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Daily Dawn Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
October 15, 2019

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Plague (noun) طاعون، ناک میں دم کرنے کی حالت

any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people.
Example: “diseases like smallpox wiped out the indigenous people in a succession of plagues”
Synonyms: disease, sickness, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, ,
Antonyms:

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Bleak (adjective) تاریک، ویران، روکھا

(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.
Example: “a bleak and barren moor”
Synonyms: bare, exposed, desolate, stark, arid, desert, denuded, lunar, open
Antonyms: lush, verdant

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Idiosyncrasy (noun) مخصوص طرز بیان، انوکھا انداز، خاص انداز

a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
Example: “one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first”
Synonyms: peculiarity, individual/personal trait, oddity, eccentricity, mannerism, quirk
Antonyms: conformity, sameness

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Squander (verb) فضول خرچ کرنا، ضائع کرنا، برباد کرنا

waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner.
Example: “Rs100m of taxpayers’ money has been squandered on administering the tax”
Synonyms: waste, misspend, misuse, throw away, dissipate, fritter away, run through, lose
Antonyms: manage, make good use of, save,

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Toil (verb) سخت محنت کرنا، جان مارنا

work extremely hard or incessantly.
Example: “we toiled away”
Synonyms: work hard, labour, work one’s fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan, work like a dog, work day and night
Antonyms: rest, relax, laze

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Combustible (adjective) آتش گیر، احتراق، اشتعال پذیر

able to catch fire and burn easily.
Example: “a combustible gas”
Synonyms: inflammable, flammable, incendiary, explosive, burnable
Antonyms: incombustible

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Debilitate (verb) کمزور کرنا، ضعیف کرنا

make (someone) very weak and infirm.
Example: “he was severely debilitated by a stomach upset”
Synonyms: weakening, enfeebling, enervating, enervative, devitalizing, draining, sapping,
Antonyms: restorative

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Distinct (adjective) واضح، صاف، منفرد

recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type.
Example: “the patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing”
Synonyms: clear, clear-cut, definite, well defined, sharp, marked, decided, unmistakable
Antonyms: indistinct, fuzzy, indefinite,

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Deterrent (noun) رخنہ، رکاوٹ، تسدید

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
Antonyms: incentive, encouragement

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Predominantly (adverb) بنیادی طور پر، زور آور، زبردستی سے

mainly; for the most part.
Example: “it is predominantly a coastal bird”
Synonyms: mainly, mostly, for the most part, chiefly, principally, primarily, predominately
Antonyms: subsidiary, minor

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