Exercise 3.

10:
Suggest at least a synonym for each word given below.
Word Synonym
0. rich wealthy
1. silent
2. frighten
3. brave
4. polite
5. truck
6. depart
7. quickly
8. toilet
9. liberty
10. easy
Exercise 3.11:
For the following pairs decide which, if either, is a hyponym of the other.
A B Hyponym
0. elephant animal elephant
1. bird sparrow
2. tricycle bicycle
3. rabbit jack-rabbit
4. saucepan pan
5. fly butterfly
6. building house
7. honesty virtue
8. metal silver
9. rose flower
10. music opera
11. diamond gem
12. oak tree
13. feeling happiness
14. move go
15. romance relationship
16. paper material
17. head body
18. reptile snake
19. bakery store
20. world nature
Exercise 3.12:
Give the binary antonyms for the following words.
Word Binary antonym
0. same different
1. right
2. male
3. intact
4. connected
5. awake
6. possible
7. usual
8. occupied
9. adult
10. sink
11. like
12. employed
13. natural
14. hit
15. mortal
16. real

Exercise 3.13: Give a gradable antonym(s) for the following words.

Word Gradable antonym
0. similar different
1. clever
2. beautiful
3. noisy
4. thick
5. rich
6. polite
7. humble
8. patient
9. early
10. happy
11. full
12. light
13. excited
14. wet
15. optimistic
16. generous
17. dangerous
18. friendly
19. courageous
20. dark
Exercise 3.14:
Decide whether the antonymy in each pair of words below is binary (B) or
gradable (G).
A B Antonymy
0. tall short G
1. wide narrow
2. simple complicated
3. visible invisible
4. old young
5. on off
6. native foreign
7. dark light
8. fat skinny
9. animate inanimate
10. common rare
11. calm worried
12. night-time daytime
13. expensive inexpensive
14. careful careless
15. kind unkind
Exercise 3.15:
Suggest words/phrases that can work with the given words in a relation of
converse antonymy.
Word Converse antonym
0. richer poorer
1. thicker thinner
2. in front of behind
3. left right
4. more patient less patient
5. teach learn
6. parent child
7. precede follow
8. above below
9. before after
10. north south
11. inside outside
12. seller buyer
13. slave master
14. supplier customer
15. front back
16. winner loser
17. husband wife
18. grandfather grandchild
19. trainer trainee
20. sender recipient
Exercise 3.16:
Suggest words/phrases that can work with the given words in a relation of
reverse antonymy.
Word Reverse antonym
0. go in go out
1. pull
2. dress
3. go up
4. lock
5. enter
6. turn right
7. roll
8. inflate
9. expand
10. fill
11. load
12. ascend
13. leave
14. input
15. tie
16. cover
17. bring
18. entrance
19. plus
20. inhale
Exercise 3.17:
Find out the superordinate of the following groups of incompatibilities.
0. black, purple, blue, brown, green, yellow, orange color
1. circular, triangular, rectangular, square
2. previous, current, next
3. house, barn, church, factory
4. island, summit, field, village
5. dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening
6. unicycle, bicycle, tricycle
7. head, arms, legs, skin, face
8. arm, leg
9. breakfast, brunch, dinner, supper
10. chair, bench, stool, sofa
11. bottom, top, front, back
12. father, mother
13. shoes, sneakers, trainers, sandals, slippers, boots
14. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
15. Saturday, Sunday
Exercise 3.18:
Decide whether the following pairs of words are binary antonyms (B), gradable
antonyms (G), converses (C), reverses (R) or incompatibilities (I).
A B Antonymy
0. tall short G
1. lend borrow
2. heat cool
3. hard-working lazy
4. mother son
5. turn on turn off
6. husband wife
7. teacher learner
8. horse cow
9. insert extract
10. January February
11. flammable non-flammable
12. reward punish
13. kind cruel
14. marry divorce
15. open closed
16. employer employee
17. pure impure
18. clean dirty
19. give receive
20. lengthen shorten
21. messy neat
22. English Vietnamese
23. dry wet
24. optional obligatory
25. rise fall
26. exciting boring
27. import export
28. sharp dull
29. finite infinite
30. raise lower
31. examiner examinee
32. moving stationary
33. aunt uncle
34. possible impossible
35. fall ill recover
36. probable improbable
37. cricket football
38. far near
39. weekend weekday
40. advance retreat
41. red white
42. present absent
43. sure doubtful
44. host guest
45. tea coffee
46. healthy unhealthy
47. upstairs downstairs
48. love hate
49. bring take
50. certain uncertain