Read the passage and then write the antonym or synonym of the words as directed below. Most of the euphemisms that we use today have winding histories that obscure their origin . It takes time for a euphemism to embed into common knowledge, so creating a euphemism from scratch is challenging . For example, there are a number of origin stories for the euphemism bought the farm, which means that someone has died often in a plane crash or collision . Some reports suggest the phrase comes from Air Force officers saying that when they retire , they're going to settle down and buy a farm. Thus, if that officer dies in a crash, it's said, darkly, that they bought the farm. An alternative story is that when Air Force planes crashed in rural areas, the farmers whose land they hit would sue the government for damages and use that money to pay off their mortgage. That plane crash, then, indirectly bought the farm for the farmer. There are a number, of other origins suggested for the phrase, but all of that is to say, euphemisms rely on a common understanding of the phrase itself, not its literal meaning. Euphemisms are among many phrases in the English language that rely on local or cultural understanding. Similar figures of speech are slang, colloquialisms, vernacular, and idioms. (a) Origin (antonym); (b) challenging (synonym); (c) collision (synonym); (d) suggest (synonym); (e) retire (antonym); (f) alternative (antonym); (g) rural (synonym); (h) damages (synonym); (i) indirectly (synonym); (j) rely (antonym); (k) understanding (synonym); (l) literal (antonym); (m) local (antonym); (n) similar (synonym).