Fluency and Work

Opposite meaning words

Fluency noun - Powerful and effective language.

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Work is an antonym for fluency.

Nearby Words: fluent, fluently

Work noun - The active use of energy in producing a result.

Usage example: put a lot of work into the project

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Fluency is an antonym for work.

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

short	short fluency	short work
complete	complete fluency	complete work
true	true fluency	true work
actual	actual fluency	actual work
Other adjectives: great, written, previous.

Then again, they do work with either Fergus or Wyatt, both of whom are native English speakers, so that may provide an explanation for their fluency.

Source: Video Game / Wolfenstein: The New Order
Fluency is probably helped by the fact that on TV and in movies subtitling is generally preferred over dubbing, regardless of a work's original language.

Source: Useful Notes / The Netherlands
This can cause problems for Filipinos who grew up in a foreign English-speaking country (often due to being the children of Filipinos who work overseas) and therefore may have lost Filipino fluency or never even learned to speak it due to English being a higher-priority language.

Source: Useful Notes / Philippines

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