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M-2 / N — Meander to Nurture (50 words)

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The rest of M and all of N: 50 words, from Meander to Nurture.

1. MEANDER (v.)

  • Urdu: بل کھاتے ہوئے بہنا؛ بے مقصد پھرنا
  • Meaning: to follow a winding course; to wander aimlessly
  • Synonyms: wind, twist, zigzag, wander, ramble
  • Antonyms: go straight, run direct
  • Use: The river meanders through the valley.

2. MEDDLE (v.)

  • Urdu: دخل دینا، ٹانگ اڑانا
  • Meaning: to interfere in something that is not one's concern
  • Synonyms: interfere, intrude, pry, tamper, butt in
  • Antonyms: ignore, leave alone, keep out
  • Use: Do not meddle in other countries' affairs.

3. MEDIOCRE (adj.)

  • Urdu: معمولی، درمیانہ درجے کا
  • Meaning: of only average quality
  • Synonyms: ordinary, average, second-rate, indifferent, unexceptional
  • Antonyms: excellent, outstanding, superior, exceptional
  • Use: Mediocre answers won't score well in CSS.

4. MELANCHOLY (n./adj.)

  • Urdu: اداسی
  • Meaning: deep sadness
  • Synonyms: sorrow, gloom, sadness, dejection
  • Antonyms: joy, cheerfulness, exuberance
  • Use: A melancholy mood filled the house.
  • 🔁 CSS 2010, 2019, 2026

5. MELLIFLUOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: شیریں، سریلا
  • Meaning: sweet and smooth to hear
  • Synonyms: melodious, dulcet, euphonious, honeyed
  • Antonyms: grating, harsh, discordant
  • Use: Mehdi Hassan's mellifluous voice is unforgettable.
  • 🔁 CSS 2024

6. MENACE (n./v.)

  • Urdu: خطرہ، وبال؛ دھمکانا
  • Meaning: a threat or danger; to threaten
  • Synonyms: threat, danger, hazard, peril, nuisance
  • Antonyms: safety, security, protection
  • Use: Stray dogs have become a menace in the city.

7. MENDACIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: جھوٹا، دروغ گو
  • Meaning: not telling the truth; lying
  • Synonyms: lying, dishonest, untruthful, deceitful, false
  • Antonyms: honest, truthful, candid, sincere
  • Use: The mendacious report hid the real losses.

8. MENDICANT (n./adj.)

  • Urdu: فقیر، گداگر
  • Meaning: a beggar; living by begging
  • Synonyms: beggar, pauper, supplicant, vagrant
  • Antonyms: benefactor, donor, patron
  • Use: Mendicants gather outside the shrine on Thursdays.

9. MERCENARY (adj./n.)

  • Urdu: کرایے کا سپاہی؛ لالچی
  • Meaning: motivated only by money; a hired soldier
  • Synonyms: greedy, venal, acquisitive, money-grubbing; soldier of fortune
  • Antonyms: altruistic, idealistic, generous
  • Use: Critics called the move purely mercenary.

10. MERCURIAL (adj.)

  • Urdu: متلون مزاج، جلد بدلنے والا
  • Meaning: subject to sudden changes of mood
  • Synonyms: volatile, capricious, fickle, unpredictable, changeable
  • Antonyms: stable, steady, consistent, even-tempered
  • Use: The mercurial batsman can win or lose a match alone.

11. MERITORIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: قابلِ ستائش، اهلیت والا
  • Meaning: deserving reward or praise
  • Synonyms: praiseworthy, commendable, laudable, admirable, worthy
  • Antonyms: unworthy, shameful, blameworthy
  • Use: He received a medal for meritorious service.
  • 🔁 CSS 2014 (antonym of flagitious)

12. METICULOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: بہت محتاط، باریک بیں
  • Meaning: showing great attention to detail
  • Synonyms: careful, precise, thorough, scrupulous, painstaking
  • Antonyms: careless, sloppy, slapdash, negligent
  • Use: Meticulous planning made the event a success.

13. METTLE (n.)

  • Urdu: ہمت، جرأت
  • Meaning: ability to cope with difficulty; spirit
  • Synonyms: courage, spirit, grit, resolve, fortitude
  • Antonyms: cowardice, timidity, weakness
  • Use: The final tested the players' mettle.
  • 🔁 CSS 2013

14. MILIEU (n.)

  • Urdu: ماحول، سماجی فضا
  • Meaning: a person's social environment
  • Synonyms: environment, setting, background, surroundings, sphere
  • Antonyms: (no true antonym)
  • Use: He grew up in a literary milieu.

15. MITIGATE (v.)

  • Urdu: کم کرنا، تخفیف دینا
  • Meaning: to make less severe
  • Synonyms: alleviate, reduce, lessen, ease, palliate
  • Antonyms: aggravate, worsen, intensify
  • Use: Trees help mitigate urban heat.

16. MODICUM (n.)

  • Urdu: ذرا سا، تھوڑی سی مقدار
  • Meaning: a small quantity
  • Synonyms: bit, little, iota, trace, scrap
  • Antonyms: abundance, plenty, lot
  • Use: He lacks even a modicum of courtesy.
  • 🔁 CSS 2023-S

17. MOLLIFY (v.)

  • Urdu: ٹھنڈا کرنا، نرم کرنا
  • Meaning: to calm someone's anger
  • Synonyms: appease, placate, pacify, soothe, calm
  • Antonyms: enrage, provoke, anger, inflame
  • Use: The apology did not mollify the angry customers.

18. MOMENTOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: نہایت اہم، تاریخی
  • Meaning: of great importance
  • Synonyms: historic, significant, crucial, pivotal, epoch-making
  • Antonyms: trivial, insignificant, minor, unimportant
  • Use: 14 August 1947 was a momentous day.

19. MONOTONOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: یکساں اور اکتا دینے والا
  • Meaning: dull and repetitive
  • Synonyms: tedious, boring, dull, humdrum, repetitive
  • Antonyms: varied, interesting, exciting, lively
  • Use: Factory work can be monotonous.

20. MORATORIUM (n.)

  • Urdu: عارضی پابندی
  • Meaning: a temporary suspension of an activity
  • Synonyms: suspension, freeze, ban, halt, embargo
  • Antonyms: resumption, continuation
  • Use: The government imposed a moratorium on new hiring.
  • 🔁 CSS 2008

21. MORBID (adj.)

  • Urdu: موت یا بیماری سے غیر صحت مند دلچسپی والا
  • Meaning: having an unhealthy interest in death or disease
  • Synonyms: gloomy, macabre, ghoulish, grim, sick
  • Antonyms: cheerful, wholesome, healthy, bright
  • Use: He had a morbid fascination with accidents.

22. MORES (n.)

  • Urdu: سماجی رسوم و رواج
  • Meaning: the essential customs and conventions of a society
  • Synonyms: customs, conventions, traditions, norms, ways
  • Antonyms: (no true antonym)
  • Use: Urbanisation is changing traditional mores.

23. MORIBUND (adj.)

  • Urdu: قریب المرگ، زوال پذیر
  • Meaning: at the point of death; in terminal decline
  • Synonyms: dying, declining, failing, stagnant, waning
  • Antonyms: thriving, flourishing, vigorous, booming
  • Use: The moribund steel mill needs a bailout.

24. MOROSE (adj.)

  • Urdu: ترش رو، اداس اور چڑچڑا
  • Meaning: sullen and ill-tempered
  • Synonyms: sullen, gloomy, glum, sulky, dour
  • Antonyms: cheerful, jovial, sunny, happy
  • Use: He became morose after losing his job.

25. MUNDANE (adj.)

  • Urdu: عام، معمولی، دنیاوی
  • Meaning: lacking interest; ordinary; worldly
  • Synonyms: ordinary, humdrum, routine, dull, everyday
  • Antonyms: extraordinary, exciting, remarkable, spiritual
  • Use: Life is full of mundane tasks.
  • 🔁 CSS 2025 (antonym of coruscating)

26. MUNIFICENT (adj.)

  • Urdu: سخی، فیاض
  • Meaning: very generous
  • Synonyms: generous, lavish, bountiful, liberal, charitable
  • Antonyms: stingy, mean, miserly
  • Use: A munificent donor built the university library.
  • 🔁 CSS 2023-S (munificence)

27. MUTINOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: باغیانہ، سرکش
  • Meaning: refusing to obey authority
  • Synonyms: rebellious, insubordinate, defiant, riotous, seditious
  • Antonyms: obedient, loyal, compliant, docile
  • Use: The mutinous soldiers were arrested.

28. MYOPIC (adj.)

  • Urdu: کوتاہ بیں، تنگ نظر
  • Meaning: nearsighted; lacking foresight
  • Synonyms: short-sighted, narrow-minded, unimaginative, insular
  • Antonyms: far-sighted, visionary, broad-minded
  • Use: Myopic policies focus only on the next election.

29. MYRIAD (adj./n.)

  • Urdu: بے شمار، انگنت
  • Meaning: countless; a very great number
  • Synonyms: countless, innumerable, numerous, multitude
  • Antonyms: few, limited, handful
  • Use: The city faces myriad problems.

30. NADIR (n.)

  • Urdu: پست ترین مقام، تنزل کی انتہا
  • Meaning: the lowest point
  • Synonyms: bottom, low point, rock bottom, depths
  • Antonyms: zenith, peak, acme, pinnacle
  • Use: 1971 was the nadir of our national history.

31. NAIVE (adj.)

  • Urdu: سادہ لوح، ناتجربہ کار
  • Meaning: lacking experience or judgement
  • Synonyms: innocent, gullible, credulous, inexperienced, green
  • Antonyms: worldly, sophisticated, experienced, shrewd
  • Use: It is naive to think corruption will vanish overnight.
  • 🔁 CSS 2025 (antonym of perspicacity)

32. NASCENT (adj.)

  • Urdu: ابھرتا ہوا، نوزائیدہ
  • Meaning: just coming into existence
  • Synonyms: emerging, budding, developing, embryonic, incipient
  • Antonyms: mature, developed, established, declining
  • Use: Pakistan's nascent IT industry shows promise.

33. NEBULOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: مبہم، غیر واضح
  • Meaning: unclear, vague or ill-defined
  • Synonyms: vague, hazy, unclear, indistinct, fuzzy
  • Antonyms: clear, precise, definite, distinct
  • Use: The policy's goals were nebulous.

34. NEFARIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: شرمناک، مجرمانہ، بد
  • Meaning: wicked or criminal
  • Synonyms: wicked, evil, villainous, criminal, heinous
  • Antonyms: good, virtuous, honourable, noble
  • Use: The gang ran a nefarious smuggling network.

35. NEGLIGENT (adj.)

  • Urdu: لاپروا، غافل
  • Meaning: failing to take proper care
  • Synonyms: careless, remiss, lax, neglectful, irresponsible
  • Antonyms: careful, diligent, conscientious, attentive
  • Use: The doctor was found negligent in the case.

36. NEMESIS (n.)

  • Urdu: سب سے بڑا دشمن، کیفرِ کردار
  • Meaning: a long-standing rival; an agent of downfall
  • Synonyms: arch-enemy, rival, adversary, bane, downfall
  • Antonyms: ally, friend, supporter
  • Use: Spin bowling has been his nemesis.

37. NEOPHYTE (n.)

  • Urdu: نو آموز، مبتدی
  • Meaning: a beginner
  • Synonyms: novice, beginner, tyro, learner, newcomer
  • Antonyms: veteran, expert, master
  • Use: CSS neophytes should start with past papers.

38. NEPOTISM (n.)

  • Urdu: اقربا پروری
  • Meaning: favouring relatives or friends in giving jobs
  • Synonyms: favouritism, cronyism, bias, partiality
  • Antonyms: meritocracy, impartiality, fairness
  • Use: Nepotism undermines public institutions.

39. NETTLE (v.)

  • Urdu: چڑانا، تنگ کرنا
  • Meaning: to irritate or annoy
  • Synonyms: irritate, annoy, vex, provoke, irk
  • Antonyms: please, soothe, calm, pacify
  • Use: His remarks nettled the opposition.

40. NEXUS (n.)

  • Urdu: گٹھ جوڑ، رابطہ، مرکز
  • Meaning: a connection or series of connections; a central point
  • Synonyms: link, connection, network, hub, core
  • Antonyms: separation, disconnection
  • Use: The report exposed a nexus between criminals and politicians.

41. NOCTURNAL (adj.)

  • Urdu: رات کا، شب بیدار
  • Meaning: active at night
  • Synonyms: night-time, nightly, night-active
  • Antonyms: diurnal, daytime
  • Use: Owls are nocturnal birds.

42. NOISOME (adj.)

  • Urdu: بدبودار، ناگوار
  • Meaning: having an offensive smell; very unpleasant
  • Synonyms: foul, smelly, fetid, offensive, disgusting
  • Antonyms: fragrant, pleasant, wholesome
  • Use: Noisome garbage piled up in the street.
  • Trap: it does not mean "noisy".

43. NOMADIC (adj.)

  • Urdu: خانہ بدوش
  • Meaning: moving from place to place
  • Synonyms: wandering, itinerant, migratory, roving
  • Antonyms: settled, sedentary, stationary
  • Use: Nomadic tribes move to the mountains in summer.

44. NONCHALANT (adj.)

  • Urdu: بے پروا، لاتعلق
  • Meaning: calm and casually unconcerned
  • Synonyms: casual, indifferent, cool, unconcerned, blasé
  • Antonyms: anxious, concerned, nervous, excited
  • Use: He looked nonchalant before the big match.

45. NOTORIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: بدنام
  • Meaning: famous for something bad
  • Synonyms: infamous, disreputable, scandalous, ill-famed
  • Antonyms: reputable, respected, esteemed, unknown
  • Use: The road is notorious for accidents.

46. NOVICE (n.)

  • Urdu: نو آموز
  • Meaning: a person new to a field
  • Synonyms: beginner, tyro, neophyte, learner, apprentice
  • Antonyms: veteran, expert, master
  • Use: Even a novice can learn this method.
  • 🔁 CSS 2015 (antonym of veteran)

47. NOXIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: زہریلا، مضر
  • Meaning: harmful or poisonous
  • Synonyms: poisonous, toxic, harmful, deadly, noisome
  • Antonyms: harmless, innocuous, wholesome
  • Use: Factories release noxious fumes.

48. NUANCE (n.)

  • Urdu: باریک فرق
  • Meaning: a subtle difference in meaning
  • Synonyms: subtlety, shade, nicety, distinction
  • Antonyms: obviousness, bluntness
  • Use: Translation must capture every nuance.
  • 🔁 CSS 2014

49. NULLIFY (v.)

  • Urdu: کالعدم قرار دینا، بے اثر کرنا
  • Meaning: to make legally void; to cancel out
  • Synonyms: annul, void, invalidate, cancel, negate
  • Antonyms: validate, enact, confirm, ratify
  • Use: Inflation nullified the salary increase.

50. NURTURE (v./n.)

  • Urdu: پرورش کرنا، پالنا
  • Meaning: to care for and encourage growth
  • Synonyms: nourish, foster, cultivate, raise, support
  • Antonyms: neglect, abandon, hinder, stunt
  • Use: Schools must nurture creativity.