Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Seven, Lesson Four: Antonyms

  1. work
  2. shark
  3. spark
  4. dark
  5. bark
  6. cork
  7. salt
  8. metal
  9. sodium
  10. chloride
  1. potassium
  2. fertilizer
  3. irrigation
  4. crops
  5. cattle
  6. harvest
  7. alfalfa
  8. storage
  9. sheep
  10. grazing
Antonyms

Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. Here are some examples of antonym pairs: 


	dark/bright		dull/exciting		slow/fast

	solid/flimsy		loud/soft		bored/excited

	true/false		wrong/right		clean/dirty
Antonym pairs are not too hard to think of. In fact, in that last sentence the word hard is an antonym for soft or easy and in this sentence last is an antonym for first. All you have to do is start talking and ideas for antonyms will naturally occur. Here are a few more antonym pairs: 


	more/less		few/many		natural/artificial

	antonym/synonym		begin/end		start/finish

	in/out			fact/fiction		all/none

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