A. Look at the questions. 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.

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

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

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