Daily Dawn Vocabulary

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (24 April 2021)

Daily DAWN News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning (24 April 2021)
Written by Shahzad F. Malik

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Daily Dawn Newspaper English Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning
April 24, 2021


Requisite (adjective) ضرورت، ضروری مطلوبہ

made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.
Example: “the application will not be processed until the requisite fee is paid”
Synonyms: necessary, required, prerequisite, essential, indispensable, vital, needed, needful
Antonyms: optional, unnecessary, non-essential


Impoverished (adjective) مفلس، حاجت مند، کنگال

(of a person or area) made poor.
Example: “impoverished villages”
Synonyms: poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, penurious, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy
Antonyms: rich, wealthy


Barely (adverb) بس تھوڑی دیر پہلے، مشکل سے

only just; almost not.
Example: “she nodded, barely able to speak”
Synonyms: hardly, scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by the skin of one’s teeth, by a hair’s breadth
Antonyms: easily


Desolate (adjective) چھوڑ جانا، ساتھ چھوڑنا،ویرانی

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
Example: “a desolate Pennine moor”
Synonyms: barren, bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim, desert, waste, arid, sterile
Antonyms: fertile, populous


Rhetoric (noun) فن خطابت، فن تحریر، گرجدار آواز

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Example: “he is using a common figure of rhetoric, hyperbole”
Synonyms: oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression, way with words
Antonyms: quiet, conciseness


Berate (verb) ڈانٹنا، لعنت ملامت کرنا، سرزنش کرنا

scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
Example: “she berated herself for being fickle”
Synonyms: rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide
Antonyms: praise


Asymmetrical (adjective) غیر متناسب، بے آہنگ

having parts that fail to correspond to one another in shape, size, or arrangement; lacking symmetry.
Example: “the church has an asymmetrical plan with an aisle only on one side”
Synonyms: lopsided, unsymmetrical, crooked, uneven, unbalanced, off-balance, off-centre, to one side
Antonyms: symmetrical


Acerbic (adjective) تیز زبان، کھٹا یا کسیلا، کڑوا، تیز مزاج

(especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
Example: “his acerbic wit”
Synonyms: sharp, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, scathing, cutting, razor-edged
Antonyms: mild, kind


Bode (verb) اشارہ دینا، نشاندہی کرنا، شگون دینا

be a portent of a particular outcome.
Example: “their argument did not bode well for the future”
Synonyms: augur, presage, portend, foretell, prophesy, predict, forebode, foreshadow, herald
Antonyms: relate, record, narrate, remember


Emphasis (noun) زور ڈالنا، زور دینا، تاکید کرنا

special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
Example: “they placed great emphasis on the individual’s freedom”
Synonyms: prominence, importance, significance, stress, weight, attention, priority
Antonyms: foreground play up, skew blur, obscurity


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