English · Exam Skills and Methodology
Lexical exploration — synonyms & antonyms in context
Spot the word that means the same, or the exact opposite, inside the text
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Finding a word/phrase in the text closest in meaning to a given word (synonym)
- Finding a word/phrase opposite in meaning to a given word (antonym)
The method
- Search the same paragraph first — the exam always draws the pair from a nearby sentence
The common mistakes
- Answering with a word from outside the given paragraph
- Confusing near-synonym with exact antonym
The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC
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Synonym/antonym block easy
3 target words → find synonym/antonym in the text
From the lesson
Read about Mr. Amrani. Different people describe him with different words, but they are all pointing at the same idea.
The vocabulary
- synonym (مرادف)
- antonym (متضاد)
- closest in meaning (الأقرب معنى)