English Synonyms and Antonyms: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

English Synonyms and Antonyms, credited to James Champlin Fernald, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of English Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald. Read by volunteer readers. English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains or exemplifies the subtle distinctions between the listed words. The entries sometimes close with a few words on the prepositions that follow selected synonyms, but more often with a list of antonyms. By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use. It is the office of a work on synonyms to point out these correspondences and differences, that language may have the flexibility that comes from freedom of selection within the common limits, with the perspicuity and precision that result from exact choice of the fittest words to express each shade of meaning outside of the common limits. (Summary by DSayers and the author from the entry "Synonymous")

Recording facts

• Recording title: English Synonyms and Antonyms
• Author credits: James Champlin Fernald
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 68
• Listed recording duration: 19:46:43

Catalogue topics

• language
• English
• grammar
• vocabulary
• usage
• synonyms
• antonyms
• thesaurus

Opening tracks: first 24 of 68

1. 00 - Preface — 20:18
2. 01 - Abandon to Abridgment — 26:00
3. 02 - Absolute to Accessory — 25:55
4. 03 - Accident to Address, n. — 19:28
5. 04 - Adequate to Airy — 21:27
6. 05 - Alarm to Alliance — 21:24
7. 06 - Allot to Ambition — 19:24
8. 07 - Amend to Answer — 18:12
9. 08 - Anticipate to Appear — 16:38
10. 09 - Appendage to Artist — 17:48
11. 10 - Ask to Attain — 13:40
12. 11 - Attitude to Axiom — 15:48
13. 12 - Babble to Because — 25:50
14. 13 - Becoming to Bluff — 15:46
15. 14 - Body to By — 18:34
16. 15 - Cabal to Caricature — 25:03
17. 16 - Carry to Change — 16:05
18. 17 - Character to Clear — 15:54
19. 18 - Clever to Congratulate — 15:51
20. 19 - Conquer to Criminal — 13:29
21. 20 - Daily to Delicious — 21:49
22. 21 - Delightful to Difference — 15:50
23. 22 - Difficult to Dogmatic — 13:12
24. 23 - Doubt, v. to Duty — 17:22

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