Vocabulary on 12th September 2025 (Words: 1. INESCAPABLE; 2. STRANGLE; 3. COLLECTIVE; 4. CLEANSE; 5. PALLET; 6. EXODUS; 7. IMPOSE)

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Word Meanings:

1. INESCAPABLE= অবশ্যম্ভাবী, অনিবার্য; unavoidable, inevitable, certain, sure, ineluctable, compulsory, fated, inescapably bound

2. STRANGLE=গলা টিপে হত্যা করা, দমন করা, শ্বাসরোধ করা; choke, suffocate, throttle, stifle, smother, suppress, repress, asphyxiate, stranglehold (n.), curb

3. COLLECTIVE= সমষ্টিগত, যৌথ; communal, joint, shared, group, common, mutual, united, cooperative

4. CLEANSE= নির্মূল করা; eradicate, পরিষ্কার করা, শুদ্ধ করা,  purify, purge, wash, sanitize, disinfect, expel, absolve, scrub, rid

5. PALLET= মালামাল বহনের কাঠের প্ল্যাটফর্ম, খাটিয়া বা তক্তা; platform, skid, baseboard, crate, flat transport structure, wooden frame

6. EXODUS= ব্যাপক প্রস্থান, গণপালায়ন; mass departure, migration, evacuation, flight, withdrawal, diaspora, emigration, escape

7. IMPOSE= চাপিয়ে দেওয়া, আরোপ করা, বলপূর্বক কার্যকর করা; enforce, inflict, dictate, decree, establish, apply, demand, levy, oblige, compel

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Sentences:

1. Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the “INESCAPABLE” conclusion that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force local people to leave, and they say the US is complicit.

2. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the Senate foreign relations committee, released their findings in a report on Thursday after returning from a congressional delegation to the Middle East where, they note, the destruction goes beyond bombs and bullets. They say they also found a systematic campaign to “STRANGLE” humanitarian aid, which they call “using food as a weapon of war”.

3. “The Netanyahu government has gone far beyond targeting Hamas to imposing “COLLECTIVE” punishment on all the people of Gaza,” Van Hollen said at a Thursday press conference. “What they’re doing, and what we witnessed, is putting those goals into action.”

4. The senators, who visited Egypt, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Jordan, argue that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a deliberate strategy to ethnically “CLEANSE” the local population rather than collateral damage from the war against Hamas.

5. At the Israeli port of Ashdod, WFP officials told the senators that 2,200 shipping containers of food – enough to feed everyone in Gaza for three weeks – sit delayed by screening procedures requiring each “PALLET” to be checked individually.

6. That Israel and the United States are calling plans for the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza a voluntary “EXODUS” is one of the “most fraudulent, sinister, and twisted cover stories ever told”, the report reads.

7. “The world has a moral and legal obligation to stop the ongoing ethnic cleansing,” their report concludes. “Strong words alone will not be sufficient. The world must “IMPOSE” penalties and costs on those carrying out this plan.”