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One Word Substitution

One Word Substitution

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1- Shortened form of a word or phrase 

     - Abbreviation 

2- To increase the speed 

     -Accelerate

3- Liable  to be called to account 

      - Accountable

4- A person wo calculates premium 

     - Actuary

5- A person who attack first 

     - Aggressor

6-  A person who doubts the existence of 

     God

     - Agnostic 

7- Who does something not professionally

     but for pleasure

     - Amateur

8- Of a person who can use both hands

    equally well 

    - Ambidextrous

9- A sentence whose meaning is unclear

    - Ambiguous

10-  General Forgiveness

        - Amnesty 

11- A land animal that breeds in water 

      - Amphibian

12- One who is out to subvert a

       government

      - Anarchist

13-  Which does not bear the name of the 

        writer 

       - Anonymous

14- To date before the true time 

       - Antedate 

15- Study of Man 

       - Anthropology

 

16- A medicine that diminishes the effect

       of another medicine 

     - Antidote 

17- A word opposite in meaning  to another

      -Antonym

18- To rise in value

      - Appreciate

19- A study of Ancient things 

       - Archaeology

20- A place where weapons and

      ammunitions are kept

      - Arsenal 

21- One who does not believe in the

      existence of God 

      - Atheist

   

22- A life history written by oneself

       - Autobiography

23- Of a person extremely desirous of

      money

      - Avaricious 

24- A great lover of books 

      - Bibliophile

25- Practice of having two wives or

       husband

       - Bigamy

26- One who has prejudiced religious wives

       - Bigot

 

27- A life history written by somebody else

       - Biography

 

28- The science which treats with life 

       - Biology 

29- The branch of biology dealing with 

       Plant life 

       - Botany 

30- A government by the officials

       - Bureaucracy

31- A man devoid of kind feeling and

      sympathy 

      - Callous

 

32- Of a man or animal that feeds on its 

       own species 

    - Cannibal 

33- Flesh eating animal 

    - Carnivorous

34- List of books 

    - Catalogue

35- A person who is above hundred years

     - Centenarian

36- Celebration of a hundredth year 

     - Centenary

37- People who work together 

     - Colleagues

38- Belonging or pertaining to an individual

       from birth 

     - Congenital 

39- Recovering from illness 

     - Convalescent

40- One who can make himself at home in 

       all countries 

     - Cosmopolitan

41- A citizen of the world 

     - Cosmopolite 

42- A person who easily believes

     - Credulous

43- One who questions everything

     - Cynic 

44- To go down in value 

     - Depreciate 

45- To go from bad to worse 

      - Deteriorate

46- A game in which neither party wins

     - Draw

47- One who has strange habits

     - Eccentric

48- A thing that is fit to be eaten 

     - Edible

49- Of a man showing feminine qualities

     - Effeminate 

50- One who thinks only of himself

     - Egoist

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51- To Explain something Mysterious

      - Elucidate

52- To lay special stress on

     - Emphasize

53- A contagious disease which spreads

       over a huge area

      - Epidemic 

54-Words written on the tomb of a 

      person 

     - Epitaph

55- To root out an evil, disease 

     - Eradicate 

56- Root out an evil practice

     - Eradicate

57- Established Rule of conduct.     

     - Etiquette

58- A study of derivation of words

     - Etymology

59- A speech delivered without any 

       previous preparation

     - Extempore

60- An exact copy 

     - Facsimile

61- Anything that leads to death 

     - Fatal 

62- One who believes in fate

     - Fatalist

    

63- One who thinks only of welfare of 

       women 

     - Feminist

64- Something that has been fixed

       beforehand

     - Foregone

65- Murder of a brother

     - Fratricide

66- Medicine that kills germs 

     - Germicide

67- One who eats too much 

     - Glutton 

68- Without payment 

     - Gratis

 

69- One who is easily deceived 

     - Gullible

70- Murder of human being

     - Homicide

71- A position for salary is paid

     - Honorary 

72- State of antagonism 

     - Hostility

73- One who feels sympathetic towards 

       human beings

     - Humanitarian

75- Worship of idols

     - Idolatry 

76- That is prohibited by law

     - Illegal

77- That is prohibited by law

     - Illicit

78- One who lives in a foreign country 

     - Immigrant

79- That which cannot be noticed

     - Imperceptible

80- Incapable of being seized by attack 

     - Impregnable

81- That which is unlikely to happen 

     - Improbable

82- Sound that cannot be heard

     - Inaudible

83- Statement which cannot be

       understand

     - Incomprehensible

84- One who cannot be corrected 

    - Incorrigible

85- That which cannot be believed 

     - Incredible

86- That which cannot be cured

     -Incurable

87- That which cannot be described 

     - Indescribable

88- Which cannot explained

     - Inexplicable

89- One who does not make mistakes

     - Infallible

90- Murder of an infant

     - Infanticide

91- A method that cannot be imitated

     - Inimitable

92- That which cannot be satisfied 

     - Insatiable

93- Incapable of being  dissolved in a 

       liquid

     - Insoluble

94- One who is unable to pay his debts 

     - Insolvent

95- The action of looking back on a

       past time

     - Introspection

96- That which cannot be conquered

     - Invincible

97- A thing that cannot be seen with 

       human eyes

     - Invisible

98- Something which is not applicable

     - Irrelevant

99- That cannot be altered or

        withdrawn

      - Irrevocable

100- A man who is easily irritated

       - Irritable 

I hope these collections of one word substitutions  are useful for you. 

  

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