1. Take care of the meaning of words
Although synonyms express similar meanings, they often have differences in expressing certain characteristics or degrees of things. Pay attention to the difference when discriminating.
For example, the degree of "damage", "destruction" and "destruction" will be upgraded step by step, and then aggravated. Another example is "unfamiliar" and "unfamiliar", both of which have the meaning of "unfamiliar". But "unfamiliar" means unfamiliar with a person or thing because of first contact;
"Unfamiliar" can mean that you are familiar with or have had contact with a person or thing before, and become unfamiliar because of a long interval, or unfamiliar because of short contact time and few times.
2. Limit the scope of meaning
Although some synonyms refer to the same thing, However, the scope of reference is large and small, and this difference is also a standard for discriminating synonyms.
For example, the scope of "frontier", "border" and "border" is getting smaller and smaller. "Frontier" refers to the territory far from the center and close to the national border, with a large scope, and the concept is abstract; "Border" refers to the place close to the national border, with a small scope, and this concept is more specific. "Boundary" refers to only one boundary with the smallest scope.
3. Try to figure out the meaning of words.
Although some synonyms refer to similar meanings, However, due to different morphemes, they often refer to different emphases, so their use is different.
For example, "scenery" and "scenic spots", and "scenery" mainly refers to sights and scenes. "Scenic spot" focuses on the location of the scenery. Another example is: "sophistry" and "sophistry" both refer to unreasonable arguments, but "sophistry" focuses on "sophistry", that is, fraud and strangeness, and "sophistry" is to defend one's fallacy by fraudulent means, strange words and specious arguments.
4. Distinguish between parts of speech and grammatical functions
Generally, synonyms have the same part of speech, but some have different or incomplete parts of speech.
For example, "birth" and "birthday", the former is a verb, and the latter is a noun. Because of different parts of speech, the usage is naturally different. ? There are also different meanings expressed because of different parts of speech. Such as "suddenly" (adjective) and "suddenly" (adverb).
5. Sense of language and first impression
The fill-in-the-blank question also examines students' daily vocabulary and language accumulation. Many fixed collocations or conventions can make answers with a sense of language.
Students must believe in their own accumulation now, and don't spend a lot of time on a test question. In addition, we also need to pay attention to some habitual collocations of words, which are the accumulation of words for students.