Vocabolario

pen

Sostantivo

Esempio: “I write with a pen.”

Sinonimi: writing tool

Antonimi: pencil

peninsula

Sostantivo

Esempio: “A peninsula is surrounded by water on three sides.”

Sinonimi: landform

Antonimi: island

pension

Sostantivo

Esempio: “My grandfather receives a pension.”

Sinonimi: retirement money

Antonimi: salary

penny

Sostantivo

Esempio: “I found a penny on the floor.”

Sinonimi: coin

Antonimi:

artifice

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The plan depended on artifice.”

Sinonimi: trick, deception

Antonimi: honesty

insular

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The company had an insular culture.”

Sinonimi: narrow-minded, isolated

Antonimi: open-minded

inclusive

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The school has an inclusive policy.”

Sinonimi: welcoming, open to all

Antonimi: exclusive

dependent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The result is dependent on the data.”

Sinonimi: reliant, controlled by

Antonimi: independent

retirement

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Retirement can change a person’s life.”

Sinonimi: leaving work, pension age

Antonimi: employment

addiction

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Addiction can damage health.”

Sinonimi: dependence

Antonimi: freedom

tuition

Sostantivo

Esempio: “University tuition is expensive.”

Sinonimi: education fee

Antonimi: scholarship

finance

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He works in finance.”

Sinonimi: money management, banking

Antonimi: spending without plan

cabinet

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The cups are in the cabinet.”

Sinonimi: cupboard, storage unit

Antonimi: open shelf

user

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The user opened the website.”

Sinonimi: customer, person

Antonimi: admin

door

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Close the door, please.”

Sinonimi: entrance

Antonimi: window

window

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Open the window, please.”

Sinonimi: glass opening

Antonimi: wall

remorseful

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He sounded genuinely remorseful.”

Sinonimi: sorry, repentant

Antonimi: unrepentant, defiant

remittance

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Many families depend on remittances from abroad.”

Sinonimi: transfer, payment sent

Antonimi: debt, withholding

punitively

Avverbio

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

Sinonimi: harshly, penally

Antonimi: leniently, mercifully

floodgates

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The decision opened the floodgates to further complaints.”

Sinonimi: sluice gates, barriers

Antonimi: closure, blockage

unreliably

Avverbio

Esempio: “The device works unreliably in cold weather.”

Sinonimi: inconsistently, poorly

Antonimi: reliably, dependably

unassisted

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He completed the task unassisted.”

Sinonimi: independently, alone

Antonimi: assisted, helped

suspension

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The player faced suspension after the incident.”

Sinonimi: pause, temporary ban

Antonimi: continuation, reinstatement

stuffiness

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The room’s stuffiness made it hard to breathe.”

Sinonimi: staleness, formality

Antonimi: freshness, openness

dispensary

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The village dispensary provides basic medicine.”

Sinonimi: clinic, pharmacy

Antonimi:

withdrawn

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He became quiet and withdrawn after the move.”

Sinonimi: reserved, isolated

Antonimi: outgoing, open

ventilate

Verbo

Esempio: “Open the windows to ventilate the room.”

Sinonimi: air out, oxygenate

Antonimi: seal, stifle

blur

Verbo

Esempio: “Tears can blur your vision.”

Sinonimi: smudge, soften

Antonimi: sharpen, clarify

hang

Verbo

Esempio: “Hang your jacket by the door.”

Sinonimi: suspend

Antonimi: drop

fake

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The watch looked expensive, but it was fake.”

Sinonimi: false, not real

Antonimi: real, genuine

tin

Sostantivo

Esempio: “We opened a tin of soup.”

Sinonimi: can, metal

Antonimi:

gay

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He said openly that he is gay.”

Sinonimi: homosexual

Antonimi: straight

gap

Sostantivo

Esempio: “There is a gap between the two buildings.”

Sinonimi: space, opening

Antonimi: connection, closure

introduction

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The book has a short introduction at the beginning.”

Sinonimi: opening, presentation

Antonimi: conclusion

cause

Verbo

Esempio: “Stress can cause headaches.”

Sinonimi: reason, make happen

Antonimi: prevent

wish

Verbo

Esempio: “I wish you a happy birthday.”

Sinonimi: hope, want

Antonimi: dislike

will

Verbo

Esempio: “I will call you tomorrow.”

Sinonimi: shall

Antonimi: won't

when

Congiunzione

Esempio: “When do you go to school?”

Sinonimi: at what time

Antonimi:

wait

Verbo

Esempio: “Wait for me at the door.”

Sinonimi: stay, pause

Antonimi: go

this

Pronome

Esempio: “This is my favorite pen.”

Sinonimi: this one

Antonimi: that

save

Verbo

Esempio: “Save your work before you leave.”

Sinonimi: keep, rescue

Antonimi: waste, lose

nine

Determinante

Esempio: “There are nine pencils in the box.”

Sinonimi: 9

Antonimi:

luck

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Good luck on your test.”

Sinonimi: fortune

Antonimi: bad luck

selectivity

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The school is known for the selectivity of its admissions process.”

Sinonimi: discrimination, careful choice

Antonimi: openness, inclusiveness

proprietary

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The company uses proprietary software for data analysis.”

Sinonimi: private, exclusive

Antonimi: open-source, public

correlation

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Researchers found a strong correlation between sleep and memory.”

Sinonimi: association, relationship

Antonimi: disconnect, independence

breadwinner

Sostantivo

Esempio: “After his father retired, he became the family’s main breadwinner.”

Sinonimi: provider, earner

Antonimi: dependent

ludicrously

Avverbio

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

Sinonimi: absurdly, ridiculously

Antonimi: reasonably, sensibly

inclusively

Avverbio

Esempio: “The event was designed inclusively so everyone could participate.”

Sinonimi: openly, without exclusion

Antonimi: exclusively, narrowly

dispensable

Aggettivo

Esempio: “In a crisis, even skilled workers may be treated as dispensable.”

Sinonimi: nonessential, replaceable

Antonimi: essential, indispensable

conditional

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Their support was conditional on further reforms.”

Sinonimi: dependent, provisional

Antonimi: unconditional, absolute

fine

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He had to pay a fine for parking there.”

Sinonimi: penalty, good

Antonimi: bad, reward

slot

Sostantivo

Esempio: “I booked a time slot for Friday morning.”

Sinonimi: opening, time period

Antonimi: block

shut

Verbo

Esempio: “Please shut the window before you leave.”

Sinonimi: close

Antonimi: open

rely

Verbo

Esempio: “You can rely on her in difficult situations.”

Sinonimi: depend, trust

Antonimi: doubt

push

Verbo

Esempio: “Push the door gently to open it.”

Sinonimi: press, shove

Antonimi: pull

youth

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He spent his youth in a small town.”

Sinonimi: young age

Antonimi: old age

whole

Aggettivo

Esempio: “I spent the whole day at home.”

Sinonimi: entire, complete

Antonimi: partial

those

Pronome

Esempio: “Those shoes look expensive.”

Sinonimi: those ones

Antonimi: these

study

Sostantivo

Esempio: “I study English every evening.”

Sinonimi: learn

Antonimi: ignore

still

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He is still waiting outside.”

Sinonimi: yet, motionless

Antonimi: moving

spend

Verbo

Esempio: “We spend a lot of time together.”

Sinonimi: use, pass

Antonimi: save

snake

Sostantivo

Esempio: “We saw a snake near the river.”

Sinonimi: serpent

Antonimi:

shake

Verbo

Esempio: “Shake the bottle before opening it.”

Sinonimi: move, tremble

Antonimi: steady

dream

Verbo

Esempio: “It is my dream to travel the world.”

Sinonimi: wish, vision

Antonimi: reality

surreptitious

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He took a surreptitious look at the notes during the meeting.”

Sinonimi: covert

Antonimi: open

preconception

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Try to set aside preconceptions and look at the data.”

Sinonimi: bias

Antonimi: open-mindedness

interlocking

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The policy relies on interlocking safeguards across teams.”

Sinonimi: interconnected

Antonimi: independent

happenstance

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Their meeting was pure happenstance, but it changed everything.”

Sinonimi: chance

Antonimi: design

commensurate

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The compensation must be commensurate with the responsibility.”

Sinonimi: proportionate

Antonimi: disproportionate

autonomously

Avverbio

Esempio: “The system can autonomously detect anomalies and isolate them.”

Sinonimi: independently

Antonimi: dependently

authenticity

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The brand’s authenticity depends on actions, not slogans.”

Sinonimi: genuineness

Antonimi: fake

refurbishment

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The hotel reopened after a major refurbishment.”

Sinonimi: renovation

Antonimi: neglect

prohibitively

Avverbio

Esempio: “The fees are prohibitively expensive for students.”

Sinonimi: excessively

Antonimi: affordably

indispensable

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Clear communication is indispensable in remote teams.”

Sinonimi: essential

Antonimi: optional

conditionally

Avverbio

Esempio: “Access is granted conditionally, based on verification.”

Sinonimi: depending on conditions

Antonimi: unconditionally

rusty

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The gate is rusty and hard to open.”

Sinonimi: corroded

Antonimi: shiny

force

Sostantivo

Esempio: “They used force to open the door.”

Sinonimi: power

Antonimi: weakness

itself

Pronome

Esempio: “The door opened by itself.”

Sinonimi: on its own

happen

Verbo

Esempio: “What happened here?”

Sinonimi: occur