One Word Substitutions Flashcards
Become less intense or widespread
Abate
A place where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food
Abattoir
The superior of monastery
Abbot
To reduce to a shorter form intended to stand for a whole
Abbreviation
To give up ones authority or throne
Abdicate
Act of giving up the throne
Abdication
Deviation from the right course
Aberration
The act of washing oneself
Ablution
To refuse or deny oneself
Abnegate
Formally put an end on a system, practice, or institution
Abolish
Existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists
Aboriginal
The original inhabitants/natives of a country
Aborigines
To shorten a piece of writing without losing the sense
Abridge
A shortened version of a larger work
Abridgment
Cancel or do away with
Abrogate
To go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere
Abscond
Formal forgiveness of a person’s sins
Absolution
Wildly unreasonable, illogical or ridiculous
Absurd
To increase the speed
Accelerate
Any award or honorer laudatory notice
Accolade
A person who helps another to commit a crime or to do something morally wrong
Accomplice
Be harmonious or consistent with
Accord
A person whose profession is to keep accounts
Accountant
Sharp, bitter, or harsh in temper, language etc
Acerbic
The scientific study of sound
Acoustics
To decide and state officially in court that somebody is not guilty of a crime
Acquit
An entertainer who performs difficult physical feats
Acrobat
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word
Acronym
Fear of great height
Acrophobia
Giving cause for legal action
Actionable
Make a machine active or operative
Activate
The ability to make good judgement and take quick decision // Sharpness and accuracy of judgement
Acumen
Believe in and follow the practices of
Adhere
A person who is physically dependent
Addict
The period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
Adolescence
An extremely beautiful young man
Adonis
Very attractive and easy to feel love for
Adorable
Make impure by adding inferior substance
Adulterate
Willing to take risks and try new ideas
Adventurous
A person who support and speak in favor of something
Advocate
Growing/ existing/ living in air
Aerial
Concerned with beauty or the appearance of beauty
Aesthetics
A list of items to be discussed at a meeting
Agenda
To increase the importance , position or wealth
Aggrandize
Always ready to attract or quarrel // one who is hostile and violent
Aggressive
One who is not sure about god’s existence
Agnostics
Extreme mental or physical suffering
Agony
A blank book for keeping a collection of photographs, stamps or picture
Album
Study of chemistry in a medieval fashion
Alchemy
A substance for killing algae
AlgaecideF
fear of Pain
Algophobia
A person belonging to a foreign country // different from what you are used to
Alien
