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In CEM 11+ exams, synonym questions are among the most common vocabulary challenges. You may be asked to choose a word that is closest in meaning to another word — but the twist is that the word usually appears inside a sentence or passage. This means you need to understand not just what a word means in the dictionary, but what it means in context.
A synonym is a word that has the same or a very similar meaning to another word.
| Word | Synonym |
|---|---|
| Happy | Glad, joyful, delighted |
| Big | Large, enormous, vast |
| Said | Exclaimed, muttered, declared |
| Brave | Courageous, fearless, bold |
Important: Synonyms are rarely exactly the same. Each word has a slightly different shade of meaning. For example, "happy" and "ecstatic" are both positive, but "ecstatic" is much stronger.
In the CEM exam, you will often see a question like this:
"The intrepid explorer climbed the mountain alone." Which word is closest in meaning to intrepid? A) Tired B) Fearless C) Famous D) Lonely
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