Vocabulary

Antonyms: Match each word with the word or phrase most nearly its opposite.

pedantic

A.

scholarly

B.

childish

C.

ignorant

D.

sophisticated

By definition pedantic means ’a person who bothers people by making unintelligent comments onto things or the one who show off knowledge to much. Among the choices the best answer would be letter A: scholarly. It means that the knowledge shared is something well-searched, peer-reviewed or has concrete backup findings. Childish is of course, a premature understanding of things dealing with emotions alone. Ignorance is a bliss. And sophisticated is using reasonable arguments or rather ‘sound arguments’ that basically feels right but are actually wrong.