Word Relationships

The CCSS and most educational language arts program include specific elements to help students understand the relationships between words.  The CCSS added "shades of meaning" as a core concept which is far more rigorous than just discussing words as synonyms.  

Here is a list of some types of word relationships.

Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and different pronunciations: bow as in arrow vs bow as in taking a bow after a performance, bass as in fish vs bass as in a stringed instrument. Wind as windy, wind as in what to do with an old clock.

heteronyms - multiple meaning words.  ie fish, fly, fit, fan, fix, fire, free, 

polysemy - related to "which words are multiple meaning words as intended in the CCSS and when they are just words with more than one meaning"

hypernym - is the category (automobile)

hyponym - are synonymy of types of words associated with that category (sedan, SUV, coop, van, etc)

synonyms - meaning something like the same thing

antonyms -opposites

capitonyms - sound and spelling the same but different meanings, one of which is a proper nounhomophones/ homonyms - sound alike words:  no, know, ate, eight, sight, site