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S-3 / T-1 — Substantiate to Tenuous (50 words)

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The end of letter S and the start of T: 50 words, from Substantiate to Tenuous.

1. SUBSTANTIATE (v.)

  • Urdu: ثابت کرنا، ثبوت دینا
  • Meaning: to provide evidence to support a claim
  • Synonyms: prove, verify, confirm, corroborate, validate
  • Antonyms: disprove, refute, contradict, invalidate
  • Use: Substantiate every claim in your essay with evidence.

2. SUBTERFUGE (n.)

  • Urdu: حیلہ، چالاکی
  • Meaning: deceit used to achieve one's goal
  • Synonyms: trickery, deception, ruse, ploy, stratagem
  • Antonyms: honesty, candour, openness, frankness
  • Use: The company used subterfuge to evade taxes.

3. SUBTLE (adj.)

  • Urdu: باریک، لطیف
  • Meaning: so delicate as to be hard to notice
  • Synonyms: delicate, fine, understated, nuanced, slight
  • Antonyms: obvious, blatant, crude, glaring
  • Use: There is a subtle difference between the two terms.

4. SUBVERSIVE (adj.)

  • Urdu: تخریبی، نظام کو الٹنے والا
  • Meaning: seeking to undermine an established system
  • Synonyms: seditious, disruptive, rebellious, insurrectionary, destructive
  • Antonyms: loyal, supportive, conformist, constructive
  • Use: Subversive propaganda spread through fake accounts.

5. SUCCINCT (adj.)

  • Urdu: مختصر اور واضح
  • Meaning: briefly and clearly expressed
  • Synonyms: concise, brief, terse, pithy, compact
  • Antonyms: verbose, wordy, long-winded, prolix
  • Use: A précis must be succinct.

6. SUCCUMB (v.)

  • Urdu: ہار مان لینا؛ دم توڑ دینا
  • Meaning: to give way to pressure; to die from
  • Synonyms: yield, give in, surrender, submit; die
  • Antonyms: resist, withstand, overcome, survive
  • Use: He succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

7. SULLEN (adj.)

  • Urdu: منہ پھلائے ہوئے، اداس اور ناراض
  • Meaning: bad-tempered and sulky
  • Synonyms: sulky, moody, morose, surly, glum
  • Antonyms: cheerful, happy, pleasant, sunny
  • Use: The sullen teenager refused to speak.

8. SULLY (v.)

  • Urdu: داغدار کرنا، بدنام کرنا
  • Meaning: to damage the purity or reputation of
  • Synonyms: tarnish, stain, taint, besmirch, defile
  • Antonyms: clean, purify, honour, glorify
  • Use: The scandal sullied the department's name.

9. SUMPTUOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: شاہانہ، پرتکلف
  • Meaning: splendid and expensive-looking
  • Synonyms: lavish, luxurious, opulent, grand, magnificent
  • Antonyms: plain, simple, cheap, austere
  • Use: Guests were served a sumptuous dinner.

10. SUPERCILIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: مغرور، دوسروں کو حقیر سمجھنے والا
  • Meaning: behaving as though one is superior to others
  • Synonyms: arrogant, haughty, condescending, disdainful, snobbish
  • Antonyms: humble, modest, unassuming, respectful
  • Use: The supercilious clerk ignored poor applicants.

11. SUPERFICIAL (adj.)

  • Urdu: سطحی، اوپری
  • Meaning: existing only on the surface; shallow
  • Synonyms: shallow, surface, cursory, perfunctory, slight
  • Antonyms: deep, profound, thorough, fundamental
  • Use: Superficial reforms will not fix the tax system.

12. SUPERFLUOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: زائد، غیر ضروری
  • Meaning: unnecessary, more than enough
  • Synonyms: redundant, unnecessary, excess, surplus, needless
  • Antonyms: necessary, essential, required, vital
  • Use: Cut superfluous adjectives from the précis.

13. SUPERSEDE (v.)

  • Urdu: جگہ لینا، منسوخ کر کے نافذ ہونا
  • Meaning: to take the place of something older
  • Synonyms: replace, supplant, succeed, displace, override
  • Antonyms: precede, retain, keep
  • Use: The new law supersedes the colonial-era act.

14. SUPINE (adj.)

  • Urdu: چت لیٹا ہوا؛ بے عمل، سست
  • Meaning: lying face upward; failing to act due to weakness
  • Synonyms: flat, prone (loosely); passive, inert, spineless
  • Antonyms: upright; active, assertive, energetic
  • Use: A supine parliament rubber-stamps every ordinance.

15. SUPPLANT (v.)

  • Urdu: جگہ لے لینا، بے دخل کرنا
  • Meaning: to replace, often by force or scheming
  • Synonyms: replace, supersede, displace, oust, overthrow
  • Antonyms: retain, support, maintain
  • Use: Smartphones have supplanted cameras.

16. SUPPLEMENT (n./v.)

  • Urdu: ضمیمہ؛ اضافہ کرنا
  • Meaning: something added to complete or enhance
  • Synonyms: addition, extra, add-on; augment, boost
  • Antonyms: reduction; decrease, reduce
  • Use: Farmers supplement their income with livestock.

17. SUPPLICATE (v.)

  • Urdu: التجا کرنا، گڑگڑانا
  • Meaning: to ask or beg humbly
  • Synonyms: entreat, implore, beseech, plead, petition
  • Antonyms: demand, command, order
  • Use: The widow supplicated the court for justice.

18. SURFEIT (n.)

  • Urdu: زیادتی، ضرورت سے بہت زیادہ
  • Meaning: an excessive amount
  • Synonyms: excess, glut, surplus, plethora, overabundance
  • Antonyms: lack, shortage, dearth, scarcity
  • Use: A surfeit of sugar production crashed prices.

19. SURMISE (v./n.)

  • Urdu: اندازہ لگانا، قیاس
  • Meaning: to suppose without evidence
  • Synonyms: guess, conjecture, infer, deduce, speculate
  • Antonyms: know, prove, verify
  • Use: From his silence, we surmised he had failed.

20. SURMOUNT (v.)

  • Urdu: قابو پانا، پار کرنا
  • Meaning: to overcome a difficulty
  • Synonyms: overcome, conquer, master, triumph over, prevail over
  • Antonyms: succumb, fail, yield, surrender
  • Use: Arfa Karim surmounted every barrier to excel.

21. SURREPTITIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: خفیہ، چوری چھپے
  • Meaning: kept secret because it would not be approved
  • Synonyms: secret, stealthy, furtive, clandestine, covert
  • Antonyms: open, overt, blatant, public
  • Use: He took a surreptitious glance at his phone during the exam.

22. SURROGATE (n./adj.)

  • Urdu: نائب، متبادل
  • Meaning: a substitute
  • Synonyms: substitute, proxy, stand-in, deputy, replacement
  • Antonyms: original, principal, real
  • Use: Militant groups acted as surrogates in the proxy war.

23. SURVEILLANCE (n.)

  • Urdu: نگرانی، چوکسی
  • Meaning: close observation, especially of a suspect
  • Synonyms: observation, monitoring, watch, scrutiny, reconnaissance
  • Antonyms: neglect, inattention, disregard
  • Use: Safe City cameras keep the capital under surveillance.

24. SUSCEPTIBLE (adj.)

  • Urdu: جلد متاثر ہونے والا
  • Meaning: likely to be influenced or harmed
  • Synonyms: vulnerable, prone, liable, open, sensitive
  • Antonyms: immune, resistant, invulnerable, impervious
  • Use: Children are susceptible to online radicalization.

25. SUSTAIN (v.)

  • Urdu: قائم رکھنا؛ برداشت کرنا
  • Meaning: to maintain; to suffer (injury or loss)
  • Synonyms: maintain, support, uphold, prolong; suffer
  • Antonyms: abandon, halt, discontinue
  • Use: Growth cannot be sustained on borrowed money.

26. SWINDLE (v./n.)

  • Urdu: دھوکہ دینا، فراڈ
  • Meaning: to cheat someone out of money
  • Synonyms: defraud, cheat, con, dupe; fraud, scam
  • Antonyms: repay, be honest
  • Use: A fake housing scheme swindled thousands.

27. SYCOPHANT (n.)

  • Urdu: خوشامدی، چاپلوس
  • Meaning: a person who flatters the powerful for advantage
  • Synonyms: flatterer, toady, bootlicker, yes-man, lackey
  • Antonyms: critic, detractor, rebel
  • Use: Leaders surrounded by sycophants lose touch with reality.

28. SYMBIOTIC (adj.)

  • Urdu: باہمی فائدے والا، ایک دوسرے پر منحصر
  • Meaning: mutually beneficial
  • Synonyms: mutually beneficial, interdependent, cooperative, reciprocal
  • Antonyms: parasitic, one-sided, competitive, independent
  • Use: Industry and universities should have a symbiotic relationship.

29. SYMMETRY (n.)

  • Urdu: تناسب، ہم آہنگی
  • Meaning: balanced proportions; correspondence of parts
  • Synonyms: balance, proportion, harmony, regularity, evenness
  • Antonyms: asymmetry, imbalance, irregularity
  • Use: The Badshahi Mosque is admired for its symmetry.

30. SYNCHRONIZE (v.)

  • Urdu: ہم وقت کرنا، ہم آہنگ کرنا
  • Meaning: to cause to occur at the same time or rate
  • Synonyms: coordinate, align, match, harmonize, time
  • Antonyms: desynchronize, mismatch, disorganize
  • Use: Federal and provincial policies must be synchronized.

31. SYNONYMOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: ہم معنی، مترادف
  • Meaning: having the same meaning; closely associated with
  • Synonyms: equivalent, identical, interchangeable, same, associated
  • Antonyms: antonymous, opposite, different, contrary
  • Use: Sialkot is synonymous with sports goods.

32. SYNOPSIS (n.)

  • Urdu: خلاصہ، مختصر جائزہ
  • Meaning: a brief summary
  • Synonyms: summary, outline, abstract, digest, précis
  • Antonyms: expansion, elaboration, full text
  • Use: Write a synopsis of the novel in 200 words.

33. SYNTHESIS (n.)

  • Urdu: امتزاج، تالیف
  • Meaning: the combination of parts into a whole
  • Synonyms: combination, fusion, blend, integration, amalgamation
  • Antonyms: analysis, separation, division, breakdown
  • Use: Iqbal's thought is a synthesis of East and West.

34. TACIT (adj.)

  • Urdu: خاموش (رضامندی)، ضمنی
  • Meaning: understood without being stated
  • Synonyms: implicit, unspoken, implied, understood, silent
  • Antonyms: explicit, stated, spoken, express
  • Use: The operation had the government's tacit approval.

35. TACITURN (adj.)

  • Urdu: کم گو، خاموش طبع
  • Meaning: saying little; uncommunicative
  • Synonyms: reserved, reticent, quiet, uncommunicative, laconic
  • Antonyms: talkative, garrulous, loquacious, voluble
  • Use: The taciturn general rarely gave interviews.

36. TACTFUL (adj.)

  • Urdu: مصلحت شناس، موقع شناس
  • Meaning: showing sensitivity in dealing with others
  • Synonyms: diplomatic, discreet, sensitive, considerate, politic
  • Antonyms: tactless, blunt, insensitive, undiplomatic
  • Use: A tactful reply defused the argument.

37. TACTILE (adj.)

  • Urdu: لمسی، چھونے سے متعلق
  • Meaning: relating to the sense of touch
  • Synonyms: tangible, touchable, palpable, physical
  • Antonyms: intangible, impalpable
  • Use: Braille relies on tactile reading.

38. TAINT (v./n.)

  • Urdu: آلودہ کرنا، داغ
  • Meaning: to contaminate or corrupt; a trace of something bad
  • Synonyms: contaminate, pollute, sully, stain; blemish
  • Antonyms: purify, clean, cleanse
  • Use: Allegations of rigging tainted the election.

39. TANGENTIAL (adj.)

  • Urdu: ضمنی، موضوع سے ہٹا ہوا
  • Meaning: only slightly relevant; diverging
  • Synonyms: peripheral, incidental, irrelevant, digressive, marginal
  • Antonyms: central, relevant, pertinent, essential
  • Use: Tangential points weaken an essay's argument.

40. TANGIBLE (adj.)

  • Urdu: مادی، ٹھوس، محسوس
  • Meaning: perceptible by touch; clear and definite
  • Synonyms: concrete, real, palpable, physical, definite
  • Antonyms: intangible, abstract, vague, theoretical
  • Use: Voters want tangible results, not promises.

41. TANTALIZE (v.)

  • Urdu: للچانا اور محروم رکھنا
  • Meaning: to torment with something desirable but unobtainable
  • Synonyms: tease, tempt, entice, taunt, lure
  • Antonyms: satisfy, gratify, fulfil
  • Use: The prospect of oil discovery tantalized the nation.

42. TANTAMOUNT (adj.)

  • Urdu: مترادف، کے برابر
  • Meaning: equivalent in seriousness to
  • Synonyms: equivalent, equal, synonymous, comparable, as good as
  • Antonyms: different, unequal, dissimilar
  • Use: Silence in the face of injustice is tantamount to complicity.

43. TARDY (adj.)

  • Urdu: تاخیر سے، سست
  • Meaning: delaying or delayed beyond the right time
  • Synonyms: late, belated, slow, delayed, dilatory
  • Antonyms: punctual, prompt, timely, early
  • Use: Tardy relief work angered flood victims.

44. TEDIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: اکتا دینے والا، تھکا دینے والا
  • Meaning: too long, slow or dull
  • Synonyms: boring, monotonous, dreary, wearisome, humdrum
  • Antonyms: exciting, interesting, stimulating, engaging
  • Use: Copying data by hand is tedious work.

45. TEMERITY (n.)

  • Urdu: جسارت، گستاخی
  • Meaning: excessive confidence or boldness
  • Synonyms: audacity, nerve, effrontery, impudence, gall
  • Antonyms: timidity, caution, shyness, humility
  • Use: He had the temerity to question the chief justice.

46. TEMPERATE (adj.)

  • Urdu: معتدل، میانہ رو
  • Meaning: showing moderation; (climate) mild
  • Synonyms: moderate, restrained, self-controlled; mild, clement
  • Antonyms: intemperate, excessive; extreme, harsh
  • Use: Swat has a temperate climate.

47. TENABLE (adj.)

  • Urdu: قابلِ دفاع، معقول
  • Meaning: able to be maintained or defended
  • Synonyms: defensible, justifiable, sound, reasonable, viable
  • Antonyms: untenable, indefensible, weak, unjustifiable
  • Use: The argument is no longer tenable given the new data.

48. TENACIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: مضبوطی سے جما رہنے والا، ثابت قدم
  • Meaning: holding firmly; persistent
  • Synonyms: persistent, determined, dogged, resolute, pertinacious
  • Antonyms: irresolute, weak, yielding, wavering
  • Use: Tenacious lawyers finally won the case.

49. TENTATIVE (adj.)

  • Urdu: عارضی، غیر حتمی
  • Meaning: not certain or fixed; hesitant
  • Synonyms: provisional, preliminary, uncertain, hesitant, cautious
  • Antonyms: definite, final, confident, certain
  • Use: A tentative agreement was reached with the IMF.

50. TENUOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: کمزور، باریک
  • Meaning: very weak or slight
  • Synonyms: weak, flimsy, slight, fragile, insubstantial
  • Antonyms: strong, solid, substantial, convincing
  • Use: The link between the two cases is tenuous.