hello my name is emma and in today's
video
i am going to teach you some
synonyms of the word big
and small so what's a synonym
we use synonyms a lot in english a
synonym
is another word that means the same
thing
so for example you might know the word
smart
a synonym of smart is intelligent
they have the same meaning but they're
different words
synonyms are important to know because
in english if you are writing
or you're in conversation you want to
use different
words it's really boring when someone
uses the same word
over and over and over again especially
in writing
so it's good to know some other words
that mean the same thing
so let's look at some words that mean
the same thing
as big so i have here
a big circle what's another word for big
well we have huge this circle
is huge and notice my pronunciation
it's really important to know how to
pronounce a word
how to spell a word and how to use a
word in a sentence
so for each of these keep that in mind
we have
huge enormous
and notice the stress is on the nor part
so i say nor louder and longer enormous
massive this circle is
massive so that means very big
it's large the circle is large
it's a large circle i like this word
humongous it's humongous
that means it's very large humongous
then we have the word giant the circle
it's a giant circle
we can also say it's a gigantic
circle and again notice the stress
or the part we say louder and longer is
on the gan
so gigantic
and i also have one other word here
macro
we don't usually use macro
like we use these other words but macro
means big so when you're reading
and you see the word macro um a lot of
the times
we use macro in academics uh
it means large or big so you might read
something about
the macro economy this means
the large-scale economy okay so macro
just is another
way to say big but we don't usually use
it in conversation
so now let's look at the opposite of big
which is small
what are some synonyms that mean small
well we have little little this
is a little circle we have mini
tiny micro
micro is the opposite of macro it means
a very small scale
um if something is so small you can't
see it
we say it's microscopic it's too small
to see
and then we have miniature and notice
the pronunciation of the tu
it's mina
it has a sound miniature okay
so these words all mean small
so i'm going to show you some funny
objects from my house
and i want you to use one of these words
to describe
what i'm showing you okay so you can
say it's huge it's microscopic it's tiny
whatever word fits so the first thing
i'm going to show you
is i'm really sorry
it's a little bit disgusting it's a
giant cockroach
if i saw this on my wall at home
i think i would have a heart attack this
is my nightmare having something like
this on a wall
so what word can you use to describe
this
you can say it's a huge cockroach it's a
massive cockroach
it's a large cockroach and again i'm
sorry if you're afraid of cockroaches
but
if you ever see one this is how you can
describe it
i have here a blue diamond
and unfortunately it's not real because
if this were real
i would be a millionaire
um but how can we describe this blue
diamond
well i'd say it's enormous it's
humongous
okay so you can use any of these words
to describe this diamond
i have here this book
the unabridged edgar allen poe
do you think this book is small or big
i would say this book is big i'd say
it's
huge it's enormous i have not read this
book before
next i have my goggles when i put them
on my face
they're massive on me they're humongous
they're quite large so these are goggles
okay now let's look at some things that
are small
and again i want you to use any of the
words on the board
to talk about these small objects
so i have this can you guess what this
is
it's actually a very small boat or canoe
so which word can we say for this we can
say it's miniature
it's a miniature canoe it's a mini canoe
it's a tiny canoe
i have here it's very small you might
not be able to see it that well
but this is the empire state building
it's miniature it's very tiny
this is one of my trophies
it's a very small trophy it's a tiny
oscar um it's not for acting
i'm a horrible actress this actually
says
best cat sitter i'm very good at
babysitting cats
so somebody gave me this little trophy
and here is the last objects object
sorry
do you know what this is it's a hat
let me put it on my head
so this is a very small hat
it's a little hat or it's a tiny hat
so again we've covered a lot of words
today
that mean big and small when you
are using english it's good to know some
synonyms
of words you use a lot we often talk
about big things and little things
when we're describing so
learn these words they're very useful
and remember
whenever you learn a new word it's good
to learn how to spell it
pronounce it use it in a sentence
and know what it means okay if you do
these four things
it will really help you to remember the
word so thank you so much for watching
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