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Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (18 December 2020)

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (18 December 2020)

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
December 18, 2020

Dread (verb) خوف، فکر مندی، بھیانک

anticipate with great apprehension or fear.
Example: “Jane was dreading the party”
Synonyms: fear, be afraid of, worry about, be anxious about, have forebodings about, feel apprehensive about
Antonyms: look forward to

Palpable (Adjective) چھونے کے قابل

(of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.
Example: “a palpable sense of loss”
Synonyms: perceptible, perceivable, visible, noticeable, appreciable, discernible, detectable
Antonyms: intangible, imperceptible

Complacency (noun) اطمینان، اخلاق

a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements.
Example: “the figures are better, but there are no grounds for complacency”
Synonyms: smugness, self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-approbation, self-admiration, self-congratulation
Antonyms: dissatisfaction

Astound (verb) حیرت میں ڈالنا، اچنبے میں ڈالنا

shock or greatly surprise.
Example: “her bluntness astounded him”
Synonyms: amaze, astonish, stagger, surprise, startle, stun, confound, dumbfound, stupefy
Antonyms: refrain, defend, dullness

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, wearing
Antonyms: restorative

Sombre (Adjective) کم روشنی، تاریک

dark or dull in colour or tone.
Example: “the night skies were sombre and starless”
Synonyms: dark, dark-coloured, dull, dull-coloured, drab, dingy, shady, restrained, subdued
Antonyms: bright

Hapless (Adjective) قابل رحم، قابل افسوس، بدنصیب

(especially of a person) unfortunate.
Example: “the hapless victims of the disaster”
Synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, ill-starred, ill-fated, jinxed, cursed
Antonyms: lucky

Deteriorate (verb) خراب ہونا، بگاڑنا

become progressively worse.
Example: “relations between the countries had deteriorated sharply”
Synonyms: worsen, get worse, decline, be in decline, degenerate, decay, collapse, fail, fall
Antonyms: improve

Reprehensible (Adjective) مجرمانہ، قابل مذمت، قابل نفرت

deserving censure or condemnation.
Example: “his complacency and reprehensible laxity”
Synonyms: deplorable, disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable, despicable, blameworthy, culpable
Antonyms: creditable, praiseworthy, good

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

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

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