ITALIA Antonyms

• three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell

• the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter

• a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada

• high quality porcelain originally made only in China

• a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

• dishware made of high quality porcelain

• a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong

• a division of the United Kingdom

• a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

• French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)

• a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990

• lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer

• a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

• lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient

• a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

• coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan

• a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810

• a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991

• formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia

• a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917

• a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state

• a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

• North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

• the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States