Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 25, 2021

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Daily Dawn Vocabulary January 25, 2021

Obligation (noun) 

فرض ، ذمہ داری، احسان

"an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment."

Examples: 

• We have a moral obligation to protect the environment.
• I have an obligation to look after her.

Synonyms: duty, commitment, responsibility, moral imperative, function, task, job, chore, assignment
Antonyms: repayment, discharge, quittance, release

Flounder (verb) 

ڈگمگا کر چلنا، مشکل سے چلنا، چکرا کر چلنا

"struggle or stagger clumsily in mud or water"

Examples: 

• The new democracy there continues to flounder. 
• Similar observations can be made for flounder and haddock.

Synonyms: struggle, thrash, thresh, flail, toss and turn, twist and turn, pitch, splash

Antonyms: make good progress

Insolvent (adjective) 

دیوالیہ پن، مفلسی، قرض دار

"unable to pay debts owed"

Examples:

• They lost orders and were insolvent within weeks.
• The company was later declared insolvent . 

Synonyms: bankrupt, unable to pay one’s debts, ruined, collapsed, defaulting, liquidated, wiped out
Antonyms: solvent

Mollycoddle (verb) 

عورت نما زنانہ، ضرورت سے زیادہ تحفظ کا اہتمام

"treat (someone) in an indulgent or overprotective way"

Examples:

• He had been mollycoddled as a young boy.
• She was mollycoddled as a child.

Synonyms: pamper, cosset, coddle, spoil, indulge, overindulge, pet, baby, wait on hand and foot

Antonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat

Illusion (noun) 

وہم، دھوکہ، فریب

"an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience."

Examples:

• She's under the illusion that she'll get the job.
• He could no longer distinguish between illusion and reality.

Synonyms: mirage, hallucination, apparition, phantasm, phantom, vision, spectre, fantasy

Antonyms: reality

Enunciate (verb) 

بولنا، بیان کرنا، اعلان کرنا

"say or pronounce clearly"

Examples:

• He doesn't enunciate very clearly.
• An actor has to enunciate clearly. 

Synonyms: pronounce, articulate, say, speak, utter, express, voice, vocalize, sound

Antonyms: ask, be quiet, conceal

Comprehend (verb) 

سمجھنا، جاننا، حواس کے ذریعے علم حاصل کرنا

"grasp mentally; understand"

Examples:

• She cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster.
• I fail to comprehend their attitude.

Synonyms: understand, grasp, take in, see, apprehend, follow, make sense of, fathom
Antonyms: exclude

Spew (verb) 

تھوکنا، اگلنا، قے کرنا

"expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly."

Examples:

• Smoke and ashes spewed from the volcano.
• The volcano spewed hot ash.

Synonyms: emit, discharge, eject, expel, belch out, pour out, spout, disgorge

Antonyms: dribble, strain, bottle, seep, contain, weep