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CLASS-2 : WORD POWER
SYNONYMS, ANTONYMS, HOMONYMS, RHYMING
WORDS, COLLOCATIONS AND IDIOMS.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This lesson will help you to
• increase your vocabulary.
• learn spellings
QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW
Any language needs words to express it. And words
that are used should be correct enough to be
understood by the other person. If you use wrong
words for your expression then other person might
think the other way. For example If you say I was
very sad to see you. Whereas what you wanted to
say was that you were very glad to see that person.
But the wrong usage of one word may put you into
troubled!
Here we will deal with Synonyms, antonyms,
Happy, glad Poor, destitute
homonyms, rhyming words collocations and idioms to
enrich our understanding of English.
Synonyms are words that have similar meanings. For
example Happy can be used in place of glad.
Happy Glad
Big Huge/enormous
Blank Empty
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Centre Middle
Dangerous Risky
False Untrue
Sad Happy
Gay Cheerful
Hard Difficult/ tough
High Tall
Huge Big
Intelligent Clever/wise
Little Small
Playtime
Loving Fond v Make flash cards and tell
Mad Crazy your friends to name a
word that rhymes with
Nice Kind the word in the card.
Remember the word
Poor Destitute
should have a meaning.
Rich Wealthy
Mail Male
Safe Secure
Slim Slender
Thin lean
Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. Hair Hare
For example happy is the opposite of sad. They
denote different feelings altogether.
absent Present
Alive Dead
Against For
Enemy Friend
Good Bad
Before After
Beautiful Ugly
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Best Worst
Boy Girl
Cold Hot
Down Up
Come Go
Few Many
Foolish Wise
High Low
Increase Decrease
Left Right
Less More
Melt Freeze
Odd even
Homonyms are words that sound similarly but have different spellings. For example:
Bear, Bare. Both sound similarly but have different meanings. Bear is an animal
whereas Bare means to be without clothes.
ad Add
blew Blue
Bear Bare
By Bye/buy
days daze
Flee Flea
Read Red
Write Right
made Maid
Peace Piece
Pail Pale
One Won
Reign Rain
Very Vary
Sell Cell
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Rhyming words are words that rhyme together. For
example tough, cough, say, may. It, sit, hit, fit, pit
Collocations are words that are put together, in a
manner that they sound to be usual to a listener and
the user. To be a fluent speaker in English we must
know what words go together.
Have a bath
Have a drink
Have a haircut
Make a mess
Make an effort
Make room
Make trouble
Make a difference
Do me a favour Amazing facts
Do your best v No word in English
Break a leg Language Rhymes with
month.
Break a record
Break a promise
Break the ice
Break the news
Break the rules
Keep the promise
Keep the change
Keep in touch
Keep calm
Any language has its own set of popular and wise
sayings. They give us an idea of their culture and
traditions. They are known as proverbs if they are
long and idioms if they are short. They suggest us
the ways of living and conduct in daily life.
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Some popular Idioms
At the drop of a hat Without any hesitation
Ball is in your court It is up to you to make next decision
Best of both the worlds All the advantages
Burn the midnight oil To work very hard
Cut corners Save money
Miss the boat Miss the chance
Once in a blue moon Happens very rarely
Piece of cake A job that’s easy or simple
See eye to eye That two agree on something
Every cloud has a silver lining Optimistic actions
Blessing in disguise Something good that hasn’t been recognised
first.
Beat around the bush Avoiding the main topic
Hot potato Speak of something
Cry over spilled milk To complain about some loss
Kill two birds with one stone To accomplish two tasks at the same time
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Multiple Choice Questions
CHALLENGE ‘A’
Directions (Qs. 1 to 5): Read the following sentences replace the underlined
words with their synonyms from the options given below
1. I was too happy to see my Dad come early from work.
(a) sad (b) glad (c) gay (d) honest
2. His Mom got furious when she came to know of his low score.
(a) happy (b) angry (c) sad (d) kind
3. Deep is very polite he cannot talk like that,
(a) obedient (b) kind (c) happy (d) courteous
4. He has left most of the paper blank
(a) covered (b) empty (c) full (d) fill
5. This is such a beautiful house. I want to own it.
(a) ugly (b) evil (c) awful (d) pretty.
Directions (Qs. 6 to 10): Read the sentences given below replace the underlined
words with their antonyms from the options given below
6. He went very far to see the insect.
(a) near (b) great (c) big (d) further
7. His shirt was so short that he could not wear it.
(a) wide (b) long (c) tall (d) strong
8. He was so sad, because he did not get a bicycle on his birthday.
(a) nice (b) happy (c) like (d) big
9. He was so weak to beat him up in a fight.
(a) weak (b) small (c) strong (d) hot
10. You forgot to give him hot milk along with the medicine.
(a) hotter (b) cold (c) warm (d) frozen
Directions (Qs. 11 to 15): Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks with
the correct word.
11. Can you buy some _____ from that shop?
(a) flower (b) flar (c) flawer (d) flour
12. I wanted him to come ___ to play the game.
(a) hear (b) hair (c) here (d) hare
13. Please, can you give me your ___. I want to come to your house.
(a) add (b) edd (c) ad (d) ud
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14. Lot of people ___ for their rights.
(a) dye (b) die (c) dei (d) dey
15. The Sun’s ___ lighten up everything.
(a) rays (b) raise (c) raze (d) rage
Directions (Qs. 16 to 20): Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks with
their correct collocations. Choose the answers from the options given below
16. I asked my brother to ”do me ________.
(a) a favour (b) a cooking (c) a housework (d) washing
17. We must make ____ to complete it.
(a) a difference (b) an effort (c) a room (d) trouble
18. We should have _____ for the downtrodden.
(a) a haircut (b) sympathy (c) a lunch (d) a problem
19. Who will break the ____ amongst both of you?
(a) ice (b) rules (c) news (d) a record
20. Sara can you please keep___. You are making a lot of noise.
(a) change (b) promise (c) quiet (d) in touch
CHALLENGE ‘B’
Directions (Qs. 21 to 25): Read the passage given below and replace the underlined
words with their synonyms. [PSA]
We all like to have a (21) big amount of money. Who does not (22) like money?
Money is like a magnet that attracts a lot of people to you. Even if you have a
(23) little money, you want to buy a lot of things. Once you have money in your pocket,
you can have some of your (24) wishes come true. But only money cannot make you
(25) happy.
21. (a) small (b) big (c) huge (d) little
22. (a) love (b) hate (c) dislike (d) big
23. (a) small (b) big (c) huge (d) kind
24. (a) true (b) false (c) kind (d) hope
25. (a) kind (b) glad (c) sad (d) unhappy.
Directions (Qs. 26 to 30): Read the following passage and replace the underlined
words with their antonyms. Choose the answers from the options given below.
[PSA]
Have you seen an ant? It is such a (26) big animal. It is known for its storing capacity.
One day an ant was going home after collecting its food. On its way it met a mouse.
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The mouse was (27) smaller than it. The ant (28) politely asked the mouse “where
were you? Your mother is looking for you”. The mouse replied in a (29) loud voice
“who are you to ask me this?” The ant replied in a (30) quiet voice,” I said your mom
is looking for you, she is worried.”.
26. (a) small (b) great (c) big (d) further
27. (a) bigger (b) hut (c) old (d) strong
28. (a) sharply (b) rudely (c) kindly (d) happily
29. (a) quiet (b) happy (c) sad (d) excited
30. (a) quiet (b) lovely (c) loud (d) beautiful
Directions (Qs. 31 to 35): In the following passage and replace the underlined
words with their collocations. Choose the answers from the options given below.
[PSA]
I was already getting late for work so I decided to (31)__________taxi. I was
in a hurry, I could not wait to take the money back. I told the taxi driver to (32)
_______. I am always reminded of my Dad’s words “Do (33)_______in everything.
I do not want be late anywhere. It always (34)______ a difference. I never
(35)-______chance when it comes to work.
31. (a) take a (b) make a (c) break a (d) keep
32. (a) Keep the money (b) Keep the change
(c) make a change (d) break a promise
33. (a) your best (b) your work
(c) your homework (d) your cleaning
34. (a) keeps (b) makes (c) takes (d) breaks
35. (a) make (b) take (c) break (d) do
Directions (Qs. 36 to 40): Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks
with a correct word from the options given below.
Yesterdaty I saw a __(36)__ it wanted me to free it from a cage. __(37)__ was too
scared of doing so. So I came without looking at it. __(38)__ passed, I did not go via
that place. It was __(39)__ tough to avoid going there. But I would turn __(40)__
instead of going straight where that animal was kept in the cage. We should not keep
animals in cages. We all love our freedom. Animals must also be loving it.
36. (a) hare (b) hair (c) here (d) hear
37. (a) eye (b) I (c) Ei (d) Ii
38. (a) Daze (b) Days (c) Days (d) Dazes
39. (a) vary (b) very (c) berry (d) veri
40. (a) right (b) write (c) rite (d) wright
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Directions (Qs. 41 to 45): Read the sentences given below and fill in the blanks
completing the idioms. Choose the answers from the options given below. [HOTS]
41. Now the ball is____. You have to decide.
(a) in your court (b) in your pocket
(c) in my room (d) in the cupboard.
42. You can’t have best of _______.
(a) nowhere (b) both the worlds
(c) the party (d) the haircut
43. He has burnt ______ to come first.
(a) his hands (b) his fingers
(c) the midnight oil. (d) his clothes
44. He comes here only once _____________.
(a) in two weeks (b) in a blue moon
(c) never (d) everyday
45. It is not a piece of a/an _______. It’s going to be tough.
(a) pie (b) apple (c) cake (d) pizza
Directions (Qs. 46 to 50): Read the poem given below and answer the questions
from the options given below.
I am a brat
I love to laugh, though it is tough
When you(46)______,
I love to play
When you want me study whole(47) ____,
I want to cry
For games you don’t even(48)____
I love to laugh at the clown
When you all (49)___
Do you know What?
It's not easy to be a(50) ____
46. The rhyming word for laugh here would be
(a) Calf (b) Half (c) cough (d) half
47. The rhyming word for play here would be
(a) Day (b) May (c) Say (d) Stay
48. The rhyming word for cry here would be
(a) Fry (b) Try (c) Dry (d) My
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49. The rhyming word for clown would be
(a) Down (b) Frown (c) Mown (d) Brown
50. The rhyming word for what here is
(a) brat (b) cat (c) mat (d) rat
RESPONSE GRID
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31. a b c d 32. a b c d 33. a b c d 34. a b c d 35. a b c d
36. a b c d 37. a b c d 38. a b c d 39. a b c d 40. a b c d
41. a b c d 42. a b c d 43. a b c d 44. a b c d 45. a b c d
46. a b c d 47. a b c d 48. a b c d 49. a b c d 50. a b c d
Solutions with Explanation
CHALLENGE A
1. (b) Glad 2. (b) Angry
3. (d) courteous 4. (b) empty
5. (d) Pretty.
6. (a) He went very near to see the insect.
7. (b) His shirt was so long that he could not wear it.
8. (b) He was so _happy, because he did not get a bicycle on his birthday.
9. (c) He was so strong to beat him up in a fight.
10. (b) You forgot to give him _cold milk along with the medicine.
11. (d) Can you buy some flour from that shop?
12. (c) I wanted him to come here to play the game.
13. (a) Please, can you give me your add, I want to come to your house.
14. (b) Lot of people die for their rights.
15. (a) The Sun’s rays lighten up everything.
16. (a) I asked my brother to ”do me a favour.
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17. (b) We must make an effort to complete it.
18. (b) We should have sympathy for the downtrodden.
19. (a) Who will break the ice amongst both of you?.
20. (c) Sara can you please keep quiet. You are making a lot of noise.
CHALLENGE ‘B’
21. (c) Huge 22. (a) Love
23. (a) Small 24. (d) Hopes
25. (b) Glad . 26. (a) Small
27. (a) House 28. (b) Rudely
29. (a) Quiet 30. (c) Loud
31. (a) take a
32. (b) Keep the change 33. (a) your best
34. (b) makes 35. (b) take
36. (a) 37. (b)
38. (b) 39. (b)
40. (a)
41. (a) Now the ball is in your court. You have to decide.
42. (b) You can’t have best of both the worlds f .
43. (c) He has burnt the midnight oil to come first.
44. (b) He comes here only once in a blue moon.
45. (c) It is not a piece of a cake. It’s going to be tough.
46. (c) cough 47. (a) Day .
48. (b) Try 49. (b) Frown
50. (a)
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