Vocabulary on 14th September 2025 (Words: 1. FAMINE; 2. SUIT; 3. APARTHEID; 4. RECTOR; 5. OUTRAGE; 6. DISRUPTIVE)

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Word meanings:

1. FAMINE= দুর্ভিক্ষ; extreme scarcity of food, widespread hunger; starvation, scarcity, dearth, shortage, want, destitution

2. SUIT (in context: "follow suit")=অনুসরণ করা, একইভাবে কাজ করা; to imitate, to do the same as others; imitate, emulate, copy, replicate, mirror, echo, follow, pursue

3. APARTHEID= বর্ণবৈষম্য, জাতিগত বিভাজন; system of segregation or discrimination based on race; racial segregation, discrimination, separation, exclusion, racism

4. RECTOR= বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের প্রধান/প্রধান অধ্যক্ষ; head of a university or academic institution; principal, head, chancellor, president, provost, director

5. OUTRAGE= ক্ষোভ, প্রবল রাগ; strong anger or shock caused by something offensive or unjust; indignation, fury, anger, resentment, wrath, disgust, dismay, shock; as verb (to outrage) প্রবল ক্ষুব্ধ করা, অপমান করা; offend, shock, insult, appall, provoke, scandalize

6. DISRUPTIVE= বিঘ্নসৃষ্টিকারী, পরিবর্তনশীল; causing disturbance or major change, innovative in a way that breaks established patterns; unsettling, disturbing, troublesome, innovative, revolutionary, radical, game-changing, transformative

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Sentences:

1. UN-backed experts have confirmed parts of Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble, are now in a man-made “FAMINE”.

2. The University of Amsterdam has ended a student exchange programme with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the European Association of Social Anthropologists has declared it will not collaborate with Israeli academic institutions and has encouraged its members to follow “SUIT”.

3. Stephanie Adam of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said Israeli academic institutions are complicit in “Israel’s decades-long regime of military occupation, settler colonial “APARTHEID” and now genocide”, adding there is “a moral and legal obligation for universities to end ties with complicit Israeli universities”.

4. Ghassan Soleiman Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian surgeon and “RECTOR” of the University of Glasgow, said that students and academics across the UK have pushed for academic boycotts of Israel, but are being blocked by the governing bodies of universities.

5. The moral “OUTRAGE” about what the Israelis are doing in the form of terrorism is leading more and more academics to take personal decisions, not to have joint projects with Israelis.

6. “The proposal will affect Israeli entities participating in the EIC Accelerator, targeting startups and SMEs [small and medium enterprises] with “DISRUPTIVE” innovations and emerging technologies that have a potential dual use, for example in cybersecurity, drones, and artificial intelligence,” said the EU Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier.