English for today Class Eight, Unite 4, Lesson 7 : Synonyms and antonyms

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Lesson 7: Synonyms and antonyms

 A. Look at the questions and ask and answer.

What is a synonym ? What is an antonym ?

Do you know of any two words with the same or nearly the same meaning ? What about 'boring' and 'dull' ?

Do you know a word that means just the opposite of another word ?

What about 'obey' and 'disobey' ?

B. Read the text and do the following activities in pairs.

A synonym is a word that means the same or almost the same as another word. There may be more than one synonyms for some of the words. Big and large, 'begin' and 'start' are synonyms.

An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. 'Sorrow' and 'happiness', 'right' and 'wrong' are examples of antonyms.

C. Find the synonyms of the following words. Take help of the dictionary.

idle   text   annoyed result goal trip valuable return

D. Find the synonyms of the words in the dictionary page in Lesson 3.

fit   fitted fitting

Make sentences with the synonyms.

E. Find the antonyms of the words in the dictionary page in Lesson 3.

fit fitted

Make sentences with the antonyms.

F. From your dictionary find the antonyms of the following words.

profit   complete strong   hard different   sweet fair minor

G. Match a word in A with a synonym in B.

A	B
noise	harm
boring	sight
handy	irritate
mend	dull
damage	useful
jealous	row
annoy	envious
view	fix

H. Fill in the boxes with the synonyms of the word 'happy'.

I. Match a word in A with its opposite in B

A	B
high	accept
lose	light
refuse	low
temporary	subtract
heavy	permanent
add	gain
minor	outdoor
indoor	major

J. Fill in the boxes with the opposites/ antonyms of the word 'happy'.