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What are synonyms? words that have several different meanings, depending on how they are used words that appeal to one of the five senses, such as hearing, sight, or smell two or more words or phrases that have the same or nearly the same meaning two or more words or phrases that are the opposite in meaning to one another

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A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in the same language. For example, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another; they are synonymous.

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