ব্যাংক নিয়োগ প্রস্তুতি ⎯ লং কোর্স

Fatuous (adjective) 
English Meaning: Stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about.
Bangla Meaning: বোকা; জড়বুদ্ধি; বোকার ন্যায় আত্মতুষ্টি প্রদর্শনকারী: a fatuous smile.

Synonyms: Foolish (বোকামিপূর্ণ; মূর্খতাপূর্ণ), Stupid (জড়বুদ্ধি; নির্বোধ), Idiotic (নির্বোধ; মূঢ়).
Antonyms: Intelligent (বুদ্ধিমান; মেধাবী), Sensible (বিচারবুদ্ধিসম্পন্ন; সুবুদ্ধিসম্পন্ন).

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Vigorous - বলিষ্ঠ; তেজস্বী; বলবান।
Interesting - মজাদার।
Expansive - উচ্ছল; উচ্ছলিত; উচ্ছলতাপূর্ণ।

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Ambivalence (noun)
English Meaning: The state of having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel.
Bangla Meaning: বিরোধ।

Synonyms: Uncertainty (অনিশ্চয়তা), Dilemma (উভয়সংকট), Hesitation (দ্বিধা; চলচিত্ততা).
Antonyms: Certainty (যা নিশ্চিত; নিশ্চয়তা), Decisiveness (সিদ্ধান্তহীনতার).
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Anxious - উদ্বিগ্ন; চিন্তিত।
Inconsiderate - অবিবেচক।

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Specious (adjective)
English Meaning: Seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false.
Bangla Meaning: আপাতদৃষ্টিতে যথার্থ বা সত্য বলে মনে হয় এমন; (কিন্তু আসলে তা নয়): a specious argument.

Synonyms: Misleading (বিভ্রান্তিকর), Deceptive (প্রতারণামূলক), Fallacious (বিভ্রান্তিকর; ভ্রান্তিমূলক).
Antonyms: Aboveboard (অকপট), Forthright (স্পষ্টবাদী; স্পষ্টভাষী), Straightforward (সহজবোধ্য; সহজসাধ্য).

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Obdurate (adjective)    
English Meaning: Extremely determined to act in a particular way and not to change despite what anyone else says.
Bangla Meaning: (আনুষ্ঠানিক) একগুঁয়ে; অনমনীয়; অনুশোচনাহীন।

Synonyms: Stubborn (একগুঁয়ে; জেদি), Obstinate (একগুঁয়ে; জেদি), Uncompromising (আপসহীন; অনমনীয়; অনড়; অটল).
Antonyms: Amenable (বাধ্য; অনুগত), Compliant (ভদ্র), Malleable (যে কোনো অবস্থার সঙ্গে নিজেকে মানিয়ে নিতে পারে এমন; নমনীয়), Tractable (সহজে নিয়ন্ত্রণযোগ্য).

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Laud (verb transitive)
English Meaning: To praise someone or something.
Bangla Meaning: (আনুষ্ঠানিক) প্রশংসা করা; গুণকীর্তন করা।

Synonyms: Acclaim (সহর্ষে স্বাগত জানানো), Commend (প্রশংসা করা), Admire (শ্রদ্ধা করা).
Antonyms: Condemn (দোষ দেওয়া; নিন্দা করা), Criticize (সমালোচনা করা; ত্রুটিনির্দেশ করা).

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Eulogy (noun)
English Meaning: A speech or piece of writing containing great praise, especially for someone who has recently died.
Bangla Meaning: (Plural eulogies) [Countable noun, Uncountable noun] উচ্চপ্রশংসা; উচ্চপ্রশংসাসমৃদ্ধ রচনা।

Synonyms: Tribute (শ্রদ্ধা), Accolade (প্রশংসা; সমাদর), Acclaim (করতালি; সমর্থন; জয়ধ্বনি).
Antonyms: Attack (বিরুদ্ধ সমালোচনা; আক্রমণ).

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Contrite (adjective)
English Meaning: Feeling regret and guilt for something bad that you have done.
Bangla Meaning: কৃতকর্মের জন্য গভীরভাবে অনুতপ্ত; পাপবোধ দ্বারা পীড়িত।

Synonyms: Penitent (কৃত অপরাধের জন্য অনুতপ্ত), Regretful (অনুতপ্ত), Ashamed (লজ্জিত).
Antonyms: Unrepentant (অনুশোচনাহীন), Defiant (অবজ্ঞাপূর্ণ; অবাধ্য).

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Laconic (adjective)
English Meaning: Using very few words to express what you mean.
Bangla Meaning: অল্পকথায় প্রকাশিত: a laconic person স্বল্পভাষী ব্যক্তি।

Synonyms: Brief (সংক্ষিপ্ত), Concise (অল্পকথায় অধিক তথ্য প্রদানে সক্ষম), Short (অল্প).
Antonyms: Verbose (শব্দাড়ম্বরপূর্ণ), Long-winded (কথা বা লেখালেখিতে বিরক্তি উৎপাদক), Loquacious (বাচাল; কথাপ্রিয়).

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Dismiss (verb transitive)
English Meaning:
1. To decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering.
2. To formally ask or order someone to leave.

Bangla Meaning:
(১) dismiss from চাকরি থেকে বরখাস্ত করা: He was dismissed from his job.
(২) বিদায় দেওয়া; চলে যেতে অনুমতি দেওয়া: The class was dismissed at 2 O’clock.
(৩) মন থেকে কোনো চিন্তা দূর করা; কোনো বিষয়ে আর না-ভাবা: He dismissed all thoughts of returning to his native country.
(৪) (মামলা) খারিজ করা।

Synonyms: Reject (বাতিল করা), Discharge (দায়িত্ব থেকে অব্যাহতি দেওয়া), Expel (বহিষ্কার বা বিতাড়িত করা).
Antonyms: Engage (নিয়োগ করা), Form (গঠন করা), Assemble (মিলিত হওয়া).

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Censer
- a container in which incense is burned.
- (গির্জায় ব্যবহৃত) ধূপাধার।


Source: Accessible Dictionary and Cambridge Dictionary

The Correct spelling is - Illumine.
Meaning: To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
Bangla Meaning: আধ্যাত্মিকভাবে উদ্দীপিত করা; অন্তরে আলোকস্ফুরণ ঘটানো; উজ্জ্বলিত করা।

Source: Accessible Dictionary

• The Merchant of Venice is a famous comedy by William Shakespeare.
• Important character of this comedy:
- Shylock,
- Portia,
- Antonio,
- Bassanio,
- Jessica etc.

Source: Britannica and The Merchant of Venice.

Buendía family, fictional founders of Macondo, the South American town that is the setting of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (originally in Spanish, 1967) by Gabriel García Márquez.

কলম্বিয়ার ঔপন্যাসিক গ্যাব্রিয়েল গার্সিয়া মার্কেজ রচিত বিংশ শতাব্দীর অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ উপন্যাস One Hundred Years oF Solitude বা নিঃসঙ্গতার একশ বছর।
এই উপন্যাসেরই একটি বিখ্যাত উক্তি হলো - "They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation".

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
• He awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'.
• His notable works:
- Love in the Time of Cholera,
- No One Writes to the Colonel,
- The Leaf Storm,
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores,
- News of a Kidnapping.

Source: Encyclopedia of Britannica and One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

• William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic poet.

• His famous quotations:
- Every great poet is a teacher.
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
- Child is the father of man.
- Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
- Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
- Poet is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge.
- Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotation.

To a Skylark is a poem written by P.B. Shelley.

Percy Bysshe Shelley is a famous Romantic poet.
He is known as Revolutionary Poet, Lyric Poet, Poet of Wind, Poet of Hope and Regeneration.

His famous works:
- Ode to the West Wind,
- To a Skylark,
- Prometheus Unbound,
- Adonais,
- Ozymandias,
- The Cloud,
- To Night,
- Song of Proserpine.

Some of his famous quotations are:
- 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought' (Ode To A Skylark).
- 'If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?' (Ode to the West Wind).
- 'The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance' (Queen Mab).


Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopedia of Britannica.

Charles Dickens:
- In full Charles John Huffam Dickens, (born February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England—died June 9, 1870, Gad’s Hill, near Chatham, Kent).
- English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era.
- Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author.
 
Charles Dickens's other famous novels:
- A Christmas Carol
- A Tale of Two Cities
- David Copperfield
- Bleak House
- Great Expectations
- Our Mutual Friend.
- Hard Times

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Silas Marner:
In full, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot. It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.


Source: britannica.com

- William Shakespeare is the greatest English dramatist.
- He was born on 23 April, 1564 AD and died on 23 April, 1616 AD.
- His Birth place is Stratford Avon. He is often called the bard of Avon.
- The Shakespearean period belongs to '1590-1616'.
- He wrote 37 (or 38) plays and 154 sonnets.

Source: Encyclopedia of Britannica.