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Dawn Vocabulary 03 May 2025

Word: Accosted (‫)جارحانہ طور پر سامنا کرنا‬

Meaning: (Verb) speak to someone

Synonyms: address, annoy, bother, brace, buttonhole, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare,
entice, face, face off, flag, greet

Antonyms: avoid, dodge, ignore, shun

Word: rally (‫)اکٹھے ہونا‬

Meaning: (Verb) gather or bring together

Synonyms: assemblage, assembly, celebration, clambake, convention, convocation, get-

together, mass meeting, meet

Antonyms: slump

Word: adversity (‫)مصیبت‬

Meaning: (Noun) a stroke of ill fortune a calamitous event

Synonyms: affliction, bad break, bad news, bummer, calamity, catastrophe, clutch, cold,
contretemps, crunch, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer, drag, evil eye

Antonyms: aid, favor, fortune, good fortune, good luck, help, prosperity

Word: appropriate (‫)مناسب‬

Meaning: (Adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use

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Synonyms: adapted, applicable, appurtenant, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, belonging,
congruous, convenient, correct, deserved, desired, due, felicitous

Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unbecoming, unfitting, unsuitable, unsuited

Word: frame (‫)تشکیل دینا‬

Meaning: (Verb) formulate in a particular style or language

Synonyms: anatomy, architecture, body, build, cage, carcass, casing, construction, cut,
enclosure, fabric, flounce

Antonyms: absolve, exculpate, exonerate, praise, vindicate

Word: inimical (‫)دشمن‬

Meaning: (Adjective) not friendly

Synonyms: adverse, antipathetic, contrary, destructive, disaffected, harmful, hostile,

hurtful, ill, ill-disposed, injurious, noxious, opposed

Antonyms: friendly, helpful

Word: prevailing (‫)رائج‬

Meaning: (Adjective) encountered generally especially at the present time

Synonyms: all-embracing, catholic, chicken, common, comprehensive, current, customary,

ecumenical, established

Antonyms: hypothetical, imaginary, nominal, past, reputed, theoretical, unreal

Word: settle (‫)حل ہونا‬

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Meaning: (Verb) arrange or fix in the desired order

Synonyms: achieve, adjudicate, adjust, appoint, arrange, choose, cinch, clean up, clear,
clear up, clinch, complete, concert

Antonyms: prolong

Word: rhetoric (‫)بیان بازی‬

Meaning: (Noun) using language effectively to please or persuade

Synonyms: address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution,

eloquence, flowery language, fustian

Antonyms: monologue

Word: interest (‫)مفادات‬

Meaning: (Verb) be of importance or consequence

Synonyms: absorption, activity, affection, attentiveness, bag, care, case, concern,

concernment, consequence, curiosity, diversion, engrossment, enthusiasm

Antonyms: boredom

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Word: penalised (‫سا دی گئی‬

Meaning: (Vern) impose a penalty on inflict punishment on

Synonyms: amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, condemn, correct, discipline, dock, fine,
handicap, hit with, impose penalty

Antonyms: reward

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Word: engaging (‫رابطہ کرنای‬

Meaning: (Adjective) attracting or delighting

Synonyms: agreeable, alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, captivating, enchanting,

enticing, entrancing, fascinating

Antonyms: loathsome, repellant, repulsive, unappealing, unattractive, undesirable,

unlikable

Word: pursuit (‫کوششی‬

Meaning: (Noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

Synonyms: following, hunt, hunting, inquiry, pursual, pursuance, pursuing, quest, reaching

Antonyms: giving

Word: voice (‫اظہار کرنای‬

Meaning: (Verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords

Synonyms: articulation, call, cry, delivery, exclamation, inflection, intonation, language,

modulation, murmur, mutter

Antonyms: be quiet

Word: terminate (‫ختم کرنای‬

Meaning: (Verb) be the end of be the last or concluding part of

Synonyms: abolish, abort, achieve, adjourn, annul, ax, boot, bounce, bound, cancel,
cashier, cease, close, complete, conclude

Antonyms: begin, initiate, open, start

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Word: shed (‫کھونا‬

Meaning: (Verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

Synonyms: afford, beam, cashier, cast, diffuse, disburden, discard, doff, drop, emit, exude,
exuviate, give, give forth, jettison, junk, let fall, molt, pour forth, radiate

Antonyms: grow

Word: scarcely (‫مشکل ےس‬

Meaning: (Adverb) by a small margin

Synonyms: hardly, imperceptibly, infrequently, just, just barely, only just, rarely, scantily,
seldom, slightly

Antonyms: abundantly, amply, enough, sufficiently

Word: ails (‫)تکلیف دینا‬

Meaning: (Verb) be unwell, ill, or ill disposed

Synonyms: abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, beat down, bother, bug, bum out, cast down,
chill, cow, damp, dampen, darken

Antonyms: cheer, comfort, exhilarate, hearten, lift, make happy

Word: exacerbated (‫)بگاڑ دینا‬

Meaning: (Verb) make worse or irritate

Synonyms: aggravate, annoy, egg on, embitter, enrage, envenom, exasperate, excite, heat
up, heighten, hit on, hot up, increase

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Antonyms: appease, assuage, calm, ease, mitigate, mollify, pacify, placate, soften, soothe

Word: besmirch (‫بدنام کرنا‬

Meaning: (Verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained

Synonyms: asperse, bad-mouth, belie, besmirch, blacken, blister, calumniate, denigrate,

detract, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, knock, malign, pan, roast

Antonyms: commend, compliment, exalt, flatter, honor, laud, praise, puff

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Word: calmly (‫امئ ےسی‬

Meaning: (Adverb) in a sedate manner

Synonyms: calmly, comfortably, competently, conveniently, coolly, dexterously, efficiently,

effortlessly, evenly, facilely, fluently, freely, handily, hands down

Antonyms: arduously, difficultly, laboriously

Word: prosper (‫ترقی کرنا‬

Meaning: (Verb) grow stronger

Synonyms: advance, arrive, augment, batten, be enriched, bear, bear fruit, become rich,
become wealthy, benefit, bloom

Antonyms: collapse, fail

Word: compass (‫رہنمائی‬

Meaning: (Verb) get the meaning of something

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Synonyms: ambit, area, bound, circle, circuit, circumference, circumscription, confines,
domain, enclosure, environs, expanse, extent, field, limit, limitation

Antonyms: fail, lose

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