Antonyms
Topic: Antonyms
Strategy Used: Finding Root Words
On difficult antonym questions, it might seems as if
you don't know anything about the stem word. However,
you only need a little information to guess at a word's
meaning. If you don't know what a word means, you might
be able to guess its meaning based on your knowledge
of one or more of the word's parts. Don't let the initial
word scare you into guessing wrong.
Consider this example:
If the word benediction
is unfamiliar to you, you might want to isolate a root,
stem, or suffix. In this case, the prefix, bene means
good. This indicates that its opposite is likely to
be something bad. Perhaps the answer will begin with
mal, as in malefaction.
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