milar Words Similar Words | BCS Preparation

Similar Words | BCS Preparation

Similar Words This video is mainly made for competitive exam preparation (eg BCS preparation, university entrance classes or university entrance preparation classes). However, this lesson will also help those who are English grammar learners in other classes. The “Similar Words” thing is interesting. Although two words are close or have the same meaning in English, their application in a sentence is quite different. This topic is very important for any exam. So today’s class is about “Similar Words” to understand this matter very simply.

 

Similar Words

Synonyms of similar

1: having characteristics in common : strictly comparable
2: alike in substance or essentials : CORRESPONDING no two animal habitats are exactly similar—W. H. Dowdeswell
3 : not differing in shape but only in size or position similar triangles
comparing fractions

similar polygons

similarly adverb

SIMILAR, ANALOGOUS, PARALLEL mean closely resembling each other.

SIMILAR implies the possibility of being mistaken for each other. all the houses in the development are similar ANALOGOUS applies to things belonging in essentially different categories but nevertheless having many similarities. analogous political systems PARALLEL suggests a marked likeness in the development of two things. the parallel careers of two movie stars

 

Examples of similar in a Sentence

This month, General Electric’s health-care division will begin marketing a first-of-its-kind electrocardiograph machine in the U.S. Although packed with the latest technology, the battery-powered device weighs just six pounds, half as much as the smallest ECG machine currently for sale. It will retail for a mere $2,500, an 80% markdown from products with similar capabilities.—Reena Jana, Business Week, 23 & 30 Mar. 2009

There’s a reason boards of directors can pluck so many CEOs out of one company and plop them into another: When it comes to management ideas and tools, many companies are surprisingly similar. They have the same hierarchies and budgeting processes.—Jena McGregor, Business Week, 8 Oct. 2007

Though the trends were similar, the new patterns of consumption varied both regionally and nationally, as they continue to do today.—John Brewer, New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2006

Our cats are similar in size.

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