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    English Notes BITSAT

    SHORT NOTES

    SYNONYMS
    ANTONYMS

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    English Notes BITSAT

    1. Synonyms:

    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word,
    morpheme, or phrase in the same language.

    For example:

    (i) Baffle: confuse, deceive.

    (ii) Beautiful: attractive, pretty.

    (iii) Fair: objective, impartial.

    (iv) Happy: content, joyful.

    2. Antonyms:

    An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.

    For example:

    (i) Agree: Disagree

    (ii) Appear: Disappear

    (iii) Belief: Disbelief

    (iv) Honest: Dishonest

    Tips and strategies for solving Synonyms and Antonyms

    STRATEGY 1

    If you do not know the meaning of the given word, think of a context in which you might
    have used it, that may help you to figure out the meaning, for example, in the question find
    the word nearest in meaning to

    MAGNIFY

    (a) Forgive (b) diminish (c) swell (d) extract

    Now if you do not know what magnify means think of a magnifying glass and what it does.
    It expands or makes a thing look bigger. So the right answer will be (c).

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    STRATEGY2

    If you cannot find a correct antonym in the given option, think of the antonyms you know of
    and subsequently check if there is any word in the given options which is synonymous to
    the antonyms in your mind. For example

    INDUSTRIOUS

    (a) stupid (b) harsh (c) indolent (d) complex

    If you don't know any of the words given as options, think of antonyms you could think of,
    like lazy, idle. Now think of synonyms of lazy and you will know indolent is a synonym of
    lazy. So it will be the antonym to industrious. Formula → SYNONYM of ANTONYM is
    another ANTONYM.

    STRATEGY 3

    Look at the part of speech of the given verb. A word may exist in various parts of speech.
    For example precipitate exists as a verb which means send rapidly into a certain state and
    also as a noun, precipitate, which means a substance deposited from a solution.

    POLISH

    (a) ruthlessness

    (b) honesty

    (c) indolence

    (d) gaucheness

    Now is this the verb polish or noun polish. Since all options are nouns, this cannot be the
    verb polish related to shoes but noun polish which means culture and sophistication and
    the antonym to this would be gaucheness

    Also check the list of Top Synonyms-Antonyms Word List

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