This document discusses synonyms and how to use them. It defines a synonym as words that have the same or nearly the same meaning. It provides examples of synonym pairs like huge/big and hot/warm. It recommends using synonyms to improve writing by adding variety when a word is overused and to make stories more interesting. A thesaurus is identified as a resource to find synonyms and their different shades of meaning.

2. What is a synonym ?

3. Good , fine , okay

4. Can you match up the synonym pairs?hugesoggyhotbigwetillsickwarm

5. How can we use synonyms?When we use a word a lot

6. How can we use synonyms?Improve our writing

7. How can we use synonyms?Makes story interesting with less known words used to mean the same thing

8. Improve the text with synonyms.It was a nice hot day. Tom went down the road.The dog was big.

9. Take time to consider more than one synonym. They have different shades of meaning, different effects.big

10. Using a thesaurusA thesaurus is a book which lists words alphabetically in a similar way to a dictionary.Beside each word entry is a list of synonyms.

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