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Bucket 41 — Personality Flaws & Social Errors
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Best for: analysing historical failures and social ethics. 6 words (3 repeats).
1. AFFECTATION (n.)
- Urdu: تصنع، بناوٹ، دکھاوا
- Meaning: behaviour or speech that is artificial and meant to impress
- Syn: pretension, pretence, posturing, artificiality · Ant: naturalness, sincerity, simplicity, artlessness
- ✍️ Use: Using English as an affectation of class widens Pakistan's social divide.
- 🧠 Hook: trying to affect how others see you.
2. ARTLESS (adj.) 🔁
- Urdu: سادہ، بے تکلف · natural, without deceit · Syn: ingenuous · Ant: crafty · Full entry → Bucket 5
3. CHAUVINISM (n.) 🔁
- Urdu: گروہی تعصب · prejudiced belief in own group's superiority · Syn: jingoism · Ant: tolerance · Full entry → Bucket 21
4. GLIB (adj.) 🔁
- Urdu: چرب زبان · fluent but insincere · Syn: slick · Ant: sincere · Full entry → Bucket 21
5. PUERILE (adj.)
- Urdu: بچکانہ، نابالغانہ
- Meaning: childishly silly and immature
- Syn: childish, juvenile, immature, infantile · Ant: mature, adult, sensible, sophisticated
- ✍️ Use: Puerile name-calling in parliament trivialises serious national debates.
- 🧠 Hook: Latin puer (boy) → acting like a small boy.
6. SOLECISM (n.)
- Urdu: زبان کی غلطی، آداب کی خلاف ورزی
- Meaning: a grammatical mistake; a breach of good manners
- Syn: error, blunder, gaffe, faux pas · Ant: correctness, propriety, decorum
- ✍️ Use: A single solecism like "discuss about" costs marks in the Composition paper.
- 🧠 Hook: the Greek colony of Soloi spoke broken Greek; a solo mistake that makes you stand out.