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Daily Dawn Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
March 21, 2019

Barbaric وحشیانہ، غصہ میں وحشی ہو جانا

savagely cruel.
Example: “he carried out barbaric acts in the name of war”
Synonyms: cruel, brutal, savage, barbarous, brutish,ferocious, bestial, fierce, vicious, wicked
Antonyms: benevolent

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Divisive (adjective) باعث تقسیم

tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people.
Example: “the highly divisive issue of abortion”
Synonyms: alienating, estranging, isolating, schismatic; discordant, disharmonious, inharmonious
Antonyms: accordant

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Persecute (verb) ستائش، دق کرنا، ستانا ، اذیت دینا

subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
Example: “his followers were persecuted by the authorities”
Synonyms: oppress,maltreat, abuse, discriminate, punish, victimize, ill-treat, mistreat, against
Antonyms: deliverrelieve, reprieve, release,

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Devastation (noun)تباہی ، شدید المناک

great destruction or damage.
Example: “the floods caused widespread devastation”
Synonyms: destruction,depredation, ruin, wreckage; desolation, waste, ravages, havoc, ruins
Antonyms: rescue, salvation, salvage, saving

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Avert (verb)ٹالنا، پھیرنا، ہٹانا

prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence).
Example: “talks failed to avert a rail strike”
Synonyms: prevent,stave off, stop, ward off; avoid, nip in the bud;forestall, head off, preclude
Antonyms: aid,assist, allow

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Paltry (adjective) عمولی، حقیر،ادنیٰ

(of an amount) very small or meagre.
Example: “she would earn a paltry Rs33 more a month”
Synonyms: small,insignificant, meagre, insufficient, trifling, negligible,derisory, inadequate, scant
Antonyms: considerable, substantial

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Contingent (adjective)امکان، عارضی

subject to chance.
Example: “the contingent nature of the job”
Synonyms: chance, possible, accidental, fortuitous, unexpected, unforeseen, unforeseeable
Antonyms: predictable

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Precisely (adverb) صحیح، ٹھیک ٹھاک

exactly (used to emphasize the complete accuracy or truth of a statement).
Example: “at 2.00 precisely, the phone rang”
Synonyms: exactly, prompt, sharp, promptly, on the dot; dead (on),
Antonyms: slightly,vaguely, somewhat

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Imprisonment (noun) قید کرنا، جیل میں ڈالنا

the state of being imprisoned; captivity.
Example: “he was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment”
Synonyms: incarceration,captivity, internment,detention, confinement, custody
Antonyms: freedom