Elision Synonyms

Elision in Detail

Useful Words

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Assonant : ہم صوت : having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables. "Note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'".

Consonant : وہ الفاظ جو واول نا ہوں : a speech sound that is not a vowel.

Macron : حروف علت : a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.

Antonym, Opposite, Opposite Word : لفظ جو دوسرے لفظ کی ضد ہو : a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other. "To him the antonym of `gay` was `depressed`".

Agnus Dei : دعا : a liturgical prayer beginning with these Latin words.

Acrophony : ہم آواز الفاظ : naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter.

Zeugma : گرامر ایسی شکل جس میں دو مفعول کسی ایک فعل کے ساتھ مربوط ہوں : use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one. "`Mr Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma".

Non, Not : نہیں : negation of a word or group of words. "Will not go like that".

Adverbial : فعل تابع جیسا : a word or group of words function as an adverb.

Acronym : مخفف : a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name.

Substantive : اسم : any word or group of words functioning as a noun.

Appellation, Appellative, Denomination, Designation : لقب : identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others. "Your designation please".

Contraction : اختصار : a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds. "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'".

Conjunction, Conjunctive, Connective, Continuative : واصل : an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.

Onomatopoeia : وضع اسمائے صوت : using words that imitate the sound they denote.

Dash, Hyphen : نشان ربط : a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text.

Demur, Except : مخالفت کرنا : take exception to. "He demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday".

Challenge, Dispute, Gainsay : تردید کرنا : take exception to. "She challenged his claims".

Outright, Straight-Out, Unlimited : واضح : without reservation or exception.

Exceptionable, Objectionable : اعتراض کے قابل : liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to. "A thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing".

Abstractedness, Abstraction : غائب دماغی : preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else.

Self-Absorption : خود مشغولیت : preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else.

Unexceptionable, Unimpeachable : بے نقص : completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach. "Two unexceptionable witnesses".

Monopolisation, Monopolization : اجارہ داری قائم کرنے کا عمل : domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others.

Selfish : مطلبی : concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others. "I have always been selfish".

Every : ہر : (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception. "Every person is mortal".

Compound Morphology : لفظوں کا ملاپ : the part of grammar that deals with combinations of simple words into compound words.

Inhibition, Suppression : برے خیالات کا ذہن سے اخراج : (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires.

Cut, Deletion, Excision : کاٹ : the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage. "An editor`s deletions frequently upset young authors".

Attending, Attention : توجہ : the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others. "Attention please".

Whole : پورا : including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete. "Gave his whole attention".