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Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: 'hot' => 'cold', 'large' => 'small', 'fresh' => 'stale'
Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.
Homonyms are words that sound the same OR are spelled the same, but have different meanings. For example, witch and which are homonyms (because they sound the same). Also, one can 'record' a song or keep a 'record' of documents. In this example 'record' is a homonym because it's spelled the same, despite the different meanings.
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