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One Word Substitution
Description | One Word |
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Renouncing the throne by the King | Abdication |
The persistent, abnormal and unwarranted fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning | Ablutophobia |
Fear of height | Acrophobia |
Formed, or done for a particular purpose only | Ad hoc |
A substance that can stick or cause sticking | Adhesive |
A graduate or former student of a school or college | Alumnus |
Fear of riding a car | Amaxophobia |
Animals living both on land and in water | Amphibian |
A person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy | Anarchist |
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | Anecdote |
A book written by an unknown author | Anonymous |
A person behind time | Antiquated |
A place where bees are kept | Apiary |
A person who settles a dispute | Arbiter |
simple way of living that avoids physical pleasure and comforts | Ascetic |
Fear of failure | Atychiphobia |
Government by a single person | Autocracy |
An animal used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work | Beast of Burden |
A nation engaged in war | Belligerent |
The action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God | Blasphemy |
Flesh eating animal | Carnivorous |
A person who is above hundred years of age | Centenarian |
Fear of going to bed | Clinophobia |
A Country ruled by two country | Condominium |
Diseases which spread by contact | Contagious |
A person or thing living or existing at the same time as another | Contemporary |
The husband of a wife who has been unfaithful to him | Cuckold |
A keeper or custodian of a museum or pitch | Curator |
Care taker of a public building | Custodian |
Fear of making decisions | Decidophobia |
Fear of dentist | Dentophobia |
A man of odd unconventional and slightly strange habits | Eccentric |
Having characteristics of a woman | Effeminate |
That which is difficult to interpret or understand | Enigmatic |
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease | Epidemic |
A verse letter | Epistle |
a mass departure of people | Exodus |
An animal story with a moral | Fable |
A false idea or belief | Fallacy |
Congratulate somebody in formal manner | Felicitate |
The action of forging a copy or imitation of a document, signature, or work of art | Forgery |
Deliberate killing of a large group of people of a particular nation or ethnic group | Genocide |
Fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse | Genophobia |
List of explanation of words | Glossary |
A person or thing used as a subject for experiment or test | Guinea Pig |
A lengthy and aggressive speech | Harangue |
Fear of being robbed | Harpaxophobia |
A man who dances to the tunes of his wife | Henpecked |
An animal that feeds on plants | Herbivore |
Having both male and female organs | Hermaphrodite |
The killing of one person by another | Homicide |
A violent and noisy young troublemaker | Hooligan |
Fear of water | Hydrophobia |
A religious song | Hymn |
Difficult or impossible to read | Illegible |
Interval between two events | Interlude |
List of goods with its price | Invoice |
Impossible to harm or damage | Invulnerable |
Language difficult for others to understand | Jargon |
Fear of cockroaches | Katsaridaphobia |
A small shelter for a dog or cat | Kennel |
Fear of speaking | Lalophobia |
That which is lawful | Legal |
Man of lax moral | Licentious |
Person with good knowledge of literature | Literati |
Fear of words | Logophobia |
Not highly intellectual or cultured | Lowbrow |
A quiet, gentle song sung to put a child to sleep | Lullaby |
Fear of darkness | Lygophobia |
A great work of art | Magnum Opus |
First speech | Maiden |
The first speech given by a person | Maiden speech |
A book or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed | Manuscript |
A form of amateur dramatic entertainment | Masque |
Killer of one’s own mother | Matricide |
Of or relating to the Middle Ages | Medieval |
Of or relating to trade or commerce | Mercantile |
Instruments which makes smaller objects larger | Microscope |
A very small painting | Miniature |
A particular way or method of doing something | Modus Operandi |
A form of government with a monarch (king or queen) at the head | Monarchy |
A person or thing that has the same name as another | Namesake |
Favouring own kith and kin | Nepotism |
Fear of death | Nicrophobia |
Loop of rope | Noose |
A person authorized to perform certain legal formalities, esp. to draw up or certify documents | Notary |
Fear of crowd | Ochlophobia |
Scientific study of birds | Ornithology |
Fear of property | Orthophobia |
Pleasant to taste (of food or drink) | Palatable |
A remedy for all difficulties or diseases | Panacea |
An outcast, one who is not accepted by the society | Pariah |
The sole right to make, use, or sell something such as a new invention | Patent |
Fear of disease | Pathophobia |
A medical practitioner specializing in children and their diseases | Pediatrician |
Equal in rank | Peer |
Fear of poverty | Peniaphobia |
Fear of becoming bald | Phalacrophobia |
One who does something first | Pioneer |
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own | Plagiarism |
Custom of having more than one husbands | Polyandry |
Custom of having many wives | Polygamy |
Occurring or appearing after the death of the originator | Posthumous |
A remark added at the end of a letter | Postscript |
A concise summary of a book, article, or other text | Precis |
A young person with exceptional qualities or abilities | Prodigy |
A side view of someone's head | Profile |
Fear of radiation | Radiophobia |
The quantitative relation between two amounts | Ratio |
Property in the form of land and houses | Real Estate |
An object surviving from an earlier time reminding us of the past | Relic |
An official demand or request | Requisition |
A woman's small handbag | Reticule |
A morally right and fully deserved punishment | Retribution |
Not willing to believe that something is true | Sceptical |
Go back and forth | Shuttle |
A party that has signed an agreement | Signatory |
Insignificant or unimportant people or things | Small Fry |
A object that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event | Souvenir |
A spirit of honest fair play | Sportsmanship |
Indifference to pleasure or pain | Stoicism |
A legal case under judicial consideration | Sub Judice |
A great liking for sweet-tasting foods | Sweet Tooth |
Fear of speed | Tachophobia |
Connected with the sense of touch | Tactile |
A place where animal skin is made into leather | Tannery |
An instrument for magnified viewing of objects at a distance | Telescope |
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God | Theocracy |
A Phrase that is difficult to articulate properly | Tongue Twister |
Art of cutting tree and bushes into ornamental shape | Topiary |
Group of three novels | Trilogy |
A cruel and oppressive ruler who has complete power over a country | Tyrant |
The Act of killing one's wife | Uxoricide |
Change one's mind too quickly | Vacillation |
Fault that may be forgiven | Venial |
Done willingly without being forced | Voluntary |
An unused area of land that has become barren | Wasteland |
Fear of people from other countries | Xenophobia |
A young middle-class professional with high income and has a luxurious lifestyle | Yuppie |
Fear of God | Zeusophobia |