Vocabulary on 2nd August 2025 (Words: 1. #GENOCIDE; 2. #AVALANCHE; 3. #BESIEGED; 4. #OCCUPATION)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. GENOCIDE= গণহত্যা; the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group; racial killing; massacre; wholesale slaughter; mass slaughter; wholesale killing; indiscriminate killing; mass murder;

2. AVALANCHE = বরফের ধ্বস; snow slide; snow slip; rockslide; icefall; landslide; landslip;

3. BESIEGED= অবরুদ্ধ; surrounded by armed forces aiming to capture it or force surrender; obstructed; confined; enclosed; inclosed; shut it; surrounded;

4. OCCUPATION = দখল; grab; possession; occupancy; control; seizure;

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Sentences:

1. The award-winning Israeli author David Grossman has described his country’s campaign in Gaza as a GENOCIDE and said he now “can’t help” but use the term.

2. This word is an AVALANCHE: once you say it, it just gets bigger, like an avalanche. And it adds even more destruction and suffering,” he said.

3. Grossman’s comments come days after two major Israeli rights groups said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, amid growing global alarm over starvation in the BESIEGED territory.

4. “The occupation has corrupted us,” he said. “I am absolutely convinced that Israel’s curse began with the OCCUPATION of the Palestinian territories in 1967.

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