Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 12, 2021

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Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 12, 2021

Recalcitrant (adjective) 

نافرمان، سرکش، ضدی

"having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline"

Examples: 

• Despite being offered treats by his parents, the little boy was still recalcitrant about doing his homework.
• The University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators.

Synonyms: uncooperative, obstinately disobedient, intractable, unmanageable, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate
Antonyms: amenable, docile, compliant

Brittle (adjective) 

خستہ ، نازک، خشک ٹوٹ جانیوالا

"hard but liable to break easily"

Examples:

• The branches were dry and brittle.
• She was brittle and tense. Loki smiles a brittle smile.

Synonyms: breakable, splintery, fragile, frail, delicate, frangible, rigid, hard
Antonyms: flexible, resilient

Salutary (adjective) 

صحت بخش

"(especially with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) producing good effects; beneficial"

Examples: 

• One of the most striking and salutary thing in American life is the widespread study of law. 
•  Her fate should be a salutary lesson.

Synonyms: beneficial, good, good for one, advantageous, profitable, productive, helpful
Antonyms: unwelcome, irrelevant

Amelioration (noun) 

درست کرنا، بہتر ہونا، سدھارنا

"the act of making something better; improvement"
Examples:

• Is there anything I can do to ameliorate your imprisonment? 
• A solution to ameliorate the negative impact of these areas is needed.

Synonyms: improvement, change for the better, betterment, enhancement, help, benefit, boost, raising

Antonyms: worsening

Auspicious (adjective) 

سازگار، موزوں، امیدافزائ، حوصلہ افزائ

"conducive to success; favorable".

Examples: 

• He made an auspicious debut in the school play. 
• The marriage did not get off to a very auspicious start.

Synonyms: favourable, propitious, promising, full of promise, bright, rosy, good, optimistic
Antonyms: inauspicious

Exaggerate (noun)

 مبالغہ آرائی کرنا، ضرورت سے زیادہ بتانا

regarded or represented as larger, better, or worse than in reality.

Examples: 

• A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms
• John does tend to exaggerate slightly.

Synonyms: overstated, overemphasized, inflated, magnified, amplified, aggrandized, excessive
Antonyms: play down, understate

Deride (verb) 

مذاق اڑانا، تضحیک کرنا

"express contempt for; ridicule"

Examples: 

• Help others, do not deride.
• They deride his effort as childish.

Synonyms: ridicule, mock, jeer at, scoff at, jibe at, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at
Antonyms: respect, praise

Excess (noun) 

تجاوز، حد سے زیادہ

"an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable"

Examples:

• The drug can be harmful if taken in excess. 
• You will have to pay for the excess

Synonyms: surplus, surfeit, overabundance, superabundance, superfluity, over sufficiency, profusion
Antonyms: dearth, lack