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Noun
Example: “The old song filled him with nostalgia.”
Synonyms: longing, sentimentality
Antonyms: forgetfulness
Adjective
Example: “Sleep affects cognitive performance.”
Synonyms: mental, intellectual
Antonyms: physical
Verb
Example: “I envisage a better future.”
Synonyms: imagine, foresee
Antonyms: ignore
Example: “They contrived a clever solution.”
Synonyms: devise, create
Antonyms: destroy
Example: “He grew up in an academic milieu.”
Synonyms: environment, setting
Antonyms: isolation
Example: “Psychology studies human behavior.”
Synonyms: study of mind
Antonyms: physics
Example: “The psychologist talked to the student.”
Synonyms: therapist, mental health specialist
Antonyms: patient
Example: “Artificial intelligence is changing education.”
Synonyms: smartness, mental ability
Antonyms: stupidity
Example: “She has a strong personality.”
Synonyms: character, nature
Antonyms: facelessness
Example: “The child was precocious and unusually articulate.”
Synonyms: advanced, gifted
Antonyms: immature, slow-developing
Example: “The garden includes ornamental trees.”
Synonyms: decorative, fancy
Antonyms: functional, plain
Example: “He learned the rudiments of coding in school.”
Synonyms: basics, fundamentals
Antonyms: complexities, advanced theory
Example: “The lecture was long and dull.”
Synonyms: boring, blunt
Antonyms: interesting, sharp
prefix
Example: “Many people now prefer eco products.”
Synonyms: green, environmental
Antonyms: polluting
Example: “The environmentalist spoke about climate change.”
Synonyms: green activist
Antonyms: polluter
Example: “I know only the basic rules of chess.”
Synonyms: simple, fundamental
Antonyms: advanced
Example: “The building is functional but aggressively utilitarian.”
Synonyms: practical, functional
Antonyms: decorative, ornamental
Example: “The report contained several disquieting findings.”
Synonyms: disturbing, worrying
Antonyms: reassuring, comforting
Example: “Environmental degradation is accelerating in the region.”
Synonyms: deterioration, decline
Antonyms: improvement, restoration
Example: “Long periods of confinement can affect mental health.”
Synonyms: restriction, imprisonment
Antonyms: freedom, release
Adverb
Example: “He spoke sentimentally about his childhood home.”
Synonyms: emotionally
Antonyms: coldly
Example: “Cutting corners can detrimentally affect quality.”
Synonyms: harmfully
Antonyms: beneficially
Example: “The psychiatrist recommended a treatment plan.”
Synonyms: mental-health doctor
Example: “I felt apprehensive about the outcome of the trial.”
Synonyms: uneasy
Antonyms: confident
Example: “The negotiation ended stressfully, with no clear outcome.”
Synonyms: tensely
Antonyms: calmly
Example: “He kept the watch for sentimental reasons.”
Synonyms: emotional
Antonyms: unsentimental
Example: “The patient was referred for a psychiatric evaluation.”
Synonyms: mental-health related
Example: “He can be moody under stress.”
Synonyms: temperamental
Antonyms: stable
Example: “He invented a new tool.”
Synonyms: create
Example: “He is known for being temperamental.”
Synonyms: moody
Example: “I understand the situation.”
Synonyms: realize, see
Antonyms: misunderstand
Example: “I realized my mistake.”
Synonyms: understand, see
Example: “I feel uncomfortable here.”
Antonyms: comfortable
Example: “Constant context switching is detrimental to deep work.”
/ˌfʌndəˈmentl/
Example: “Security is a fundamental requirement.”
Synonyms: profound, significant, cardinal
/ˈhelθi/
Example: “Vegetables are healthy.”
Synonyms: good, sensible, sanguine
Antonyms: unhealthy, unfit
/wɝːk/
Example: “I go to work.”
Synonyms: cultivate, address, process
Antonyms: malfunction, stagnate, misfunction
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