Vocabulaire

than

Conjonction

Exemple: “She is taller than me.”

Synonymes: in comparison to

Antonymes:

thank

Verbe

Exemple: “I want to thank you for your help.”

Synonymes: express gratitude

Antonymes: insult

thanks

Nom

Exemple: “Thanks for your help.”

Synonymes: thank you

paramount

Adjectif

Exemple: “Safety is paramount.”

Synonymes: most important, chief

Antonymes: minor

abundance

Nom

Exemple: “The garden has an abundance of flowers.”

Synonymes: plenty, wealth

Antonymes: scarcity

oblique

Adjectif

Exemple: “He made an oblique reference to the issue.”

Synonymes: indirect, slanted

Antonymes: direct

deficit

Nom

Exemple: “The government has a budget deficit.”

Synonymes: shortage, lack

Antonymes: surplus

sea

Nom

Exemple: “The sea is blue.”

Synonymes: ocean

Antonymes: land

sofa

Nom

Exemple: “The cat is on the sofa.”

Synonymes: couch

rhetorical

Adjectif

Exemple: “That was a rhetorical question, not a real one.”

Synonymes: oratorical, persuasive

Antonymes: literal, plain

punitively

Adverbe

Exemple: “The rules were applied punitively rather than fairly.”

Synonymes: harshly, penally

Antonymes: leniently, mercifully

uneventful

Adjectif

Exemple: “Thankfully, the journey was uneventful.”

Synonymes: calm, ordinary

Antonymes: dramatic, eventful

ornamental

Adjectif

Exemple: “The garden includes ornamental trees.”

Synonymes: decorative, fancy

Antonymes: functional, plain

microcomputer

Nom

Exemple: “Early microcomputers were much slower than modern laptops.”

Synonymes: small computer

Antonymes: mainframe

translation

Nom

Exemple: “This translation is easier to understand than the older one.”

Synonymes: rendering, interpretation

Antonymes: original

bent

Adjectif

Exemple: “The metal rod is bent.”

Synonymes: curved, not straight

Antonymes: straight

local

Adjectif

Exemple: “We bought fruit from a local shop.”

Synonymes: nearby, regional

Antonymes: foreign

frank

Adjectif

Exemple: “Thank you for your frank opinion.”

Synonymes: honest, direct

Antonymes: secretive, dishonest

pray

Verbe

Exemple: “They pray every morning.”

Synonymes: worship

Antonymes:

only

Adverbe

Exemple: “I have only one question.”

Synonymes: just

Antonymes: many

taciturnity

Nom

Exemple: “His taciturnity made him seem cold at first.”

Synonymes: reserve, reticence

Antonymes: talkativeness, loquacity

superfluous

Adjectif

Exemple: “Most of the explanation was superfluous.”

Synonymes: unnecessary, redundant

Antonymes: essential, necessary

redundantly

Adverbe

Exemple: “The idea was expressed redundantly several times.”

Synonymes: repetitively, superfluously

Antonymes: succinctly, economically

misdemeanor

Nom

Exemple: “The offense was classified as a misdemeanor rather than a felony.”

Synonymes: minor offense, infraction

Antonymes: felony, major crime

flightiness

Nom

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

Synonymes: frivolity, fickleness

Antonymes: seriousness, steadiness

affectation

Nom

Exemple: “His accent sounded more like affectation than authenticity.”

Synonymes: pretension, artifice

Antonymes: naturalness, sincerity

predecessor

Nom

Exemple: “The new model is far more efficient than its predecessor.”

Synonymes: forerunner, previous version

Antonymes: successor

intuitively

Adverbe

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

Synonymes: naturally, instinctively

Antonymes: deliberately, awkwardly

mere

Adjectif

Exemple: “It was not a major issue, just a mere detail.”

Synonymes: only, simply

Antonymes: significant

cooler

Adjectif

Exemple: “It is much cooler today than yesterday.”

Synonymes: less warm

Antonymes: warmer

beyond

Préposition

Exemple: “The village lies beyond the hills.”

Synonymes: farther than, outside

Antonymes: within

truth

Nom

Exemple: “It is important to tell the truth.”

Synonymes: fact, reality

Antonymes: lie, falsehood

those

Pronom

Exemple: “Those shoes look expensive.”

Synonymes: those ones

Antonymes: these

these

Pronom

Exemple: “These flowers are beautiful.”

Synonymes: these ones

Antonymes: those

below

Préposition

Exemple: “Please read the text below.”

Synonymes: under

Antonymes: above

superfluously

Adverbe

Exemple: “The document was superfluously long and hard to scan.”

Synonymes: unnecessarily

Antonymes: essentially

dissemination

Nom

Exemple: “The dissemination of misinformation was faster than the correction.”

Synonymes: distribution

Antonymes: suppression

rhetorically

Adverbe

Exemple: “He asked rhetorically, knowing no one would answer.”

Synonymes: for effect

Antonymes: literally

ingratiating

Adjectif

Exemple: “His ingratiating manner felt calculated rather than sincere.”

Synonymes: sycophantic

Antonymes: genuine

hypothetical

Adjectif

Exemple: “Let’s consider a hypothetical scenario where demand doubles overnight.”

Synonymes: theoretical

Antonymes: actual

anticlimactic

Adjectif

Exemple: “The ending felt anticlimactic after so much build-up.”

Synonymes: underwhelming

Antonymes: dramatic

domestically

Adverbe

Exemple: “The company expanded domestically before going global.”

Synonymes: internally

Antonymes: internationally

least

Déterminant

Exemple: “Stay here for at least ten minutes.”

Synonymes: at minimum

Antonymes: most

delay

Nom

Exemple: “The flight had a delay of two hours.”

Synonymes: postpone

Antonymes: hurry

after

Préposition

Exemple: “Let’s talk after the meeting.”

Antonymes: before

above

Préposition

Exemple: “The picture is above the sofa.”

Synonymes: over

Antonymes: below

already

Adverbe

Exemple: “I already ate breakfast.”

Synonymes: by now

Antonymes: not yet

better

Adjectif

Exemple: “I feel better today.”

Synonymes: improved

Antonymes: worse

before

Préposition

Exemple: “Wash your hands before dinner.”

Synonymes: earlier

Antonymes: after

impressionistic

Adjectif

Exemple: “The report offered an impressionistic overview.”

Synonymes: evocative

Antonymes: precise

synthetically

Adverbe

Exemple: “The material was produced synthetically.”

Synonymes: artificially

Antonymes: naturally

spare

Adjectif

Exemple: “Do you have a spare key?”

Synonymes: extra

Antonymes: necessary

favorite

Adjectif

Exemple: “Blue is my favorite color.”

Synonymes: preferred

Antonymes: least favorite

tall

Adjectif

Exemple: “He is tall.”

Synonymes: high

Antonymes: short

infer

Verbe

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

arbitrary

Adjectif

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

capricious

/kəˈprɪʃəs/

Exemple: “The weather here is capricious.”

Synonymes: arbitrary, whimsical, impulsive

empirical

/ɛmˈpɪrɪkəl/

Exemple: “We need empirical evidence.”

Synonymes: experiential, experimental, existential

Antonymes: theoretical, theoretic

ambiguous

Adjectif

Exemple: “His response was deliberately ambiguous.”

Synonymes: enigmatic, ambivalent, equivocal

Antonymes: unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous