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100

LITTLE / SMALL

MINISCULE

For 16 year, we lived in a miniscule flat in the centre of the city.

200

BIG / LARGE

HUMONGOUS (enorme)

If I were rich, I would buy a humongous house in the country.

GARGANTUAN (gigantesco)

COLOSSAL

ENORMOUS

300

HIGH

LOFTY

The lofty trees swayed in the wind. (literal use)

He had lofty goals of becoming CEO. (figurative use)

400

DIFFERENT

CHALK AND CHEESE (idiomatic expression)

My sister and I are chalk and cheese.

DISPARATE (more formal)

We often clash because our political views are so disparate.

500

SAME

PEAS IN A POD (idiomatic expression)

The brothers were like peas in a pod.

TANTAMOUNT (more formal) - it doesn't mean exactly the same. It means: "virtually the same as"

Calling a Scot an Englishman is tantamount to a declaration of war.


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