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Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (13 April 2021)

April 19, 2021
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Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (13 April 2021)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
April 13, 2021

Sordid (adjective) بدعنوان، برا، خراب

involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt.
Example: “the story paints a sordid picture of bribes and scams”
Synonyms: sleazy, seedy, seamy, unsavoury, shoddy, vile, foul, tawdry, louche, cheap
Antonyms: high-minded, respectable

Dogged (adjective) اڑیل، پکا، ضدی

having or showing tenacity and grim persistence.
Example: “success required dogged determination”
Synonyms: tenacious, determined, resolute, resolved, purposeful, persistent, persevering, pertinacious
Antonyms: hesitant, half-hearted

Implicit (adjective) بلواسطہ، اشارتاً، پورا

suggested though not directly expressed.
Example: “comments seen as implicit criticism of the policies”
Synonyms: implied, indirect, inferred, understood, hinted, suggested, deducible, unspoken
Antonyms: explicit, direct

Myriad (noun) بے حساب، بے شمار، بہت زیادہ جو گننا مشکل ہو

a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
Example: “myriads of insects danced around the light above my head”
Synonyms: multitude, a large/great number/quantity, a lot, scores, quantities, mass, crowd
Antonyms: bounded, calculable, countable

Repression (noun) قابو پانے کا عمل

the action of subduing someone or something by force.
Example: “students sparked off events that ended in brutal repression”
Synonyms: suppression, quelling, quashing, subduing, crushing, squashing, stamping out, squelching
Antonyms: freedom, liberty

Browbeat (verb) ہراساں کرنا، دھونس جمانا، ڈرانا

intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.
Example: “a witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination”
Synonyms: bully, hector, intimidate, force, coerce, compel, badger, dragoon, cow, bludgeon
Antonyms: encourage, rally, countenance, support

Skulduggery (noun) فریب دہی، غیر آبرومندانہ کارروائی

underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.
Example: “a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery”
Synonyms: trickery, swindling, fraudulence, double-dealing, sharp practice, unscrupulousness, underhandedness
Antonyms: understatement, truth, roughness

Medieval (adjective) قرون وسطی کا، پانچ سے پندرہویں صدی کا

resembling or likened to the Middle Ages, especially in being cruel, uncivilized, or primitive.
Example: “without other people around I would let my flat degenerate into medieval levels of squalor”
Synonyms: primitive, antiquated, prehistoric, archaic, antique, antediluvian, old-fashioned
Antonyms: modern

Dislodge (verb) نکال دینا، اکھڑنا، بے گھر ہونا

knock or force out of position.
Example: “the hoofs of their horses dislodged loose stones”
Synonyms: remove, move, shift, displace, knock out of place, knock out of position, knock over, upset
Antonyms: stick, deposit, lodge, wedge

Forthright (adjective) دو ٹوک، صاف صاف، کھلم کھلا

(of a person or their manner or speech) direct and outspoken.
Example: “his most forthright attack yet on the reforms”
Synonyms: frank, direct, straightforward, honest, candid, open, sincere, straight
Antonyms: secretive, dishonest

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