Thursday, October 13, 2011

Synonyms

 
Second-language learners struggle to use correct words in written and oral language and tend to overuse common words, such as goodbad, and nice, due to their lack of knowledge of specific synonyms.





What can you see in the picture? Notice their appearance, their hair, their shirts and their looks. 
Are they the same?

Indeed, they are twin. They have the same posture, wears same shirts in other words they are almost the same.




 In English, Synonyms is a word or expression that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word or expression.

WORDS WITH THE SAME MEANING
(SYNONYMS)
For example:
a synonym for "dark" is "dim."
a synonym for "pretty" is "beautiful"
a synonym for "rich" is "wealthy"
a synonym for "poor" is "needy"

There are some words that have many synonyms.
Say for example,

For the word COOL:
cold / freeze / peace / chill / calm 

For the word  FIGHT:
quarrel / dispute / argument / tiff / spat

For the word  SPEAK:
talk / converse / chat / tell 

Learn the basic concept of synonym and find out how to improve your vocabulary.



VOCABULARY:

overuse      - make use of too often or too extensively
posture      - a position of the body or of body parts: a sitting posture.
tend           - to have a tendency
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Another great way to build your synonym vocabulary

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