Synonyms and Antonyms

Use a word's synonym or antonym in the sentence to clarify its meaning.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 23

Synonyms are words that mean the same, or almost the same: big, huge, and enormous.
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings: big and small, brave and scared.
Writers often put a synonym or an antonym near a hard word. The tortoise was sluggish, not speedy like the hare. Not speedy means slow, so sluggish means slow!
Your turn! Sort these words. Do they mean the same as fast, or the opposite?

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

3.L.V.3.b — Identify homophones and homographs and use the relationship between synonyms and antonyms to clarify word meanings. (I)