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Vocabulary on 25th April 2025 (Words: 1. #RESTIVE; 2. #PERSONA NON GRATA; 3. #KINETIC; 4. #TRIBUTARIES, 5. #ABEYANCE, 6. #REVOKE)

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   >>> Word Meanings: 1. RESTIVE = troubled; unstable; hectic; restless; choppy; অশান্ত ; untamed; restless; uneasy; ceaseless; worried; 2. PERSONA NON GRATA = অবাঞ্ছিত ব্যক্তিত্ব ; an unacceptable or unwelcome person. 3. KINETIC = গতিশীল ; relating to or resulting from motion. 4. TRIBUTARIES = উপনদী ; a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake. 5. ABEYANCE = স্থগিতকরণ ; a state of temporary disuse or suspension. স্থগিতাবস্থা ; delay; মুলতবি অবস্থা ; postponement; 6. REVOKE = প্রত্যাহার করা ; withdraw; countermand; রদ করা ; annul; annihilate; quash; cancel; abrogate; বাতিল করা ; set aside; rule out; cross off; abolish; reject; উলটান ; capsize; reverse; turn over; overturn; tumble;  >>> Sentences: 1. The fast-rising tensions between the two countries follow the killing of 25 Indian tourists and a Nepalese national on Tuesday, the worst assault targeting civilians in the RESTIVE region for years. 2. Pakistan declares the ...

Vocabulary on 23rd April 2025 (Words: 1. #HUMANITARIAN; 2. #MAKESHIFT; 3. #FAMINE)

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. HUMANITARIAN = মানবিক ; altruistic; 2. MAKESHIFT = অস্থায়ী ; temporary; transient; interim; fleeting; impermanent;   3. FAMINE = দুর্ভিক্ষ ; hunger; departure; dearth; scarcity; appetite; craving; greed; starvation; অকাল ; hard times; inauspicious; unusual time; premature time;  >>> Sentences: 1. The HUMANITARIAN zones were not entirely safe. Official figures showed they were hit by at least 28 Israeli strikes before January and an investigation by the BBC put the number as high as 97, with 550 people killed. 2. Last week, two Israeli missiles struck refugee camps in al-Mawasi, setting fire to dozens of tents, many with women and children inside. The Israeli terrorist attacks killed at least 16 people and wounded many more. “Images of children burning while sheltering in MAKESHIFT tents should shake us all to our core,” said Catherine Russell of Unicef. 3. The UN warned on Tuesday that Gaza was facing FAMIN...

Vocabulary on 18th April 2025 (Words: 1. #WOUND; 2. #CONSECUTIVE; 3. #COLLAPSE; 4. #ERUPT)

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. WOUND = ক্ষত করা ; injury; lesion; 2. CONSECUTIVE = ধারাবাহিক ; following continuously; successive; succeeding; in a row; পরপর ; sequent; ক্রমিক ; উপর্যুপরি ; ক্রমান্বিত ; 3. COLLAPSE = পতন ; fall; decline; downfall; degeneration; spill; বিনষ্ট হত্তয়া ; perish; wither; 4. ERUPT = বিস্ফোরিত হওয়া ; become active and eject lava, ash, and gases; বিস্ফোরণ হত্তয়া ;  >>> Sentences: 1. Civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said two Israeli missiles hit several tents in the al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Younis, resulting in at least 16 deaths, most of them women and children, and 23 others were WOUNDED . 2. “This is a public admission of committing a war crime by Israeli Terrorist Forces (ITF), including the use of starvation as a weapon and the denial of basic necessities such as food, medicine, water, and fuel to innocent civilians for the seventh CONSECUTIVE week,” the Palestinian freedom fighter g...

Vocabulary on 15th April 2025 (Words: 1. #DECRY; 2. UNATTAINABLE)

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  >>>  Word Meanings: 1. DECRY = নিন্দা করা ; condemn; denounce; take apart; vilify; defame; সমালোচনা করা ; criticize; hammer; attack; দোষ দেত্তয়া ; accuse; arraign( অভিযুক্ত করা ); censure; blame; অপবাদ দেওয়া ; besmear; calumniate( দুর্নাম করা ); detract; 2. UNATTAINABLE = অপ্রাপ্য ; inaccessible; unavailable; scarce; অলভ্য ; unobtainable;  >>>   Sentences: 1. The letter DECRIED the amping-up of Israeli strikes and ground operations in Gaza since the collapse of the ceasefire in March as driven by the personal interests of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. 2. “We are soldiers who have served our country all our lives. We have driven tanks, commanded troops, and paid a heavy price. It is precisely this experience that pushes us today to call for a ceasefire,” said the letter, authored by Col Rami Matan, a former IDF deputy commander, adding: “Why do we continue to sacrifice human lives for UNATTAINABLE objectives?”

Vocabulary on 13th April 2025 (Words: 1. #LAMBASTE; 2. #VORTEX; 3. #INCURSION)

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Word Meanings: 1. LAMBASTE = তিরস্কার করা ; criticize harshly; castigate; chastise; censure; condemn; take to task; harangue; fulminate against; reprimand; upbraid; scold; rebuke; chide; admonish; berate; 2. VORTEX = ঘূর্ণি ; whirlwind; whirlpool; gyre; maelstrom; eddy swirl; swirling; 3. INCURSION = অনুপ্রবেশ ; an invasion or attach; assault on; raid on; invasion of; storming of; বহিরাক্রমণ ; শত্রুর অনুপ্রবেশ ;  >>> Sentences: 1. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has LAMBASTED Israel for undermining stability in neighbouring Syria during a diplomatic forum, days after the two countries held talks aimed at defusing an escalating conflict between them on Syrian soil. 2. “Turkey will not allow Syria to be dragged into a new VORTEX of instability,” Erdoğan told attendees at the Antalya diplomacy forum on the southern Turkish coast, accusing Israel of “trying to undermine the 8 December revolution”, in reference to the insurgency that toppled the former ...

Vocabulary on 11th April 2025 (Words: 1. #OSTENSIBLY; 2. #SEMBLANCE; 3. #INFLECTION)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. OSTENSIBLY = দৃশ্যত ; apparently; outwardly; visibly; আপাতদৃষ্টিতে ; 2. SEMBLANCE = সাদৃশ্য ; harmony; conformity; analogy; parallelism; অনুরূপূতা ; আভাস ; glimpse; glimmer; inkling; guise; hint; 3. INFLECTION = নোয়ানো ; Inflexion; বাঁকানো ; incurved; curved; convoluted; পথচু্যতি ; deviation;  >>> Sentences: 1. Israel also regularly destroys entire neighbourhoods and buildings, killing dozens – often hundreds – at a time, OSTENSIBLY to target a single Hamas operative. 2. “Is there any SEMBLANCE of law or legal justification for the war tactics Israel is using in Gaza? The simple answer is no. There isn’t,” said Heidi Matthews, assistant professor of law at York University in Toronto, Canada. 3. “Other states – beyond America and Israel – need to take action to save or salvage the system as a whole, or it will fade away quickly,” she told Al Jazeera. “We are at an INFLECTION point and it doesn’t look good.”       ...