Vocabulary on 21st September 2025 (Words: 1. #RATCHET_UP; 2. #DRIVE_A_COACH_AND_HORSES; 3. #RAMP_UP)

 

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Word Meanings:

1. RATCHET UP= to increase something gradually and repeatedly in small, irreversible increments.

2. DRIVE A COACH AND HORSES= to completely destroy a rule, an argument or a plan.

3. RAMP UP = to increase or cause to increase;

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Sentences:

1. Labour has sought to stress that recognition of a Palestinian state is not a reward for Hamas, and emphasised that it would have no role in the future governance of Gaza. It is expected the government will RATCHET UP sanctions on Hamas in due course, and it has stepped up demands for the release of hostages.

2. David Lammy, the deputy prime minister who will represent the UK at the general assembly, said: “It’s important to state that the recognition of a Palestinian state, it is a consequence of the serious expansion that we’re seeing in the West Bank, the settler violence that we’re seeing in the West Bank and the intention and indications that we’re seeing to build, for example, the E1 development that would run a COACH AND HORSES through the possibility of a two-state solution.”

3. Israel has RAMPED UP its offensive on Gaza City, including with strikes that health officials said on Saturday killed at least 14 people overnight.

 

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