One Word Substitution Flashcards by M Y | Brainscape

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Newly developed and unfamiliar

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Newfangled

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Public merry making and feasting

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Carnival

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List of books and other articles

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Catalogue

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The science of reasoning

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Logic

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Matter written by hand

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Manuscript

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Undue favour to own relatives

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Nepotism

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One who dies for a noble cause

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Martyr

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A person for whom money is most important

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Materialist

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A medicine that induces sleep

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Narcotics

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Adherence or attachment to what is natural

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Naturalism

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One who entirely depends on another

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Parasite

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Recieved after death

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Posthumous

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Anything written in a letter after it is signed

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Postscript

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Hundredth anniversary

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Centenary

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Inherited from father

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Patrimony

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Name derived from the father

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Patronymic

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Peron having command over many languages

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Polyglot

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A figure with many angles/sides.

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polygon

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Acc to sequence of time

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Chronological

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Roundabout way of expression

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Circumlocution

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One who has no means of livelihood

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Pauper

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Use of public money for own benefit

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Peculation

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Written/printed notice pasted in public places

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Placard

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A government by rich and powerful class

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Plutocracy

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To bring under control

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Subdue/subjugate

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Place for luggage at railway station

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Cloakroom

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Compel to a course of action

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Coerce

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Speaking aloud while alone

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Soliloquy

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Occurring irregularly

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Sporadic

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A person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain

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Stoic

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Having same source of origin

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Cognate

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Person working in same department

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Colleagues

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A person who believes in spiritual things

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Spiritualist

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Secret agreement for fraudulent purpose

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Collusion

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Identical in all respect

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Congruent

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One who’s well versed in any subject

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Connoisseur

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Person who’s opposed to enlightenment

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Obscurantist

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Funeral rights

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Obsequies

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To turn out of society

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Ostracize

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Bearing eggs

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Oviparous

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Which spreads by physical touch

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Contagious

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Of the same time

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Contemporary

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Which is no longer in use

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Obsolete

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Garden of fruits

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Orchard

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Complete with regard to every detail

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Thorough

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Willing to be guided

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Amenable

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Not to be moved by entreaty

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Despotic