Vocabolario

reason

Sostantivo

Esempio: “What is the reason?”

Sinonimi: cause

perversity

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: contrariness, depravity

Antonimi: reasonableness, decency

ostensible

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The ostensible reason for the visit was business.”

Sinonimi: apparent, supposed

Antonimi: real, genuine

imposition

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He apologized for the imposition.”

Sinonimi: burden, intrusion

Antonimi: favor, relief

divination

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: fortune-telling, prophecy

Antonimi: reason, science

plausibly

Avverbio

Esempio: “She argued plausibly that the delay was unavoidable.”

Sinonimi: believably, credibly

Antonimi: unconvincingly, implausibly

fair

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The teacher tried to be fair to everyone.”

Sinonimi: just, reasonable

Antonimi: unfair

crazy

Aggettivo

Esempio: “That sounds like a crazy idea.”

Sinonimi: wild, strange

Antonimi: normal, sensible

cause

Verbo

Esempio: “Stress can cause headaches.”

Sinonimi: reason, make happen

Antonimi: prevent

notoriously

Avverbio

Esempio: “The road is notoriously dangerous in winter.”

Sinonimi: famously, infamously

Antonimi: obscurely, respectably

flightiness

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: frivolity, fickleness

Antonimi: seriousness, steadiness

ludicrously

Avverbio

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

Sinonimi: absurdly, ridiculously

Antonimi: reasonably, sensibly

intuitively

Avverbio

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

Sinonimi: naturally, instinctively

Antonimi: deliberately, awkwardly

fanatically

Avverbio

Esempio: “He defended the idea fanatically, refusing any criticism.”

Sinonimi: obsessively, extremely

Antonimi: moderately, reasonably

appallingly

Avverbio

Esempio: “The equipment was appallingly outdated.”

Sinonimi: shockingly, terribly

Antonimi: acceptably, reasonably

thus

Avverbio

Esempio: “The road was closed, thus we had to wait.”

Sinonimi: therefore, in this way

Antonimi: however

main

Aggettivo

Esempio: “What is the main reason for the change?”

Sinonimi: primary, chief

Antonimi: minor, secondary

fairly

Avverbio

Esempio: “The test was fairly easy.”

Sinonimi: quite, reasonably

Antonimi: extremely

inexplicably

Avverbio

Esempio: “The app inexplicably crashed right before the demo.”

Sinonimi: mysteriously

Antonimi: predictably

sentimental

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He kept the watch for sentimental reasons.”

Sinonimi: emotional

Antonimi: unsentimental

sense

Sostantivo

Esempio: “That explanation doesn’t make sense.”

Sinonimi: meaning

Antonimi: nonsense

probe

Verbo

Esempio: “The journalist probed the reasons behind the decision.”

Sinonimi: investigate

because

Congiunzione

Esempio: “I am happy because it is Friday.”

Sinonimi: since

excuse

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Excuse me, where is the bank?”

Sinonimi: sorry

Antonimi: blame

impressionistic

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The report offered an impressionistic overview.”

Sinonimi: evocative

Antonimi: precise

sound

Aggettivo

Esempio: “That is a sound decision.”

Sinonimi: solid

Antonimi: weak

proud

Aggettivo

Esempio: “She is proud of her work.”

Sinonimi: pleased

Antonimi: ashamed

fallacy

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The argument is based on a fallacy.”

Sinonimi: misconception, error

Antonimi: truth

rationalize

Verbo

Esempio: “He rationalized the delay by blaming external factors.”

infer

Verbo

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

plausible

Aggettivo

Esempio: “She offered a plausible explanation for the delay.”

arbitrary

Aggettivo

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

intransigent

/ɪnˈtrænzɪdʒənt/

Esempio: “They remained intransigent during talks.”

Sinonimi: inexorable, adamant, adamantine

capricious

/kəˈprɪʃəs/

Esempio: “The weather here is capricious.”

Sinonimi: arbitrary, whimsical, impulsive

justify

/ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ/

Esempio: “Can you justify the decision?”

Sinonimi: free, absolve, vindicate

Antonimi: fault, blame

deduce

/dɪˈduːs/

Esempio: “From the data, we can deduce a pattern.”

Sinonimi: infer, derive, deduct

debate

/dɪˈbeɪt/

Esempio: “They had a debate about the issue.”

Sinonimi: deliberate, contend, consider