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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: handout part 3 - which of these things would you *never* do?
- add 5 things that you know people who have done, but you couldn’t consider doing yourself.
- Share your lists in groups of 3-4.
- breath + analyzer = breathalyzer (combining words like this is a portmanteau)
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- antonym = a word with the opposite meaning from another word
- Do the words in part 2 have antonyms? What antonyms could they have?
- book / cancel (as in a reservation)
- dream / reality, nightmare (noun)
- dream / wake up, do, be present (verb)
- earth / space (and things in space), water, sky
- fear / courage, bravery, love (noun)
- fear / like, love (verb)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love - when we say “platonic love” in English, we mean the love between friends (without physical/sexual intimacy)
- fire / ice, water, cold (noun)
- fire / hire (verb) (note that it has other verb meanings, such as “fire the clay pot” or “fire a gun”)
- good / bad, mean, evil, etc. (adjective)
- good / service (noun)
- learn / teach, forget, unlearn (verb)
- man / woman, animal, nature (“man” is contrasted with both of these, even if there are good reasons not to consider them really “opposites”)
- off / on (adverb or preposition)
- one / many (and similar plural quantifiers), none (some languages contrast one, two, and many)
- present / absent, past (adjective)
- present / past, future (noun)
- present / take, hide, cover (verb)
- serious / fun, trivial, joking, funny, happy (adjective)
- straight / curly, curved, gay, winding, wavy
- think / feel
- white / black
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- good and bad are opposites
- goods and services are complements (they are separate things and together they make up the economy)
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