Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (07 December 2020)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (07 December 2020)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
December 07, 2020


Smear (verb) لگانا، ملنا، داغ لگانا، تہمت

coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance.
Example: “his face was smeared with dirt”
Synonyms: streak, smudge, stain, mark, soil, dirty, blur, splotch, splodge, besmirch
Antonyms: abrade, levigate, polish, scour, scrape


Execrable (adjective) ناقص، بیکار، خستہ حال

extremely bad or unpleasant.
Example: “execrable cheap wine”
Synonyms: appalling, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, very bad, lamentable, disgusting
Antonyms: good, admirable


Antipathy (noun) نفرت کا احساس، کراہت

a deep-seated feeling of aversion.
Example: “his fundamental antipathy to capitalism”
Synonyms: hostility, antagonism, animosity, aversion, animus, opposition, enmity, dislike
Antonyms: liking, affinity, rapport


Vilify (verb) رسوا کرنا، کردار کشی، تہمت

speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.
Example: “he has been vilified in the press”
Synonyms: disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult
Antonyms: commend, lionize


Proponent (noun) کسی بات کی وکالت کرنے والا، محرک

a person who advocates a theory, proposal, or course of action.
Example: “a strong proponent of the free market and liberal trade policies”
Synonyms: advocate, supporter, upholder, exponent, promoter, adherent, endorser, champion
Antonyms: faultfinder, antagonist, opposition, critic


Escalate (verb) شدت بڑھانا، تیزی

increase rapidly.
Example: “the price of tickets escalated”
Synonyms: increase rapidly, soar, rocket, shoot up, mount, surge, spiral, grow rapidly, rise rapidly
Antonyms: plunge


Underlie (verb) سہنا، کسی چیز کے نیچے ہونا

be a significant cause or basis of (something) even if not necessarily manifest or obvious.
Example: “the fundamental issue that underlies the conflict”
Synonyms: fundamental, basic, basal, primary, prime, first, cardinal, central, principal
Antonyms: subordinate


Pragmatic (adjective) عملیت، حقیقت پسندی

dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
Synonyms: practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, sensible, down-to-earth, commonsensical, hard-headed
Antonyms: impractical, unrealistic, idealistic


Despise (verb) حقیت سمجھنا، ذلیل سمجھنا، نظر انداز کرنا

feel contempt or a deep repugnance for.
Example: “he despised himself for being selfish”
Synonyms: detest, hate, loathe, abhor, abominate, execrate, regard with contempt
Antonyms: like, respect


Imbroglio (noun) گتھی، پیچیدہ معاملہ

an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
Example: “the abdication imbroglio of 1936”
Synonyms: complicated situation, complication, complexity, problem, difficulty, predicament, plight
Antonyms: agreement, ease, harmony


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