Vocabulaire

develop

Verbe

Exemple: “The company developed quickly.”

Synonymes: grow, improve

Antonymes: decline

development

Nom

Exemple: “Development takes time.”

Synonymes: growth, progress

Antonymes: decline

vestigial

Adjectif

Exemple: “The organ is vestigial in humans.”

Synonymes: remaining, rudimentary

Antonymes: fully developed

incipient

Adjectif

Exemple: “The company showed signs of incipient growth.”

Synonymes: emerging, early

Antonymes: developed

deprecate

Verbe

Exemple: “Developers deprecate old software features.”

Synonymes: criticize, discourage

Antonymes: approve

nascent

Adjectif

Exemple: “The startup is in a nascent market.”

Synonymes: emerging, developing

Antonymes: mature

programming

Nom

Exemple: “Programming requires practice.”

Synonymes: coding, software development

Antonymes: manual work

programmer

Nom

Exemple: “The programmer fixed the website.”

Synonymes: developer, coder

Antonymes: nontechnical user

surrealism

Nom

Exemple: “Surrealism challenged traditional ideas about art.”

Synonymes: art movement

Antonymes: realism

precocious

Adjectif

Exemple: “The child was precocious and unusually articulate.”

Synonymes: advanced, gifted

Antonymes: immature, slow-developing

inchoately

Adverbe

Exemple: “He expressed the idea only inchoately.”

Synonymes: vaguely, rudimentarily

Antonymes: clearly, coherently

biotechnology

Nom

Exemple: “Biotechnology is changing modern medicine.”

Synonymes: biotech

Antonymes:

adult

Nom

Exemple: “Every adult must carry identification.”

Synonymes: grown-up

Antonymes: child

primitively

Adverbe

Exemple: “The shelter was primitively built but still usable.”

Synonymes: crudely, basically

Antonymes: sophisticatedly, refinedly

waterfront

Nom

Exemple: “The city plans to redevelop the old waterfront.”

Synonymes: shoreline, seafront

Antonymes: inland

stem

Verbe

Exemple: “Most of these problems stem from poor planning.”

Synonymes: come from, plant stalk

Antonymes: end

ripe

Adjectif

Exemple: “The bananas are ripe enough to eat.”

Synonymes: ready to eat

Antonymes: unripe

stultifyingly

Adverbe

Exemple: “The process was stultifyingly rigid and killed initiative.”

Synonymes: oppressively

Antonymes: liberatingly

precociously

Adverbe

Exemple: “He precociously mastered concepts most students learn years later.”

Synonymes: early

Antonymes: late

breed

Nom

Exemple: “What breed is your dog?”

Synonymes: type

pursue

Verbe

Exemple: “She wants to pursue a new career.”

Synonymes: follow

Antonymes: quit

preservationist

Nom

Exemple: “The preservationist campaigned to protect forests.”

Synonymes: conservationist

Antonymes: developer

formulate

Verbe

Exemple: “They formulated a new strategy.”

Synonymes: develop, design

Antonymes: abandon

divergent

Adjectif

Exemple: “The teams had divergent priorities for the quarter.”

vicissitude

/vɪˈsɪsɪtuːd/

Exemple: “He accepted life’s vicissitudes calmly.”

stultify

/ˈstʌltɪfaɪ/

Exemple: “Too many rules can stultify innovation.”

trend

/trend/

Exemple: “This trend is growing.”

Synonymes: slew, drift, slue

strategy

/ˈstrætədʒi/

Exemple: “They developed a strategy.”

Synonymes: scheme