Synonyms

A synonyms may have multiple meaning of the same word. However, always remember that any change in synonym is relative to its type – adjective, adverb, preposition, verb.

• Verb – Jump and bounce
• Preposition – in and within
• Adverb – Comfortably and warmly
• Adjective – Gorgeous and beautiful

Rule 1 – Building Word Families

Word families are like a family tree where you have the main word and then branch it out with other words that hold a same meaning. The meaning is somewhat similar to the parent or the root word. Let’s take an example below:

For Example:

• Let the root word be Happy – now we have to associate more words that branch out from Happy:
  • Gay
  • Merry
  • Joyful
  • Jovial
  • Jolly
  • Delighted
  • Gleeful ……………..etc.

There exists a set of words that have the charge to associate itself with other words carrying a similar or closely related meaning. For these types of words few of the letters are same for all the associated words with the same meaning. For these words, a positive word will only associate with positive words and negatives will associate with negative ones.

For example:

• Apple – Now you need to have words that you can associate with apple. As much as you think you will get a longer list. let’s say:
  • fruit, red, citrus, healthy, sour, sweet, brand, rotten, peeled, skewed, green, pie, flavor, chop, slice etc. This association helps you to get more words inside your head than you would normally do.
• Dog – Let’s associate some words with dog:
  • breed, animal, faithful, domestic, pet,stray, shaggy, naughty, panting, chained, licked, bite, howl, bark, shout, sniff, paw, beware etc.