Vocabulary on 31st May 2025 (Words: 1. #FAMINE; 2. #STRAITJACKET; 3. #LOOT)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. FAMINE = দুর্ভিক্ষ; dearth; scarcity; ক্ষুধা; hunger; appetite; craving; starvation;

2. STRAITJACKET = impose severely restrictive measures on (a person or activity). সীমাবদ্ধ ব্যবস্থা; 

3. LOOT= লুণ্ঠন করা; লুট করা; অপহরণ করা; steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot.

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Sentences:

1. Gaza is “the hungriest place on Earth”, according to the UN, which has warned that the Palestinian territory’s entire population is at risk of FAMINE.

2. Laerke said the mission to deliver aid was “in an operational STRAITJACKET that makes it one of the most obstructed aid operations not only in the world today, but in recent history”.

3. In a reflection of the increasingly dire conditions inside the territory, a UN spokesperson said late on Friday that “armed individuals” had raided a warehouse at a field hospital in Deir al-Balah, “LOOTING large quantities of medical equipment, supplies, medicines, nutritional supplements that was intended for malnourished children”.