Sentence: With an average inflation rate of around 25 per cent and an anticipated GDP growth of just 1-2pc in FY23, Pakistan is suffering from severe stagflation.

Synonyms: bankruptcy, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump.

Antonyms: calm, increase, rise, success, bulge, cheerfulness, convexity, encouragement.

Speculative

Meaning: based on a guess and not on information

Sentence: The rupee's deteriorating value had a lot to do with speculative buying of dollars and the market expects that Dar will be able to bring the rupee back to its actual worth.

Synonyms: abstract, analytical, assumed, conceptive, dangerous, dicey, experimental, unproven

Antonyms: proven, safe

Stimulus

Meaning: something that causes growth or activity

Sentence: Foreign investment has been a stimulus to the industry.

Synonyms: catalyst, encouragement, fillip, impetus, incentive, motivation, stimulant

Antonyms: block, discouragement, hindrance, deterrent

Sesame

Meaning: a herb grown for its small oval seeds and its oil

Sentence: sesame oil/seeds

Susceptible

Meaning: easily influenced or harmed by something

Sentence: These plants are particularly susceptible to frost.

Synonyms: affected, easy, impressionable, inclined, liable, prone, ready, receptive, responsive, sensitive, vulnerable, wide open, aroused, be taken in, disposed, easily moved, fall for

Antonyms: insensitive, unlikely, unresponsive, unsusceptible, resistant, resisting

Stalemate

Meaning: a situation in which neither group involved in an argument can win or get an advantage and no action can be taken

Sentence: in chess, a position in which one player is unable to move, but their king is not being attacked, which means that neither of the two players wins

Synonyms: delay, gridlock, impasse, standoff, standstill, arrest, check, draw, pause, tie, Catch-22

Antonyms: advance, headway, progress

Splinter

Meaning: a small, sharp, broken piece of wood, glass, plastic, or similar material

Sentence: a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.

Synonyms: sliver, bit, chip, flake, fragment, needle, paring, shaving, wood

Antonyms: whole

Scepticism

Meaning: an attitude that shows you doubt whether something is true or useful

Sentence: The company's environmental claims have been greeted/ regarded/ treated with scepticism by conservationists.

Supine

Meaning: Supine means “lying on the back.” The opposite position, lying face down, is called prone.

Sentence: We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun.

Synonyms: decumbent, flat, flat on one's back, horizontal, level, procumbent, prone

SACCHARINE

Meaning: excessively sweet or sentimental.

SACRILEGE

Meaning: violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred.

SACROSANCT

Meaning: (especially of a principle, place, or routine) regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.

SAGACIOUS

Meaning: having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd.

Sentence: Socrates, that sagacious Greek philosopher, believed that the easiest way to learn was by asking questions.

Synonyms: acute, apt, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted, clever

Antonyms: careless, foolish, ignorant, stupid

SALIENT

Meaning: most noticeable or important.

SALUTARY

Meaning: (especially with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) producing good effects; beneficial.

SANCTIMONIOUS

Meaning: making a show of being morally superior to other people.

SANGUINE

Meaning: optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

SARDONIC

Meaning: grimly mocking or cynical.

SCINTILLATE

Meaning: emit flashes of light; sparkle.

SCRUPULOUS

Meaning: (of a person or process) careful, thorough, and extremely attentive to details.

SCRUTINIZE

Meaning: examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.

SECULAR

Meaning: not connected with religious or spiritual matters.

SEDITION

Meaning: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

SEGREGATE

Meaning: set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.

SENSORY

Meaning: relating to sensation or the physical senses; transmitted or perceived by the senses.

SENTIENT

Meaning: able to perceive or feel things.

SEQUESTER

Meaning: isolate or hide away.

SERENDIPITY

Meaning: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

SERVILE

Meaning: having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.

SINGULAR

Meaning: (of a word or form) denoting or referring to just one person or thing.

SINISTER

Meaning: giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.

SLANDER

Meaning: the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.

SLOTH

Meaning: reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness.

SOBRIETY

Meaning: the state of being sober.

SOLICITOUS

Meaning: characterized by or showing interest or concern.

SOLVENT

Meaning: having assets in excess of liabilities; able to pay one's debts.

SOPORIFIC

Meaning: tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.

SORDID

Meaning: involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt.

SPAWN

Meaning: (of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs.

SPECIOUS

Meaning: superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

SPORADIC

Meaning: occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.

SPURIOUS

Meaning: not being what it purports to be; false or fake.

SQUALOR

Meaning: the state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.

SQUANDER

Meaning: waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner.

STAGNATION

Meaning: the state of not flowing or moving.

STATIC

Meaning: lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in an undesirable or uninteresting way.

STAUNCH

Meaning: very loyal and committed in attitude.

STEADFAST

Meaning: resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.

STIGMATIZE

Meaning: describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval.

STIPULATE

Meaning: demand or specify (a requirement), typically as part of an agreement.

STOIC

Meaning: a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

STRATUM

Meaning: a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground.

STRICTURE

Meaning: a restriction on a person or activity.

STRIFE

Meaning: angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict.

STRINGENT

Meaning: (of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting.

STYMIE

Meaning: prevent or hinder the progress of.

SUBJUGATE

Meaning: bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

SUBLIME

Meaning: of very great excellence or beauty.

SUBORDINATE

Meaning: lower in rank or position.

SUBSTANTIVE

Meaning: having a firm basis in reality and so important, meaningful, or considerable.

SUBTLE

Meaning: (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe.

Word of the Day

English Word	Calvary
Meaning	The place where Christ was crucified.
Synonyms	Affliction, Agony, Anguish, Calamity, Cross, Crucible, Difficulty, Distress, Nightmare, Test, Torment, Torture, Trial, Tribulation, Visitation,
Antonyms	Comfort, Contentment, Happiness, Health, Joy, Peace, Pleasure,

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