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07/04/2022

🔖 Gingerly (Adverb)

Ⓜ️If you do something gingerly, you do it in a careful manner, usually because you expect it to be dangerous, unpleasant, or painful.
[written]

Ⓜ️ اِنتہائی احتیاط سے ۔ ہوشیاری سے ۔ خَبَردار ہو کَر ۔ ڈرتے ڈرتے .

♦️She was touching the dressing gingerly with both hands.

♦️I drove gingerly past the security check points.

♦️Gingerly he opened the door of the rat's cage.

♦️She gingerly picked the flower.

💱Synonyms: cautiously, carefully, reluctantly, suspiciously

05/04/2022

🔖 *Frivolous* (adjective)

Ⓜ️(of people or their behaviour) silly or funny, especially when such behaviour is not suitable
frivolous comments/suggestions

غَیر سَنجِیدہ ۔ ادني-- بے وقعت-

♦️Sorry, I was being frivolous.
♦️Her words seemed utterly frivolous.
♦️I think he sees her as a frivolous young woman.

Ⓜ️​having no useful or serious purpose
سُبَک سَر ۔ نِکَمّا ۔ خفيف- چھوٹا- اوچھا-

♦️frivolous pastimes/pleasures
♦️ The court discourages frivolous lawsuits.
♦️At 18, he's still rather frivolous and needs to grow up.
♦️ I feel like doing something completely frivolous today.

03/04/2022

🔖 *Extravagant* (adjective)

Ⓜ️ Meaning:
Someone who is extravagant spends more money than they can afford or uses more of something than is reasonable.

فضول خرچ- مسرف- لکھ لٹ- بے جا خرچ کرنے والا- اڑاؤ

🪄 Examples;

♦️Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
♦️ Would it would be too extravagant to buy both?
♦️I felt very extravagant spending ￡100 on a dress.

30/11/2020

20/02/2018

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🍁 VV 1 > Abolish /əbɒl.ɪʃ/ /-bɑ.lɪʃ/ verb [ T ]
- to end an activity or custom officially
- formally put an end to (a system, practice, custom or institution).
موقوف کرنا ۔ ختم کرنا۔ منسوخ کرنا ۔

▶Synonyms and related words:
put an end to, do away with, get rid of, scrap, end, stop, terminate, eradicate, eliminate, void, give something the chop.

▶ Antonyms:
Retain, create.

📝Examples:
The government is planning to abolish subsidies* to farmers.
( امداد ۔ وہ رقم جو پارلیمنٹ بادشاہ کو ریاست کے مخصوص کام کے لیے دیتی تھی ۔ )
• Many teachers wish to abolish the cane. (سزا دے کر پڑھانا ۔)
• Some MPs want to abolish the tax altogether.
• There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
• Can you abolish the Department of Agriculture?
• I think bullfighting should be abolished.
• National Service was abolished in Britain in 1962.
• Welfare programs cannot be abolished that quickly.
• No wonder they are being abolished.

08/02/2018

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NN 1 🧥 Kiss curl noun [C] UK ( US spit curl )
🔭Explanation:
A loose curl falling across the forehead or along the cheek. (= part of the face above the eyes)
ماتھے یا چہرے میں آنے والے بال / لٹ

01/02/2018

Luxuriant vs Luxurious
Luxuriant means "characterized by thick or abundant growth." It is usually applies to the growth of plants, fur, or hair.
Example:
Her hair is luxuriant.
Luxurious means "characterized by wealth and comfort," more directly from our modern word luxury.
Example:
She leads a luxurious life.

30/01/2018

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01/11/2017

🔮 WOD 📆

🔖 nn > Privilege. /prɪv. ə l.ɪdʒ/ (noun)
(a) 🔭 Meaning:
[ C or U ] an advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because of their position or because they are rich.
امتیازی حق ۔ استحقاق ۔

🔗 Synonym & related words: Advantage, benefit, allowance, concession, entitlement.
🔗 Antonym: Disadvantage, handicap, hindrance, misfortune.
📝Examples:
Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.
Senior management enjoy certain privileges .
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.

(b)🔭 Meaning:
[ S ] an opportunity to do something special or enjoyable
فائدہ ۔ رعایت ۔ استحقاق ۔ استشنا ۔ ایک حق ۔
📝Examples:
I had the privilege of interviewing Picasso in the 1960s.
It was a real privilege to meet her.

(c) 🔭 Meaning:
[ U ] the way in which rich people or people from a high social class have most of the advantages in society

📝Examples: a life of privilege
Students from a privileged background have an advantage at university.

(d) 🔭 Meaning:
4. [ C or U ] specialized the special right that some people in authority have which allows them to do or say things that other people are not allowed to.
📝Examples:
diplomatic/parliamentary privilege
I had the privilege of meeting the queen.

🔖 nn > Privileged. /prɪv. ə l.ɪdʒd/ (Adj)
(a) 🔭 Meaning:
having a privilege
۔ استحقاق ۔ جسے مراعات حاصل ہوں ۔ مقدم ۔ مراعات یافتہ ۔ کسی پسندیدہ شخص یا گروہ کے متعلق .
🔗 Synonym & related words: Favored, elite, honored, powerful.
🔗 Antonym: Known, open, disadvantageous, prevented, unexempt.
📝Examples: As an ambassador, she enjoys a very privileged status.
[ + to infinitive ] I have been privileged to work with the pioneers of silicon technology.
They come from a privileged/wealthy background.
We are privileged tonight to have as our distinguished guest Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs.

(b) 🔭 Meaning:
specialized describes information that is secret and does not have to be given even in a court of law
عدالت سے چھپائی ہوئی کوئی بات جو اس سے انایت یا پیش نی کی جانی ہو ، چُھپا کر رکھی جانے والی ہو|

31/10/2017

🔖 Scorching (Adj)
🔭 Meaning: very hot
جھلسا دینے والی گرمی ۔

🔗 Synonym & related words:
Blistering, sweltering, sizzling, fiery, burning.

📝 Examples:
It was scorching hot inside the greenhouse.
It was a scorching hot day.
It was scorching hot to touch.