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- Greg Malivuk
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- http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/196.jpg - language tree (of European languages)
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- synonym: a word with the same or a similar meaning to another word
- antonym: a word with the opposite meaning from another word
- opposite: hot/cold, big/small
- complement: earth/space (the complement is “the rest”, what’s left when you remove one, but isn’t necessarily opposed to it the way “hot” and “cold” are)
- reciprocal: learn/teach, borrow/lend (if one person is doing one, another person is doing the other)
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- book
- noun: movie, laptop, picture
- verb: cancel
- dream
- noun: nightmare (because “dream” usually connotes good dreams), reality
- verb: wake
- earth
- noun: sky, space, sea, air
- fear
- noun: courage, bravery, love
- verb: love
- fire
- noun: water, ice
- verb 1: (extinguish)
- verb 2: hire
- good
- adjective: bad, evil
- noun 1: evil
- noun 2: service (goods and services make up much of the economy)
- learn
- verb: forget, teach
- man
- noun: woman, boy, animal, alien, nature (these are all often contrasted with “men”, but there might be very good reasons why we shouldn’t think of them as opposites)
- verb: abandon (man the cash register = do your job there, “Women man the cash registers” = women are working at the cash registers)
- off
- preposition: on
- verb: bear (as in give birth), save (If you “off someone” it means you kill that person.)
- one
- quantifier: no/none, many (and other plural quantifiers), two (dual grammar exists in many languages)
- present
- adjective/adverb: absent, away
- noun 1: past, future
- noun 2: purchase, debt/obligation
- verb: take
- serious
- adjective 1: funny, relaxed
- adjective 2: minor, small, light
- straight
- adjective 1: curved, bent, twisted, curly, winding
- adjective 2: gay
- think
- verb: feel, meditate, act, do
- white
- adjective: black
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- Better to have been an old has-been than a never was. (a has-been was important in the past but not now)
- = It’s better to have been important once (even if you’re not important now), than to have never been important.
- You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
- = You can eat it, or you can have (i.e. keep) it, but you can’t do both.
- The apple never falls far from the tree.
- = Children are generally pretty similar to their parents.
- No news is good news.
- = If you don’t hear anything, probably nothing’s wrong.
- (Could also mean: All the news is bad.)
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- Better the devil you know (than the devil you don’t).
- A bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush).
- When in Rome (do as the Romans do).
- Those in glass houses (shouldn’t throw stones).
- Out of the frying pan (and into the fire).
- The grass is always greener (on the other side of the fence).
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