IMPORTANT ONE WORD SUBSTITUTIONS

IMPORTANT ONE WORD SUBSTITUTIONS

A country ruled by two country	Condominium
A  dramatic performance	Masque
A lady’s purse	Reticule
A man of odd habits	Eccentric
A man who dances to the tunes of his wife	Henpecked
A nation engaged in war	Belligerent
A person behind time	Antiquated
A person who wishes to throw his establishment	Anarchist
A place of good climate	Sanatorium
A place of washing dishes adjoining kitchen	Scullery
A religious song	Hymn
A remarkable talent	Prodigy
A short but amusing story	Anecdote
A verse letter	Epistle
Act of killing one’s wife	Uxoricide
An animal story with a moral	Fable
An instrument for viewing objects at a distance	Telescope
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
At the same time	Contemporary
Award given after death	Posthumous
Borrow ideas and steal others words is called	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	Panacea
Custom of having many husbands	Polyandry
Custom of having many wives	Polygamy
Dealing of counterfeit things	Forgery
Disease which is spread by contact	Contagious
Doctor who treats children	Pediatrician
Equal in rank	Peer
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 going to bed	Clinophobia
Fear of height	Acrophobia
Fear of making decisions	Decidophobia
Fear of poverty	Peniaphobia
Fear of property	Orthophobia
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
Fear of words	Logophobia
First speech	Maiden
Food agrees with one’s taste	Palatable
Funny imitation of a poem	Parody
Giving up throne by the king	Abdication
Go back and forth	Shuttle
Government by a single person	Autocracy
Government by the Gods	Theocracy
Government run by a dictator	Autocracy
Group of three novels	Trilogy
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
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 something	Nostalgia
Loop of rope is called	Noose
Loud talk or speech	Harangue
Man having the qualities of woman	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	Logo mania
Mania for travel	Dromomania
Mania of being important	Megalomania
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
Old age when a man behaves like a fool	Dotage
One who believes one is God	Theo mania
One who believes that everything is pre-destined	Fatalist
One who believes that pleasure is the chief good	Hedonist
One who betrays one	Traitor
One who collects coins	Numismatist
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	Apostate
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 eats everything	Omnivorous
One who eats human flesh	Cannibal
One who fights for the sake of money	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	Misologist
One who is bad in spelling	Cacographic
One who is guilty of firing property	Arsonist
One who is more interested in himself	Introvert
One who is more interested in others	Extrovert
One who is neither intelligent nor dull	Mediocre
One who is not the citizen of country	Alien
One who is talkative	Garrulous
One who is the most powerful	Omnipotent
One who is very careful and particular	Meticulous
One who is very well versed in any subject	Connoisseur
One who lends money at high rate	Usurer
One who loves all and sundry	Philanthropist
One who loves books	Bibliophile
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 sacrifices his life for country	Martyr
One who sneaks into a country	Infiltrator
One who speaks many languages	Polyglot
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	Teetotaler
One who travels from place to place	Itinerant
One who treats female problems	Gynecologist
One who wants to see others unhappy	Sadist
One who works in return for being taught the trade	Disciple
One who works without getting any salary	Honorary
One whose attitude is to eat, drink and merry	Epicurean
Opposing arguments	Rebut
Out of date things	Obsolescent
Paper written in one’s own handwriting	Manuscript
Part of a church in which bells are hung	Belfry
People in rowdy scene	Rabble
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	Ban theist
Person who believes others	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	Recluse
Person who loves nature	Aesthete
Person who makes love for amusement	Philanderer
Person who pretends to have more knowledge	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	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
Public building where weapons are made and stored	Arsenal
Responsible according to law	Legitimate
Ride on someone else back	Piggyback
Ridiculous use of words	Malapropism
Room leading into a large room	Anteroom
Room with toilet facilities	Lavatory
School for infants and children	Kindergarten
Seat on elephant’s back	Howdah
Send unwanted person out of the country	Deport
Short journey made by a group of persons together	Excursion
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	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
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
To do away with a rule	Abrogate
To explain a spiritual truth	Parable
To spread troops for battle	Deploy
Tumor 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
Work which involves too much official formalities	Red-Tapism