English Synonyms and Antonyms
James Champlin Fernald
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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)
Kapitel
| Preface | 20:18 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Abandon to Abridgment | 25:59 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Absolute to Accessory | 25:54 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Accident to Address, n. | 19:27 | Gelesen von MorganScorpion |
| Adequate to Airy | 21:27 | Gelesen von Anita Fleming |
| Alarm to Alliance | 21:23 | Gelesen von Julie VW |
| Allot to Ambition | 19:24 | Gelesen von Julie VW |
| Amend to Answer | 18:11 | Gelesen von MorganScorpion |
| Anticipate to Appear | 16:38 | Gelesen von MorganScorpion |
| Appendage to Artist | 17:48 | Gelesen von MorganScorpion |
| Ask to Attain | 13:40 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Attitude to Axiom | 15:47 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Babble to Because | 25:49 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Becoming to Bluff | 15:46 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Body to By | 18:34 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| Cabal to Caricature | 25:02 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Carry to Change, n. | 16:05 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Character to Clear | 15:54 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Clever to Congratulate | 15:51 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Conquer to Criminal | 13:29 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Daily to Delicious | 21:48 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Delightful to Difference | 15:49 | Gelesen von Amy Benton |
| Difficult to Dogmatic | 13:12 | Gelesen von Cate Mackenzie |
| Doubt, v. to Duty | 17:21 | Gelesen von Nicholas James Bridgewater |
| Eager to Emigrate | 19:09 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Employ to Enmity | 18:33 | Gelesen von JimOCR |
| Entertain to Esteem, n. | 14:38 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| Eternal to Exterminate | 24:07 | Gelesen von JimOCR |
| Faint to Fetter | 23:13 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Feud to Follow | 18:45 | Gelesen von Leni |
| Food to Frugality | 20:30 | Gelesen von Leni |
| Garrolous to Grief | 21:59 | Gelesen von Leni |
| Habit to Harvest | 23:34 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Hatred to High | 17:16 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| Hinder to Hypothesis | 16:42 | Gelesen von Cate Mackenzie |
| Idea to Imagination | 15:36 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| Immediately to Influence | 15:02 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Inherent to Involve | 13:06 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Journey to Kill | 13:43 | Gelesen von Neeru Iyer |
| Language to Light | 17:07 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Likely to Love | 12:39 | Gelesen von Ken Sterry |
| Make to Meter | 19:13 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Mind to Mysterious | 17:09 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Name to Necessity | 16:04 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Neglect to Notwithstanding, prep. | 12:51 | Gelesen von Neeru Iyer |
| Oath to Oversight | 14:29 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Pain to Pay, n. | 15:49 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| People to Perverse | 19:10 | Gelesen von Ken Sterry |
| Physical to Poetry | 15:42 | Gelesen von Amy Benton |
| Polite to Predestination | 20:06 | Gelesen von JimOCR |
| Prejudice to Primeval | 13:08 | Gelesen von Cate Mackenzie |
| Profit to Proverb | 20:37 | Gelesen von JimOCR |
| Prowess to Quote | 12:37 | Gelesen von Cate Mackenzie |
| Racy to Record | 23:47 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Recover to Renounce | 14:32 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Repentence to Revelation | 15:02 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Revenge to Rustic | 13:19 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Sacrament to Self-Abnegation | 14:46 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| Send to Shake | 14:03 | Gelesen von Estelle Jobson |
| Shelter to Slander | 13:27 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Slang to Stain | 12:04 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| State to Subvert | 12:32 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Succeed to System | 12:20 | Gelesen von mpinedag |
| Taciturn to Time | 22:25 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Tip to Transient | 12:49 | Gelesen von Cate Mackenzie |
| Union to Veneration | 21:00 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Venial to Virtue | 13:59 | Gelesen von musil |
| Wander to Youthful | 17:28 | Gelesen von Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
Bewertungen
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.