Synonyms and Antonyms

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Learn vocabulary through associations. Use a thesaurus to look up synonyms for your new word. If your thesaurus has antonyms, you can then look up the antonyms, then the synonyms for each antonym, and so on. See how long you can keep expanding the web of synonyms and antonyms by picking words with slightly different shades of meaning. Draw the synonym/antonym web and post it where you can see it. 

English language—Examinations—Study guides. 2. English language— Synonyms and antonyms—Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title Five hundred one synonym and antonym questions. II. Title Five hundred and one synonym and antonym questions. III. Title. 

Welcome to 501 Synonym and Antonym Questions This book is designed to help you prepare for the verbal sections of many assessment and entrance exams. By completing the exercises in this book you will also increase your vocabulary and refine your knowledge of words. 

Most standardized tests—including high school entrance exams, the SAT, civil service exams, and the GRE—use synonym and antonym questions to test verbal skills. These questions ask test takers to identify the word that is most similar or dissimilar to another word, effectively testing their knowledge of two words. 

English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Problems, exercises, etc. 

A thesaurus is a book that provides synonyms and antonyms for words. Use a thesaurus to look up a word and find many other words that have the same (or the opposite) meaning as that word. But be careful Thesauruses don t explain the nuances, or subtle differences in meaning, that exist among words that seem to have the same or nearly the same meaning. For example, look at this short list of synonyms that a thesaurus provides for the word adequate ... 

This Lesson helps you build word power through a review of useful synonyms and antonyms, good for bulking up your vocabulary. 

If you feel the need for extra help when you write, use a dictionary. It can help you to see the subtle differences in how a word can be used. For even more help, check out a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. These dictionaries define all the synonyms and antonyms so you re less likely to substitute a word that doesn t make sense. 

TIP Sometimes you can remember a word better if you focus on its synonym, or even its antonym. Think about synonyms and antonyms whenever you re learning a new word. 

Data obtained via the free association task were exploited through the foreseen procedures supported by the software Spad (Lebart et al., 1989) words, segments and poly-forms were considered in terms of synonyms and antonyms and summarised in categories. After retaining those with frequency equal or greater than two, correspondence analysis (Benzecri et al., 1973) was performed with the aim to detect the underlying principles shaping the representation field. 

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