Contoh Soal Learning Synonyms
Contoh Soal Learning Synonyms - Respond to meaning and generic structure in written essay accurately and fluently in daily life context to access science in the following texts: report, narrative, analytical exposition.
Learning Objective(s):
- Identify the synonyms of certain words correctly
- Distinguish a word meaning from the others correctly
Learn about it!
Do you like reading? You should. Reading gives us lots of benefits, one of them is knowledge. Through reading, many things you have never known and never learned before will be made available easily. When reading English texts, there might be some words that you don’t know their meanings. What do you usually do in this situation? Do you instantly look them up in your dictionary?
Unfortunately, you cannot use dictionary in exam. There is always possibility that you will find many words without knowing the meaning of every word in the text. Let’s say, you will only have 20 minutes to finish reading one text. If you come across this problem, do not spend all of your time working out to find the meaning of every difficult word in the text. It is just a waste of time. You should guess the meaning of those words from the context.
This is such an important reading skill every reader should have. In addition to that, guessing the meaning from the context can help readers to find the words’ synonyms. Synonyms are words with similar meanings, and they are usually interchangeable in usage.
Take a look at this example:
You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
Do you know what the underlined word means? In that sentence crooked means not forming a straight line. Do you know other words to describe not forming a straight line? It can be curved or zigzag. Those words are the synonyms of the word crooked that can be used to replace the word in the sentence.
Learn synonyms from the following text.
Social Media Can Be Abusive for Teenagers
Nowadays, a lot of teenagers are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Path and so on. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media have progressed a lot. Many teenagers, especially in big cities, use devices which can access to internet. This equipment makes them do social network easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. However, it could be abusive, if they don’t use properly, especially, if the parents do not understand the use of social media by young children.
First of all, social media are very addictive. People would say drug or alcohol is more addictive than social media or social media addiction is not a big problem, but it is not true. Teenagers often use social media at school during the class and at night where they are supposed to be studying. Many of them can’t live one day without checking their phone. Surely social media makes addicts, and it is hard to escape. The problem is most people who have an addiction to social media and don’t even realize it.
Second, teenagers can get mental and physical disorders easily through using social media. They might not realize and think that social media doesn’t have anything to do with the disorders. They argued the social media is good for mental diseases because social media help express their feelings or thought easily. Also, through social media, they can be connected each other more. However, social media just offer limited meeting. They just meet on screen, not physical meeting. Spending too much time online could lead to social isolation, loneliness and a negative outlook. Using social media disturbs relationship with others. When teenagers are using social media they do not need to move a lot. It is okay just to stay. We do not need to active a lot. As a result, it leads naturally mental and physical disorders.
In conclusion, social media can result addiction for teenagers. It can also cause mental and physical diseases and make them waste their time. Those are why parents need to understand and regulate the use of social media by teenagers because it can be abusive for them.
Keypoints
When you are looking for synonyms you have to know the part of the speech of the word, for example, the word result can be used as a verb but it could also be used as noun like good result so make sure you know the part of speech.
S1
The word ‘claim’ (p.2) has a similar meaning to ....
S2
The synonym of the word ‘quality’ (p.3) is ....
S3
The word ‘includes’ (p.4) can be replaced by ....
S4
“If we expect changes from this situation …” (p.5)
The word which is NOT similar in meaning to ‘expect’ is ....
S5
The word scarcity (p.1) has a similar meaning to ....
S6
The word attention (p.1) is similar in meaning to ....
S7
“This fact is not even doubted by the majority of people” (p.2)
The underlined word can be replaced by ....
S8
The word which is NOT the synonym of ‘consequence’ (p.2) is ....
S9
The word *‘contemporary’ (p.3) is closest in meaning to ....
S10
The word prone (p.4) has a similar meaning to ....