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Post date: Aug 22, 2012 6:20:25 PM

Explain how vocabulary word and synonym for word are different.

Each student has a vocabulary word. No two students have the same word. Students wrote the definition for their word in class. They wrote a list of synonyms for their word. Synonyms are words that have a similar meaning (big = large, huge, giant, oversized). The assignment is for students to explain how their vocabulary word is actually different from a synonym for their word. Example: "big" and "giant" do mean more-or-less the same thing, but exactly how are those two words different?