Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 08, 2021

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Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 08, 2021

Thwart (verb) 

ناکام بنا دینا، ترچھا، آڑا

"prevent (someone) from accomplishing something"

Examples: 

• The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators
• Harry knew now that nothing could thwart his plans.

Synonyms: foil, frustrate, balk, stand in the way of, forestall, scotch, derail, smash, dash
Antonyms: assist, facilitate

Intensification (noun) 

سختی، شدت، بڑھانا، تیز کرنا

"the action of making or becoming more intense."
Examples: 

• This stage is an intensification of the last one
• the intensification of the conflict.

Synonyms: escalation, stepping up, boosting, increase, pickup, build-up, sharpening, strengthening
Antonyms: lessening, abatement

Starve (verb)

 سخت بھوک ہونا، بھوک سے مرنا، فاقہ

"suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger."

Examples:

• They decided to starve the enemy out.
• You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight.

Synonyms: dying of hunger, dying from lack of food, faint from lack of food, deprived of food, undernourished
Antonyms: well fed, full

Perish (verb) 

تباہ ہونا، ہلاک ہونا، برباد ہونا

"die, especially in a violent or sudden way."

Examples: 

• We must make sure that democracy does not perish
• Flowers perish when frost comes. 

Synonyms: die, lose one’s life, be killed, fall, expire, meet one’s death, be lost, lay down one’s life

Antonyms: be born, be immortal, begin, come into being.

Defunct (adjective) 

مرحوم، متوفی، مردہ

"no longer existing or functioning"
Examples:

• After being hit by a hurricane, the entire neighborhood was defunct.
• A fire swept through the city, leaving many houses abandoned and defunct.

Synonyms: disused, no longer in use, unused, inoperative, non-functioning, unusable, obsolete, no longer in existence

Antonyms: working, extant

Peril (noun) 

خوف، ڈر، خطرہ

"serious and immediate danger."

Examples:

• The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.
• He believed his immortal soul was in peril.

Synonyms: danger, jeopardy, risk, riskiness, hazard, insecurity, uncertainty, menace
Antonyms: safety, security

Eradication (noun) 

جڑ سے اکھاڑنا، استیصال، مٹانا

"the complete destruction of something"
Examples:

• The disease has now been completely eradicated.
• It was a ritual of eradication

Synonyms: elimination, removal, suppression, extermination, destruction, annihilation, extirpation
Antonyms: implant, import, instil, foster, propagate

Frigid (adjective) 

برفیلا، انتہائی ٹھنڈا، نہایت سرد

"very cold in temperature"

Examples:

• She stepped out into the frigid morning, her boots sinking into the snow with a squeaking sound.
• There's a rather frigid atmosphere in the school.

Synonyms: very cold, bitterly cold, bitter, freezing, frozen, frosty, icy, icy-cold, ice-cold, chilly

Antonyms: hot, tropical

Tenuous (adjective) 

نازک، پتلا، کمزور

"very weak or slight"
Examples: 

• The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous
• America’s involvement was growing more tenuous .

Synonyms: slight, insubstantial, flimsy, negligible, weak, fragile, shaky, sketchy, doubtful, dubious
Antonyms: convincing, substantial, strong

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Daily Dawn Vocabulary

January 08, 2021