Questões de Concurso sobre Sinônimos | Synonymous

The verb ‘encouraging’ in “We’re encouraging older people to make small changes,” can be replaced, without changing meaning, by:

In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the words “themselves at” could be removed from the fragment without altering its overall meaning or affecting its coherence: telecommunications companies are finding the center of this shift.

In the passage "The growing society is there, yet it is also made and remade in every individual mind" (last sentence of the first paragraph), "yet" could be replaced with and yet without altering the overall meaning of the fragment.

The meaning of the fourth sentence of the second paragraph would remain the same if "could not" were replaced with failed to as long as "chose" were also replaced with to choose.

At the end of the second paragraph, if the fragment "questionable belief" were replaced with questionable beliefs, the change would require "was" to be replaced with were for the sentence to remain grammatically correct.

Consider the sentence: “The language-learning app Duolingo conducted a survey on how students study languages.” If this sentence were to be rewritten in the Passive Voice without changing its original meaning or verb tense, which of the following options would be correct?

Which of the following words is a synonym for “undesirable” (l. 01)?

In "issue characteristics" (second sentence of the first paragraph), the word "issue" can be correctly replaced with key without altering the meaning of this expression.

In the following extract: "Amid a nationwide decline of teaching, [...]", "amid" is synonym of:

The alternative in which the word is synonym of "hefty" in "It's not likely to be a hefty volume [...]" is:

In the last paragraph, the word "curb" (l. 39) is synonymous with

In the sentence "While complex network behavior is beginning to emerge even without much external stimulation, experts generally agree that current organoids are not conscious, nor close to it" (last paragraph), the connector "While" expresses contrast, and could be correctly replaced with Although.

In the excerpt "The hottest year in recorded history was 2024" (first paragraph), the word "hottest" is the superlative form of hot and could be replaced with most hot without this harming the grammatical correctness of the text.

The word "groundbreaking", as used at the end of the text, can be replaced with pioneering without this changing the overall meaning of the sentence.

Rewriting “System updates are performed periodically in order to correct vulnerabilities” as System updates were performed periodically to correct vulnerabilities preserves the original meaning.

The word "culprit", in the fragment "Scientists say the culprit is clear" (first paragraph), could be correctly replaced with problem without this causing any change in the original meaning of the text, since the words are synonyms.

Analise a frase a seguir:

“Students improve their language skills through practice.”

Assinale a alternativa em que a palavra em destaque pode ser substituída por um sinônimo adequado sem alteração significativa de sentido.

In the second paragraph, both “Given that”, in “Given that risk is a product of threat”, and “to the effect that”, in “can convey a discouraging message to potential attackers, to the effect that they should expect to confront professional security measures” can be respectively replaced with Because and because without this changing the original meaning of the text.

The first word in “shifts in the information ecosystem” (1^st paragraph) is close in meaning to:

The statement "The making of a society is the finding of common meanings and directions" (fourth sentence of the first paragraph) can be correctly rephrased as A society is formed through the discovery of everyday meanings and directions, without this changing the original meaning of the text.