Daily DAWN News & Articles Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (25 November 2020)
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Daily DAWN News & Articles Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (25 November 20)
Clandestine (adjective)
پراسرار، چوری چھپے،مخفی، پوشیدہ
"Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit"
Example: she deserved better than these clandestine meetings.
Synonyms: secret, covert, furtive, surreptitious, stealthy, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hole-in-the-corner
Antonyms: open, above board
Rebuff (verb)
انکار، روک، دھتکار، جھٹکا
"reject (someone or something) in an abrupt or ungracious manner"
Example: I asked her to be my wife, and was rebuffed in no uncertain terms.
Synonyms: reject, turn down, spurn, refuse, decline, repudiate, disdain, snub, slight.
Antonyms: accept, welcome
Gusto (noun)
ذوق و شوق، جوش
"enjoyment and enthusiasm in doing something"
Example: Hawkins tucked into his breakfast with gusto.
Synonyms: enthusiasm, relish, appetite, enjoyment, delight, glee, pleasure, satisfaction
Antonyms: apathy, distaste
Ambiguous (adjective)
مبہم، مشکوک، ابہام
"open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning"
Example: ambiguous phrases.
Synonyms: equivocal, ambivalent, open to debate, open to argument, arguable, debatable, Delphic
Antonyms: unambiguous, clear
Ferocity (noun)
غیظ و غضب، طیش، سنگ دلی
"the state or quality of being ferocious"
Example: the ferocity of the storm caught them by surprise.
Synonyms: savagery, brutality, brutishness, barbarity, fierceness, violence, aggression, bloodthirstiness
Antonyms: gentleness
Fervent (adjective)
جوشیلا، انتہائی جذباتی، پرجوش
"having or displaying a passionate intensity"
Example: a fervent supporter of the revolution
Synonyms: impassioned, passionate, intense, vehement, ardent, fervid, sincere, feeling
Antonyms: apathetic
Overture
(noun)
آغاز کرنا، پیش خیمہ کرنا
"an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important"
Example: a ceasefire had been agreed as a overture to full peace negotiations.
Synonyms: preliminary, prelude, opening, preparation, introduction, start, beginning, curtain-raiser
Antonyms: conclusion, postscript
Perpetual (adjective)
ہمیشہ رہنے والا، دائمی، مستقل
"never ending or changing"
Example: deep caves in perpetual darkness.
Synonyms: everlasting, never-ending, eternal, permanent, unending, endless, without end
Antonyms: transitory, temporary, intermittent
Unravel (verb)
گانٹھیں سلجھانا، عقدہ حل کرنا
"undo (twisted, knitted, or woven threads)"
Example: they were attempting to unravel the cause of death.
Synonyms: untangle, disentangle, straighten out, separate out, unsnarl, unknot, unwind, untwist
Antonyms: entangle, tangle
Coherent (adjective)
معقول، منطقی، تسلسل
"(of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent."
Example: they failed to develop a coherent economic strategy.
Synonyms: logical, reasoned, reasonable, well reasoned, rational, sound, cogent, consistent
Antonyms: incoherent, muddled
Defamation (noun)
تہمت، رسوائی، بدنامی
"the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel"
Example: she sued him for defamation.
Synonyms: libel, slander, character assassination, defamation of character, calumny, vilification
Antonyms: commendation
Murderous (adjective)
قتل کرنے پر مائل، خونی
"capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent"
Example: a brutal and murderous despot.
Synonyms: homicidal, brutal, violent, savage, ferocious, fierce, vicious, bloodthirsty, barbarous
Antonyms: easy, light
Moribund (adjective)
مرنے والا، موت جیسا
(of a person) at the point of death.
Example: “on examination she was moribund and dehydrated”
Synonyms: dying, expiring, on one’s deathbed, near death, near the end, at death’s door
Antonyms: thriving, recovering
Rhetoric (noun)
بیان بازی، لسانی، خطیبانہ
"the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques."
Example: he is using a common figure of rhetoric, hyperbole.
Synonyms: oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression, way with words
Antonyms: inarticulateness
Perilous (adjective)
خطرناک، خوفناک
"full of danger or risk"
Example: a perilous journey south.
Synonyms: dangerous, fraught with danger, hazardous, risky, unsafe, treacherous, precarious
Antonyms: safe, secure
Detain (verb)
قید کرنا، روک رکھنا
"keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention."
Example: she made to open the door, but he detained her.
Synonyms: delay, hold up, make late, retard, keep (back), slow up, slow down, set back
Antonyms: release
Diligence (noun)
محنت، حفاظت
"careful and persistent work or effort"
Example: “few party members challenge his diligence as an MP.
Synonyms: conscientiousness, assiduousness, assiduity, industriousness, rigor, rigorousness, punctiliousness
Antonyms: laziness, carelessness
Imbroglio (noun)
پیچیدہ معاملہ
"an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation"
Example: the abdication imbroglio of 1936.
Synonyms: complicated situation, complication, complexity, problem, difficulty, plight, trouble
Antonyms: agreement, ease, harmony
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