Synonyms & Antonyms

• The Synonyms and Antonyms form an integral part of the English Language. Acquaintance with the vocabulary of the English language is a necessity for effective expression either in the written or in the oral from.

Synonym

• Synonym is nothing but the similar meaning of a particular word or its semantic relation. So , it is a word or a phrase that means the same as another word or a phrase in the same language.

Examples • noun– "student" and "pupil"– "petty crime" and "misdemeanor"

• verb – "buy" and "purchase"

• adjective – "sick" and "ill"

• adverb – "quickly" and "speedily"

• preposition – "on" and "upon"

synonyms

• about approximately • Abstract summary• to accomplish to achieve• to accumulate to build up• Beneficiant generous• beneficial favourable • Bid tender

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• Blameless innocent• Business commerce, trade • busy (telephone) engaged• to condemn to sentence • confederate accomplice • to confine to restrict • conflict clash• Deliberately intentionally • delicate fragile

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• fright dread, terror, • Fly - soar, hover, flit,

Funny - humorous,amusing,

Get - acquire, obtaincollect gather, glean,

• Go - recede, depart, • Good - excellent, fine, superior

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• Hide - conceal, coverHurry - rush, run, Hurt - damage, harm,

• Moody - temperamental,

• Neat - clean, orderly, • New- fresh, unique,

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• Trouble- distress, anguish,• True- accurate, right,• Ugly - hideous, frightful,• Unhappy - miserable,

Antonyms

• Antonyms are the negative connotation of a particular word. An Antonym is a word or phrase that is opposite in meaning to a particular word or a phrase in the same language

Antonyms

• Abundant scarce • Joy grief• accept refuse • knowledge ignorance• accidental intentional • Lazy industrious • accurate incorrect • literal figurative• admit deny • majority minority

Antonyms

• Advance retreat • maximum minimum• antique modern • merciful cruel• attack defend• Conquer fail • perfect faulty • contract expand

Antonyms

• permit forbid• dangerous safe • positive negative• depart arrive • private public• Dwarf giant • shrink expand • Evil good • slavery freedom

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• Genuine fake • triumph fail• generous stingy • unbreakable fragile• grin frown • unique ordinary

Antonyms

• Idle busy • vacant occupied • Imaginary real • vanish appear• import export • victory defeat

Homonyms

• 1. One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).

Homonyms

• Homonyms generally include two categories of word types: homophones and homographs.

• Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

• Homophones are words that sound the same when you pronounce them, but have different meanings.

• Homonym - two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify.

• Homograph - two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)

• Homophone - two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

examples

• accept/except • to buy/by/• capital/capitol • to eminent/imminent • fair/fare• to lie/lye • meat/meet/mete • to role/roll • scene/seen • to whine/wine

Examples

• accept - take in• except - other than• ad - advertisement• add - join, combine• advice - guidance• advise - recommend• aid - assist, assistance• aide - one who gives assistance• ail - to suffer poor health• ale - a beverage

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• air - atmosphere• heir - one who inherits property• aisle - a passage• I'll - contraction of I will• allusion - an indirect reference• illusion - false appearance• altar - table in a church• alter - to change• ate - past tense of eat• eight - the number 8

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• bail - to clear water• bail - release of a prisoner• bale - a large bundle• band - a ring, something that binds• band - a group• banned - prohibited

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• bare - uncovered• bear - large animal• bear - support, yield• bases - starting points• bases - four stations on a baseball field• basis - a basic principle

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• beat - to strike, overcome• beat - exhausted• beet - a plant with red roots• blew - past tense of blow• blue - the color• bread - baked food item• bred - produced• buy - purchase• by - near, through• bye - goodbye

An idiom

• An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words,

• An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.

• Moreover, an idiom is an expression, word, or phrase whose sense means something different from what the words literally imply.

• When a speaker uses an idiom, the listener might mistake its actual meaning, if he or she has not heard this figure of speech before Idioms usually do not translate well; in some cases, when an idiom is translated into another language, either its meaning is changed or it is meaningless.

examples• Piece of Cake- Something easy. Ex. - Making Rajma is a piece of cake for

me.

2. At Stake - At risk. Ex. - Raju has made Satyam's business and repo at stake.

3. Beyond Question -Undoubtedly. Ex. - Chitvish's recipes are beyond question, easy and tasty to make.

4. Paint the town Red- enjoy nightlife with drinks. Ex.- Yesterday, all the boys of my class painted the town red.

5. Dress to kill - Wear one's finest clothes. Ex. - You are dressed to kill today, your fiancee will marry you today itself.

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• All shook up extremely excited, worried, or disturbed about something

• He's all shook up about his mother's illness.All the way (with go) do something completely

• He's going all the way for the scholarship.Dash it all! expression used when very upset

• Dash it all! I didn't do very well.

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• Free for all crazy, non-restricted activity (generally a fight)

• It was a free for all! Everyone went crazy!Have it all together be very poised, successful

• He has it all together. The house, the wife, the kids, the great job - everything!Hold all the aces have all the advantages

• Unfortunately, Tom holds all the aces right now. You'll have to do what he says.

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• Know all the angles be very clever about something • salesman knew all the angles, and by the end of our

talk I had bought a new computer! • Once and for all finally (usually putting an end to

something) • I'm going to stop his behavior once and for all!

Pull out all the stops make every possible effort to do something

• He pulled out all the stops on the exam.

One word substitute

• 1.One who is out to subvert a government • Anarchist • 2.One who is recovering from illness • Convalescent • 3. One who is all powerful • Omnipotent • 4. One who is present everywhere • Omnipresent • 5. One who knows everything • Omniscient

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• 6. • One who is easily deceived • Gullible • 7. • One who does not make mistakes • Infallible • 8. • One who can do anything for money • Mercenary

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• 9.One who has no money • Pauper • 10. One who changes sides • Turncoat • 11. One who works for free • Volunteer

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11. One who works for free Volunteer 12. One who loves books Bibliophile 13. One who can speak two languages Bilingual 14. One who loves mankind Philanthropist 15. One who hates mankind Misanthrope 16. One who looks on the bright side of things Optimist

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• 17. One who looks on the dark side of things • Pessimist • 18. One who doubts the existence of god • Agnostic • 19. One who pretends to be what he is not • Hypocrite • 20. One incapable of being tired • Indefatigable

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• 21. One who helps others Good • Samaritan • 22. One who copies from other writers • Plagiarist • 23. One who hates women • Misogynist • 24. One who knows many languages • Polyglot

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• 25. One who is fond of sensuous pleasures • Epicure • 26. One who thinks only of himself • Egoist • 27. One who thinks only of welfare of women