Vocabulary on 18th July 2025 (Words: 1. #PERFORATED; 2. #EMBEDDED; 3. #ENCASED; 4. #MASSACRE; 5. #CURSORY; 6. #NORM; 7. #NEBULOUS)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. PERFORATED= ছিদ্রযুক্ত; porous; leaky;

2. EMBEDDED = অনুবিদ্ধ; attached; strung; set in;

3. ENCASED = আবদ্ধ; enclose or cover in a case or close-fitting surround.

4. MASSACRE = গণহত্যা; an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people; wholesale slaughter; mass slaughter; wholesale killing; indiscriminate killing; mass murder; mass homicide; mass execution; mass destruction; annihilation; extermination; decimation; carnage; butchery; bloodbath; genocide; ethnic cleansing; holocaust;

5. CURSORY= ভাসা-ভাসা; perfunctory (অগভীর); superficial; shallow; outward; hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.

6. NORM = প্রথাসিদ্ধ আচরণ; something that is usual, typical, or standard.

7. NEBULOUS = অস্পষ্ট; dim; obscure; vague; fuzzy; mystical;

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Sentences:

1. I think of Nayla*, a 10-year-old girl who came to our field hospital after an airstrike. Her limbs were shattered – and the pressure generated from the shock wave was so immense that her stomach and small intestine had PERFORATED.

2. Then there were the young siblings, lying side by side. Their bodies had been torn apart by shrapnel and the fragments EMBEDDED so deeply that the surgeons had to dig them out, one by one.

3. Just a few feet away lay the bruised and mottled body of a four-month-old orphan. His leg was ENCASED in plaster, after having been broken before he could even learn to crawl.

4. What I witnessed in Gaza was not war – it was a MASSACRE.

5. A CURSORY glance at the reported data shows how real the risk is. Conservative estimates show that airstrikes, shelling and gunshots have killed more than 1,580 healthcare workers and almost 18,000 children.

6. If our leaders allow this to pass without consequence or condemnation, it reveals a disturbing truth about what we are willing to accept: that the execution of healthcare workers and the slaughter of children has become our new NORM.

7. The steps needed to save these children – and the workers risking their lives to care for them – are not just NEBULOUS ideals.