Word Match

What your child will figure out

• Predict whether two words should belong to the same meaning team or opposite teams.
• Connect a word to a valid synonym or antonym and use the completed link as evidence.
• Explain how near-synonyms can differ in strength, feeling, or context.
• Transfer synonym, antonym, and word-nuance reasoning to generated unfamiliar combinations.

The levels

1. Join the same team

   Predict, connect, observe, and explain why cheerful and happy are synonyms.

2. Open the opposite gate

   Predict, connect, observe, and explain why ancient and modern are antonyms.

3. Tune the word glow

   Connect warm and scorching, then explain that near-synonyms can have different intensity.

4. Stock the rare shelf

   Place scarce and plentiful at opposite ends of an amount scale.

5. Cross the courage bridge

   Connect cautious and reckless through their opposing attitudes to risk.

6. Lower the voice spell

   Explain how whisper is a more precise, quieter way to say something.

7. Guard the glass archive

   Connect fragile and sturdy on a resistance-to-damage scale.

8. Sharpen the clever spell

   Compare clever and ingenious as synonyms with different strength.

9. Wake the willingness wing

   Transfer the opposite-team test to reluctant and eager.

10. Balance the judgement scales

    Reason about impartial and biased as abstract antonyms.

11. Choose the kinder shade

    Distinguish the positive connotation of thrifty from the criticism in stingy.

12. Restore the master shelf

    Transfer synonym, antonym, intensity, precision, and connotation tests to concise and wordy.