Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Synonyms


Synonyms are words with the same or similar meanings. 

Synonyms can be any part of speech (such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs or prepositions), as long as both words are the same part of speech. Here are more examples of English synonyms:

verb
"buy" and "purchase"

adjective
"big" and "large"

adverb
"quickly" and "speedily"

preposition
"on" and "upon"