A Word A Day

[Binoy]

Word-136 (27-05-12)

contemplate (verb)
1. চিন্তা বা বিবেচনা করা; to think or consider;
I have never contemplated living abroad.
The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.
I can’t contemplate what it would be like to be alone.

2. দীর্ঘক্ষণ গভীরভাবে চিন্তা করা; অনুধ্যান করা; to think deeply about sth for a long time 
I'm contemplating going abroad for a year.
You're not contemplating a change of job, are you?
It's too awful/horrific/dangerous to contemplate.

contemplation (noun)
গভীর চিন্তন; অনুধ্যান; the act of thinking deeply about sth
a few moments of quiet contemplation
a life of prayer and contemplation
He sat there deep in contemplation.
She was staring out over the lake, lost in contemplation.
The nuns have an hour for silent contemplation every morning.
She turned from her contemplation of the photograph.
By 1613 even more desperate measures were in contemplation.

contemplative (adjective)
অনুধ্যানমূলক; thinking quietly and seriously about sth
the contemplative life
She was in contemplative mood.
Her mood was calm and contemplative.

contemplatively (adverb)
অনুধ্যানমূলকভাবে; in a contemplative way
He found the solution contemplatively.

[Binoy]

Word-137 (28-05-12)

contemporary (adjective) [+ with sb/sth]
1. সমসাময়িক; belonging to the same time
We have no contemporary account of the battle.
He was contemporary with the poet Nazrul.
Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
Most of the writers he was contemporary with were interested in the same subjects.

2. আধুনিক; belonging to the present time; modern
life in contemporary Britain
contemporary fiction / music / dance
She is not interested in contemporary art.

contemporary (noun)
1. উল্লিখিত সময়ের; someone living during the same period as someone else
Was he a contemporary of Shakespeare's?
She and I were contemporaries at college.

2. সমবয়সী; a person who is of the same age
She didn't mix with her contemporaries, prefering the company of older people.
He was a contemporary of Freud and may have known him.

[Md. Fouad Hossain Sarker]

It is a good effort to enlarge our knowledge. Thank you sir.

[Binoy]

Word-138 (29-05-12)

cope (verb) [+ with sth]
জটিল পরিস্থিতি সামলানো; to deal successfully with a difficult situation
I got to the stage where I wasn’t coping any more.
He wasn’t able to cope with the stresses and strains of the job.
Desert plants are adapted to cope with extreme heat.
It must be difficult to cope with three small children and a job.
The tyres on my car don't cope very well on wet roads.
He had so much pressure on him in his job that eventually he just couldn't cope.

[Binoy]

Thanks Fouad Sir for your encouragement.

[Binoy]

Word-139 (30-05-12)

cordial (adjective)
1. আন্তরিক; friendly and pleasant
a cordial atmosphere / meeting / relationship
a cordial smile/greeting/welcome/reception
Relations between the two leaders are said to be cordial.

2. জোরালো বা তীব্র; (of a feeling, especially dislike) strong
cordial liking
The two statesmen are known to have a cordial dislike for each other.

cordial (noun)
মিষ্টি পানীয়বিশেষ; a sweet fruit-based drink to which water is usually added
blackcurrant cordial
Take a glass of cordial.

cordially (adverb)
1. আন্তরিকভাবে; in a cordial way
I was received cordially by them.
He was cordially welcomed to a celebration.
You are cordially invited to attend our annual wine-tasting evening.

2. জোরালো বা তীব্রভাবে; strongly
They cordially detest each other.
On a personal level, they came to be cordially disliked.

cordiality (noun)
আন্তরিকতা; state of being cordial
I am so pleased with his cordiality.
I was greeted with a show of cordiality.

[Binoy]

Word-140 (31-05-12)

coronation (noun)
অভিষেক; a ceremony at which a person is made king or queen
coronation venue/time
coronation of a monarch/king/queen
You'll see his gorgeous coronation outfits.

[Binoy]

Word-141 (01-06-12)

courage (noun) [syn. bravery; boldness]
সাহস; the ability to do sth dangerous, or to face pain or opposition, without showing fear
moral / physical courage
courage in the face of danger
He showed great courage and determination.
I haven’t yet plucked up the courage to ask her.
People should have the courage to stand up for their beliefs.
It took me ages to summon/pluck up the courage to ask for a promotion.
They showed great courage when they found out about their baby's disability.

courageous (adjective)
সাহসী; having or showing courage
It was a courageous decision to resign in protest at the company's pollution record.
It was courageous of her to challenge the managing director's decision.

courageously (adverb)
সাহসিকতার সাথে; in a courageous way
a courageously committed act
He faced all dangers courageously.

Idioms:

have the courage of your convictions
নিজের বিশ্বাসে অটল থাকা; to be brave and confident enough to do what you believe in
Although many of his policies were unpopular, he had the courage of his convictions to see them through.

take courage (from sth)
কোনোকিছু থেকে উতসাহ পাওয়া; to begin to feel happier and more confident because of sth
He took courage from his success in hotel business.

take your courage in both hands
সাহস সঞ্চয় করা; to make yourself do sth that you are afraid of
Taking her courage in both hands, she opened the door and walked in.

[Binoy]

Word-142 (02-06-12)

crawl (verb)
1. হামাগুড়ি দেওয়া; to move forward on hands and knees, with body close to the ground
The child crawled across the floor.
The injured soldier crawled to safety.
The lorry crawled noisily up the hill.
Megan has just learned to crawl.
Our baby is just starting to crawl.
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
There’s a spider crawling up your leg.

2. খোশামুদি করা; to try hard to please in order to get an advantage
I don't like people who crawl.
She’s always crawling to the boss.
He crawled to the group leader because he wanted a promotion.

3. কোনোকিছু অতি ধীরে চলা; to move forward very slowly
The traffic was crawling along.
The weeks crawled by.

crawl (noun)
1. হামাগুড়ি; a very slow speed
The traffic slowed to a crawl.
Traffic moved forward at a crawl.

2. সাঁতারবিশেষ; a style of swimming in which you move your arms over your head and kick with straight legs
a swimmer doing the crawl
She became champion in the crawl competition.

crawler (noun)
1.  হামাগুড়ি দেওয়া শিশু; a baby who has not yet learned to walk
The baby is only a crawler.

2. আস্তে চলে এমন কোনোকিছু; something that crawls, such as a slow-moving vehicle
I don’t want to ride on that crawler.

3. খোশামোদকারী; a person who tries hard to please others in order to get an advantage
I hate that crawler in the office.

Phrases and idioms:

crawl back (to sb)
ভুল স্বীকার করা; to admit that you were wrong and ask someone for forgiveness
Don't come crawling back to me when she throws you out!

be crawling with sth
গিজগিজ করা; to be completely covered with or full of a particular type of thing
Her hair was crawling with lice.
The kitchen floor was crawling with ants.
The place was crawling with journalists.

[puspo]

Thanks Sir........it will helps our vocabulary power.

Regards
Jannatul Ferdous
22nd (B)
DIU

[Binoy]

Thank you very much. Go on enriching your vocabulary. It will be useful for your life.

[Binoy]

Word-143 (03-06-12)

cripple (noun)
পঙ্গু লোক; a person who cannot use their arms or legs in a normal way
He is a cripple and cannot walk without a crutches.
The girl is an emotional cripple.

cripple (verb) [syn. disable]
1. পঙ্গু করে দেওয়া; to injure someone so that they are unable to walk or move properly
to be crippled with arthritis
He was crippled by polio as a child.

2. ভয়ানক ক্ষতি করা; to cause serious damage to someone or something, making them weak and ineffective
a country crippled by war
The pilot tried to land his crippled plane.

crippled (adjective)
পঙ্গু; seriously damaged
Will she be crippled for life?
I feel pity for the crippled person.

crippling (adjective)
ভয়ানক ক্ষতিকর; damaging seriously
crippling debts
a crippling disease
A crippling attack of malaria kept him in bed for months.

[Binoy]

Word-144 (04-06-12)

crucial (adjective)
অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বা দরকারী; চরম বা চূরান্ত; extremely important or necessary
a crucial factor / issue / decision / question
topics of crucial importance
Winning this contract is crucial to the success of the company.
The next few weeks are going to be crucial.
It is crucial that we get this right.
Parents play a crucial role in preparing their child for school.
He wasn’t there at the crucial moment.
Her work has been crucial to the project's success.
It is crucial that the problem is tackled immediately.

crucially (adverb)
চরম বা চূরান্তভাবে; in a crucial way
crucially important
Your approval is crucially necessary.

[Binoy]

Word-145 (05-06-12)

crude (adjective)
1. সরল-সাধারণ; simple and not skilfully done or made
a crude device/weapon
a crude drawing of a face
The constructed a crude shelter from branches.
The boxes were used as a crude table and chairs.
The M.P.'s speech was dismissed by her opponents as crude electioneering.
In crude terms, the causes of mental illness seem to be of three main kinds.

2. রুক্ষ্ণ; rude and offensive
a crude remark/comment/jokes/language

3. অপ্রক্রিয়াজাত; unrefined
crude oil/metal

crudely (adverb)
সাদামাটাভাবে; রুক্ষ্ণভাবে; in a crude way
a crudely made bomb
a crudely drawn ship
To put it crudely, the poor are going without food so that the rich can drive cars.

crudeness/crudity (noun)
সাদামাটাভাব; রুক্ষ্ণতা; the fact of being crude; an example of sth crude
the novel’s structural crudities
The crudity of her language shocked him.
Despite the crudity of their methods and equipment, the experiment was a considerable success.

[Binoy]

Word-146 (06-06-12)

curiosity (noun) [+ about sth; + to do sth]
1. কৌতূহল; a strong desire to know about sth
intellectual curiosity
a certain curiosity to see what would happen next
Children show curiosity about everything.
The letter wasn’t addressed to me but I opened it out of curiosity.
His answer did not satisfy my curiosity at all.
Sufia’s curiosity was aroused by the mysterious phone call.
‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Oh, just idle curiosity’.
to arouse/excite/satisfy someone's curiosity
I'm burning with curiosity - you must tell me who's won!
She decided to call her friend out of curiosity.

2. কৌতূহল বা আগ্রহের বিষয়; something that is interesting because it is rare and unusual
The museum is full of historical curiosities.
Cars like mine are curiosities nowadays.
I kept this old pot for its curiosity value.

curious (adjective) [+ about sth; + to do sth]
1. কৌতূহলী; interested in learning about people or things around you
I was curious to know what would happen next.
Babies are curious about everything around them.
"Why did you ask?" "I was just curious."

2. অদ্ভূত; strange and unusual; peculiar
There was a curious-looking man standing outside.
A curious thing happened to me yesterday.
They were very curious about the people who lived upstairs.
I was curious to find out what she had said.
Everyone was curious as to why Mark was leaving.
He is such a curious boy, always asking questions.
There was a curious mixture of people in the audience.
It was a curious feeling, as though we were floating on air.
It was curious that she didn’t tell anyone.
It's curious (that) Billal hasn't phoned when he promised he would.

curiously (adverb)
1. কৌতূহলীভাবে; in a curious way
The baby looked at me curiously.
‘Are you really an artist?’ Sara asked curiously.

2. অদ্ভূতভাবে; in a curious way
She behaved with me strangely.
His clothes were curiously old-fashioned.
Curiously, there didn't seem to be a bank in the town.
Curiously enough, a year later exactly the same thing happened again.

Proverb:

Curiosity killed the cat
অতি কৌতূহল বিপদ ডেকে আনে; said to warn someone not to ask too many questions about something
Don’t be too curious about it; curiosity killed the cat.