Vocabulary on 1st October 2025 (Words: 1. EXACERBATE; 2. #OPAQUE; 3. PROLIFERATION; 4. #DE FACTO; 5. #EUPHEMISM; 6. RUINS; 7. #MORPH; 8. #ROGUE)

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Word Meanings:

1. EXACERBATE= অধিকতর খারাপ করা; তীব্রতর করা; make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse;

2. OPAQUE= অস্বচ্ছ; turbid (ঘোলাটে); অস্পষ্ট; vague; fuzzy; mystical; obscure;

3. PROLIFERATION= বিস্তার; rapid increase in numbers;

4. DE FACTO= কার্যত; in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not; বস্তুত; indeed; in reality; প্রকৃতপক্ষে;

5. EUPHEMISM= শ্রুতিকটু পদের পরিবর্তে কোমলতর পদের প্রয়োগ; a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing; polite term; mild alternative; indirect term; underplaying; coy term;

6. RUINS = ধ্বংসাবশেষ; the physical destruction or disintegration of something

7. MORPH= এক রূপ থেকে অন্য রূপে পরিবর্তিত হওয়া; change smoothly from one image to another;

8. ROGUE= দুর্বৃত্ত; a dishonest or unprincipled person; খচ্চর; scoundrel (বদমাশ); villain; reprobate (দুশ্চরিত্র); rascal(বদমাশ / শঠ);

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Sentences:

1. Armed militia and gangs supported by Israel are seizing control of parts of Gaza, EXACERBATING its humanitarian crisis and potentially threatening any efforts to bring order if Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza takes hold.

2. The so-called Popular Forces under a commander called Yasser abu Shabab have been operating in the south of the territory for several months, coordinating closely with Israeli forces around controversial aid distributions sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an OPAQUE US- and Israel-backed private organisation.

3. The PROLIFERATION of armed militias in Gaza is causing further problems for aid organisations already struggling with Israeli restrictions and massive logistic obstacles.

4. An official with a major aid agency operating in Gaza said they had not “heard from the DE FACTO authority” – a EUPHEMISM for Hamas – since March and were now dealing with a “variety of different actors”.

5. The Israeli terrorism in Gaza has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and reduced much of the territory to RUINS.

6. “Without strict oversight, they could even MORPH into ROGUE actors who fuel instability rather than mitigate it,” wrote Neomi Neumann, an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute and former head of the research unit at Israel domestic security service, Shin Bet, earlier this year.