Vocabulary on 20th July 2025 (Words: 1. #HUB; 2. #INDISCRIMINATELY; 3. #WITNESS; 4. #UNPRECEDENTED; 5. #DEADLY; 6. #CATASTROPHIC)

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Word Meanings:

1. HUB= কেন্দ্র; Center; Center of an activity, region, or network; Core; heart; focus; focal point; middle; nucleus; kernel(কেন্দ্রস্থল); nerve center;

2. INDISCRIMINATELY= নির্বিচারে; randomly; unsystematically; aimlessly; haphazardly; blindly; injudiciously; এলোমেলোভাবে; lamely; loosely;

3. WITNESS= সাক্ষী; সাক্ষ্য; testimony; desposition; testament; attestation; vestige;

4. UNPRECEDENTED= নজিরহীন; unheard; অভূতপূর্ব;

5. DEADLY= মারাত্মক; fatal; lethal; damning; internecine; mortal; প্রাণঘাতী; সাংঘাতিক; outrageous; appalling; grievous; dread;

6. CATASTROPHIC= বিপর্যয়কর; সর্বনাশা; disastrous; pernicious(ক্ষতিকর); fatal; baneful(দুর্ভাগ্যজনক);

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Sentences:

1. At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday morning when Israeli terrorist troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution HUBS in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials.

2. People on the scene described it as “a massacre”, and claimed Israel Terrorist Forces fired “INDISCRIMINATELY” at the groups of Palestinians – reported to be mostly young men – who were making their way towards the hubs run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

3. Medical sources told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that many of the wounded are in a serious condition, while WITNESSES at the scene said many of the dead and injured were children and teenagers.

4. Dr Atef al-Hout, director of Nasser hospital, described the situation as “an UNPRECEDENTED number of casualties in a very short time”, warning that the actual death toll could be higher.

5. Elsewhere, the civil defence agency reported that an Israeli strike on a house near Nuseirat, in central Gaza, killed 12 people, the latest in a series of DEADLY bombardments.

6. More than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are living through a CATASTROPHIC humanitarian crisis and the entire population is at risk of famine, according to food security experts, while distribution at the GHF sites has been described as “lethal chaos”.