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Noun
Example: “What is the reason?”
Synonyms: cause
Example: “Out of sheer perversity, he chose the worst option.”
Synonyms: contrariness, depravity
Antonyms: reasonableness, decency
Adjective
Example: “The ostensible reason for the visit was business.”
Synonyms: apparent, supposed
Antonyms: real, genuine
Example: “He apologized for the imposition.”
Synonyms: burden, intrusion
Antonyms: favor, relief
Example: “In ancient cultures, divination was often linked to religion.”
Synonyms: fortune-telling, prophecy
Antonyms: reason, science
Adverb
Example: “She argued plausibly that the delay was unavoidable.”
Synonyms: believably, credibly
Antonyms: unconvincingly, implausibly
Example: “The teacher tried to be fair to everyone.”
Synonyms: just, reasonable
Antonyms: unfair
Example: “That sounds like a crazy idea.”
Synonyms: wild, strange
Antonyms: normal, sensible
Verb
Example: “Stress can cause headaches.”
Synonyms: reason, make happen
Antonyms: prevent
Example: “The road is notoriously dangerous in winter.”
Synonyms: famously, infamously
Antonyms: obscurely, respectably
Example: “Her apparent flightiness hid a sharp intelligence.”
Synonyms: frivolity, fickleness
Antonyms: seriousness, steadiness
Example: “The apartment was ludicrously expensive for its size.”
Synonyms: absurdly, ridiculously
Antonyms: reasonably, sensibly
Example: “The interface is designed so users can navigate it intuitively.”
Synonyms: naturally, instinctively
Antonyms: deliberately, awkwardly
Example: “He defended the idea fanatically, refusing any criticism.”
Synonyms: obsessively, extremely
Antonyms: moderately, reasonably
Example: “The equipment was appallingly outdated.”
Synonyms: shockingly, terribly
Antonyms: acceptably, reasonably
Example: “The road was closed, thus we had to wait.”
Synonyms: therefore, in this way
Antonyms: however
Example: “What is the main reason for the change?”
Synonyms: primary, chief
Antonyms: minor, secondary
Example: “The test was fairly easy.”
Synonyms: quite, reasonably
Antonyms: extremely
Example: “The app inexplicably crashed right before the demo.”
Synonyms: mysteriously
Antonyms: predictably
Example: “He kept the watch for sentimental reasons.”
Synonyms: emotional
Antonyms: unsentimental
Example: “That explanation doesn’t make sense.”
Synonyms: meaning
Antonyms: nonsense
Example: “The journalist probed the reasons behind the decision.”
Synonyms: investigate
Conjunction
Example: “I am happy because it is Friday.”
Synonyms: since
Example: “Excuse me, where is the bank?”
Synonyms: sorry
Antonyms: blame
Example: “The report offered an impressionistic overview.”
Synonyms: evocative
Antonyms: precise
Example: “That is a sound decision.”
Synonyms: solid
Antonyms: weak
Example: “She is proud of her work.”
Synonyms: pleased
Antonyms: ashamed
Example: “The argument is based on a fallacy.”
Synonyms: misconception, error
Antonyms: truth
Example: “He rationalized the delay by blaming external factors.”
Example: “From the logs, we inferred that the service restarted twice.”
Example: “She offered a plausible explanation for the delay.”
Example: “The deadline felt arbitrary and poorly justified.”
/ɪnˈtrænzɪdʒənt/
Example: “They remained intransigent during talks.”
Synonyms: inexorable, adamant, adamantine
/kəˈprɪʃəs/
Example: “The weather here is capricious.”
Synonyms: arbitrary, whimsical, impulsive
/ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ/
Example: “Can you justify the decision?”
Synonyms: free, absolve, vindicate
Antonyms: fault, blame
/dɪˈduːs/
Example: “From the data, we can deduce a pattern.”
Synonyms: infer, derive, deduct
/dɪˈbeɪt/
Example: “They had a debate about the issue.”
Synonyms: deliberate, contend, consider
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