The document lists various pairs of antonym words such as accept and reject, active and passive, adult and child. It provides examples of opposites related to concepts like states of being, actions, qualities, and more. Many common English antonyms are included to illustrate words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings.

1. Antonym Words

2. Accept Reject
Active Passive
Adult Child
Adversity Prosperity
Affluence Poverty
Allow Forbid

3. Ancient Modern
Appear Disappear
Arrive Depart
Ancient Modern
Ascent Descent
Asleep Awake

4. Barren Fertile
Beautiful Ugly
Bold/Brave Timid/Coward
Bright Dull
Cheap Costly
Cheerful Gloomy

5. Clean Dirty
Clear Confused
Compulsory Optional
Create Destroy
Dawn Dusk
Debit Credit

6. Deep Shallow
Deliberate Accidental
Democracy Autocracy
Diligent Lazy
Dwarf Giant
Ebb Tide

7. A
Cheap
Affluence
Clean
Arrive
Clear
Barren
B
Fertile
Confuse
Costly
Dirty
Poverty
Depart

8. A
Cheap
Affluence
Clean
Arrive
Clear
Barren
B
Costly
Poverty
Dirty
Depart
Confuse
Fertile

9. (Choose the correct option)
 Active
 Ancient
 Forbid
 Tide
 Dusk
 Timid
 Gloomy
 Debit
 Adversity
 Ascent

10. (Correct options)
 Active
 Ancient
 Forbid
 Tide
 Dusk
 Timid
 Gloomy
 Debit
 Adversity
 Ascent

11. Exclude Include
Exit Entrance
Expand Contract
Friendly Hostile
Guilty Innocent
Solid Hollow

12. Hope Despair
Hurt Heal
Idle Busy
Increase Decrease
Individual General
Inhale Exhale

13. Insert Extract
Kind Cruel
King Subject
Knowledge Ignorance
Lend Borrow
Loose Tight

14. Lose Find
Loss Profit
Mild Severe
Miser Spendthrift
Monotony Diversity
Narrow Broad

15. Neutral Partial
Ode Even
Optimism Pessimism
Oriental Occidental
Orthodox Heterodox
Permanent Temporary

16. [hope, knowledge, ode, ignorance, despair,
increasing, cruel, subject, hollow]
Her dress was very _______.
I _______ you will understand.
The king was very _______.
She was in _______ as she failed in 12th.
_______ is power.
The flute is _______ from within.
Population of India is _______.
_______ is weakness.

17. Her dress was very ode.
I hope you will understand.
The king was very cruel.
She was in despair as she failed in
12th.
Knowledge is power.
The flute is hollow from within.
Population of India is increasing.
Ignorance is weakness.

18. He accept the gift. He did not reject it.
[Example]
She borrows money. She never ____.
India is friendly, Pakistan is ____.
I am not partial, I’m ____.
They are miser, not ____.
We are not occidental but ___.
The bridge is narrow, not ____.
He always got profits, never ____.

19. She borrows money. She never
lends.
India is friendly, Pakistan is
hostile.
I am not partial, I’m neutral.
They are miser, not spendthrift.
We are not occidental but Oriental.
The bridge is narrow, not broad.
He always got profits, never losses.

20. Prepared by:
Mihir Dave
davemihir8213@yahoo.com
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