Synonyms and Homonyms

Name: Anis Septianingsih

Class: 2E

NPM: 1910631060066

Synonyms 

A synonym is a word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word in the same language.

Synonyms occur in a language in different contexts, such as formal language like in business or academic paper, and informal language like when we use in daily conversation. 

Examples of synonyms:

- Big, large, huge
- Evil, bad, wicked
- Famous, well-known

- Gloomy, sad, unhappy

- Quiet, calm
- Rest, relax
- Strange, odd, weird

Also, some synonyms have slightly different connotations when they're used, even though they might mean the same thing. For example, the differences between the terms for money: moolah, greenbacks, cash, currency, and revenues, which all occur in different contexts and levels of formality.

Synonyms can be any part of speech, as long as both words belong to the same part of speech. Examples:

• noun
  • drink and beverage
• verb
  • buy and purchase
• adjective
  • big and large
• adverb
  • quickly and speedily
• preposition
• on and upon

Homonyms

Homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same, but have different meanings and origins.

Homonyms can be more confusing for young readers or people learning English as a second language, usually because they aren't yet familiar with the alternate definitions of a word.

Examples of homonyms:

• Address - to speak to / location
• Bark - a tree's out layer / the sound a dog makes
• Bat - an implement used to hit a ball / a nocturnal flying mammal
• Current - up to date / flow of water
• Kind - type / caring
• Match - to pair like items / a stick for making a flame
• Mean - average / not nice
• Right - correct / direction opposite of left
• Rock - a genre of music / a stone
• Spring - a season / coiled metal
• Tire - to grow fatigued / a part of a wheel
• Well - in good health / a source for water in the ground

The trick is if we ever come across a word that just doesn't seem to make sense in its context, check for alternate definitions. We may just have a homonym in that case, and we'll feel much better when we learn the secondary meaning of one of these tricky English language.