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Vocabulary on 29th November 2025 (Word: 1. #STREW)

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  >>>  Word meaning: 1. STREW = ছড়িয়ে পড়া ; scatter or spread (things) untidily over a surface or area.  >>> Sentence: 1. As floodwaters receded, shop owner Rachane Remsringam picked through rubbish STREWN between the aisles of his general goods store, lamenting hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

Vocabulary on 28th November 2025 (Words: 1. #SCAFFOLDING; 2. #ENFORCEMENT)

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. SCAFFOLDING = উচ্চ মাচান ; a temporary structure on the outside of a building, made of wooden planks and metal poles, used by workmen while building, repairing, or cleaning the building. 2. ENFORCEMENT = প্রয়োগ ; বলবত্করণ ; বলপ্রয়োগ ; forcing; coercion; compulsion; >>> Sentences: 1. The exact cause of the fire remains unknown, but officials say it started on the external SCAFFOLDING of Wang Cheong House before spreading to seven of the eight buildings in the densely packed site. 2. The head of the fire services, Andy Yeung, confirmed what many residents had been saying for days: that no fire alarms went off in any of the eight towers. “We will take ENFORCEMENT actions against the contractors responsible,” he said.

Vocabulary on 26th November 2025 (Words: 1. #ABYSS; 2. #IMPOVERISHMENT; 3. #TRUCE)

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  >>> Word Meanings: 1. ABYSS = নরক ; heck; hell; inferno; limbo; Hades; অতলস্পর্শ গহ্বর ; pit; 2. IMPOVERISHMENT = দারিদ্র্য ; poverty; penury; penurity; poorness; ধনক্ষয় ; শক্তিক্ষয় ; 3. TRUCE = যুদ্ধবিরতি ; ceasefire; armistice;  >>> Sentences: 1. Israeli terrorism in Gaza has created a “human-made ABYSS ”, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (£53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said. 2. The UN’s trade and development agency (Unctad) said in a report that Israel’s military operations had “significantly undermined every pillar of survival” and that the entire population of 2.3 million people faced “extreme, multidimensional IMPOVERISHMENT ”. 3. The Gaza health ministry said on Monday that at least 342 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire since the start of the TRUCE .

Vocabulary on 25th November 2025 (Words: 1. #FLURRY; 2. #SCRAMBLE; 3. #FALLACY)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. FLURRY = আকস্মিক প্রবাহ ; flush; ঝড়ো হাওয়া ; 2. SCRAMBLE = ঠেলাঠেলি করিয়া একত্র করান ; হামাগুড়ি দিয়া আরোহণ ; make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep slope or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet. 3. FALLACY = ভ্রান্ত ধারণা ; a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument ; misconception; misbelief; delusion; false notion; mistaken information; misapprehension; misjudgement; miscalculation; misinterpretation;  >>> Sentences: 1. Volodymyr Zelenskyy may meet Donald Trump in the White House later this week, sources indicated, amid a FLURRY of calls between Kyiv and Washington. 2. As negotiators SCRAMBLED to revise a framework, Ukraine and Russia counted casualties on Tuesday morning after trading deadly overnight strikes. 3. “The idea that the US is not engaging with both sides equally in this war to bring it to an end is a complete and total FALLACY ,” the press secret...

Vocabulary on 24th November 2025 (Words: 1. CEASEFIRE; 2. #ON ONE'S KNEES)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. CEASEFIRE = যুদ্ধবিরতি ; armistice; truce; suspension of hostilities; 2. ON ONE'S KNEES = on the verge of collapse; ধ্বংসের দ্বারপ্রান্তে ;  >>> Sentences: 1. “There isn’t much difference from the period before the CEASEFIRE . Unfortunately, the bombing is still going on by the Israeli Terrorist Forces(ITF). We don’t feel there is a big change.” 2. The whole health system is still ON ITS KNEES , with critical shortages across the board.  

Vocabulary on 16th November 2025 (Words: 1. #BREACH; 2. #OCCUPYING; 3. #SUBSTANTIATE; 4. #TERRORISM)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. BREACH = লঙ্ঘন করা ; খেলাপ করা ; break, violate; 2. OCCUPYING = দখলদার ; tak ing control of (a place, especially a country) by military settlement. 3. SUBSTANTIATE = প্রমাণ করা ; provide evidence to support or prove the truth of ; prove; evidence; assert; show; test; 4. TERRORISM = সন্ত্রাসবাদ ; the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.  >>>   Sentences: 1. Israel is BREACHING international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in, a senior official at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said. 2. Boucly said Israel as a illegally OCCUPYING power was “not abiding by international humanitarian law and international human rights law”, referencing the fourth Geneva convention as well as a recent advisory opinion from the inte...

Vocabulary on 13th November 2025 (Words: 1. #VANITY; 2. #PLUTOCRAT; 3. #LAVISH; 4. #DEMAGOGIC; 5. #ELICIT)

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  >>> Word meanings: 1. VANITY = অহংকার ; excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements; pride; arrogance; haughtiness; vainglory; egoism; আত্মগর্ব ; self-conceit; অসার দম্ভ ; rodomontade( দম্ভকারী ); vainglory; conceit ( অহমিকা ); 2. PLUTOCRAT = ধনী ব্যক্তি ; a person whose power derives from their wealth; rich person; capitalist; tycoon; magnate; nabob; millionaire; person of means; 3. LAVISH = উদার বা অযৌক্তিক পরিমাণে কিছু দান করা , bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on. 4. DEMAGOGIC = জনমত-প্রবণ ; someone who tries to win political support by appealing to people's emotions and prejudices rather than using reasoned arguments. 5. ELICIT = টানিয়া বাহির করা ; evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions. উদ্দীপিত করা ;  >>> Sentences: 1. Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media? VANITY may play a part, but there’s a ...

Vocabulary on 11th November 2025 (Words: 1. #WHIM; 2. #UNPROVOKED; 3. #ARBITRARY; 4. #DEMOLISH; 5. #RECKON; 6. #CEASEFIRE; 7. #GENOCIDE)

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>>> Word Meanings: 1. WHIM = খেয়াল ; ​caprice ; Fad ; Fit ; humorously ; humoursome ; বাতিক ; whim ; whimsy ; craze ; neurosis ; monomania ( কোন এক বিষয়ে পাগলামি ); ঝোঁক ; ​impulse ; addiction ; tendency ; penchant ( প্রবৃত্তি ); leaning ; whim ; আকস্মিক ধারণা ; 2. UNPROVOKED = বিনা প্ররোচনায় ; অনর্থক ; useless ; futile ; senseless ; unreasonable ; meaningless ; 3. ARBITRARY = স্বেচ্ছাচারী ; খামখেয়ালী ; capricious ; cranky ; crotchety ( খেয়ালী ); moody ; freakish ; 4. DEMOLISH = ভেঙে ফেলা ; ধ্বংস করা ; ​destroy ; shatter ; annihilate ; obliterate ; 5. RECKON = গণনা করা ; ​calculate ; count ; compute ; tell ; reckon ; enumerate ; 6. CEASEFIRE = যুদ্ধবিরতি ; armistice truce ; a temporary suspension of fighting ; 7. 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 ; massacre; wholesale slaughter; mass killing; mass homicide;  >>> S...

Vocabulary on 9th November 2025 (Words: 1. #INCARCERATE; 2. #CIRCADIAN)

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 >>> Word Meanings: 1. INCARCERATE = কারারুদ্ধ করা ; ​confine ; imprison ; 2. CIRCADIAN = (of biological processes) recurring naturally on a twenty-four-hour cycle, even in the absence of light fluctuations.  >>> Sentences: 1. The jail was initially designed for a small number of high-security inmates occupying individual cells, holding 15 men when it shut in 1985. In recent months, about 100 detainees have been INCARCERATED there, official data obtained by PCATI shows. 2. Holding people below ground without daylight for months affects physical health, impairing basic biological functions from CIRCADIAN rhythms needed for sleep to vitamin D production.