The New York Times Editorial (End Yemen’s Agony) – Nov 06, 2018
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Word List-1 for The New York Times Editorial (End Yemen’s Agony) – Nov 06, 2018:
- agony (noun) – pain, suffering, torture.
- cloud (verb) – confuse, muddle, make unclear.
- exile (noun) – banishment, expulsion,deportation.
- ruthless (adjective) – merciless, cruel, heartless.
- prod (verb) – prompt, drive/push, urge.
- ceasefire (noun) – truce; a temporary stoppage of a war.
- carnage (noun) – massacre, mass murder, mass destruction.
- de facto (adjective) – Latin phrase, literally means ‘of fact’; actual, existing, effective.
- thug (noun) – a criminal, violent person; gangster, murderer, killer.
- strangle (verb) – throttle, choke, stifle; to cause a person/animal unable to breathe properly by tightening the neck to block the air flow through the throat.
- dismember (verb) – cut off, mutilate, disjoint (the limbs of a person).
- the consulate (noun) – embassy; the building where a consul lives and works.
- (be) hard on (phrase) – criticize (someone) severely.
- furore (or) furor (noun) – commotion, uproar, outcry/agitation.
- heart-rending (adjective) – distressing, heartbreaking, painful.
- wage (verb) – engage in, carry on, conduct (a war).
- sectarian (adjective) – denoting a sect (a group of people); factional, partisan.
- (humanitarian) nightmare (noun) – ordeal, torment, burden/curse. (humanitarian crisis (noun) – it is also called as humanitarian disaster; a situation with high levels of human suffering in which basic human welfare is in danger on a large scale).
- innumerable (adjective) – countless, numerous, untold.
- entangle (verb) – restrict, bog down, prevent.
- ordnance (noun) – military supplies (weapons, arms & etc).
- call on (phrasal verb) – appeal to, demand; ask/request.
- Houthi (adjective) – relating to an Islamic religious-political-armed movement that emerged from Yeman.
- pull the plug (phrase) – prevent, terminate, discontinue.
- indiscriminate (adjective) – thoughtless/unthinking, careless, unmethodical.
- pummel (verb) – strike, hit, thrash (repeatedly).
- flee (verb) – run away, take flight, escape (from a place of danger).
- proxy (noun) – representative figure for something (original).
- shiite (adjective) – relating to Shia (a branch of Islam).
- war of attrition (noun) – a military strategy consisting of aggressive attempts to win a war by wearing down (weakening) the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel.
- submission (noun) – yielding, surrender, capitulation.
- blockade (noun) – barricade, barrier (obstruction of supply of essential goods and others to an area).
- punitive (adjective) – harsh, severe/cruel, savage.
- famine (noun) – scarcity of food, food shortages; paucity/poverty.
- catastrophic (adjective) – destructive, ruinous, disastrous.
- starvation (noun) – extreme hunger, lack of food, famine.
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