(Good Reason 2) To fine-tune your communications Just repeat the word and then let your thesaurus earn its living.) (You don't have to achieve literary variance as you're typing. We would have failed without your cooperation. Keep your writing interesting by creating some literary variance with synonyms. Repeating the same word can make writing dull. (Good Reason 1) To keep your writing interesting There are three good reasons and one bad reason to care about synonyms: Here are some more examples of synonyms and antonyms. Antonyms are words with opposite meanings, making them the opposite of synonyms.

I'll show you my yacht 'Unsinkable II'.

(Note: These are known as subordinating conjunctions.)

I should tell her because she is my sister.

I need to contemplate the consequences.

Synonyms usually relate to adjectives, adverbs, nouns, or verbs. (Here, studied and read are not synonymous.)

Actress Kate Beckinsale studied / read French and Russian literature at Oxford.īear in mind that synonyms in one context might not be synonyms in another.

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