Vocabulaire

nostalgia

Nom

Exemple: “The old song filled him with nostalgia.”

Synonymes: longing, sentimentality

Antonymes: forgetfulness

cognitive

Adjectif

Exemple: “Sleep affects cognitive performance.”

Synonymes: mental, intellectual

Antonymes: physical

envisage

Verbe

Exemple: “I envisage a better future.”

Synonymes: imagine, foresee

Antonymes: ignore

contrive

Verbe

Exemple: “They contrived a clever solution.”

Synonymes: devise, create

Antonymes: destroy

milieu

Nom

Exemple: “He grew up in an academic milieu.”

Synonymes: environment, setting

Antonymes: isolation

psychology

Nom

Exemple: “Psychology studies human behavior.”

Synonymes: study of mind

Antonymes: physics

psychologist

Nom

Exemple: “The psychologist talked to the student.”

Synonymes: therapist, mental health specialist

Antonymes: patient

intelligence

Nom

Exemple: “Artificial intelligence is changing education.”

Synonymes: smartness, mental ability

Antonymes: stupidity

personality

Nom

Exemple: “She has a strong personality.”

Synonymes: character, nature

Antonymes: facelessness

precocious

Adjectif

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

Synonymes: advanced, gifted

Antonymes: immature, slow-developing

ornamental

Adjectif

Exemple: “The garden includes ornamental trees.”

Synonymes: decorative, fancy

Antonymes: functional, plain

rudiments

Nom

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

Synonymes: basics, fundamentals

Antonymes: complexities, advanced theory

dull

Adjectif

Exemple: “The lecture was long and dull.”

Synonymes: boring, blunt

Antonymes: interesting, sharp

eco

prefix

Exemple: “Many people now prefer eco products.”

Synonymes: green, environmental

Antonymes: polluting

environmentalist

Nom

Exemple: “The environmentalist spoke about climate change.”

Synonymes: green activist

Antonymes: polluter

basic

Adjectif

Exemple: “I know only the basic rules of chess.”

Synonymes: simple, fundamental

Antonymes: advanced

utilitarian

Adjectif

Exemple: “The building is functional but aggressively utilitarian.”

Synonymes: practical, functional

Antonymes: decorative, ornamental

disquieting

Adjectif

Exemple: “The report contained several disquieting findings.”

Synonymes: disturbing, worrying

Antonymes: reassuring, comforting

degradation

Nom

Exemple: “Environmental degradation is accelerating in the region.”

Synonymes: deterioration, decline

Antonymes: improvement, restoration

confinement

Nom

Exemple: “Long periods of confinement can affect mental health.”

Synonymes: restriction, imprisonment

Antonymes: freedom, release

sentimentally

Adverbe

Exemple: “He spoke sentimentally about his childhood home.”

Synonymes: emotionally

Antonymes: coldly

detrimentally

Adverbe

Exemple: “Cutting corners can detrimentally affect quality.”

Synonymes: harmfully

Antonymes: beneficially

psychiatrist

Nom

Exemple: “The psychiatrist recommended a treatment plan.”

Synonymes: mental-health doctor

apprehensive

Adjectif

Exemple: “I felt apprehensive about the outcome of the trial.”

Synonymes: uneasy

Antonymes: confident

stressfully

Adverbe

Exemple: “The negotiation ended stressfully, with no clear outcome.”

Synonymes: tensely

Antonymes: calmly

sentimental

Adjectif

Exemple: “He kept the watch for sentimental reasons.”

Synonymes: emotional

Antonymes: unsentimental

psychiatric

Adjectif

Exemple: “The patient was referred for a psychiatric evaluation.”

Synonymes: mental-health related

moody

Adjectif

Exemple: “He can be moody under stress.”

Synonymes: temperamental

Antonymes: stable

invent

Verbe

Exemple: “He invented a new tool.”

Synonymes: create

temperamental

Adjectif

Exemple: “He is known for being temperamental.”

Synonymes: moody

Antonymes: stable

understand

Verbe

Exemple: “I understand the situation.”

Synonymes: realize, see

Antonymes: misunderstand

realize

Verbe

Exemple: “I realized my mistake.”

Synonymes: understand, see

Antonymes: ignore

uncomfortable

Adjectif

Exemple: “I feel uncomfortable here.”

Synonymes: uneasy

Antonymes: comfortable

detrimental

Adjectif

Exemple: “Constant context switching is detrimental to deep work.”

fundamental

/ˌfʌndəˈmentl/

Exemple: “Security is a fundamental requirement.”

Synonymes: profound, significant, cardinal

healthy

/ˈhelθi/

Exemple: “Vegetables are healthy.”

Synonymes: good, sensible, sanguine

Antonymes: unhealthy, unfit

work

/wɝːk/

Exemple: “I go to work.”

Synonymes: cultivate, address, process

Antonymes: malfunction, stagnate, misfunction