One Word Substitution
Definition
One word substitution is the use of one word in place of a word phrase in order to make the sentence structure clearer. The meaning, with the replacement of the phrase, remains identical while the sentence becomes shorter.
A person who is fond of fighting.
Bellicose
A person who believes in the existence of God.
Theist
A person who does not believe in the existence of God.
Atheist
A person who is very fond of sensuous enjoyment.
Epicure
One who does not know reading and writing.
Illiterate
A person who grows crops.
Farmer
One with long experience in any field.
Veteran
Consent of all.
Unanimous
One who entirely depends on another.
Parasite
Goods sent from one country to another for trade.
Export
Goods received by one country from another for trade.
Import
Murder of one’s own self.
Suicide
Murder of murderer of man.
Homicide
Murder or murderer of an infant.
Infanticide
Murder of murderer of one’s mother.
Matricide
Murder or murderer of one’s father.
Patricide
Murder on the murderer of one’s brother.
Fratricide
A disease that spreads through air and water.
Infectious
Items of business for consideration at a meeting.
Agenda
A diplomatic representative of one country in another.
Ambassador
A remedy for all kinds of diseases or troubles.
Panacea
A plane figure with eight sides and angles.
Octagon
A plane figure with five sides and angles.
Pentagon
A plane figure with six sides and angles.
Hexagon
A succession of rules belonging to one family.
Dynasty.
A person, plant, or animal who is below the usual size.
Dwarf
One word substitution
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession.
Amateur
One who assumes a character or title not his own to deceive.
Impostor
One who depends on and believes in fate.
Fatalist
A lady’s umbrella.
Parasol
A person chosen by quarreling parties to settle their differences.
Arbitrator arbiter
A person who looks upon the bright side of things.
Optimist
A person who looks upon the dark side of things.
Pessimist
A child whose parents are dead.
Orphan
The man who does not eat meat.
Vegetarian
One who can eat meat preparations.
Non-vegetarian.
One who eats too much.
Glutton
A speech or a poem recited at the end of the play.
Epilogue
Speaking aloud while alone.
Soliloquy
A play or dramatic performance in verse, with music, dance, and fine costumes.
Masque
Evening prayer in the church.
Vesper
Belts rang in the church in the evening.
Curfew
An office for which salary is paid.
Honorary
Persons working in the same department.
Colleagues
A government by one person.
Autocracy
A government by the nobles.
Aristocracy
A government by the officials.
Bureaucracy
The skill and policy of a country’s statement ad politicians.
Diplomacy
Animals that live in water.
Aquatic
Animals that can live both on land and in water.
Amphibian
Animals that live in flocks.
Gregarious
One knows many languages.
Linguist
A word or custom which is no longer in use.
Obsolete
The matter is written by hand.
Manuscript
The life-history of a man written by himself.
Autobiography
The life-history of man written by himself.
Biography.
The science of animal life.
Zoology
The science of vegetable life.
Botany
The science of earth’s history and rocks.
Geology
The state of being unmarried (of a man).
Bachelorhood
The state of being unmarried of a girl.
Maidenhood
The custom of having two wives or two husbands at a time.
Bigamy
The custom of more than two wives at the same time.
Polygamy
A woman whose husband is dead.
Widow
A man whose wife is dead.
Widower
Yearly return of the day of an event.
Anniversary
That which happens once in a year.
Annual
Present everywhere (god).
Omnipresent
That which can be seen through.
Transparent
A lover of womankind.
Philogynist
Hater womankind.
Misogynist
He who works for the welfare of woman.
Feminist
Feminist A lover of one’s own self.
Egoist
A lover of others.
Altruist
One who dies for a noble cause.
Martyr
Words that are inscribed on the grave.
Epitaph
Fit to be chosen; qualified.
Eligible
That which cannot be read.
Illegible
A person who leaves his own country and goes to live in another.
Emigrant
Movement from one country to another.
Migrant
One who lives in a country without citizenship.
Alien
One who commits the first act attack, offense, or hostility.
Aggressor
To give up a throne.
Abdicate
The offense of kidnapping a person.
Abduction
Wandering from the right course.
Aberration
One who helps a criminal in carrying out his evil design.
Abettor
Power of doing something.
Ability
To be or have in plenty.
Abound
A wound on the skin by scraping.
Abrasion
Away from one’s own country.
Abroad
To fly from the law; to go away secretly.
Abscond
Not thinking about what one is doing.
Absent-minded, forgetful
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