Vocabolario

matter

Sostantivo

Esempio: “It doesn’t matter.”

Sinonimi: be important

chemistry

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Chemistry is my favorite subject.”

Sinonimi: science of substances

Antonimi: literature

physics

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Physics is an interesting subject.”

Sinonimi: science of nature

Antonimi: art

agenda

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The meeting agenda is short.”

Sinonimi: plan, schedule

Antonimi: disorder

smattering

Sostantivo

Esempio: “I have only a smattering of Italian.”

Sinonimi: small amount, little knowledge

Antonimi: mastery, expertise

divination

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: fortune-telling, prophecy

Antonimi: reason, science

pertinent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Please keep your comments pertinent to the topic.”

Sinonimi: relevant, applicable

Antonimi: irrelevant, unrelated

coal

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The old house was heated with coal.”

Sinonimi: fuel

Antonimi:

materialism

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The novel criticizes modern materialism.”

Sinonimi: consumerism, worldliness

Antonimi: spirituality, idealism

irrelevancy

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The lawyer objected to the irrelevancy of the question.”

Sinonimi: irrelevance, inapplicability

Antonimi: relevance, pertinence

mass

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The mass of the object is hard to measure exactly.”

Sinonimi: bulk, quantity

Antonimi: emptiness

thing

Sostantivo

Esempio: “That is the best thing about this job.”

Sinonimi: object, matter

Antonimi: nothing

nostalgically

Avverbio

Esempio: “He spoke nostalgically about the early days of the company.”

Sinonimi: wistfully

Antonimi: matter-of-factly

instinctively

Avverbio

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

Sinonimi: naturally

Antonimi: deliberately

panel

Sostantivo

Esempio: “A panel of experts reviewed the report.”

Sinonimi: committee

quixotic

/kwɪkˈsɑːtɪk/

Esempio: “It was a quixotic attempt to change everything overnight.”

Sinonimi: impractical, wild-eyed, romantic