Vocabolario

tan

Sostantivo

Esempio: “She got a deep tan on vacation.”

Sinonimi: brown skin from sun

Antonimi: pale

tantamount

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Ignoring the warning is tantamount to admitting failure.”

Sinonimi: equivalent, equal to

Antonimi: different, unrelated

tank

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The water tank is almost empty.”

Sinonimi: container, reservoir

Antonimi:

tantalizingly

Avverbio

Esempio: “The offer was tantalizingly close to what we wanted.”

Sinonimi: temptingly

Antonimi: unappealingly

paramount

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Safety is paramount.”

Sinonimi: most important, chief

Antonimi: minor

parameter

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Change this parameter in the model.”

Sinonimi: setting, variable

hindsight

Sostantivo

Esempio: “In hindsight, the decision was wrong.”

Sinonimi: retrospection

Antonimi: foresight

commodity

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Oil is an important commodity.”

Sinonimi: product, good

cognitive

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Sleep affects cognitive performance.”

Sinonimi: mental, intellectual

Antonimi: physical

recourse

Sostantivo

Esempio: “They had no recourse but to sue.”

Sinonimi: option, remedy

Antonimi: helplessness

perverse

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He took a perverse pleasure in failure.”

Sinonimi: contrary, twisted

Antonimi: normal

derelict

Aggettivo

Esempio: “They bought a derelict building.”

Sinonimi: abandoned, neglected

Antonimi: maintained

succumb

Verbo

Esempio: “He did not succumb to pressure.”

Sinonimi: yield, give in

Antonimi: resist

eminent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “She is an eminent scientist.”

Sinonimi: distinguished, famous

Antonimi: unknown

repute

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The university is of high repute.”

Sinonimi: reputation, standing

Antonimi: disgrace

opaque

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The process is opaque to users.”

Sinonimi: unclear, not transparent

Antonimi: transparent

jargon

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The report uses too much jargon.”

Sinonimi: technical language, terminology

Antonimi: plain language

extant

Aggettivo

Esempio: “This is the oldest extant manuscript.”

Sinonimi: existing, surviving

Antonimi: lost

edify

Verbo

Esempio: “The lecture will edify the audience.”

Sinonimi: teach, instruct

Antonimi: mislead

mechanism

Sostantivo

Esempio: “We need to understand the mechanism.”

Sinonimi: system, process

Antonimi: randomness

inclusion

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Inclusion is important in education.”

Sinonimi: involvement, participation

Antonimi: exclusion

condition

Sostantivo

Esempio: “This condition is important.”

Sinonimi: requirement, state

Antonimi: freedom

conceive

Verbo

Esempio: “It is hard to conceive a better plan.”

Sinonimi: imagine, think of

Antonimi: misunderstand

alienate

Verbo

Esempio: “Bad communication can alienate customers.”

Sinonimi: isolate, distance

Antonimi: include

rapport

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The teacher built rapport with the students.”

Sinonimi: connection, trust

Antonimi: distance

obscure

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The meaning of the sentence is obscure.”

Sinonimi: unclear, unknown

Antonimi: clear

linear

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The chart shows linear growth.”

Sinonimi: straight, sequential

Antonimi: nonlinear

legacy

Sostantivo

Esempio: “His legacy is still important today.”

Sinonimi: heritage, inheritance

Antonimi: new beginning

statistics

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Statistics helps us understand data.”

Sinonimi: data analysis, numbers

Antonimi: guesswork

consultant

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The consultant gave useful advice.”

Sinonimi: advisor, expert

Antonimi: client

applicant

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The applicant sent a document.”

Sinonimi: candidate, person applying

Antonimi: reviewer

vitamin

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Vitamin D is important.”

Sinonimi: nutrient

Antonimi: toxin

query

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The query returned many results.”

Sinonimi: question, request

Antonimi: answer

audit

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The company had an audit.”

Sinonimi: inspection, review

Antonimi: neglect

data

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The data is important.”

Sinonimi: information, facts

Antonimi: guess

agriculture

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Agriculture is important for the economy.”

Sinonimi: farming

Antonimi: industry

nutrition

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Good nutrition is important.”

Sinonimi: diet, food intake

Antonimi: malnutrition

chemistry

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Chemistry is my favorite subject.”

Sinonimi: science of substances

Antonimi: literature

assistant

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The assistant helped the teacher.”

Sinonimi: helper, aide

Antonimi: leader

security

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Security is important online.”

Sinonimi: safety, protection

Antonimi: danger

distance

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The distance is short.”

Sinonimi: space, gap

Antonimi: closeness

chemical

Sostantivo

Esempio: “This chemical is dangerous.”

Sinonimi: substance

Antonimi: natural material

tourism

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Tourism is important for the city.”

Sinonimi: travel industry

Antonimi: staying home

service

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The service is good.”

Sinonimi: help, assistance

Antonimi: neglect

trade

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Trade between countries is important.”

Sinonimi: commerce, business

Antonimi: isolation

clerk

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The clerk works at the desk.”

Sinonimi: office worker, assistant

Antonimi: manager

soap

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Wash your hands with soap.”

Sinonimi: cleaning bar

Antonimi: dirt

salt

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Add some salt.”

Sinonimi: seasoning

Antonimi: sugar

drug

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The doctor gave me a drug.”

Sinonimi: medicine, medication

Antonimi: poison

intelligence

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Artificial intelligence is changing education.”

Sinonimi: smartness, mental ability

Antonimi: stupidity

population

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The city has a large population.”

Sinonimi: people, inhabitants

Antonimi: empty area

tradition

Sostantivo

Esempio: “This is an old tradition.”

Sinonimi: custom, practice

Antonimi: innovation

knowledge

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Knowledge helps people grow.”

Sinonimi: understanding, information

Antonimi: ignorance

invention

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The telephone was an important invention.”

Sinonimi: creation, innovation

Antonimi: copy

education

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Education is important.”

Sinonimi: learning, schooling

Antonimi: ignorance

leg

Sostantivo

Esempio: “My leg is strong.”

Sinonimi: limb

Antonimi: arm

box

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The box is big.”

Sinonimi: container, case

Antonimi: bag

medicine

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Take this medicine.”

Sinonimi: drug, pill

Antonimi: poison

template

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Use this template for new lessons.”

Sinonimi: pattern

sugar

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Do you want sugar in your tea?”

review

Verbo

Esempio: “Review your notes before the test.”

Sinonimi: check

telescopic

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The camera has a telescopic lens.”

Sinonimi: extendable, magnifying

Antonimi: fixed, ordinary

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

provincial

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The novel contrasts provincial life with life in the capital.”

Sinonimi: regional, small-town

Antonimi: cosmopolitan, urban

procedural

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The delay was caused by a procedural error.”

Sinonimi: formal, process-related

Antonimi: substantive, informal

preeminent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “She is a preeminent scholar in the field.”

Sinonimi: leading, foremost

Antonimi: secondary, inferior

philistine

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He dismissed the critic as a philistine.”

Sinonimi: boor, uncultured person

Antonimi: connoisseur, cultured person

perversity

Sostantivo

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

Sinonimi: contrariness, depravity

Antonimi: reasonableness, decency

mediocrity

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He refused to settle for mediocrity.”

Sinonimi: ordinariness, average quality

Antonimi: excellence, brilliance

interweave

Verbo

Esempio: “The novel interweaves history and fiction.”

Sinonimi: blend, interlace

Antonimi: separate, untangle

inexorably

Avverbio

Esempio: “Time moves inexorably forward.”

Sinonimi: relentlessly, inevitably

Antonimi: hesitantly, reversibly

emulsifier

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The recipe includes an emulsifier to keep the mixture smooth.”

Sinonimi: stabilizer

Antonimi:

self-worth

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Constant criticism can damage self-worth.”

Sinonimi: self-esteem, self-respect

Antonimi: self-doubt, worthlessness

provisions

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The contract includes several important provisions.”

Sinonimi: terms, supplies

Antonimi: omissions, shortages

perceptive

Aggettivo

Esempio: “She made a perceptive comment about the novel.”

Sinonimi: insightful, observant

Antonimi: unaware, dull

marginally

Avverbio

Esempio: “Sales improved only marginally.”

Sinonimi: slightly, barely

Antonimi: substantially, greatly

imperative

Aggettivo

Esempio: “It is imperative that we act quickly.”

Sinonimi: essential, urgent

Antonimi: optional, unimportant

exotically

Avverbio

Esempio: “The room was exotically decorated with rare fabrics.”

Sinonimi: unusually, distinctively

Antonimi: plainly, ordinarily

divergence

Sostantivo

Esempio: “There is a clear divergence between the two views.”

Sinonimi: difference, separation

Antonimi: convergence, agreement