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Name: Imelda Putri Utami

Student Number: 223020201092


Advanced English Listening

LIST OF SYNONYMS IN ENGLISH


Abandon | Leave, strand, ditch, leave behind, walk out on, forsake, jilt, run out on, throw over, turn
Verb your back on, desert, dump, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch.
Ability | Capability, power, potential, facility, capacity, qualification, competence, proficiency,
Noun competency, potentiality
Able | Capable, experienced, fit, skilled, expert, powerful, masterly, effective, qualified,
Adjective talented, gifted, efficient, clever, practiced, accomplished, competent, skilful, adept,
masterful, strong, proficient, adroit, highly endowed.
About | Regarding, on, re, concerning, touching, dealing with, respecting, referring to, relating
Preposition to, concerned with, connected with, relative to, with respect to, as regards, anent (Scot).
Accept |  receive, take, gain, pick up, secure, collect, have, get, obtain, acquire
Verb  take on, try, begin, attempt, bear, assume, tackle, acknowledge, undertake, embark
on, set about, commence, avow, enter upon.
Before | Earlier than, ahead of, prior to, in advance of.
Preposition
Before | Previously, earlier, sooner, in advance, formerly.
Adverb
Begin | Start, commence, proceed.
Verb
Big | Large, great, huge, giant, massive vast, enormous, considerable, substantial, extensive,
Adjective immense, spacious, gigantic, monumental, mammoth, bulky, colossal, prodigious,
voluminous, elephantine, sizable/sizeable.
Believe | Think, consider, judge, suppose, maintain, estimate, imagine, as- sume, gather, reckon,
Verb conclude, deem, speculate, presume, conjecture, postulate, surmise.
Because | Since, as, in that.
Conjunction
Client | Customer, consumer, buyer, patron, shopper, habitué, patient.
Noun
Continue | Keep on, go on, maintain, pursue, sustain, carry on, stick to, keep up, prolong, persist
Verb in, keep at, persevere, stick at, press on with.
Desire | Want, long for, crave, fancy, hope for, ache for, covet, aspire to, wish for, yearn for,
Verb thirst for, hanker after, set your heart on, desiderate
(formal) request, ask, petition, solicit, entreat, importune.
Employer | Boss (informal), manager, head, leader, director, chief, executive, owner, master,
Noun administrator, patron, supervisor, foreman, kingpin, big cheese (slang or old-fashioned),
Mister Big (slang, chiefly US).
Fluent | Effortless, natural, articulate, well-versed, glib, facile, voluble, smooth spoken.
Adjective
Good | Excellent, great, fine, pleasing, capital, choice, crucial (slang), ac- ceptable, pleasant,
Adjective worthy, first class, divine, splendid, satisfactory, superb, enjoyable, awesome (slang),
dope (slang), world class, admirable, agreeable, super (informal), pleasurable, wicked
(slang), bad (slang), first rate, tiptoe.
Hence | Therefore, thus, consequently, for this reason, in consequence, ergo, on that account.
Adverb
Improve | Enhance, better, add to, upgrade, amend, mend, augment, embellish, touch up,
Verb ameliorate, polish up.
Junior | Minor, lower, secondary, lesser, subordinate, inferior, younger.
Adjective
Kingdom | Country, state, nation, land, division, territory, province, empire, commonwealth, realm,
Noun domain, tract, dominion, sovereign state.
Learn |  Master, grasp, acquire, pick up, take in, attain, become able, familiarize yourself
Verb with,
 Discover, hear, understand, gain knowledge, find out about, become aware, discern,
ascertain, come to know, suss (out) (slang),
 Memorize, commit to memory, learn by heart, learn by rote, get (something) word
perfect, learn parrot fashion, get off part, con (archaic).
Mutual | Shared, common, joint, interactive, returned, communal, reciprocal, interchangeable,
Adjective reciprocated, correlative, requited.
Noon | Midday, high noon, noonday, noontime, twelve noon, noontide.
Noun
Obey | Submit to, surrender (to), give way to, succumb to, bow to, give in to, yield to, serve,
Verb cave in to (informal), take orders from, do what you are told by.
Permission | Authorization, sanction, licence, approval, leave, freedom, permit, go-ahead (informal),
Noun liberty, philo consent, allowance, tolerance, green light, assent, dispensation, carte
blanche, blank cheque, sufferance.
Quick | Fast, swift, speedy, express, active, cracking (Brit informal), smart, rapid, fleet, brisk,
Adjective hasty, headlong, nippy (informal).
Recipe | Get, accept, be given, pick up, collect, obtain, acquire, take, derive, be in receipt of,
Noun accept delivery of.
Save | Rescue, free, release, deliver, recover, get out, liberate, salvage, redeem, bail out, set
Verb free, save the life of, extricate.
Test | Check, try, investigate, assess, research, prove, analyse, experiment with, try out, verify,
Verb assay, put something to the proof, put something to the test.
Test | Trial, research, check, investigation, attempt, analysis, assessment, proof, examination,
Noun evaluation, acid test.
Usual | Normal, customary, regular, expected, general, common, stock, standard, fixed,
Adjective ordinary, familiar, typical, constant, routine everyday, accustomed, habitual, wonted.
Value | Importance, use, benefit, worth, merit, point, help, service, sense, profit, advantage,
Noun utility, significance, effectiveness, mileage (informal), practicality, usefulness, efficacy,
desirability, serviceableness.
Weak | Feeble, exhausted, frail, debilitated, spent, wasted, weakly, tender, delicate, faint,
Adjective fragile, shaky, sickly, languid, puny, decrepit, unsteady, infirm, anaemic, effete,
enervated.
Yell | Scream, shout, cry out, howl, call out, wail, shriek, screech, squeal, bawl, yelp, call at
Verb the top of your voice.
Zone | Area, region, section, sector, district, territory, belt, sphere, tract.
Noun

The reference:
Tim B First (Gde Dwitya, Brian Rezza Daffi, Ahmad Yusuf, Ismaturrahmi), Kamus Sinonim Bahasa
Inggris (Yogyakarta: PT Bentang Pustaka, 2014)
Title of the book: Kamus Sinonim Bahasa Inggris
URL: https://webadmin-ipusnas.perpusnas.go.id/ipusnas/publications/books/72983/

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