Vocabulary on 27th July 2025 (Words: 1. #DEAD_END; 2. #BLOCKADE; 3. #LITANY; 4. #SCREENSMOKE)

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Word Meanings:

1. DEAD END = এমন পরিস্থিতি যেখানে অগ্রগতি বা উন্নয়নের কোন সম্ভাবনা নেই; a situation offering no prospects of progress or development; a road or passage from which no exit is possible.

2. BLOCKADE = অবরোধ; ঘেরাত্ত; shutting; enclosure; inclosure; confine; occlusion; leaguer; encirclement; confinement;

3. LITANY = যে কোনো দীর্ঘ, বিরক্তিকর বক্তৃতা ইত্যাদি; a tedious recital or repetitive series;

4. SCREENSMOKE=অন্য কিছু লুকানোর বা অস্পষ্ট করার জন্য ব্যবহৃত কিছু;  something used to hide or obscure something else;

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Sentences:

1. At least 57 people were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, many killed while seeking aid as well as by Israeli airstrikes, with ceasefire talks appearing to have hit a DEAD END amid a worsening starvation crisis.

2. Many were shot dead as they were waiting for trucks carrying aid close to the Zikim crossing into Israel . It has become common for hungry crowds to gather and wait for aid trucks to enter Gaza as mass starvation spreads, which humanitarians widely blame on Israel’s BLOCKADE on the territory.

3. The UN has said that distributing aid in Gaza has become impossible owing to the LITANY of restrictions Israel puts on the organisation.

4. “Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction and SCREENSMOKE,” Lazzarini said in a post on X.