{"id":1022,"date":"2013-06-06T05:44:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T05:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=1022"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:14:19","slug":"synonyms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/synonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Synonyms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"mmDeferVideoEncompass_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n\t\t\t<picture>\n\t\t\t\t<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/circle-play-duotone.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\n\t\t\t\t<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/circle-play-duotone.png\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"> \n\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" id=\"videoThumbnailImage_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\" data-source-videoID=\"Nd2zQ8xmAT8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/circle-play-duotone.png\" alt=\"Synonyms Video\" height=\"464\" width=\"825\" class=\"size-full\" data-matomo-title = \"Synonyms\">\n\t\t\t<\/picture>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<style>img#videoThumbnailImage_Nd2zQ8xmAT8:hover {cursor:pointer;} img#videoThumbnailImage_Nd2zQ8xmAT8 {background-size:contain;background-image:url(\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/333-synonyms-1.webp\");}<\/style>\n\t\t\t<script defer>\n\t\t\t  jQuery(\"img#videoThumbnailImage_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\").click(function() {\n\t\t\t\tlet videoId = jQuery(this).attr(\"data-source-videoID\");\n\t\t\t\tlet helpTag = '<div id=\"mmDeferVideoYTMessage_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\" style=\"display: none;position: absolute;top: -24px;width: 100%;text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size: small;border-top: 1px solid #fc0;\">Having trouble? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v='+videoId+'\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to watch on YouTube.<\/a><\/span><\/div>';\n\t\t\t\tlet tag = document.createElement(\"iframe\");\n\t\t\t\ttag.id = \"yt\" + videoId;\n\t\t\t\ttag.src = \"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/\" + videoId + \"?autoplay=1&controls=1&wmode=opaque&rel=0&egm=0&iv_load_policy=3&hd=0&enablejsapi=1\";\n\t\t\t\ttag.frameborder = 0;\n\t\t\t\ttag.allow = \"autoplay; fullscreen\";\n\t\t\t\ttag.width = this.width;\n\t\t\t\ttag.height = this.height;\n\t\t\t\ttag.setAttribute(\"data-matomo-title\",\"Synonyms\");\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(\"div#mmDeferVideoEncompass_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\").html(tag);\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(\"div#mmDeferVideoEncompass_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\").prepend(helpTag);\n\t\t\t\tsetTimeout(function(){jQuery(\"div#mmDeferVideoYTMessage_Nd2zQ8xmAT8\").css(\"display\", \"block\");}, 2000);\n\t\t\t  });\n\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>Hey guys! Welcome to this Mometrix video on synonyms.<\/p>\n<p>Synonyms are words, within the same language, that share the same or a similar meaning. Two words are known to be synonymous if you could replace them in a sentence, and the meaning doesn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyn-\u201d is the Greek prefix meaning together, and \u201c-onym\u201d is the Greek <a class=\"ylist\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/prefixes-suffixes-and-root-words\/\">root word<\/a> meaning name. So, very specifically, synonym means that two words are together in name or meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some examples: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Important<\/li>\n<li>Essential<\/li>\n<li>Crucial<\/li>\n<li>Imperative<\/li>\n<li>Significant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are all synonyms for one another.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Important<\/em> means that something is of significant value.<\/li>\n<li><em>Essential<\/em> means that something is very important or completely necessary.<\/li>\n<li><em>Crucial<\/em> means that something is of great importance or critical to achieving something.<\/li>\n<li><em>Imperative<\/em> means that something is vitally important.<\/li>\n<li><em>Significant<\/em> means that something is of notable importance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, when we look at each of these words and their definition, there is overlap. They all share close to identical or very similar <a class=\"ylist\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/determining-word-meanings\/\">meanings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Important<\/em> and <em>significant<\/em> share almost identical meanings. They are each used in the other\u2019s definition. <em>Essential<\/em>, <em>crucial<\/em>, and <em>imperative<\/em> are synonyms to important and significant, but as we can see in their definitions there seems to be a higher level of intensity behind them; but they are still very similar.<\/p>\n<p>Synonyms are very important. They can help liven up our writing by preventing over repetition.<\/p>\n<p>So, you want to stress the importance of something, but you\u2019ve already used it in seventeen other places, then just pull a word from your list of synonyms.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason that knowing synonyms are important is, because on the SAT, ACT, or GRE you will more than likely be expected to know synonyms for other words. You may also be expected to know the definition of a certain word. Well, like we saw in our example, a lot of the time, the definition will contain a synonym for the word being defined. 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