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Exam Date: Sep 30
Part 22
Word-of-the-Day
Urge
Pronunciation
/3:dZ/
Urge is both Transitive Verb and Common Noun
Meaning
To try to persuade someone to do something (Verb)
A strong wish or need (Noun)
Usage
His parents urged him to go to university.
I resisted a powerful urge to slap him.
(Source: CLD- 2nd Edition)
Today’s Reading
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged US allies South Korea and Japan to ‘lower the temperature’ in a simmering territorial row.
Hillary said she raised the tensions during separate talks at an Asia-Pacific summit in Russia with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, who shunned each other at the event. (The Straits Times) All rights reserved. Sale, redistribution or reproduction of information/photos/illustrations/video/audio contents on this website in any form without prior permission from banglanews24.com are strictly prohibited and liable to legal action.
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