Sabtu, 02 Mei 2015

Antonym, synonym, hyponyms, hypernyms, homonyms, homophones, and homographs


(1) ANTONYM
Is the state or phenomenon in which the words have the sense relation which involve the opposite of meaning.
Implicitly Gradable Pairs
Examples:
big - small good - bad
fast - slow
young - old
Complementary Pairs
Examples:
male - female
alive - dead
present - absent
awake – asleep
Relational Pairs
Examples:
buy - sell
push - pull
command - serve
give - take
teach - learn
master - servant























































Homonyms, or multiple meaning words, are words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings. For example:
bear (the animal) can bear (tolerate) very cold temperatures.
The driver turned left (opposite of right) and left (departed from) the main road.


Homophones
also known as sound alike words, are words that are pronounced identically although they have different spellings and meanings. These words are a very common source of confusion when writing.examples of sets of homophones include: 
to, too, and two; they're and their; bee and be; sun and son; which and witch; and plain and plane. Vocabulary Spelling City is a particularly useful tool for learning to correctly use and spell the sound alike words.

Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and different pronunciations. examples of homographs are:
bass as in fish vs bass as in music,
bow as in arrow vs bow as in bending or taking a bow at the end of a performance,
close as in next to vs close as in shut the door,
desert as in dry climate vs desert as in leaving alone.



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