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;

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Sentences:

1. Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the WHIM of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.

2. The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire UNPROVOKED on civilians racing to reach food handouts at the militarised distribution points set up by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

3. In those circumstances, the designation of who is an enemy or terrorist becomes ARBITRARY, Eli says in the documentary. “If they’re walking too fast, they’re suspicious. If they’re walking too slow, they’re suspicious.

4. Eli describes an incident in which a senior officer ordered a tank to DEMOLISH a building in an area designated as safe for civilians. “A man was standing on the roof, hanging laundry, and the officer decided that he was a spotter. He’s not a spotter. He’s hanging his laundry. You can see that he’s hanging laundry,” he says.

5. Guardian analysis in August of the IDF’s intelligence data showed that by the RECKONING of Israeli military officials, 83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians, a historic high for modern conflicts, though the IDF disputed the analysis.

6. More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war started and more continue to die despite a CEASEFIRE that began a month ago.

7. A UN commission concluded in September that Israel had committed GENOCIDE in Gaza.