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|| '''Perfect!''' <br/> Your answer is correct. '''Mite''' can be seen as a really small amount of something whereas '''bulk''' is something truly big. Therefore, the two words can be interpreted as antonyms, they mean different things on the same scale. | || '''Perfect!''' <br/> Your answer is correct. '''Mite''' can be seen as a really small amount of something whereas '''bulk''' is something truly big. Therefore, the two words can be interpreted as antonyms, they mean different things on the same scale. | ||
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|| '''''Perfect!'''''<br/> As ''' | || '''''Perfect!'''''<br/> As '''mite''' can also be described as an animal much smaller than others of its kind, you can easily define '''mammoth''', something immense of its kind, as its antonym. | ||
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|| '''''Sorry, you got mixed up!'''''<br/> Yes, we can interpret '''mite''' as the little animals living in the fur of our pets or inside our featherbeds but in this case, '''mite''' and '''spider''' belong to the same part of a scale. They both belong to the family of arachnida. So come one, make another educative guess! | || '''''Sorry, you got mixed up!'''''<br/> Yes, we can interpret '''mite''' as the little animals living in the fur of our pets or inside our featherbeds but in this case, '''mite''' and '''spider''' belong to the same part of a scale. They both belong to the family of arachnida. So come one, make another educative guess! | ||
Revision as of 22:05, 2 August 2013
The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Anna, Katarzyna, Verena, Ulrike
Antonyms and Synonyms
In this section, you have to choose which word is a synonym or antonym of the above. As you're doing a multiple-choice test, please remember that more than one answer could be correct. Good luck!