Revision sheet: Vocabulary Synonyms and Antonyms

📋 Course Outline

1. Goals Actions and Emotions
2. Scale Freedom and Safety
3. Local Resources and Renewal
4. Ability Choice and Accuracy
5. Feelings Conflict and Character

📖 1. Goals Actions and Emotions

★ Must-know

• Destination means a goal, target, terminus, station, or end.

• Glad means happy, heavenly, or delightful, while blissful describes intense happiness.

• To collaborate means to team up, cooperate, unite, or merge.

• A crisis is an issue, problem, disaster, or trouble.

• To anticipate means to foresee, realize beforehand, expect, predict, or foretell.

• To appreciate means to praise, cherish, value, respect, or admire.

• To frighten means to scare, terrify, panic, or horrify.

• To discriminate means to differentiate or distinguish.

• Morale is an emotional or mental condition concerning confidence, especially in the face of hardships.

Further detail

• An auxiliary is additional support used as a reserve or substitute in case of need.

• Repulsion is a force that pushes an object or an aversion to something.

• Grasped means understood or realized.

• Active means lively, dynamic, or energetic.

• To remember means to recall, reminisce, or recollect.

• To witness means to see, notice, watch, spot, or observe.

• Rare means unusual, occasional, or unique.

💡 Memory Hook

Goal → anticipate → act → remember

📖 2. Scale Freedom and Safety

★ Must-know

• Freedom means liberty, independence, or autonomy; its antonym is slavery or captivity.

• An accomplishment is an achievement, triumph, or success; its antonym is failure, defeat, or loss.

• Safety means security, protection, welfare, or defense; its antonym is danger, threat, risk, or hazard.

• Extensive means wide, widespread, broad, or vast; its antonym is narrow or restricted.

• Consonance means agreement or compatibility between opinions; its antonym is disagreement or conflict.

Further detail

• Tremendous means very large, huge, enormous, or gigantic; its antonym is tiny, small, or miniature.

• Indigenously means naturally, innately, inherently, domestically, or natively; its antonym is foreign.

💡 Memory Hook

Freedom versus slavery; safety versus danger

📖 3. Local Resources and Renewal

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Replenishment : The restoration of a stock or supply to a former level or condition, or its replacement.

★ Must-know

• To empower means to give power, authorize, or allow; its antonym is to forbid or prohibit.

• Potential means capability, ability, or proficiency; its antonym is incapability or inability.

• Initiative means the first move or the act of starting; its antonym is reluctance or idleness.

• Renewable means reusable, sustainable, or recyclable; its antonym is non-renewable.

• Accurate means exact, correct, or precise; its antonym is inaccurate or faulty.

• Necessary means vital, mandatory, required, or crucial; its antonym is unimportant or inessential.

Further detail

• Depicting means portraying, showing, or exhibiting; its antonym is concealing or hiding.

📖 4. Ability Choice and Accuracy

★ Must-know

• Acquainted means familiar, accustomed, or used to something; its antonym is unfamiliar or ignorant.

• Selection means something chosen, picked, elected, or preferred; its antonym is rejection, refusal, or elimination.

• Honest means truthful, faithful, sincere, or genuine; its antonym is dishonest or deceitful.

Further detail

• Personal means private, individual, or confidential; its antonym is public, shared, or official.

💡 Memory Hook

Capability versus incapability; selection versus rejection

📖 5. Feelings Conflict and Character

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Contention : Strenuous effort or struggling together in opposition or disagreement; its antonyms include agreement and harmony.

★ Must-know

• Apprehensive means anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen; its antonym is confident or unafraid.

• Agreement means harmony or consonance; its antonym is disagreement or contention.

Further detail

• Morale describes confidence in difficult circumstances, whereas apprehension describes fear about something unpleasant.

💡 Memory Hook

Apprehensive versus confident; contention versus consonance

📊 Synthesis Tables

Key Synonym-Antonym Pairs

Word	Synonyms	Antonyms
Freedom	liberty, independence, autonomy	slavery, captivity
Safety	security, protection, welfare, defense	danger, threat, risk, hazard
Renewable	reusable, sustainable, recyclable	non-renewable
Honest	truthful, faithful, sincere, genuine	dishonest, deceitful
Apprehensive	anxious, fearful	confident, unafraid