Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (19 April 2020)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (19 April 2020)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
April 19, 2020


Cautious (adjective) محتاط، ہوشیاری، احتیاط سے

(of a person) careful to avoid potential problems or dangers.
Example: “a cautious driver”
Synonyms: careful, wary, aware, heedful, attentive, alert, watchful, vigilant, circumspect, prudent.
Antonyms: incautious, reckless


Optimism (noun) پر امیدی، امید پروری

hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something.
Example: “the talks had been amicable and there were grounds for optimism”
Synonyms: hopefulness, hope, confidence, buoyancy, cheer, good cheer, cheerfulness, sanguineness, positiveness.
Antonyms: pessimism


Reciprocate (verb) جوابی عمل، بدلے میں کوئی کام کرنا

respond to (a gesture or action) by making a corresponding one.
Example: “the favour was reciprocated”
Synonyms: do the same (in return), respond in kind, return the favour, give as good as one gets, give tit for tat.
Antonyms: absolve, acquit, excuse, forget, forgive, neglect.


Vicious (adjective) فاسق، نااہل، ظالمانہ

deliberately cruel or violent.
Example: “a vicious assault”
Synonyms: brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless.
Antonyms: gentle, kindly, benevolent


Alarmist (noun) دہشت انگیز،سنسنی پیدا کردینے والا

someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic.
Example: “the problem is a fabrication by alarmists”
Synonyms: scaremonger, gloom-monger, doom-monger, voice of doom, doomster, doomsayer, doom merchant.
Antonyms: optimist, Pollyanna


Urgency (noun) سخت اہمیت، فوری ضرورت

importance requiring swift action.
Example: “the discovery of the ozone hole gave urgency to the issue of CFCs”
Synonyms: importance, top priority, imperativeness, weight, weightiness, gravity, necessity, exigency.
Antonyms: unimportant, insignificant, trifling, trivial.


Clergy (noun) اہل کلیسا، پادری

the body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
Example: “all marriages were to be solemnized by the clergy”
Synonyms: clergymen, clergywomen, churchmen, churchwomen, clerics, priests, ecclesiastics, men/women of God.
Antonyms: laity


Observance (noun)  مشاہدہ، تعمیل، بجا آوری، ریت

the practice of observing the requirements of law, morality, or ritual.
Example: “strict observance of the rules”
Synonyms: rite, ritual, ceremony, ceremonial, celebration, practice, service, office, festival.
Antonyms: brush-off, disregard, ignoring۔


Baffle (verb) حیران کرنا، ناکام بنا دینا

totally bewilder or perplex.
Example: “an unexplained occurrence that baffled everyone”
Synonyms: perplex, puzzle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, nonplus, disconcert.
Antonyms: enlighten, clear, comprehensible


Clandestine (adjective) چوری چھپے، مخفی، پراسرار

kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
Example: “she deserved better than these clandestine meetings”
Synonyms: secret, covert, furtive, surreptitious, stealthy, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hole-in-the-corner.
Antonyms: open, above board


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