Daily Dawn News Vocabulary with Urdu Meaning | 15 December 2020

Dawn Vocabulary 15 December 2020 | The following words were taken from the Dawn newspaper on December 15, 2020:

• Hype

• Sizeable

• Incendiary

• Tenor

• Scorn

Dawn Vocabulary 15 December 2020 | Urdu Meaning & Sentence Examples

Hype _(verb)  

مبالغے کے ساتھ تشہیر کرنا، کسی شے کو ضرورت سے زیادہ بڑھاوا دینا، کھلم کھلا تشہیر

Extravagant publicity Or a situation in which something is advertised and discussed in newspapers, on television, etc. a lot in order to attract everyone’s interest

Example: Opposition tried to hype up, claiming millions of people attended the procession.

Synonyms: promotion, druggie, escalate, multiply, increase, extensive publicity, aggrandize, supersize, extend, intensive

Antonyms: dwindle, lessen, minify, subtract

Sizeable _(adjective)  

بہت زیادہ، خاصا بڑا، وسیع، معقول، مناسب

Fairly large

Example: Pakistan imported sizeable quantity of wheat to avoid inevitable famine.

Synonyms: considerable, reasonable, bulky, gigantic, vast, tremendous, massive

Antonyms: small, insufficient, insignificant, unimportant, tiny

Incendiary _(adjective)  

اشتعال انگیز، آگ لگا دینے والا، آتش انگیز، آگ لگانے والا، فساد پیدا کرنے والا، بغاوت پیدا کرنے والا، آتش گیر

Designed to cause fires

Example: The murder of George Floyd that took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US on May 25, 2020 was incendiary.

Synonyms: subversive, inflammatory, seditious, demagogic, treacherous

Antonyms: peacemaking, friendly

Tenor _(noun)  

مردانہ آواز کے سب سے اونچے سر سے متعلق

A male singer with a high voice

Example: The ups and downs, rises and falls and tenors in the speech of Prime Minister made his speech extravagant and unique and descended into the hearts of the hearers.

Synonyms: trend, drift, current, tendency

Antonyms: blockage

Scorn _(noun)  

نفرت، حقارت، تضحیک، توہین، تحقیر

Open dislike and disrespect Or a very strong feeling of no respect for someone or something that you think is stupid or has no value

Example: She always pour scorn on his suggestion.

Synonyms: disdain, ridicule, sneer, derision, disregard, despitefulness, misprision, contempt, despisement

Antonyms: regard, respect, admiration