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Bucket 23 — Wealth, Poverty & Economy

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Best for: Economics and Pakistan Affairs. Poverty words: indigence, impecunious, penury. Greed words: avarice, cupidity. Spending words: munificent vs parsimonious. 8 words (1 repeat).

1. AMORTIZE (v.)

  • Urdu: قرض قسطوں میں ادا کرنا
  • Meaning: gradually pay off a debt by regular instalments
  • Syn: pay off, repay, liquidate, settle · Ant: borrow, accumulate debt, default
  • ✍️ Use: Eurobonds must be amortized in dollars, straining already thin reserves.
  • 🧠 Hook: mort (death, as in mortal) → bring the debt slowly to its death.

2. AVARICE (n.)

  • Urdu: حرص، لالچ
  • Meaning: extreme greed for wealth
  • Syn: greed, cupidity, rapacity, covetousness · Ant: generosity, munificence, altruism, charity
  • ✍️ Use: Hoarders' avarice turned a wheat shortage into a national crisis.
  • 🧠 Hook: ava-rice: wanting all the rice for yourself.

3. INDIGENCE (n.)

  • Urdu: شدید غریبی، محتاجی
  • Meaning: extreme poverty
  • Syn: poverty, penury, destitution, want · Ant: affluence, wealth, prosperity, opulence
  • ✍️ Use: Zakat was designed as a systematic remedy for indigence.
  • 🧠 Hook: in di-re need. Trap: indigenous = native; indigent = poor.

4. IMPECUNIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: مفلس، تہی دست
  • Meaning: having little or no money
  • Syn: poor, penniless, destitute, broke · Ant: wealthy, rich, affluent, prosperous
  • ✍️ Use: Impecunious students depend entirely on merit scholarships.
  • 🧠 Hook: im (not) + pecunia (Latin: money) → no money. Related: pecuniary.

5. MUNIFICENT (adj.) 🔁

  • Urdu: نہایت سخی · very generous · Syn: lavish · Ant: stingy · Full entry → Bucket 16

6. PARSIMONIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: کنجوس، بخیل، حد سے زیادہ کفایت شعار
  • Meaning: unwilling to spend money; extremely frugal
  • Syn: stingy, miserly, niggardly, tight-fisted · Ant: generous, munificent, lavish, extravagant
  • ✍️ Use: Parsimonious spending on health left hospitals unprepared for the pandemic.
  • 🧠 Hook: pars-i-money → parting with money is painful.

7. PENURY (n.)

  • Urdu: افلاس، شدید تنگدستی
  • Meaning: extreme poverty
  • Syn: destitution, indigence, want, privation · Ant: wealth, affluence, luxury, plenty
  • ✍️ Use: Inflation has pushed millions of families from hardship into penury.
  • 🧠 Hook: only a penny left. Adj: penurious.

8. CUPIDITY (n.)

  • Urdu: لالچ، حرص (مال و دولت کی)
  • Meaning: greed for money or possessions
  • Syn: greed, avarice, acquisitiveness, covetousness · Ant: generosity, contentment, selflessness
  • ✍️ Use: The cupidity of a few land-grabbers displaced entire villages.
  • 🧠 Hook: Cupid shoots arrows of desire; here the love is for money.