The document discusses antonyms and synonyms. It defines antonyms as words that mean the opposite of another word. There are three types of antonyms: graded, relational/converse, and complimentary. Examples of many antonym pairs are provided such as joy/sorrow and light/dark. A synonym is defined as a word or phrase that means the same or nearly the same as another word. Factors to consider when choosing synonyms include connotation, type of writing, audience, and purpose. Examples of synonym groups are also given like ability/capacity and aim/goal.

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2. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of
another word.
The root words for the word 'antonym' are the
words 'anti,' meaning 'against' or 'opposite,' and 'onym,'
meaning 'name.'
Types of Antonyms
There are three different types of antonyms:
❖ Graded Antonyms.
❖ Relational or Converse Antonyms.
❖ Complimentary Antonyms.

3. ➢ Arrival Departure
➢ Belief Doubt
➢ Credit Debit
➢ Joy Sorrow
➢ Light Dark
➢ Majority Minority
➢ Master Servant
➢ Day Night
➢ Death Birth
➢ Enemy Friend
➢ Failure Success
➢ Freeze Boil
➢ Gain Loss
➢ Giant Dwarf
➢ Heaven Hell
➢ Import Export
➢ Maximum Minimum
➢ Optimist pessimist
➢ Peace War
➢ Plenty Scarcity
➢ Present Absent
➢ Property Adversity
➢ Reward Punish
➢ Singular Plural
➢ Top Bottom
➢ Victory Defect
Examples of Antonyms

4. ➢ Active Passive
➢ Ancient Modern
➢ Attractive Repulsive
➢ Beautiful Ugly
➢ Bitter Sweet
➢ Broad Narrow
➢ Careful Careless
➢ Cheap Costly
➢ Clean Dirty
➢ Fresh Steale
➢ Full Empty
➢ Grad Sad
➢ Light Heavy
➢ Hard Soft
➢ High Low
➢ Humble Proud
➢ Striate Crooked
➢ Strict flexible
➢ Strong Weak
➢ Superior Inferior
➢ Public Private
➢ Transparent Opaque
➢ Swim Sink
➢ Advantage Disadvantage
➢ Agree disagree
➢ Appear Disappear
Examples of Antonyms

5. ➢ Attentive Inattentive
➢ Close Disclose
➢ continue Discontinue
➢ Correct Incorrect
➢ Equality Inequality
➢ Fold Unfold
➢ Furl Unfurl
➢ Owner Disowner
➢ Regular Irregular
➢ Pure Impure
➢ Single Married
➢ Knowledge Ignorance
➢ Timid Bold
➢ Vacant Occupied
➢ Generous Stingy
➢ Divide Unite
➢ Obey Disobey
➢ Literate Illiterate
➢ Legal Illegal
➢ Rough Smooth
➢ Merit Demerit
➢ Moral Immoral
➢ Increase Decrease
➢ Kind Unkind
➢ Tie Untie
➢ Visible invisible
Examples of Antonyms

6. A synonym is a word or phrase that means the
same (or very nearly the same) as another word or
phrase. Words that are synonyms are described
as synonymous.
How to use Synonyms
To choose synonyms, you should consider several key things besides a word’s definition:
1. Connotation— do you want your meaning to be positive, negative, or neutral?
2. Type of Writing— is your work informative, persuasive, creative?
3. Audience— who has to understand the words: children, teenagers, adults?
4. Purpose— are you choosing words for descriptions like characterization,
setting, etc?

7. ✓ Ability – Capacity, Capability, potential
✓ Accept – Agree, Receive, Welcome
✓ Afraid – Fearful, Scared, Frightened, Terrified
✓ Aim – Goal, Target, Plan, Ambition, Object
✓ Beautiful – Attractive, Gorgeous, Pretty,
✓ Bend – Turn, Twist, Wrap
✓ Big – Huge, Large, Sizeable, Great
✓ Immense – Colossal, enormous, massive, vast
✓ Brave – Courageous, Plucky, Fearless, Heroic
✓ Build – Construct, Erect, Make, Put up, Fabricate
✓ Careful – Attentive, Alert, Watchful, Cautious
✓ Custom – Practice, Convention
✓ Decrease – Less, Reduce, Lower
Examples of synonyms

8. ✓ Demand – Request, Claim, Bag
✓ Describe – Narrate, Represent, Explain
✓ Die – Expire, Pass-away
✓ Dirty – Dusty, Mucky, Soiled, Unwashed
✓ Educate – Teach, Coach, Instruct, Train
✓ Gain – Obtain, Get, Acquire
✓ Gather – Collect, Accumulate
✓ Help – Aid, Corporation, Support, Corporate
✓ Jump – Bounce, Skip, Leap
✓ Mute – Silent, Dumb, Speechless
✓ Pain – Suffering, Torcher, headache, agony
✓ Poor – Homeless, impoverished, beggarly
✓ Provide – Supply, give, grant, furnish
Examples of synonyms