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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.
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