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





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





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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.
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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.