Vocabolario

delivery

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The delivery is fast.”

Sinonimi: shipment, transport

Antonimi: pickup

delineate

Verbo

Esempio: “The document delineates the main risks.”

Sinonimi: outline

deliberate

Aggettivo

Esempio: “His deliberate silence made everyone uncomfortable.”

Sinonimi: intentional, calculated

Antonimi: accidental, impulsive

delicatessen

Sostantivo

Esempio: “We stopped at a delicatessen for cheese and cured meat.”

Sinonimi: deli

deliver

/dɪˈlɪvər/

Esempio: “They deliver food to our office.”

Sinonimi: render, present, cede

consign

Verbo

Esempio: “They consigned the goods to storage.”

Sinonimi: deliver, entrust

Antonimi: keep

hamper

Verbo

Esempio: “Bad weather can hamper delivery.”

Sinonimi: hinder, obstruct

Antonimi: help

shipping

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Shipping is free today.”

Sinonimi: delivery, transport

Antonimi: pickup

perversity

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: contrariness, depravity

Antonimi: reasonableness, decency

ingratiate

Verbo

Esempio: “He tried to ingratiate himself with the boss.”

Sinonimi: charm, curry favor

Antonimi: alienate, offend

salvation

Sostantivo

Esempio: “For many, education is a path to salvation from poverty.”

Sinonimi: rescue, deliverance

Antonimi: ruin, damnation

rapturously

Avverbio

Esempio: “The audience applauded rapturously at the finale.”

Sinonimi: ecstatically, enthusiastically

Antonimi: coldly, indifferently

provocation

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The statement was seen as a deliberate provocation.”

Sinonimi: incitement, taunt

Antonimi: appeasement, calm

fabrication

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The story turned out to be a complete fabrication.”

Sinonimi: invention, falsehood

Antonimi: truth, fact

consignment

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The consignment was delayed at customs.”

Sinonimi: shipment, delivery batch

Antonimi:

affectation

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: pretension, artifice

Antonimi: naturalness, sincerity

intuitively

Avverbio

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

Sinonimi: naturally, instinctively

Antonimi: deliberately, awkwardly

instinctive

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Her reaction was immediate and instinctive.”

Sinonimi: innate, natural

Antonimi: deliberate, calculated

mail

Sostantivo

Esempio: “I received your mail this morning.”

Sinonimi: post, message

Antonimi:

contractually

Avverbio

Esempio: “We are contractually obliged to deliver by June.”

Sinonimi: by agreement

Antonimi: informally

spontaneously

Avverbio

Esempio: “They spontaneously changed the plan at the last minute.”

Sinonimi: impulsively

Antonimi: deliberately

instinctively

Avverbio

Esempio: “She instinctively stepped back when she heard the noise.”

Sinonimi: naturally

Antonimi: deliberately

price

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The price includes delivery.”

Sinonimi: cost

equivocal

Aggettivo

Esempio: “His response was deliberately equivocal.”

Sinonimi: ambiguous, unclear

Antonimi: explicit

prevaricate

/prɪˈværɪkeɪt/

Esempio: “He began to prevaricate when questioned.”

Sinonimi: palter, equivocate, tergiversate

soliloquy

/səˈlɪləkwɪ/

Esempio: “The actor delivered a powerful soliloquy.”

Sinonimi: monologue

equivocate

/ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt/

Esempio: “Don’t equivocate—answer directly.”

Sinonimi: prevaricate, palter, tergiversate

subtle

Aggettivo

Esempio: “There was a subtle shift in his tone.”

Sinonimi: insidious, delicate, pernicious

coherent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “She delivered a coherent argument backed by evidence.”

Sinonimi: tenacious, rational, orderly

Antonimi: incoherent

ambiguous

Aggettivo

Esempio: “His response was deliberately ambiguous.”

Sinonimi: enigmatic, ambivalent, equivocal

Antonimi: unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous