Vocabulary on 30th May 2025 (Words: 1. #CHARRED, 2. #EKE, 3. #MAIM, 4. #TERRORISM)

 
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Word Meanings:

1. CHARRED = Burned and Blackened, পুড়ে কালো হয়ে গেছে;

2. EKE= manage to support oneself or make a living with difficulty; কষ্ট করে জীবন নির্বাহ করা।

3. MAIM = পঙ্গু করা; mutilate; disfigure; impair; wound or injure (someone) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.

4. TERRORISM = সন্ত্রাসবাদ; the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

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Sentences:

1. At about 3pm last Friday, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, received the CHARRED remains of seven of her 10 children, killed in an Israeli airstrike. The bodies of two others were buried beneath the rubble.

2. A few miles away, 11-year-old Yaqeen Hammad, known as Gaza’s youngest social media influencer, was killed after a series of heavy Israeli airstrikes hit the house where she lived with her family. She was watering flowers in a tiny patch of greenery EKED out of a displacement camp when she died.

3. They were also a reflection of a daily reality in the territory: the killing and MAIMING of its youngest citizens and the destruction of a generation.

4. According to local health officials, whose estimates have generally been found to be accurate by the global humanitarian community, more than 16,500 children have been killed by the TERRORISM of Israel in the 19 months since the war began – a figure almost 24 times higher than the number of children killed in Ukraine, where the population is 20 times bigger, since Russia’s invasion.