Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (12 January 2021)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (12 January 2021)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
January 12, 2021


Accustomed (adjective) مانوس، عادی

customary; usual.
Example: “his accustomed route”
Synonyms: customary, usual, normal, habitual, familiar, regular, routine, ordinary, typical
Antonyms: unusual, unaccustomed


Catastrophic (adjective) تباہ کن، تباہی، بربادی

extremely unfortunate or unsuccessful.
Example: “catastrophic mismanagement of the economy”
Synonyms: disastrous, calamitous, cataclysmic, ruinous, tragic, fatal, dire, awful
Antonyms: fortunate, beneficial


Drubbing (noun) مکمل شکست، بڑی ہار، پٹائی

a beating; a thrashing.
Example: “I’ll give the scoundrels a drubbing if I can!”
Synonyms: beating, thrashing, walloping, thumping, battering, pounding, pummelling, slapping, smacking
Antonyms: win


Abysmal (adjective) انتہائی،اتھاہ، بے پناہ

extremely bad; appalling.
Example: “the quality of her work is abysmal”
Synonyms: very bad, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable
Antonyms: superb


Aberration (noun) گمراہی

a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one.
Example: “they described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration”
Synonyms: anomaly, deviation, divergence, abnormality, irregularity, variation, digression, edge case
Antonyms: normality, usualness, conformity


Debacle (noun) شرمناک ناکامی، زوال، اچانک حادثہ

a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
Example: “the only man to reach double figures in the second-innings debacle”
Synonyms: fiasco, failure, catastrophe, disaster, disintegration, mess, wreck, ruin, downfall
Antonyms: accomplishment, attainment, blessing


Lacklustre (adjective) ڈھلمل یقین ، بے نور، بلا چمک

lacking in vitality, force, or conviction; uninspired or uninspiring.
Example: “no excuses were made for the team’s lacklustre performance”
Synonyms: uninspired, uninspiring, unimaginative, dull, humdrum, colourless, characterless
Antonyms: inspired, brilliant


Stark (adjective) واضح، کھلا، سخت

severe or bare in appearance or outline.
Example: “the ridge formed a stark silhouette against the sky”
Synonyms: sharply delineated, sharp, sharply defined, well focused, crisp, distinct, obvious
Antonyms: fuzzy, indistinct, pleasant, comfortable, ornate


Decay (verb) خرابی، سڑنا، مرجھانا

(of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi.
Example: “the body had begun to decay”
Synonyms: decompose, rot, putrefy, go bad, go off, spoil, fester, perish, deteriorate
Antonyms: improve

Muddle (verb) الجھانا، مکدر کرنا، بدترتیب کرنا

bring into a disordered or confusing state.
Example: “I fear he may have muddled the message”
Synonyms: confuse, mix up, jumble, jumble up, disarrange, disorganize, disorder, disturb
Antonyms: be in (good) order, orderly


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