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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.

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