English Vocabulary Cards

dim

Adjectif

B2Adjectif

Exemple: “The room was dim and quiet.”

Synonymes: faint, darkish

Antonymes: bright

dime

Nom

B2Nom

Exemple: “He found a dime on the sidewalk.”

Synonymes: coin

Antonymes:

diminish

/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/

C1Verbe

Exemple: “Poor sleep can diminish performance.”

Synonymes: belittle, fall, decrease

Antonymes: increase

vestigial

Adjectif

C1Adjectif

Exemple: “The organ is vestigial in humans.”

Synonymes: remaining, rudimentary

Antonymes: fully developed

detract

Verbe

C1Verbe

Exemple: “One mistake does not detract from his achievement.”

Synonymes: reduce, diminish

Antonymes: enhance

inchoately

Adverbe

C2Adverbe

Exemple: “He expressed the idea only inchoately.”

Synonymes: vaguely, rudimentarily

Antonymes: clearly, coherently

embodiment

Nom

C2Nom

Exemple: “She is often described as the embodiment of grace.”

Synonymes: personification, representation

Antonymes: negation, absence

impediment

Nom

C1Nom

Exemple: “Lack of funding was a major impediment.”

Synonymes: obstacle, hindrance

Antonymes: aid, advantage

rudiments

Nom

C1Nom

Exemple: “He learned the rudiments of coding in school.”

Synonymes: basics, fundamentals

Antonymes: complexities, advanced theory

vestigially

Adverbe

C2Adverbe

Exemple: “The trait survives only vestigially in modern species.”

Synonymes: residually, rudimentarily

Antonymes: fully, functionally

proliferate

Verbe

C1Verbe

Exemple: “False stories tend to proliferate rapidly online.”

Synonymes: spread, multiply

Antonymes: decline, diminish

direct

Adjectif

A2Adjectif

Exemple: “Is there a direct bus to the airport?”

Synonymes: straight, immediate

Antonymes: indirect

undiminishing

Adjectif

C2Adjectif

Exemple: “She worked with undiminishing energy all day.”

Synonymes: unabated

Antonymes: waning

rudimentary

Adjectif

C1Adjectif

Exemple: “He has only a rudimentary understanding of the topic.”

Synonymes: basic

Antonymes: advanced

muddy

Adjectif

B2Adjectif

Exemple: “The road became muddy after the rain.”

Synonymes: murky

Antonymes: clean

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dim

dime

diminish

vestigial

detract

inchoately

embodiment

impediment

rudiments

vestigially

proliferate

direct

undiminishing

rudimentary

muddy

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