One Word Substitution, Meaning, Uses, Examples and Exercise
Here are One Word Substitutions, One Word Equivalents, use of One Word Substitution, Examples of One Word Substitution, and exercise of One Word Substitution.
- A battle or match in which neither party wins: Draw
- A belief contrary to the belief generally accepted: Heresy
- A book that has information of all the branches o knowledge: Encyclopedia
- A cluster of houses in a village: Hamlet
- A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition (P-09): Menagerie
- A condition of disorder and lawlessness: Anarchy
- A conditional release of a prisoner from jail before official end: Parole
- A country ruled by two countries: Condominium
- A decision on which all agree: Unanimous
- A festive courtly dramatic performance: Masque
- A festival of the hundredth anniversary: Centenary
- A girl who flirts: Coquette
- A group that consists of different types of things or people: Heterogeneous
- A group that contains elements of the same type: Homogenous
- A lady’s purse: Reticule
- A lady’s umbrella: Parasol
- A lover of books: Bibliophile
- A lover of food and drink: Gourmet
- A lover of others: Altruist
- A man of odd habits: Eccentric
- A man who dances to the tunes of his wife: Henpecked
- A masculine woman: Amazon
- A nation engaged in war: Belligerent
- A noisy turbulent kind of woman: Virago
- Apartner in crime: Accomplice
- A period of one thousand years: Millennium
- A person behind time: Antiquated
- A person free from infection: Immune
- A person with the same name as another: Namesake
- A person who comes to live in a country from some other country: Immigrant
- A person who is fond of fighting: Bellicose
- A person who keeps changing his opinions (P-04): Turncoat
- A person who wishes to throw his establishment: Anarchist
- A place for keeping bees (T-04): Apiary
- A place of good climate: Sanatorium
- A place of washing dishes adjoining kitchen: Scullery
- A place of shelter or refuge, or psychiatric hospital (P-04, 10): Asylum
- A place with gambling tables: Casino
- A place where prostitutes are available: Brothel
- A political leader who tries to get support by making false promises and using arguments based on emotion (P-09): Demagogue
- A printed note of someone’s death: Obituary
- A religious song: Hymn
- A remarkable talent: Prodigy
- A room for the display of works of art (P-05): Gallery
- A short but amusing story: Anecdote
- A short and clear description of something: Vignette
- A speech or piece of writing that praises someone: Panegyric
- A style full of words: Verbose
- A thing kept in the memory of a person: Memento
- A verse letter: Epistle
- A war of religion: Crusade
- A woman who lures men to destroy them: Circe
- A woman who has never married: Spinster
- A word no longer in use: Obsolete
- A written declaration as an oath: Affidavit
- Act of killing one’s wife: Uxoricide
- -Allowance given to wife on legal divorce: Alimony
- An animal story with a moral: Fable
- An army of soldiers on horse: Cavalry
- An instrument for viewing objects at a distance: Telescope
- An office for which high salary is paid (P-05): Sinecure
- An unknown person: Anonymous
- Animals living on land and in water: Amphibian
- Appointment by two parties to settle a dispute: Arbiter
- Art of cutting tree and bushes into ornamental shape: Topiary
- Award given after death: Posthumous
- Borrowing ideas and stealing other’s words is called (T-10) Plagiarism
- Care taker of a public building: Custodian
- Change one’s mind too quickly: Vacillation
- Congratulate somebody in formal manner:Felicitate
- Contempt of God: Blasphemy
- Creature having both male and female organs: Hermaphrodite
- Cure for all disease (P-2000, T-01, 04): Panacea
- Custom of having many husbands: Polyandry
- Custom of having many wives (P-04): Polygamy
- Dealing of counterfeit things: Forgery
- Disease which is spread by contact: Contagious
- Doctor who treats children: Pediatrician
- Doctor of heart diseases: Cardiologist
- Doctor old age diseases: Gerontologist
- Doctor of nerve diseases: Neurologist
- Doctor of eye diseases: Ophthalmologist
- Doctor of ear diseases: Otologist
- Doctor/Specialist in detecting the origin/nature of diseases: Pathologist
- Doctor in nose diseases: Rhinologist
- Doctor of mental aberrations: Psychiatrist
- Doctor/Specialist in treating crooked teeth: Orthodontist
- Doctor of women’s diseases: Gynaecologist
- Evening prayer in the church: Vesper
- Equal in rank: Peer hellow
- Fault that may be forgiven: Venial
- Favouring own kith and kin: Nepotism
- Fear of bathing: Ablutophobia
- Fear of becoming bald: Phalacrophobia
- Fear of being robbed: Harpaxophobia
- Fear of cockroaches: Katsaridaphobia
- Fear of crowd: Ochlophobia
- Fear of darkness: Lygophobia
- Fear of death: Nicrophobia
- Fear of dentist: Dentophobia
- Fear of disease: Pathophobia
- Fear of failure: Atychiphobia
- Fear of foreigners: Xenophobia
- Fear of God: Zeusophobia
- Fear of making decisions Decidophobia
- Fear of poverty Peniaphobia
- Fear of property. Onthophobia
- Fear of radiation: Radiophobia
- Fear of riding a car Amaxophobia
- Fear of school: Scolionophobia
- Fear of sex: Genophobia
- Fear of speaking: Lalophobia
- Fear of speed: Tachophobia
- Fear of water: Hydrophobia
- Foar of words: Logophobia
- Fear of high places: Acrophobia
- Fear of large, open spaces: A goraphobia
- Fear of Britain: Anglophobia
- Fear of lightning, thunder, and storm: Astraphobia
- Fear of books: Bibliophobia
- Fear of hands: Chirophobia
- Fear of small, narrow, or enclosed place: Claustrophobia
- Fear of work: Ergophobia
- Fear of crowds: Demophobia Ochlophobia
- Fear of trees: Dendrophobia
- Fear of the French: Francophobia
- Fear of Women: Gynephobia
- Fear of speaking: Lalophobia
- Fear of germs/contamination: Mysophobia
- Fear of darkness: Nyctophobia
- Fear of everything in general: Panophobia
- Fear of strong light: Photophobia
- Fear of feet: Podophobia
- Fear of children: Pedophobia
- Fear of horses: Hippophobia
- Fear of sinning: Peccatophobia
- Fear of speaking aloud: Phonophobia
- Fear of fire: Pyrophobia
- Fear of food: Sitophobia
- Fear of syphilis (sexually transmitted disease): Syphilophobia
- Fear of death: Thanatophobia
- Fear of being poisoned: Toxophobia
- Fear of strangers: Xenophobia
- Fear of animals: Zoophobia
- First speech: Maiden
- Food agrees with one’s taste: Puldiddle
- Funny imitation of a poem:Parody
- Giving up throne by the king: Abdication
- Go back and forth: Shuttle
- Government by a few people: Oligarchy
- Government by the nobles (T-09): Aristocracy
- Government by the rich: Plutocracy
- Government by a single person: Autocracy
- Government by the Gods: Theocracy
- Government by the officials: Bureaucracy
- Government by a dictator: Autocracy
- Government by old men: Gerontocracy
- Government by women: Gynecocracy
- Government by worst citizens: Kakistocracy
- -Government by mob: Mobocracy/Ochlocracy
- Government by new, inexperienced officials: Neocracy
- Government by all: Pantisocracy
- Government by a few people: Oligarchy
- Group of three novels: Trilogy
- Group of stars: Constellation
- Incapable of being wounded: Invulnerable
- In-charge of museum /Pitch: Curator
- Indifference to pleasure or pain: Stoicism
- Instruments which makes smaller objects larger: Microscope
- Intentional destruction of racial group: Genocide
- Interval between two events: Interlude
- Just punishment for wrong doing: Nemesis
- Killing of another human being: Homicide
- Killing of bees: Apicide
- Killing of pests: Pesticide
- Killing of one’s children: Filicide
- Killing of one’s father: Patricide
- Killing of a race of people: Genocide
- Killing of one’s parents: Parricide
- Killing of populations: Populicide
- Killing of one’s sister: Sororicide
- Killing of oneself: Suicide
- Killing of one’s wife: Uxoricide
- Language difficult to understand: Jargon
- Large scale departure of people: Exodus
- List of explanation of words: Glossary
- List of goods with their price: Invoice
- Longing for things that are past (T-09): Nostalgia
- Loop of rope is called: Noose
- Loud talk, speech or quarrel (P-09): Harangue
- Lover of books: Bibliophile
- Lover of children: Paedophile
- Lover of animals: Zoophile/Zoophilist
- Lover of vegetables: Vegetarian
- Lover of meat: Carnivore/Non-vegetarian
- Lover of human flesh: Cannibal
- Lover of grandeur: Megalomaniac
- Lover of War: Warmonger
- Lover of peace: Pacifist, Peace-loving
- Lover of food: Gourmet
- Lover of good taste in art, painting etc: Connoisseur
- Lover of travelling around the world: Globe-trotter
- Lover of self: Narcissist
- Made ordinary by overuse: Hackneyed
- Man having the qualities of woman (P-2000, 05): Effeminate
- Man of lax moral: Licentious
- Man whose wife has been unfaithful to him: Cuckold
- -Mania for setting fires: Pyromania
- Mania for stealing things: Kleptomania
- Mania for talking: Logomania
- Mania for travel: Dromomania
- Mania of being important: Megalomania
- Mania for rare books: bibliomania
- Mania for drinking alcohol: Dipsomania
- Mania for writing: Graphomania
- Mania for sexual desire in female: Nymphomania
- Mania/ delusion that one has become god: Theomania
- Medical examination of a dead body: Postmortem
- Medicine which lessens pain: Anodyne
- Member of a band of robbers: Brigand
- Morning prayer: Matin
- Murdering of a family: Familicide
- Murdering of an infant: Infanticide
- Murdering of Brother: Fratricide
- Murdering of husband by his wife: Mariticide
- Murdering of the king: Regicide
- Murdering of tyrant: Tyrannicide
- Next to, but not necessarily touching (T-05): Adjacent
- Old age when a man behaves like a fool: Dotage
- One who believes one is God: Theomania
- One who believes in God Motheis
- One who believes in my God Flytheist
- One who believes that Universe are the: Panther
- One who believes that everything is pre destined: Fatalist
- One who believes that pleasure is the chief good: Hedonist
- One who bunks the chess: Tran
- One who betrays one: Traitor
- One who cats vegetables, herbaceous plats (P-09): Herbivorous
- One who steals others ideas and words: Plagiarist
- One who can easily be deceived: Gullible
- One who cannot be corrected: Incorrigible
- One who can speak two languages: Bilingual
- One who can use either of his hands with ease: Ambidextrous
- One who champions the cause of women (P-05): Feminist
- One who claims to be skilled in medicine, but he his not: Quack
- One who collects coins: Numismatis
- One who comes from a village and considered stupid: Bumpkin
- One who compiles dictionary: Lexicographer
- One who cuts precious stones: Lapidist
- One who deserts his religion/faith: A postale
- One who does not believe in God: Atheist
- One who does not care for literature: Philistine
- One who does not respect something sacred or holy: Blasphemy
- One who does not take definite stand: Evasive
- One who draws maps and charts: Cartographer
- One who cats everything (P-09): Omnivorous
- One who eats human flesh: Cannibal
- One who fights for the sake of money (T-09): Mercenary
- One who forsakes religion: Renegade
- One who has many talents: Versatile
- One who has suddenly gained new wealth: Parvenu
- One who has unreasoning enthusiasm for the glorification of one’s country: Chauvinism
- One who hates knowledge and learning (T-03): Misologist
- One who hates mankind (T-05): Misanthrope
- One who hates the institution of marriage (P-09): Misogamist
- One who is bad in spelling: Cacographic
- One who is fond of collecting postage stamps: Philatelist
- One who is fond of company (P-09): Gregarious
- One who is guilty of firing property: Arsonist
- One who is hard to please: Fastidious
- One who is imaginative, or hopeful but unrealistic: Quixotic
- One who is more interested in himself: Introvert
- One who is more interested in others: Extrovert
- One who is more than a hundred years old: Centenarian
- One who is narrow and prejudiced in religious views: Bigot
- One who is neither intelligent nor dull: Mediocre
- One who is new to a profession: Novice
- One who is not the citizen of country (T-04): Alien
- One who is opposed to war (P-09): Pacifist
- One who is talkative: Garrulous
- One who is the most powerful: Omnipotent
- One who is unable to pay his debt: Bankrupt
- One who is very careful and particular:Meticulous
- One who is very well versed in music art or any subject: Connoisseur
- One who knows everything: Omniscient
- One who knows many languages: Linguist
- One who leaves his country to settle in another: Emigrant
- One who lends money at high rate: Usurer
- One who lives on flesh: Carnivorous
- One who lives/depends on others: Parasite
- One who looks at the bright side of things: Optimist
- One who looks at the dark side of things (P-09): Pessimist
- One who loves all and sundry: Philanthropist
- One who loves books: Bibliophile
- One who loves creating humour (T-10): Humorist
- One who passes through the gate without taking permission: Trespasser
- One who pays too much attention to his clothes and appearance: Dandy
- One who plays a game for pleasure not professionally: Amateur
- One who pretends illness to escape duty: Malingerer –
- One who reads only books: Bookworm
- One who relies on experience: Empiric
- One who runs away from the law: Fugitive
- One who sacrifices his life for country: Martyr
- One who sneaks into a country: Infiltrator
- One who speaks many languages: Polyglot
- One who speaks through puppets: Ventriloquist
- One who studies skin and its diseases: Dermatologist
- One who studies the formation of the earth: Geologist
- One who talks continuously: Loquacious
- One who thinks human nature is evil: Cynic
- One who totally abstain from alcohol P-2000, 09): Teetotaler
- One who travels from place to place: Itinerant
- One who treats female problems: Gynecologist
- One who tries to break traditional ideas or institutions: Iconoclast
- One who wants to see others unhappy: Sadist
- One who works in return for being taught the trade: Disciple
- One who works without rottin any salary: Honorary
- Original inhabitants of a country: Aborigines
- One whose attitude is to eat, drink and merry: Epicurean
- Opposing arguments: Rebut
- Paper written in one’s own handwriting: Manuscript
- Part of a church in which bells are hung: Belfry
- Part of a Government which is concerned with making of rules (P-04): Legislature
- People in rowdy scene: Rabble
- People belonging to the middle class – (P-09): Bourgeoisie
- Person different to pleasure and pain: Stoic
- Person obsessed with one idea or subject: Monomaniac
- Person pretending to be somebody he is not: Imposter
- Person who believes God is everything: Bantheist.
- Person who believes that the world can be made better by human efforts (P-13): A Meliorist
- Person who easily believes others (P-09): Credulous
- Person who does not believe in any religion: Pagan
- Person who enjoys sensuous enjoyments: Epicure
- Person who has long experience: Veteran
- Person who hates women: Misogynist
- Person who holds scholarship at a university: Bursar
- Person who is against ordinary society especially dressing: Hippy
- Person who is always dissatisfied: Malcontent
- Person who is made to bear the blame: Scapegoat
- Person who kill others for political reason: Assassin
- Person who lives alone and avoids other people (P- 10)Recluse
- Person who loves nature: Aesthere
- Person who makes love for amusement: Philanderer
- Person who pretends to have more knowledge (P- 05): Charlatan
- Person who regards the whole world as his country: Cosmopolitan
- Person with a beautiful handwriting: Calligrapher
- Person without manners: Rustic
- Persuasive and fluent speech: Eloquence
- Physician who delivers babies: Obstetrician
- Place where birds are kept (T-09): Aviary
- Place where cows are sheltered: Byre
- Place where govt. records are kept: Archives
- Place where women dwelled (Ancient time): Harem
- Place which provides both board and lodging: Inn
- Plants and vegetation: Flora
- Poem narrating a popular story: Ballad
- Poem written on the death of someone loved and lost: Elegy
- Policy of political party: Manifesto
- Power of reading thoughts of others: Telepathy
- Practice of one marriage: Monogamy
- Public building where weapons are made and stored: Arsenal
- Putting off for tomorrow what can be done today (P- 04): Procrastination
- Relationship by blood or birth: Consanguinity
- Responsible according to law: Legitimate
- Ride on someone else back: Piggyback
- Ridiculous use of words: Malapropisan
- Room leading into a large room: Anteroom
- Room with toilet facilities: Lavatory
- School for infants and children: Kindergarten
- Science of birds: Ornithology
- Scat on elephant’s back. Howdah
- Send unwanted person out of the country: Deport
- Set of facts systematically arranged in rows and columns (P-03) Table
- Short journey made by a group of persons together: Ercursion
- Short remaining end of cigarette: Stub
- Short walk for pleasure or exercise: Stroll
- Slow witted person Duffer
- Song sung at burial: Dirge
- Speech by an actor at the end of play Epilogue
- Speech without preparation (P-09, T-04) Extempore
- Stage between boyhood and youth: Adolescence
- Statement which cannot be understood: Incomprehensible
- Stories of old time Gods and heroes: Legend
- Story that cannot be believed: Incredible
- Study of ancient science: Archaeology
- Study of birds: Ornithologist
- Study of human body Anatomy
- Study of mankind: Anthropology
- Study of statistics of birth, death and diseases: Demography
- Sudden rush of winds: Gust
- That may cause death: Fatal
- That which cannot be changed or altered (P-04): Irrevocable
- That which stays for a long time (P-05): Durable
- The amount paid to a man for his work: Remuneration
- The art of effective speaking: Elocution
- The life history of a person written by himself (T-03): Autobiography
- The quality of being a spendthrift (T-10): Parsimony
- The scientific study of history and development of languages (P-13): Philology
- Thing incapable of being burnt: Incombustible
- Thing that bring gentle and painless death from incurable death: Euthanasia
- Thing that cannot be touched of felt: Palpable
- Thing that destroys the effect of poison: Antidote
- Thing through which light cannot pass: Opaque
- Thing which cannot be done without: Indispensable
- Things that can be seen and touched: Tangible
- Things that cannot be understood: Unintelligible
- Those who live at the same time (T-03): Contemporary
- To accustom oneself to a foreign climate: Acclimatize
- To do away with a rule: Abrogate
- To explain a spiritual truth: Parable
- To play a role in place of another person: Surrogate
- To spread troops for battle: Deploy
- Tumour which is not likely to spread: Benign
- Unexpected stroke of good luck: Windfall
- Using of new words: Neology
- Views which are not of one’s liking: Irritating
- Walking in sleep: Somnambulism
- Which cannot be rectified: Irreparable
- Woman who has extra marital relationship: Adultery
- inscribed on a tomb: Epitaph
- Work which involves too much official formalities (T-04): Red-Tapism