English Words:
Stagflation
Meaning: an economic situation in which prices keep rising but economic activity does not increase
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
Unduly
Meaning: more than is necessary, acceptable, or reasonable
Sentence: The new finance minister must strengthen the SBP so that there is no perception of unduly intervention of the finance ministry in the SBP’s roles.
Synonyms: excessively, immoderately, intemperately, disproportionately, out of all, proportion, inordinately, superfluously, too, overly, overmuch, unnecessarily
Antonyms: duly, appropriately
Quell
Meaning: to stop something, especially by using force
Sentence: A stampede at a soccer stadium in Indonesia killed at least 125 people and injured more than 320 on Saturday night after police sought to quell violence on the pitch, in one of the world`s worst stadium disasters.
Synonyms: put an end to, stamp out, put a stop to, end, finish, get rid of, crush, put down, check, crack down on, curb, nip in the bud, thwart, frustrate
Antonyms: bring about, prompt
Jeopardy
Meaning: in danger of being damaged or destroyed
Sentence: Though our economists have been advocating the government to ease socio-economic jeopardies caused by the recurring crises, they lack the knowledge of survival economics
Synonyms: peril, accident, chance, endangerment, exposure, hazard, insecurity, liability, precariousness, risk, venture, vulnerability, double trouble, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb
Antonyms: assurance, certainty, safety, surety, protection
Rhetoric
Meaning: speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
Sentence: I was swayed by her rhetoric into donating all my savings to the charity.
Synonyms: hyperbole, oratory, address, balderdash, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, fustian, grandiloquence, magniloquence oration, pomposity, rant, verbosity
Antonyms: quiet, conciseness
Nightmarish
Meaning: extremely unpleasant and very upsetting or frightening
Sentence: a nightmarish traffic jam
Synonyms: awful, chilling, disquieting, dreadful, eerie, ghastly, grim, grisly, hair-raising, hellish, horrible, horrid, horrifying, macabre, scary, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, alarming, creepy, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, ghoulish, morbid, ominous, petrifying, unnerving
Antonyms: calming, good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, soothing, wonderful
Verge
Meaning: the edge or border of something
Sentence: They set up camp on the verge of the desert.
Synonyms: brink, edge, fringe, threshold, border, borderline, boundary, brim, extreme, hem, lip, margin, point, rim, selvage, skirt, terminus
Antonyms: center, inside, interior, middle
Terminus
Meaning: the last stop or the station at the end of a bus or train route
Sentence: We may also, however, justly assume that death is not life's simple opposite, or its necessary terminus, but rather its completion.
Synonyms: accomplishment, achievement, adjournment, attainment, cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, culmination, curtain, denouement, desuetude, determination, discontinuance, ending
Antonyms: beginning, cause, commencement, continuation, defeat, failure, forfeit, frustration, imperfection, inception, initiation, introduction, neglect, opening, origin, source, start, unfulfillment, worthlessness
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
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
Predominant
Meaning: more noticeable or important, or larger in number, than others
Sentence: Research forms the predominant part of my job.
Synonyms: dominant, dominating, main, potent, prevailing, prevalent, weighty
Antonyms: inferior, minor, secondary, subordinate, unimportant, inconsequential, trivial
Bedevil
Meaning: to confuse, annoy, or cause problems or difficulties for someone or something
Sentence: Ever since I started playing tennis, I've been bedevilled by back pains.
Synonyms: annoy, beset, bother, harass, irritate, torment, badger, bug
Antonyms: aid, assist, delight, help, make happy, please, soothe, clarify, clear up, explain
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
Missive
Meaning: an official, formal, or long letter
Sentence: She sent a ten-page missive to the committee, detailing her objections.
Synonyms: memo, memorandum, dispatch, epistle, letter, line, message, note, report, word
Antonyms: silence, speech
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
Huddle
Meaning: to come close together in a group, for example because it is cold
Sentence: to sit or stand in a bent position with your arms and legs close to your body, especially because of cold or fear.
Synonyms: bunch, chaos, cluster, clutter, confab, conference, confusion, disarray, discussion, disorder, gathering, group, heap, jumble, mass, meeting, mess, muddle
Antonyms: arrangement, calm, harmony, individual, method, one, order, orderliness, organization, quiet, system, tidiness
Reprisal
Meaning: (an example of) activity against another person, especially as a punishment by military forces or a political group
Sentence: They promised that individuals could live freely without fear of reprisal from the military.
Synonyms: retaliation, retribution, vengeance, counterblow, requital, avengement, avenging, counterstroke, eye for an eye, paying back
Antonyms: forgiveness, pardon, kindness, sympathy
Contentious
Meaning: causing , involving, or likely to cause disagreement and argument
Sentence: She has some very contentious views on education.
Synonyms: antagonistic, combative, testy, argumentative, belligerent, disagreeable, factious, perverse, petulant, querulous
Antonyms: agreeable
Ambivalence
Meaning: the state of having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel
Sentence: her ambivalence towards men
Synonyms: doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, uncertainty, fluctuation, haze, inconclusiveness
Antonyms: certainty, sureness, decisiveness
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