English Synonyms and Antonyms
James Champlin Fernald
Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains or exemplifies the subtle distinctions between the listed words. The entries sometimes close with a few words on the prepositions that follow selected synonyms, but more often with a list of antonyms.
By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use. It is the office of a work on synonyms to point out these correspondences and differences, that language may have the flexibility that comes from freedom of selection within the common limits, with the perspicuity and precision that result from exact choice of the fittest words to express each shade of meaning outside of the common limits. (Summary by DSayers and the author from the entry "Synonymous") (19 hr 46 min)
Chapitres
| Preface | 20:18 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Abandon to Abridgment | 25:59 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Absolute to Accessory | 25:54 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Accident to Address, n. | 19:27 | Lu par MorganScorpion |
| Adequate to Airy | 21:27 | Lu par Anita Fleming |
| Alarm to Alliance | 21:23 | Lu par Julie VW |
| Allot to Ambition | 19:24 | Lu par Julie VW |
| Amend to Answer | 18:11 | Lu par MorganScorpion |
| Anticipate to Appear | 16:38 | Lu par MorganScorpion |
| Appendage to Artist | 17:48 | Lu par MorganScorpion |
| Ask to Attain | 13:40 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Attitude to Axiom | 15:47 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Babble to Because | 25:49 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Becoming to Bluff | 15:46 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Body to By | 18:34 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| Cabal to Caricature | 25:02 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Carry to Change, n. | 16:05 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Character to Clear | 15:54 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Clever to Congratulate | 15:51 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Conquer to Criminal | 13:29 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Daily to Delicious | 21:48 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Delightful to Difference | 15:49 | Lu par Amy Benton |
| Difficult to Dogmatic | 13:12 | Lu par Cate Mackenzie |
| Doubt, v. to Duty | 17:21 | Lu par Nicholas James Bridgewater |
| Eager to Emigrate | 19:09 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Employ to Enmity | 18:33 | Lu par JimOCR |
| Entertain to Esteem, n. | 14:38 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| Eternal to Exterminate | 24:07 | Lu par JimOCR |
| Faint to Fetter | 23:13 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Feud to Follow | 18:45 | Lu par Leni |
| Food to Frugality | 20:30 | Lu par Leni |
| Garrolous to Grief | 21:59 | Lu par Leni |
| Habit to Harvest | 23:34 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Hatred to High | 17:16 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| Hinder to Hypothesis | 16:42 | Lu par Cate Mackenzie |
| Idea to Imagination | 15:36 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| Immediately to Influence | 15:02 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Inherent to Involve | 13:06 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Journey to Kill | 13:43 | Lu par Neeru Iyer |
| Language to Light | 17:07 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Likely to Love | 12:39 | Lu par Ken Sterry |
| Make to Meter | 19:13 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Mind to Mysterious | 17:09 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Name to Necessity | 16:04 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Neglect to Notwithstanding, prep. | 12:51 | Lu par Neeru Iyer |
| Oath to Oversight | 14:29 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Pain to Pay, n. | 15:49 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| People to Perverse | 19:10 | Lu par Ken Sterry |
| Physical to Poetry | 15:42 | Lu par Amy Benton |
| Polite to Predestination | 20:06 | Lu par JimOCR |
| Prejudice to Primeval | 13:08 | Lu par Cate Mackenzie |
| Profit to Proverb | 20:37 | Lu par JimOCR |
| Prowess to Quote | 12:37 | Lu par Cate Mackenzie |
| Racy to Record | 23:47 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Recover to Renounce | 14:32 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Repentence to Revelation | 15:02 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Revenge to Rustic | 13:19 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Sacrament to Self-Abnegation | 14:46 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| Send to Shake | 14:03 | Lu par Estelle Jobson |
| Shelter to Slander | 13:27 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Slang to Stain | 12:04 | Lu par mpinedag |
| State to Subvert | 12:32 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Succeed to System | 12:20 | Lu par mpinedag |
| Taciturn to Time | 22:25 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Tip to Transient | 12:49 | Lu par Cate Mackenzie |
| Union to Veneration | 21:00 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Venial to Virtue | 13:59 | Lu par musil |
| Wander to Youthful | 17:28 | Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
Critiques
A LibriVox Listener
great book! I'm trying to build up my vocabulary in the English language so you can see why I love it. still I literary skip it when it's Mario Pineda's turn. his narration has plenty of mispronunciations. v turns into b, f turns into p, th turns into d and a lot more. so yes I skipped a lot..
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ChoThePlumber
Having the text for reinforcement would be especially useful in the case of this book, so look for it at http://wwwDOTgutenbergDOTorg/ebooks/28900
Good enough for free
Edd
The book English synonyms and antonyms is a good source for any person who wants to learn new vocabulary and their meaning.
best
hussein
the book of synonyms beat internet despite itsabundancd of words
not for me
A LibriVox Listener
I did not find this useful.
I like it. I can learn english
Carlos Eduardo
OS
I skip chapters with Mario guy. Why would not native speakers read this book. I don't want to listen to foreign accents, to be honest.
Non-English Narrator
A LibriVox Listener
great book but for the Non-English speaker. it's hard to understand him with his Spanish accent. need to redo those chapters. he does many of them too and very fast.