত্মক ; আক্রমণকর ; tending to intrude on a person's thoughts or privacy.  >>> Sentences: 1. Israel’s military surveillance agency has used a vast collection of INTERCEPTED Palestinian communications to build a powerful artificial intelligence tool similar to ChatGPT that it hopes will transform its spying capabilities, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal. 2. The elite EAVESDROPPING agency, comparable in i...

Vocabulary on 6th March 2025 (Words: 1. #LIMBO; 2. #UNHINDERED)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. LIMBO =   মাঝপথে থাকার অবস্থা ; আবদ্ধ হওয়ার অবস্থা ; an uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition; in abeyance( স্থগিত অবস্থায় ); unattended to; unfinished; incomplete; suspended; deferred; postponed; put off; pending; in a state of suspension; awaiting action( পদক্ষেপের অপেক্ষায় ); unresolved( অমীমাংসিত ); undetermined( অনির্ধারিত ); অস্থিরতা ; 2. UNHINDERED = বাধাহীন ; not hindered; not obstructed; অপ্রতিহত ; unflinching; unresisted; continued;  >>> Sentences: 1. The six-week-old ceasefire is in LIMBO with no sign of movement towards a second phase that was scheduled to have started last weekend. 2. “We call on the government of Israel to abide by its international obligations to ensure full, rapid, safe and UNHINDERED provision of humanitarian assistance to the population in Gaza,” the statement said.

Vocabulary on 4th March 2025 (Word: #RATCHET UP)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. RATCHET U P= জোরদার করা ;   to increase, or make something increase, repeatedly and by small amounts.  >>> Sentences : 1. The Israeli government is reportedly planning to RATCHET UP its blockade on Gaza as part of what it has called a “hell plan” to pressure Hamas into further hostage releases without a troop withdrawal from the Palestinian territory.

Vocabulary on 2nd March 2024 (Words: 1. #IMPASSE; 2. #DISAVOW; 3. #PULLBACK)

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. IMPASSE = অচলাবস্থা ; কানাগলি ; blind-alley; কোণঠাসা অবস্থা ; stalemate; deadlock; dead end; standstill; 2. DISAVOW = অস্বীকার করা ; deny; refuse; contradict; renounce; মানিয়া না লত্তয়া ; দায়িত্ব অস্বীকার করা ; wash one’s hands of; 3. PULLBACK =an act of withdrawing troops; সৈন্য প্রত্যাহার ;   4. CONSTERNATION = আতঙ্ক ; feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected ; fear; ত্রাস ; anxiety; distress; disquiet; discomposure; trepidation; surprise; amazement; astonishment; stupefaction; alarm; panic; hysteria; fearfulness; fright; shock; ভয়জনিত হতাশা ; হতবুদ্ধি অবস্থা  >>> Sentences : 1. Talks aimed at maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza hit an IMPASSE in Cairo on Saturday over whether the truce should advance to a second phase. 2. Hamas said the proposal made clear that Israel was seeking to DISAVOW the deal it previously signed. 3. The withdrawal would first involve a PULLBACK from the Ph...