Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (18 April 2020)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (18 April 2020)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
April 18, 2020


Remittance (noun) رقم کی منتقلی، ترسیل رقم

a sum of money sent in payment or as a gift.
Example: “complete your booking form and send it together with your remittance”
Synonyms: payment, settlement, money, fee, cheque, money order, transfer of funds, negotiable instrument.
Antonyms: nonpayment, underpayment


Substantial (adjective) خاصی مقدار، خاصی بڑی، حقیقی

of considerable importance, size, or worth.
Example: “a substantial amount of cash”
Synonyms: considerable, real, material, weighty, solid, sizeable, meaningful, significant.
Antonyms: insubstantial, worthless


Plummet (verb) گہرائی ناپنے کا آلہ، تیزی سے نیچے گرنا

fall or drop straight down at high speed.
Example: “a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully”
Synonyms: plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly.
Antonyms: rocket, ascend, soar, rise, skyrocket


Respite (noun) وقتی آرام، وقفہ، مہلت، وقتی سکون

a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.
Example: “the refugee encampments will provide some respite from the suffering”
Synonyms: rest, break, breathing space, interval, intermission, interlude, recess, lull, pause.
Antonyms: clamor, din, noise, racket


Uncanny (adjective) پراسرار، غیر طبعی

strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way.
Example: “an uncanny feeling that she was being watched”.
Synonyms: eerie, unnatural, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly, other-worldly, unreal, ghostly.
Antonyms: ordinary, normal, unremarkable.


Homicide (noun) انسان کا قتل، مردم کشی

the killing of one person by another.
Example: “he was charged with homicide”
Synonyms: murder, killing, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery.
Antonyms: birth


Bigoted (adjective) ہٹ دھرم، متعصب، دوسرے کی نہ ماننے والا

obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, and intolerant towards other people’s beliefs and practices.
Example: “a bigoted group of reactionaries”
Synonyms: prejudiced, biased, partial, one-sided, sectarian, discriminatory, intolerant, narrow-minded.
Antonyms: tolerant, liberal


Escalation (noun) تیزی، بڑھاوا، اضافہ

a rapid increase; a rise.
Example: “cost escalations”
Synonyms: rapid increase, rise, hike, advance, growth, leap, upsurge, upturn, upswing, climb.
Antonyms: plunge, relaxation


Impunity (noun) سزا سے چھٹکارا، استثنیٰ، آزادی

exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.
Example: “the impunity enjoyed by military officers implicated in civilian killings”
Synonyms: immunity, indemnity, exemption from punishment, freedom from punishment, exemption.
Antonyms: liability, responsibility


Culpable (adjective) قابل مواخذہ، سزا کا مستوجب، قابل گرفت

deserving blame.
Example: “mercy killings are less culpable than ‘ordinary’ murders”
Synonyms: to blame, guilty, at fault, in the wrong, blameworthy, blameable, censurable, reproachable
Antonyms: blameless, innocent


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