Unit 4 Week 3 Synonyms

What are synonyms?

• a figurative language use to give real-life traits to an object.

• words that are spelled the same but have different meanings

• words that have a rhyming scheme

• are different words with the same or similar meaning

Read the sentences from the passage.

"Grandma's face lit up, her hesitation and doubts gone. She knew she could do this, and she was ready now!"

Which word means almost the same as hesitation?

• uncertainty

• joy

• unhappiness

• calm

Read the sentence from the passage.

"Grandma's face lit up, her hesitation and doubts gone. She knew she could do this, and she was ready now!"

Which word from the sentence is a synonym for hesitation?

• gone

• doubts

• now

• face

Read the sentences from the passage.

"Well, okay," I said, trying to hide my cleverness. My quick thinking even surprised me, as it wasn't often that I outwitted Grandma!

Which word from the sentences gives a clue about the meaning of the word outwitted?

• surprised

• often

• hide

• cleverness

Choose the underline word in the paragraph that is a synonym for the word remarkable.

Shaking her head, Grandma said, "Emailing is already fast enough for me, Jamal. I still don't know how to take a photo with my phone. I realize these new phones do amazing and remarkable things, but it's just a treat for me to be able to call someone from whenever I am."

• shaking

• fast

• realize

• amazing

• whenever

Read the sentences from the passage.

"The most exciting show on TV was a bout a cowboy and his horse, and white with absolutely no special effects. That would look quaint and unusual now."

Which words mean almost the same as quaint? Pick TWO words.

• odd

• easy

• old-fashioned

• ugly

• normal