Build your Vocabulary with
Synonyms and Antonyms
Name: __________________________________
Date: ________________________
A) Draw a line to match each word to its synonym (a word with the same or similar meaning) and
antonym (a word with the opposite meaning).
Synonym
Antonym
estimate
argue
invigorated
quarrel
guess
searing
elated
tired
enormous
frigid
happy
agree
fatigued
small
calculate
miniature
cold
sorrowful
B) Write three synonyms for each of the words below.
big
gigantic
laugh
bad
C) Fill in the blanks with antonyms to complete the story.
opposite
In Backwards World, everything is the ___________________
as it is here on Earth. The
same
____________________ comes up every morning and the sun comes up every night. People feel
sun
___________________ about holidays and everyone ________________________ ice cream. In
excited
loves
Backwards World, people are____________________ with their neighbors and everyone says
friendly
______________________ when they see friends in town. Families have _______________________
hello
dinner
together and then spend the evening _________________ as they watch their favorite TV show. When
laughing
it’s time for bed, all the children in Backwards World _____________________ their eyes and dream
close
about how ________________________ things must be on planet Earth.
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