Synonyms and the other questions
Please have a look at the questions below:
1. Courteous / considerate / thoughtful – are all synonyms? If not please explain the difference among them.
2. What’s the difference between “keep up” and keep on”?
3. What’s the difference between “equivalent” and “tantamount”?
4. What’s the difference in games between “draw” and “tie”?
5. What’s the difference between “taste” и “flavour”?
6. “Me or I?” Sometimes I see it is written like “my brother and I”. Why it is not like “my brother and me”?

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1. sometimes courteous overlaps in meaning with considerate and thoughtful, however, courteous is emphasizing more on being 'well mannered'. eg (holding a door open for a stranger, saying thank you/sorry/please/bless you, )
The difference is, it is possible to be well mannered and courteous but inconsiderate and thoughtless.
2. 'keep up' and 'keep on' both carries the meaning of continuing to do something but are used in different contexts. eg you have to keep on making money if you want to keep up with your girlfriend's spending needs. 
3.equivalent and tantamount are synonyms
4. they are synonyms
5. taste and flavour as a noun are synonyms. The verb form of them have different meanings. eg Can you taste the coconut in the pudding? eg1 can you flavour the pudding with some coconut essence?
6. eg my brother and i went fishing. (if you remove 'my brother' from the sentence, it will still make sense.
eg1 my brother and me went fishing. (if you remove 'my brother' from the sentence it will become 'me went fishing' which is wrong.

i hope i helped :)

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