Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (09 February 2020)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (09 February 2020)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
February 09, 2020


Ghastly (adjective) سختی سے، بھیانک، ڈراﺅنا، خوفناک

causing great horror or fear.
Example: “one of the most ghastly crimes ever committed”
Synonyms: terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire, frightening, terrifying, horrifying
Antonyms: pleasant, trivial, excusable


Deterrent (noun) رکاوٹ، تشدید، باز رکھنے والا

a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.
Example: “cameras are a major deterrent to crime”
Synonyms: disincentive, discouragement, dissuasion, damper, brake, curb, check, restraint
Antonyms: incentive, encouragement


Dismantle (verb) الگ الگ کر دینا، پاش پاش کرنا

take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
Example: “the engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap”
Synonyms: take apart, take to pieces, take to bits, pull apart, pull to pieces, deconstruct
Antonyms: assemble, build


Emerge (verb) ظاہر ہونا، سامنے آنا، نکلنا

move out of or away from something and become visible.
Example: “black ravens emerged from the fog”
Synonyms: come out, appear, come into view, become visible, make an appearance, turn up
Antonyms: disappear


Slothful (adjective) کاہل، سست

lazy.
Example: “fatigue made him slothful”
Synonyms: lazy, idle, indolent, work-shy, inactive, inert, sluggish, apathetic, lethargic
Antonyms: active, industrious, energetic


Brutalize (verb) ظلم برپا کرنا، وحشت ناک سلوک، بے رحمی کا سلوک

make (someone) cruel, violent, or insensitive to the pain of others by repeated exposure to violence.
Example: “he had been brutalized in prison and become cynical”
Synonyms: desensitize, dehumanize, harden, toughen, case-harden, inure, make unfeeling,
Antonyms: dignify, exalt, honor


Apparently (adverb) بظاہر، ظاہری طور پر

as far as one knows or can see.
Example: “the child nodded, apparently content with the promise”
Synonyms: seemingly, evidently, it seems (that), it would seem (that), it appears (that),
Antonyms: implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incredibly


Debacle (noun) شرمناک ناکامی، بھگڈر

a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
Example: “the only man to reach double figures in the second-innings debacle”
Synonyms: fiasco, failure, catastrophe, disaster, disintegration, mess, wreck, ruin
Antonyms: blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner


Agitator (noun) مشتعل، احتجاج کرنےوالا، تحریک میں حصہ لینے والا

a person who urges others to protest or rebel.
Example: “a political agitator”
Synonyms: troublemaker, rabble-rouser, demagogue, soapbox orator, incendiary, revolutionary
Antonyms: peacemaker, reconciler, uniter


Endanger (verb) خطرے سے دوچار کرنا، جوکھوں میں ڈالنا

put (someone or something) at risk or in danger.
Example: “he was driving in a manner likely to endanger life”
Synonyms: imperil, jeopardize, risk, put at risk, put in danger, expose to danger, put in jeopardy
Antonyms: cover, defend, protect, shield, screen


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