Dear fellows, I read Dawn, The Nation along with some International Newspapers on daily basis. As I read them online, I've been preparing a Word List in MS Office of those words that occur in these sources and that are new to me. So far, I've found many of these words being asked in PCS/NTS/FPSC vocabulary sections. At the same time, I've found this much helpful in increasing vocabulary on daily basis. So, I thought it better to share it at Forum. Hopefully, this will prove handy for aspirants like me. Try to get print of this and remember and use 8-10 words on daily basis.


• Accentuate: to emphasize
• Accolade: pay tribute
• Actuate: activate
• Aide: to assist
• Alacrity: Quickly and eagerly; speed and eagerness
• Allay: to Calm; to make things better
• Alley: Alleyway; narrow passage; pathway
• Amateur: abecedarian; beginner; novice
• Ambivalent about: unsure
• Anathema to: strong disliking
• Anecdote: a short, amusing account
• Apprehend: catch or arrest
• Arcane: Secret/mysterious
• Arid: Much dry; unsuccessful
• Aspect: part/feature
• Attorney: lawyer
• Augury: sign; omen
• Austerity: In Economics, the policy of reducing government budget deficits by spending cuts and tax increase.
• Avarice: extremely strong desire for money and possession
• Axiom: principle
• Banish: expel
• Bashing: unfair criticism
• Bastion: Stronghold
• Bigot/Bigoted: Partisan; sectarian
• Bilk: cheat
• Bludgeon: Bulldoze someone
• Bolster: boost; strengthen
• Boondoggles: assuming that an organization or activity spends time and money a lot but achieves little
• Brouhaha: an excited and critical fuss or reaction to something.
• Cadaver: Corpse; Dead body
• Call the shots: Controlling and being in-charge; to have sb in the palm of your hand
• Callow: Naive
• Carnage: slaughter/massacre
• Camaraderie: friendship; intimacy; togetherness
• Capricious: given to sudden behavior change; Unpredictable; unstable; Volatile
• Capsize: overturn
• Centennial/Centenary: 100th anniversary
• Certes: Assuredly; I assure you
• Chagrin: a feeling of disappointment, upset due to feeling of your own failure
• Choke: Strangle; Obstruct
• Clamour: protest and demand in a loud, noisy way
• Cliché: stereotype; overused phrase or thought
• Coerce: pressurize
• Cognizance: Acknowledge/Take notice
• Concomitantly: Synchronously; Accordingly; Collectively
• Conundrum: puzzle situation; mystery
• Convolutions: Complication; twist; curl
• Corrigendum: a mistake in a printed text that needs to be corrected.
• Crass (behaviour): Stupid behaviour
• Deadpan: Bite your lip (idiom)
• Decennial: Ten years period
• Defy: Disobey or Challenge
• Déjà vu: In the back of your mind (idiom); flash back
• Deleterious: Detrimental; harmful
• Depredations: Harmful actions damaging much
• Dilate: Enlarge
• Discern: perceive; notice; observe
• Disposition: inclination; nature
• Dissent: Disagreement: Discord; opposition
• Dissident: Person who disagrees with government or organization
• Eccentricity: Difference of opinions/ ideas
• Echelon: level or rank in an organization
• Edict: command; instruction
• Egalitarian: A fair crack of whip (idiom); belief in equality
• Elusive: difficult to find, remember, describe or achieve
• Emulate: Imitate; follow
• Enamored: liking a lot
• Ensconce: establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe place.
• Eschew: avoid
• Esprit de corps: a feeling of pride and mutual loyalty shared by the members of a group
• Exegete: Critical interpreter esp. of religious texts
• Exonerate: Dismiss; Exempt; Absolve; Clear of blame
• Facile: simplistic
• Fingers crossed: to hope that things will happen in the way that you want them to:
• Flog a dead horse: to waste effort on something when there is no chance of succeeding
• Fornicate: to have sex with someone who you are not married to.
• Fracas: rough noisy quarrel or fight
• Fray: battle; melee; fracas; combat
• Freak out: Extremely surprised; upset; angry
• Fret: to be nervous or worried
• Fumble: muddle around
• Fume v.: to express anger and annoyance
• Funnel: Channel for sending/receiving money etc.
• Gaffe/Faux pas: Mistake or blunder in social context
• Ghetto: a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.
• Grill (v): to investigate
• Grizzled: grey or partially grey hair
• Gung-ho: Hostile; Warlike; extremely enthusiastic about doing something, especially going to war
• Halcyon days: Serene; pleasant; peaceful; placid
• Haul: Drag; Tug; Loot
• Heckle: Taunt; Jeer; Interrupt others by disgusting remarks
• Heyday: zenith; acme; prime time; Pinnacle
• Hiccup: a small problem or difficulty
• Histrionics: dramatic and exaggerated behavior
• Hobbit: a small humanlike fictitious creature
• If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
• Impasse: Deadlock
• Implacable: Merciless; inexorable; uncompromising
• Inane: Silly; fatuous; ludicrous
• Inaugurate: Officially start or open sth.
• Insidious: dangerous and unpleasant
• Interned: Put in prison for political reasons
• Ire: anger; fury
• Jamboree: Get-together; convention (lavish)
• Jettison: throw overboard; discard; dump; abdicate
• Keel over: Collapse
• Kickback: Recoil; Flinch back
• Lame Duck: Unsuccessful person; OR an elected official whose power is reduced because the person who will replace them has already been elected
• Largesse: Generous amount of money or kindness
• Loath: Reluctant to do something
• Logger: Lumberjack; a person who cuts trees
• Love: term used in tennis for the state of having no points
• Malaise: Anxiety; despair; doldrums
• Marooned: stuck; helpless to go anywhere
• Mea Culpa: used to admit that something was your fault.
• Melee: Disorder; Commotion; Rumpus
• Minion: Underling or right hand of someone
• Minnow: small fish that lives in lakes and rivers
• Moot: Debatable; Propose a topic
• Moratorium: ban/stoppage
• Morgue: funeral home; crematory; Mortuary
• Muckraking: Act of libel in news reporting
• Mum: keep quiet
• Nuisance: pain or trouble
• Nukes: nuclear weapons
• Oblivious: Inattentive; unconcerned; incognizant
• Of yore: Of a long time ago
• On the trot (sth happening): In a row
• Opprobrium: Opprobrium is open criticism or disapproval of something that someone has done. = Censure
• Ostensible: alleged
• Oversee: Supervise
• Palpable: Clear; obvious; evident
• Paltry: Very small amount
• Parsimonious: unwilling to spend money
• Penchant: Fondness; liking or habit
• Percipient: Astute; shrewd; responsive
• Perennial: Constant; prevalent
• Perverse: actions done unreasonably
• Pillory: Ridicule
• Pique: anger; annoyance; Offend; provoke
• Plethora: Excess; Plenty; Profusion; Glut
• Polity: Territory; state; body politic
• Polymath: a person of wide knowledge or learning
• Posterity: future generation
• Powhiri: traditional mode of welcoming
• Pragmatic: Realistic; practical
• Precipitate: accelerate; expedite; trigger
• Promiscuity: Debauchery; Immorality
• Purport: implication; sense; aim; meaning
• Putative: alleged; so-called; assumed
• Putsch: Coup; violent attempt to overthrow the govt.
• Ramshackle: A ramshackle building/boat is badly made or in bad condition, and looks as if it is likely to fall down.
• Rapport: Good relationship and understanding
• Recede: Withdraw; diminish
• Recriminations: accusations
• Relegate: downgrade; lower position
• Repose: Relaxation; inactivity
• Repository: store; safe-place
• Reprieve: Delay(before happening of some unpleasant thing) / Defer
• Rescind: abrogate/repeal.
• Resurrect: restore; revitalize
• Retard: slow down (the process)
• Retrograde: An action that makes situation worse rather than better
• Rickety: Structure or furniture likely to collapse
• Rife: very common
• Rile: make angry or perturbed
• Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune
• Scoff: mock
• Seagull: Take to the air; fly; flutter; glide
• Septuagenarian: a person between 70 and 79 years old
• Sever: detach; cut apart; disconnect
• Siege: Encirclement
• Slam: to criticize
• Smarmy: dislike someone for having habit of self-aggrandizement
• Snag: a small problem or disadvantage
• Soft-soap (idiom): to try to persuade someone to do what you want by saying pleasant things to them
• Somebody Shaken up: Unpleasant or upset feelings
• Stagnant: Still or little activity
• Stave off: Fend off; Repulse
• Stiff: rigid/hard
• Strained: Nervous; perplexed
• Strident: Harsh; raucous
• Sue: litigate; indict; accuse; Bring legal charges against
• Sui generis: Unique; Unprecedented; Exclusive
• Sumptuous: grand and expensive
• Surmise: Guess
• Susceptible: Vulnerable
• Synergy: Collaboration; Cooperation
• Talk turkey: to discuss something honestly and directly
• Tan: Suntan; a browning of the skin that is caused by the sun's rays
• Tardy: criticize someone for being lazy to act
• Televise: Air/broadest.
• Temblor: an earthquake
• Thaw: Become friendly again; not freeze
• The aurora australis: a pattern of differently coloured lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky in the most southern parts of the world.
• The aurora borealis: a pattern of differently coloured lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky in the most northern parts of the world.
• The tip of the iceberg (problem): you mean that it is one small part of a much larger problem.
• Thicket: grove
• Thoroughfare: Main road
• Tip-off: A secret warning or information
• Tirade: a long angry speech expressing strong disapproval
• To compare notes: If two people compare notes, they tell each other what they think about something they have both done; Exchange Views
• Torn asunder: violently separated into two or more pieces
• Torpedo (negotiations): Wreck or denial from negotiations
• Tryst: A secret meeting by lovers
• Turgid: boring and difficult to understand
• Tweak: A sharp twist or pull
• Ubiquitous: Ever-present; Pervasive; Omnipresent
• Under the storm: Unwell; feeling ill
• Unfettered: Free; loose; unrestricted
• Untrammeled: unrestricted or unhampered
• Vendetta: Blood-feud; altercation
• Vexatious: Irksome; annoying
• Vitiate: sth’s effectiveness is spoiled or weakened
• Vitriol: Venom; acrimony
• Wary: Circumspect; Chary; Cautious
• Wax and wane: to grow stronger and then weaker again
• Windfall: bonanza; bonus; blessing; fortune
• Wobbly: Unsteady; unstable

Good dear!

A piece of advice:

Please bold the main words and give them no. except their meanings, in this way, it will ease to read them smoothly like this:

1.Tardy: criticize someone for being lazy to act
2.Televise: Air/broadest.
3.Temblor: an earthquake

Thanks

Great job hafiz mubashar

I suggest that it would be even more better if each word would have mentioned with the part of speech it belongs to.


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@derawall
Hmm! Okay I'll do this trick for the next list. "ll follow your suggestion. Actually, being a Masters in English, I did not find the hiccup to judge the class of the word, so I did not do this exercise. Thanks for appreciation!

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Thanks for helping us over here out of your busy schedule. May Allah give you reward for that.

what is the meaning of phrase "Ab Intra" and Please make a sentence on it.

Siege محاصرہ ناکہ An operation in which a police or other force surround a building and cut off supplies, with theaim of forcing an armed person to surrender
The badabader area has been under siege by Army for two days.
13 terrorist have been killed in two-day siege.

Venerable aspirants, do check my endeavor.

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Good effort bro. It would be better to convert this vocab list into pdf format so that it can be used easily.

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VOC:
2: Squander (Verb) waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner
Usage : Non serious aspirants squandered precious time in idiotic things.
Present government squandered budget on imports.

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VOC

6: Curb (n) روکنے a check or restraint on something. A stone or concrete edging to a street or path.
High interest rate put a curb on spending.
PTA should put a curb on cyberspace.
7: Sane (adj) Sanity (noun) سمجھدار (of a person) of sound mind; not mad or mentally ill.
A right direction kept me sane.
I am concerned about her sanity.
8: Obscure (adj) (verb) غیر واضح not discovered or known about; uncertain. Conceal
His behavior seems obscure as he is quite reserve now a days.
Gray clouds obscure the sun
9: Lynch (verb) لنچ (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. Execute illegally, King, String up
Angry mobs lynching someone suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually guilty.
10: Mob موبایل a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. crowd around (someone) in an unruly and excitable way in order to admire or attack them.
A mob of protestor.
Angry mob had killed two innocent boys in Sialokot.
He was mobbed by autograph hunters

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