SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS

A nice way to improve or strengthen your vocabulary knowledge: practising synonyms and antonyms.

Match the following words, specify whether they are synonyms or opposites, then practise them making a sentence with each word.

1. brief
2. type
3. glance
4. wealthy
5. short
6. furious
7. plain
8. delay
9. simple
10. broke
11. quicken
12. sort
13. sure
14. look
15. stuffy
16. airy
17. query
18. frantic
19. confident
20. doubt

Example: brief is a synonym of short.

• I’m sorry, we are running out of time, your statement will have to be brief.
• I would like to tell you a short anecdote.

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