VOCABULARY

Dictionary Skills and Antonyms

Dictionary Skills with Mealtime Words Objectives

• Identify and use antonyms.
breakfast the first meal of the day • Use beginner dictionaries
and glossaries to determine
lunch a meal eaten in the middle of the day
word meanings.
dinner the main meal of the day; it is usually eaten late in the day • Locate a word in a
snack a small amount of food eaten between meals dictionary according to the
mug a cup with a handle that is used for hot drinks first letter of the word.

glass a container for drinking, usually made of glass • Increase concept and
content vocabulary.
napkin a piece of cloth or paper that you use when you eat to
• Increase oral vocabulary.
keep your hands, face, and clothes clean
• Increase reading vocabulary.
tablecloth a covering for a table that can be made of cloth, paper,
or plastic

Antonyms (A) Antonyms (B)

fresh newly grown or made dawn the time of day when the sun
stale no longer fresh; hard or dry from rises
being kept for too long sunset the time of day when the sun
goes down
solid something that is firm and holds
its shape; rocks, wood, and separate to break the connection
metals are solid between things; to move apart
liquid something that is neither a solid attach to fasten or join together; to
nor a gas; water, milk, and oil are connect
liquids
gather to bring things together into
rise to move upward one place; to collect things
sink to move downward scatter to separate and move in
different directions; to toss
cry to shed tears; to weep things so that they spread out
laugh to smile and make sounds that
show you think something is
funny or you are happy

VOC 4 Dictionary Skills and Antonyms

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