Vocabolario

develop

Verbo

Esempio: “The company developed quickly.”

Sinonimi: grow, improve

Antonimi: decline

development

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Development takes time.”

Sinonimi: growth, progress

Antonimi: decline

vestigial

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The organ is vestigial in humans.”

Sinonimi: remaining, rudimentary

Antonimi: fully developed

incipient

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The company showed signs of incipient growth.”

Sinonimi: emerging, early

Antonimi: developed

deprecate

Verbo

Esempio: “Developers deprecate old software features.”

Sinonimi: criticize, discourage

Antonimi: approve

nascent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The startup is in a nascent market.”

Sinonimi: emerging, developing

Antonimi: mature

programming

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Programming requires practice.”

Sinonimi: coding, software development

Antonimi: manual work

programmer

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The programmer fixed the website.”

Sinonimi: developer, coder

Antonimi: nontechnical user

surrealism

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Surrealism challenged traditional ideas about art.”

Sinonimi: art movement

Antonimi: realism

precocious

Aggettivo

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

Sinonimi: advanced, gifted

Antonimi: immature, slow-developing

inchoately

Avverbio

Esempio: “He expressed the idea only inchoately.”

Sinonimi: vaguely, rudimentarily

Antonimi: clearly, coherently

biotechnology

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Biotechnology is changing modern medicine.”

Sinonimi: biotech

Antonimi:

adult

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Every adult must carry identification.”

Sinonimi: grown-up

Antonimi: child

primitively

Avverbio

Esempio: “The shelter was primitively built but still usable.”

Sinonimi: crudely, basically

Antonimi: sophisticatedly, refinedly

waterfront

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The city plans to redevelop the old waterfront.”

Sinonimi: shoreline, seafront

Antonimi: inland

stem

Verbo

Esempio: “Most of these problems stem from poor planning.”

Sinonimi: come from, plant stalk

Antonimi: end

ripe

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The bananas are ripe enough to eat.”

Sinonimi: ready to eat

Antonimi: unripe

stultifyingly

Avverbio

Esempio: “The process was stultifyingly rigid and killed initiative.”

Sinonimi: oppressively

Antonimi: liberatingly

precociously

Avverbio

Esempio: “He precociously mastered concepts most students learn years later.”

Sinonimi: early

Antonimi: late

breed

Sostantivo

Esempio: “What breed is your dog?”

Sinonimi: type

pursue

Verbo

Esempio: “She wants to pursue a new career.”

Sinonimi: follow

Antonimi: quit

preservationist

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The preservationist campaigned to protect forests.”

Sinonimi: conservationist

Antonimi: developer

formulate

Verbo

Esempio: “They formulated a new strategy.”

Sinonimi: develop, design

Antonimi: abandon

divergent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The teams had divergent priorities for the quarter.”

vicissitude

/vɪˈsɪsɪtuːd/

Esempio: “He accepted life’s vicissitudes calmly.”

stultify

/ˈstʌltɪfaɪ/

Esempio: “Too many rules can stultify innovation.”

trend

/trend/

Esempio: “This trend is growing.”

Sinonimi: slew, drift, slue

strategy

/ˈstrætədʒi/

Esempio: “They developed a strategy.”

Sinonimi: scheme