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A one-page CAPS Grade 5 English poster on word meanings (Vocabulary), with the key ideas, key words and a tip to remember.
Synonyms are words with the same or almost the same meaning.
happy, glad, cheerful
big, huge, enormous
Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
hot, cold; early, late
full, empty; strong, weak
A prefix goes at the start of a word and changes its meaning.
A suffix goes at the end of a word.
Look at the words around a new word. They give clues to its meaning. Words like but, such as and which means also help.
The path was so narrow that only one person could walk along it. (Narrow means not wide.)
Some words have more than one meaning. The rest of the sentence shows which meaning is used.
A bat flew out of the cave.
He hit the ball with a bat.
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