Vocabulaire

reason

Nom

Exemple: “What is the reason?”

Synonymes: cause

perversity

Nom

Exemple: “Out of sheer perversity, he chose the worst option.”

Synonymes: contrariness, depravity

Antonymes: reasonableness, decency

ostensible

Adjectif

Exemple: “The ostensible reason for the visit was business.”

Synonymes: apparent, supposed

Antonymes: real, genuine

imposition

Nom

Exemple: “He apologized for the imposition.”

Synonymes: burden, intrusion

Antonymes: favor, relief

divination

Nom

Exemple: “In ancient cultures, divination was often linked to religion.”

Synonymes: fortune-telling, prophecy

Antonymes: reason, science

plausibly

Adverbe

Exemple: “She argued plausibly that the delay was unavoidable.”

Synonymes: believably, credibly

Antonymes: unconvincingly, implausibly

fair

Adjectif

Exemple: “The teacher tried to be fair to everyone.”

Synonymes: just, reasonable

Antonymes: unfair

crazy

Adjectif

Exemple: “That sounds like a crazy idea.”

Synonymes: wild, strange

Antonymes: normal, sensible

cause

Verbe

Exemple: “Stress can cause headaches.”

Synonymes: reason, make happen

Antonymes: prevent

notoriously

Adverbe

Exemple: “The road is notoriously dangerous in winter.”

Synonymes: famously, infamously

Antonymes: obscurely, respectably

flightiness

Nom

Exemple: “Her apparent flightiness hid a sharp intelligence.”

Synonymes: frivolity, fickleness

Antonymes: seriousness, steadiness

ludicrously

Adverbe

Exemple: “The apartment was ludicrously expensive for its size.”

Synonymes: absurdly, ridiculously

Antonymes: reasonably, sensibly

intuitively

Adverbe

Exemple: “The interface is designed so users can navigate it intuitively.”

Synonymes: naturally, instinctively

Antonymes: deliberately, awkwardly

fanatically

Adverbe

Exemple: “He defended the idea fanatically, refusing any criticism.”

Synonymes: obsessively, extremely

Antonymes: moderately, reasonably

appallingly

Adverbe

Exemple: “The equipment was appallingly outdated.”

Synonymes: shockingly, terribly

Antonymes: acceptably, reasonably

thus

Adverbe

Exemple: “The road was closed, thus we had to wait.”

Synonymes: therefore, in this way

Antonymes: however

main

Adjectif

Exemple: “What is the main reason for the change?”

Synonymes: primary, chief

Antonymes: minor, secondary

fairly

Adverbe

Exemple: “The test was fairly easy.”

Synonymes: quite, reasonably

Antonymes: extremely

inexplicably

Adverbe

Exemple: “The app inexplicably crashed right before the demo.”

Synonymes: mysteriously

Antonymes: predictably

sentimental

Adjectif

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

Synonymes: emotional

Antonymes: unsentimental

sense

Nom

Exemple: “That explanation doesn’t make sense.”

Synonymes: meaning

Antonymes: nonsense

probe

Verbe

Exemple: “The journalist probed the reasons behind the decision.”

Synonymes: investigate

because

Conjonction

Exemple: “I am happy because it is Friday.”

Synonymes: since

excuse

Nom

Exemple: “Excuse me, where is the bank?”

Synonymes: sorry

Antonymes: blame

impressionistic

Adjectif

Exemple: “The report offered an impressionistic overview.”

Synonymes: evocative

Antonymes: precise

sound

Adjectif

Exemple: “That is a sound decision.”

Synonymes: solid

Antonymes: weak

proud

Adjectif

Exemple: “She is proud of her work.”

Synonymes: pleased

Antonymes: ashamed

fallacy

Nom

Exemple: “The argument is based on a fallacy.”

Synonymes: misconception, error

Antonymes: truth

rationalize

Verbe

Exemple: “He rationalized the delay by blaming external factors.”

infer

Verbe

Exemple: “From the logs, we inferred that the service restarted twice.”

plausible

Adjectif

Exemple: “She offered a plausible explanation for the delay.”

arbitrary

Adjectif

Exemple: “The deadline felt arbitrary and poorly justified.”

intransigent

/ɪnˈtrænzɪdʒənt/

Exemple: “They remained intransigent during talks.”

Synonymes: inexorable, adamant, adamantine

capricious

/kəˈprɪʃəs/

Exemple: “The weather here is capricious.”

Synonymes: arbitrary, whimsical, impulsive

justify

/ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ/

Exemple: “Can you justify the decision?”

Synonymes: free, absolve, vindicate

Antonymes: fault, blame

deduce

/dɪˈduːs/

Exemple: “From the data, we can deduce a pattern.”

Synonymes: infer, derive, deduct

debate

/dɪˈbeɪt/

Exemple: “They had a debate about the issue.”

Synonymes: deliberate, contend, consider