Cours d'anglais
VOCABULAIRE
OPPOSITES SYNONYMS
- LES OPPOSITES
Les opposites correspondent en français à ce que l’on appelle les antonymes. Ainsi, donner l’opposite d’un mot c’est donner son contraire.
Quelques exemples :
|
WORDS |
OPPOSITES |
WORDS |
OPPOSITES |
|
About |
Exactly |
Arrival |
Departure |
|
Above |
Below |
To arrive |
To leave |
|
Absence |
Presence |
Artificial |
Natural |
|
Abundance |
Lack |
To ask |
To answer |
|
To accept |
To refuse |
Asleep |
Awake |
|
Accidental |
Intentional |
To attack |
To defend |
|
Active |
Lazy |
Autumn |
Spring |
|
To add |
To subtract |
Near |
Far |
|
To admit |
To deny |
Awful |
Pleasant |
|
Adult |
Child |
Back |
In front of |
|
Advanced |
Elementary |
Background |
Foreground |
|
Affirmative |
Negative |
Backward |
Forward |
|
Afraid |
Brave |
Bad |
Good |
|
After |
Before |
Bad luck |
Good luck |
|
Against |
For |
Beauty |
Ugliness |
|
Alike |
Different |
Clean |
Dirty |
|
Alive |
Dead |
To begin |
To finish/to end |
|
All |
None |
Beginning |
End/ending |
|
Always |
Never |
Behind |
In front of |
|
Ancient |
Modern |
Below |
Above |
|
Best |
Worst |
Child |
Adult |
|
To allow |
To forbid |
Better |
Worse |
|
Already |
Not yet |
Beautiful |
Ugly |
|
Amateur |
Professional |
Big |
Small/little |
|
Angel |
Devil |
Birth |
Death |
|
To annoy |
To satisfy |
Bitter |
Sweet |
|
To answer |
To ask |
Black |
White |
|
Answer |
Question |
Blunt |
Sharp |
|
To arrest |
To free |
Body |
soul |
EXERCISE
Give the opposites of the following words.
- Cool……………………
- To continue………………………..
- Construction………………………..
- Changeable…………………………
- Complicated………………………..
- Insult……………………………….
- Clever……………………………….
- Voluntary…………………………..
- Tragedy……………………….
- Sunny…………………………..
- Parents…………………………
- Expensive………………………..
- Probably………………………….
- Centre…………………………….
- To break………………………….
- To destroy…………………………
- Calm………………………………
- To catch…………………………..
- Careful……………………………..
- Stupid……………………………
- THE SYNONYMS
Les synonymes sont des mots qui ne s’écrivent pas de la même manière mais qui ont la même signification ou encore sont proches en signification.
Quelques exemples :
EXERCISE
Give the synonyms of the following words
- Young………………………………
- Wrong……………………………...
- Worst………………………………
- To work……………………………
- Winter…………………………….
- Winner……………………………..
- To win……………………………..
- Whole……………………………..
- To lose…………………………….
- Black………………………..
- Divorce……………………..
- Poverty…………………….
- To save………………………
- Town……………………….
- Peace……………………….
- Short……………………….
- Lovely……………………
- To give……………………
- Tall………………………….
- Loose……………………….
- Useless………………………
- Division…………………….
- Ugly…………………………
- Teacher……………………..
- Mother………………………