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Daily Dawn Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
August 06, 2019
Poised (adjective) باوقار، پراعتماد ہونا
having a composed and self-assured manner.
Example: “not every day you saw that poised, competent kid distressed”
Synonyms: self-possessed, self-assured, composed, assured, self-controlled, cool-headed, calm,
Antonyms: excited, flustered, inelegant
Deprive (verb) معزول، محروم کرنا، برطرفی
prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.
Example: “the city was deprived of its water supplies”
Synonyms: dispossess, strip, divest, relieve, bereave; rob of, cheat out of, trick out of,
Antonyms: appoint, join
Intimidation (noun) دھمکی، ڈرانا
the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated.
Example: “the intimidation of witnesses and jurors”
Synonyms: frightening, menacing, terrifying, scaring, alarming, terrorization, terrorizing
Antonyms: reassure, comfort,
Belligerent (adjective) لڑاکا، جنگ آور، شریک جنگ
hostile and aggressive.
Example: “the mood at the meeting was belligerent”
Synonyms: hostile, aggressive, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, bellicose, truculent,
Antonyms: friendly, peaceable
Diminis (adjective) کم ہونا، گھٹانا
make or become less.
Example: “the new law is expected to diminish the government’s chances”
Synonyms: decrease, decline, reduce, lessen, shrink, contract, grow smaller, fall off, drop off,
Antonyms: increase, flare up, get worse
Subterfuge (noun) عذر، حیلہ، حجت
deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal.
Example: “he had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions”
Synonyms: trickery, intrigue, deviousness, evasion, deceit, deception, dishonesty, cheating,
Antonyms: honesty, openness
Crude (adjective) خام، کچا
in a natural or raw state; not yet processed or refined.
Example: “crude oil”
Synonyms: unrefined, unpurified, unprocessed, untreated; unmilled, unworked, unpolished,
Antonyms: refined
Rendezvous (noun) جائے ملاقات، ملاقات کی جگہ،سپردگی
a meeting at an agreed time and place.
Example: “Edward turned up late for their rendezvous”
Synonyms: meeting, appointment, engagement, assignation; informaldate;
Antonyms:
Ambivalence (noun) تذبذب میں، بیک وقت محبت اور نفرت
the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
Example: “the law’s ambivalence about the importance of a victim’s identity”
Synonyms: equivocation, uncertainty, unsureness, doubt, indecision, inconclusiveness, irresolution
Antonyms: certainty, decisiveness
Truce (noun) جنگ بندی، عارضی صلح کا معاہدہ، التوائے جنگ
an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing for a certain time.
Example: “the guerrillas called a three-day truce”
Synonyms: ceasefire, armistice, suspension of hostilities, cessation of hostilities, peace;
Antonyms: fighting, hostilities