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Bucket 59 — Excess & Overload

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Best for: over-expenditure and abundance. 4 words (2 repeats).

1. PLETHORA (n.) 🔁

  • Urdu: بہتات · an excess · Syn: glut · Ant: dearth · Full entry → Bucket 10

2. PROFUSE (adj.) 🔁

  • Urdu: کثیر · plentiful, given freely · Syn: lavish · Ant: meagre · Full entry → Bucket 10

3. SURFEIT (n.)

  • Urdu: افراط، ضرورت سے زیادہ مقدار
  • Meaning: an excessive amount of something
  • Syn: excess, glut, surplus, overabundance · Ant: shortage, dearth, lack, paucity
  • ✍️ Use: A surfeit of information online has not produced a better-informed public.
  • 🧠 Hook: sur (over) + fait (done) → overdone; more than fits.

4. TURGID (adj.)

  • Urdu: سوجا ہوا؛ لفاظی سے بھرپور (تحریر)
  • Meaning: swollen; (of language) pompous and tediously complicated
  • Syn: swollen, bloated / bombastic, pompous, verbose · Ant: shrunken / simple, lucid, concise
  • ✍️ Use: Turgid official reports ensure that nobody reads them.
  • 🧠 Hook: turgere (swell) → a swollen balloon of words. Trap: turbid = muddy.