Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (14 January 2021)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (14 January 2021)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
January 14, 2021


Assertion (noun) حتمی موقف، اقرار واثق، دعویٰ

a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.
Example: “his assertion that his father had deserted the family”
Synonyms: declaration, contention, statement, claim, submission, postulation, averment, opinion
Antonyms: bashfulness, confusion, consternation


Purport (verb) مفہوم، مطلب پایا جانا

appear to be or do something, especially falsely.
Example: “she is not the person she purports to be”
Synonyms: claim, lay claim, profess, pretend, set oneself up (as), appear, seem, be apparently
Antonyms: deny, gainsay


Stash (verb) گنجینہ، قیمتی چیزوں کا ذخیرہ، تجوری

store (something) safely in a hidden or secret place.
Example: “their wealth had been stashed away in Swiss banks”
Synonyms: store, stow, pack, load, cache, garner, hide, conceal, secrete, hoard
Antonyms: waste lose sell act erase


Throttle (noun) گلا گھونٹنے کا عمل، حد مقرر کرنا

attack or kill (someone) by choking or strangling them.
Example: “she was sorely tempted to throttle him”
Synonyms: choke, strangle, strangulate, garrotte, asphyxiate, smother, suffocate, stifle
Antonyms: free, release, restore, revive, let go


Expediency (noun) ضرورت، مفید، حکمت عملی، مصلحت

the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral; convenience.
Example: “an act of political expediency”
Synonyms: convenience, advantage, advantageousness, usefulness, utility, benefit, profitability
Antonyms: disadvantage


Clamour (noun) عوامی آواز، شور، زور دار چیخ

a loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.
Example: “the questions rose to a clamour”
Synonyms: din, racket, loud noise, uproar, tumult, babel, shouting, yelling, screaming, baying
Antonyms: silence


Atrocity (noun) ظالمانہ طرز عمل، سفاکی، بے رحمی

an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
Example: “a textbook which detailed war atrocities”
Synonyms: act of barbarity, act of brutality, act of savagery, act of wickedness, cruelty, abomination
Antonyms: mercifulness, decency, quality, humane


Upheaval (noun) کھلبلی، انقلاب عظیم

a violent or sudden change or disruption to something.
Example: “major upheavals in the financial markets”
Synonyms: disruption, upset, disturbance, trouble, turbulence, disorder, disorganization, confusion
Antonyms: stability, tranquillity


Virulent (adjective) زہریلا، شدت

(of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects.
Example: “a virulent strain of influenza”
Synonyms: poisonous, toxic, venomous, noxious, deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, terminal
Antonyms: non-toxic, harmless, safe, non-contagious


Acutely (adverb) تیزی کے ساتھ، شدت کے ساتھ، کڑے طور پر

(with reference to something unpleasant or unwelcome) intensely.
Example: “the whole situation was acutely embarrassing”
Synonyms: extremely, exceedingly, very, markedly, severely, intensely, in the extreme, deeply
Antonyms: slightly


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