One Word Substitution Flashcards
One who is not sure about God’s existence
Agnostic
A person who deliberately sets fire to a building
Arsonist
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession
Amateur
One who can use either hand with ease
Ambidextrous
One who makes an official examination of accounts
Auditor
A person who believes in or tries to bring about a state of lawlessness
Anarchist
A person who has changed his faith
Apostate
One who doesn’t believe in the existence of God
Atheist
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute
Arbitrator
One who leads an austere life
Ascetic
An unconventional style of living
Bohemian
One who is bad in spellings
Cacographer
One who feeds on human flesh
Cannibal
A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism
Chauvinist
A critical judge of any art and craft
Connoisseur
Persons living at the same time
Contemporaries
One who is recovering health after illnesss
Convalescent
A girl/woman who flirts with man
Coquette
A person who regards the whole world as his country
Cosmopolitan
One who is a centre of attraction
Cynosure
One who sneers at the belief of others
Cynic
A leader of orator who espoused the cause of the common people
Demagogue
A dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature
Dilettante
One who is for pleasure of eating and drinking
Epicure
One who often talks of his achievements
Egotist
Someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Emigrant
A man who is womanish in his habits
Effeminate
One hard to please (very selective in his habits)
Fastidious
One who runs away from justice
Fugitive
One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters
Fanatic
One who believes in fate
Fatalist
A lover of good food
Gourmet
Conferred as an honour
Honorary
A person who acts against religion
Heretic
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes
Highbrow
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments
Hypochondriac
A person who is controlled by his wife
Henpeck
One who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality
Indefatigable
Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions
Iconoclast
One who does not express himself freely
Introvert
Who behaves without moral principles
Immoral
A person who is incapable of being tempered with
Inpregnable
One who is unable to pay his debts
Insolvent
A person who is mentally ill
Lunatic
A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society
Misanthrope
A person who is primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics
Mercenary
Someone who love with himself
Narcissist
One collect coins as hobby
Numismatist
A person who likes or admires women
Philogynist
A lover of mankind
Philanthropist
A person who speaks more than one language
Polyglot
One who lives in solitude
Recluse
Someone who walks in sleep
Somnambulist
A person who is indifferent to the pains and pleasure of life
stoic
A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
Termagant
A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife
Uxorious
One who possessed outstanding technical ability in a particular art of field
Virtuoso
A group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
Battery
A large bundle bound for storage or transport
Bale
A large gathering of people of a particular type
Bevy
An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
Bouquet
A family of young animals
Brood
A group of things that have been hidden in a secret place
Cache
A group of people, typically with vehicles or animals travelling together
Caravan
A closed political meeting
Caucus
An exclusive circle of people with common purpose
Clique
A group of followers to hired to applaud to a performance
Claque
A series of stars
Constellation
A Funeral procession
Cortege
A group of worshippers
Congregation
A herd or flock of animals being driven in a body
Drove
A small fleet of ships or boats
Flotilla
A small group of trees without underbrush
Grove
A community of people smaller than a village
Hamlet
A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals
Herd
A large group of people
Horde
Temporary police force
Posse
A large number of fish swimming together
Shoal
A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid
Torrent
The medieval forerunner of chemistry
Alchemy
A person who presents a radio/television programme
Anchor
One who studies the evolution of mankind
Anthropologist
A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft
Astronaut
The scientific study of the physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, classification and economic importance of plants
Botany
A person who draws or produces maps
Cartographer
A person who writes beautiful writing
Calligrapher
A person who composes the sequence of steps and moves for a performance of dance
Choreographer
A person employed to drive a private or hires car
Chauffeur
A person who introduces the performers or contestants in a variety show
Compere
A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection
Curator
The branch of biology concerned with cyclical physiological phenomena
Chronobiology
A secret or disguised way of writing
Cypher
The study of statistics
Demography
The use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas
Dactylology
A person who sells and arranges cut flowers
Florist
A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor
Genealogy
The therapeutic use of sunlight
Heliotherapy
The art or practice of garden cultivation and management
Horticulture
One who supervises in the examination hall
Invigilator
The theory or philosophy of law
Jurisprudence
A person who compiles dictionaries
Lexicographer
The scientific study of the structure and diseases of teeth
Odontology
One who presents a radio programme
Radio Jockey
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
Rhetoric
The branch of science concerned with the origin, structure and composition of rocks
Petrology
One who study the elections and trends in voting
Psephologist
An artist who makes sculptures
Sculptor
The scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals
Zoology
A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution or group of people
Archives
A large cage, building, or enclosure for keeping birds in
Aviary
A building where animals are butchered
Abattoir
A place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives
Apiary
A building containing tanks of live fish of different species
Aquarium
A place or scene of activity, debate or conflict
Arena
A collection of weapons and military equipment
Arsenal
An institution for the care of people who are mentally ill
Asylum
A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling
Burrow
A public room or building where gambling games are played
Casino
A large burial ground, especially one not in a churchyard
Cemetery
A room in a public building where outdoor clothes or luggage may be left
Cloakroom
A place where a dead person’s body in cremated
Crematorium
A Christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows
Convent
Nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day
Creche
A stoppered glass container into which wine or spirit is decanted
Decanter
A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution
Dormitory
The nest of a squirrel, typically in the form of a mass of twigs in a tree
Drey
A room or building equipped for gymnastics, games and other physical exercise
Gymnasium
A storehouse for threshed grain
Granary
A large building with an extensive floor area, typically for housing aircraft
Hangar
A box or cage, typically with a wire mesh front, for keeping rabbits or other small domesticated animals
Hutch
A place in a large institution for the care of those who are ill
infirmary
a small shelter for a dog
Kennel
A place where wild animal live
Lair
A place where coins, medals, or token are made
Mint
A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition
Menagerie
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
Monastery
A place where bodies are kept for identification
Morgue
A piece of enclosed land planted with fruit trees
Orchard
A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
Reservoir
A small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and another dirty household work
Scullery
A close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword
Sheath
A room or building for sick children in a boarding school
Sanatorium
A place where animal hides are tanned
Tannery
A large, tall cupboard in which clothes may be hung or stored
Wardrobe
A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems
Anarchy
A form of government in which power is held by the nobility
aristocracy
A system of government by one person with absolute power
Autocracy
A self-governing country or region
Autonomy
A system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives
Bureaucracy
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives
Democracy
A state, society or group governed by old people
Gerontocracy
A state or country run by the worst, least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens
Kakistocracy
Government by new or inexperienced hands
Neocracy
Government by the populace
Ochlocracy
A small group of people having control of the country or organisation
Oligarchy
Government by the wealthy
Plutocracy
Government not connected with religious or spiritual matters
Secular
A form of government with a monarch at the head
Monarchy
A political system based on government of men by god
Thearchy
A solemn procession, especially for a funeral
Cortege
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
Elegy
A phrase or form words written in memory of a person who has died
Epitaph
Killing of one’s son or daughter
Filicide
Destruction or abortion of a foetus
Foeticide
Killing of one’s brother or sister
Fratricide
Killing of a large group of people
Genocide
Killing of one person by another
Homicide
Killing of infants
Infanticide
Burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb
Interment
Killing of one’s mother
Matricide
A room or building in which dead bodies are kept
Mortuary
A news article that reports the recent death of a person
obituary
killing of parents or other near relative
parricide
killing of one’s father
Patricide
An examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death
Post-mortem
Action of killing a king
regicide
Killing of one’s sister
sororicide
Act of intentionally causing one’s own death
Suicide
Killing of one’s wife
Uxoricide
An extreme or irrational fear of heights
Acrophobia
An irrational fear of fresh air or drafts of air
Aerophobia
Fear of being egotistical, being alone or isolated
Autophobia
A phobia of pain
algophobia
An abnormal fear of heights
Altophobia
An emotional disorder characterised by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat
Anorexia
An extreme or irrational fear of open or public places
Agoraphobia
An abnormal or persistent fear of depths
Bathophobia
Fear or hatred of books
Bibliophobia
Fear of ugliness and things that are ugly
Cacophobia
A dislike of being in the centre
Centrophobia
An extreme fear about beauty
Cellophobia
Fear of time
Chronophobia
Fear of dogs
Cynophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of confined places
Claustrophobia
A delusion of being possessed by evil spirits
Demonomania
An abnormal and persistent fear of drinking alcohol
Dipsophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of work or finding employement
Ergophobia
Fear of getting married, being in a relationship, or commitment
Gamophobia
Physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
Genophobia
Fear of old age
Geraphobia
Fear of knowledge
Gnosiophobia
Fear of women
Gynophobia
Fear of writing or handwriting
graphophobia
An irrational and intense fear of travel
Hodophobia
An excessive fear or aversion to obtaining pleasure
Hedonophobia
Fear of disease
Haemetophobia
An obsessive fear of words
Logophobia
An extreme fear of wind or drafts
Menemophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of the night or of darkness
Nyctophobia
Fear of medication
Pharamacophobia
Fear of death
Thanatophobia
Extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen
Triskaidekaphobia
An act of abdicating or renouncing the throne
Abdication
An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables
Almanac
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that is born in water and breathes with gills
Amphibian
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
Allegory
A statement or proposition on which an abstractly defined structure is based
Axiom
A nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recongnised by international law
Belligerent
An examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease
Biopsy
The action of offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk
Blasphemy
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence
Chronology
A vigorous campaign for political, social or religious change
Crusade
Lasting for a very short time
Ephemeral
spoken or done without preparation
extempore
Release someone from a duty or obligation
Exonerate
Fond of Company
Gregarious
Making marks that cannot be removed
Indelible
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong
Infallible
Certain to happen
inevitable
A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past
Nostalgia
A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
Panacea
A doctrine which identifies God with the universe
Pantheism
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules
Pedantic
The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own
Plagiarism
Safe to drink
potable
the emblems or insignia of royalty
Regalia
Violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred
sacrilege
A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit
sinecure
a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event
souvenir
An imaginary ideal society free of poverty and suffering
Utopia
Denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace
Venial
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