English Synonyms and Antonyms
James Champlin Fernald
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English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains or exemplifies the subtle distinctions between the listed words. The entries sometimes close with a few words on the prepositions that follow selected synonyms, but more often with a list of antonyms.
By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use. It is the office of a work on synonyms to point out these correspondences and differences, that language may have the flexibility that comes from freedom of selection within the common limits, with the perspicuity and precision that result from exact choice of the fittest words to express each shade of meaning outside of the common limits. (Summary by DSayers and the author from the entry "Synonymous") (19 hr 46 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 20:18 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Abandon to Abridgment | 25:59 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Absolute to Accessory | 25:54 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Accident to Address, n. | 19:27 | Read by MorganScorpion |
| Adequate to Airy | 21:27 | Read by Anita Fleming |
| Alarm to Alliance | 21:23 | Read by Julie VW |
| Allot to Ambition | 19:24 | Read by Julie VW |
| Amend to Answer | 18:11 | Read by MorganScorpion |
| Anticipate to Appear | 16:38 | Read by MorganScorpion |
| Appendage to Artist | 17:48 | Read by MorganScorpion |
| Ask to Attain | 13:40 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Attitude to Axiom | 15:47 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Babble to Because | 25:49 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Becoming to Bluff | 15:46 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Body to By | 18:34 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| Cabal to Caricature | 25:02 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Carry to Change, n. | 16:05 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Character to Clear | 15:54 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Clever to Congratulate | 15:51 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Conquer to Criminal | 13:29 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Daily to Delicious | 21:48 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Delightful to Difference | 15:49 | Read by Amy Benton |
| Difficult to Dogmatic | 13:12 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
| Doubt, v. to Duty | 17:21 | Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater |
| Eager to Emigrate | 19:09 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Employ to Enmity | 18:33 | Read by JimOCR |
| Entertain to Esteem, n. | 14:38 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| Eternal to Exterminate | 24:07 | Read by JimOCR |
| Faint to Fetter | 23:13 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Feud to Follow | 18:45 | Read by Leni |
| Food to Frugality | 20:30 | Read by Leni |
| Garrolous to Grief | 21:59 | Read by Leni |
| Habit to Harvest | 23:34 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Hatred to High | 17:16 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| Hinder to Hypothesis | 16:42 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
| Idea to Imagination | 15:36 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| Immediately to Influence | 15:02 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Inherent to Involve | 13:06 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Journey to Kill | 13:43 | Read by Neeru Iyer |
| Language to Light | 17:07 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Likely to Love | 12:39 | Read by Ken Sterry |
| Make to Meter | 19:13 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Mind to Mysterious | 17:09 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Name to Necessity | 16:04 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Neglect to Notwithstanding, prep. | 12:51 | Read by Neeru Iyer |
| Oath to Oversight | 14:29 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Pain to Pay, n. | 15:49 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| People to Perverse | 19:10 | Read by Ken Sterry |
| Physical to Poetry | 15:42 | Read by Amy Benton |
| Polite to Predestination | 20:06 | Read by JimOCR |
| Prejudice to Primeval | 13:08 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
| Profit to Proverb | 20:37 | Read by JimOCR |
| Prowess to Quote | 12:37 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
| Racy to Record | 23:47 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Recover to Renounce | 14:32 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Repentence to Revelation | 15:02 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Revenge to Rustic | 13:19 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Sacrament to Self-Abnegation | 14:46 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| Send to Shake | 14:03 | Read by Estelle Jobson |
| Shelter to Slander | 13:27 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Slang to Stain | 12:04 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| State to Subvert | 12:32 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Succeed to System | 12:20 | Read by Mario Pineda |
| Taciturn to Time | 22:25 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Tip to Transient | 12:49 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
| Union to Veneration | 21:00 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
| Venial to Virtue | 13:59 | Read by musil |
| Wander to Youthful | 17:28 | Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
great book! I'm trying to build up my vocabulary in the English language so you can see why I love it. still I literary skip it when it's Mario Pineda's turn. his narration has plenty of mispronunciations. v turns into b, f turns into p, th turns into d and a lot more. so yes I skipped a lot..
Good enough for free
Edd
The book English synonyms and antonyms is a good source for any person who wants to learn new vocabulary and their meaning.
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ChoThePlumber
Having the text for reinforcement would be especially useful in the case of this book, so look for it at http://wwwDOTgutenbergDOTorg/ebooks/28900
best
hussein
the book of synonyms beat internet despite itsabundancd of words
not for me
A LibriVox Listener
I did not find this useful.
I like it. I can learn english
Carlos Eduardo
OS
I skip chapters with Mario guy. Why would not native speakers read this book. I don't want to listen to foreign accents, to be honest.
Non-English Narrator
A LibriVox Listener
great book but for the Non-English speaker. it's hard to understand him with his Spanish accent. need to redo those chapters. he does many of them too and very fast.