ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
1. A person who loves money and hates spending it, is a
A. spendthrift B. miser C. philanthropist D. capitalist.
2. The family was known for its wealth and greatness of heart.
The word that can be used in the place of the underlined phrase is:
A. generosity B. courage C. affluence D. prestige
3. One word for ‘a person who has been appointed or selected to attend a conference’ is:
A. ambassador B. delegate C. representative D. messenger
4. A person who is slow in learning is termed as:
A. dullard B. bad C. lazy D. dunce.
5. A book with blank pages on which pictures or paper cuttings are stuck is known as a:
A. plain book B. paint book C. drawing book D. scrap book.
A FEW EXAMPLES
One who believes in the existence of God. - Theist
One who doesnot believe in the existence of God. - Atheist
A man who is not married - Bachelor
A woman who is not married - Spinster
A person who always looks at the brighter side of everything - Optimist
A person who always looks at the darker side of everything - Pessimist
A woman whose husband is dead - Widow
A man whose wife is dead - Widower
A child whose parents are dead - Orphan
A silly person - Goose
A person who lives a wandering life - Vagabond
Social position or rank - Status
Someone who knows a lot about the subject - Scholar
Deeply religious - Pious
A building in which monks live - Monastery
An instrument used to see distant objects - Telescope
A person who is slow to learn - Dunce
The path in which planets move - Orbit
A permit from an authority to own, use or do something - Licence
A person who has been appointed or selected to attend or speak at a conference - Delegate
One who does the scientific study of the sun, the moon, etc. - Astronomer
The study or practice of travelling through the air - Aeronautics
A person trained to travel in a spacecraft - Astronaut
A book with blank pages on which pictures or paper cutings are stuck - Scrapbook
Say a prayer in singing voice - Chant
Visit a place often - Haunt
Final release from rebirth - Deliverance
A person who loves money and hates spending it - Miser
An ugly woman - Hag
An animal that is cruel and dangerous - Beast
Skillful in inventing - Ingenious
Say publickly that something important is true - Proclaim
To be disloyal to someone who trusts you - Betray
Situation in which everything is happening in a confused way - Chaotic
A drink usually made from a mixture of one or more alcoholic drinks - Cocktail
A painting, drawing or photograph of a person especially of the head and shoulders - Portrait
A loose piece of clothing without sleeves - Mantle
To make someone angry - Provoke
Great mental or physical pain - Grieve
Height above sea level - Altitude
To shift people from a place of danger to a safer place - Evacuate
To cause to feel no pain - Numb
Men who work on shores loading unloading ships - Longshoremen
Name shared by all the members of a family - Surname
One who is very eager for knowledge and reads a lot - Voracious
That which cannot be satisfied - Insatiable
A flightless bird now extinct - Dodo
Storehouse for grains - Granary
Animals that live in a particular region - Fauna
A place in a house where food is kept - Storeroom
A person who belongs to another country - Foreigner
Study of ancient monuments and arts - Architecture
Science which deals with the study of living beings - Biology
Science of earth’s crust and the interior strata - Geology
The art of understanding the influence of heavenly bodies - Astrology
To seek protection from danger - Refuge
One who presides over the function - President
A man servant who serves at the table - Waiter
Waste material - Garbage
One who makes furniture - Carpenter
One who treats patients - Doctor
One who can read and write - Literate
A place where prisoners are kept - Jail / Gaol
One who does farming - Farmer
A poem of fourteen (14) lines - Sonnet
A book where you find meanings for words - Dictionary
A document with a code of laws which checks both ruler and ruled - Constitution
A period of one hundred years (100 years) - Century
A light pleasure boat - Yacht
Short stories with an element of moral - Fable
Red or yellow burning gas seen when something is on fire - Flame
A person who writes novels - Novelist
A document allowing persons to travel abroad - Passport
One who looks only at the darker side of life - Pessimist
One who looks at the brighter side of life - Optimist
A place where horses are kept - Stable
A type of small dog with a turned up nose - Pug
Remains of prehistoric animal or plant preserved by being buried in earth - Fossils
A place where meals are sold and eaten - Restaurant
Things given or received as gift - Present
A large number of people or animals suffering from
the same kind of disease at the sametime - Epidemic
A man who does not know how to read and write - Illiterate
One who travels in a space vehicle - Astronaut
A book giving inforamtion on all branches of knowledge - Encyclopaedia
Liquid waste that flows out from a factory - Effluents
A living creature that is so small that it cannot be seen
without a microscope and that may cause diseases - Microbe
Part of the earth where life is found - Biosphere
Government of the people, by the people and for the people - Democracy
The act of killing oneself - Suicide
Soldiers who fight on horse back - Cavalry
Soldiers who fight on foot - Infantry
Strong rush of air, rain, smoke etc. carried by wind - Gust
A person who uses his strength or power to frighten or hurt others - Bully
A part of a horse’s harness that goes on to its head - Briddle
A wild or half trained horse or bull - Bronco
A sudden rush of frightened animals - Stampede
Space or room which is immediately below the roof of a house - Attic
A person who has been found guilty and is being punished - Criminal
A person who does banking business - Banker
A mad person - Lunatic
A person who is incharge of keys of a prison - Turnkeys
A person in charge of a jail and the prisoners in it - Jailor
One who is unable to pay his debts - Bankrupt
Long hard journey especially on foot - Trek
Group of people living together - Community
A group of soldiers living in a town or a fort, and defending it - Garrison
Flesh eating animals - Carnivorous
Flesh and Vegetable eating animals - Omnivorous
Plants of a particular region - Flora
Government by small groups - Oligarchy
Storehouse of grains - Granary
Practice of talking too much about oneself - Egotism
A person who uses his strength to frighten weaker people - Bully
A person who flies an aeroplane - Pilot
Number of books housed in one building - Library
A person who studies Physics - Physicist
The act of killing oneself - Suicide
A place where meals are sold and bought - Restaurant
Story of one’s own life written by others - Biography
A mark remaining on the skin from a wound - Scar
Name shared by all the members of the family - Surname
A teacher of the highest rank in a university department - Professor
Making someone angry - Provocate
A person who flies an aircraft - Pilot
Difficulty in breathing - Suffocation
A sudden rush of frightened people or animals - Stampede
To shift people from a place of danger to a safer place - Evacuate
Government by small groups of people - Oligarchy
To make impure by mixing dirty and poisonous matter - Contaminate
Special quality not found anywhere else - Uniqueness
A book written by a person about his own life - Autobiography
A person who writes poems - Poet
Study of organisms in relation to their environment - Ecology
Name shared by all the members of a family - Surname
Group of people living together - Community
One who is very eager for knowledge - Voracious
One who believes in the existence of God. - Theist
One who doesnot believe in the existence of God. - Atheist
A man who is not married - Bachelor
A woman who is not married - Spinster
A person who always looks at the brighter side of everything - Optimist
A person who always looks at the darker side of everything - Pessimist
A woman whose husband is dead - Widow
A man whose wife is dead - Widower
A child whose parents are dead - Orphan
A silly person - Goose
A person who lives a wandering life - Vagabond
Social position or rank - Status
Someone who knows a lot about the subject - Scholar
Deeply religious - Pious
A building in which monks live - Monastery
An instrument used to see distant objects - Telescope
A person who is slow to learn - Dunce
The path in which planets move - Orbit
A permit from an authority to own, use or do something - Licence
A person who has been appointed or selected to attend or speak at a conference - Delegate
One who does the scientific study of the sun, the moon, etc. - Astronomer
The study or practice of travelling through the air - Aeronautics
A person trained to travel in a spacecraft - Astronaut
A book with blank pages on which pictures or paper cutings are stuck - Scrapbook
Say a prayer in singing voice - Chant
Visit a place often - Haunt
Final release from rebirth - Deliverance
A person who loves money and hates spending it - Miser
An ugly woman - Hag
An animal that is cruel and dangerous - Beast
Skillful in inventing - Ingenious
Say publickly that something important is true - Proclaim
To be disloyal to someone who trusts you - Betray
Situation in which everything is happening in a confused way - Chaotic
A drink usually made from a mixture of one or more alcoholic drinks - Cocktail
A painting, drawing or photograph of a person especially of the head and shoulders - Portrait
A loose piece of clothing without sleeves - Mantle
To make someone angry - Provoke
Great mental or physical pain - Grieve
Height above sea level - Altitude
To shift people from a place of danger to a safer place - Evacuate
To cause to feel no pain - Numb
Men who work on shores loading unloading ships - Longshoremen
Name shared by all the members of a family - Surname
One who is very eager for knowledge and reads a lot - Voracious
That which cannot be satisfied - Insatiable
A flightless bird now extinct - Dodo
Storehouse for grains - Granary
Animals that live in a particular region - Fauna
A place in a house where food is kept - Storeroom
A person who belongs to another country - Foreigner
Study of ancient monuments and arts - Architecture
Science which deals with the study of living beings - Biology
Science of earth’s crust and the interior strata - Geology
The art of understanding the influence of heavenly bodies - Astrology
To seek protection from danger - Refuge
One who presides over the function - President
A man servant who serves at the table - Waiter
Waste material - Garbage
One who makes furniture - Carpenter
One who treats patients - Doctor
One who can read and write - Literate
A place where prisoners are kept - Jail / Gaol
One who does farming - Farmer
A poem of fourteen (14) lines - Sonnet
A book where you find meanings for words - Dictionary
A document with a code of laws which checks both ruler and ruled - Constitution
A period of one hundred years (100 years) - Century
A light pleasure boat - Yacht
Short stories with an element of moral - Fable
Red or yellow burning gas seen when something is on fire - Flame
A person who writes novels - Novelist
A document allowing persons to travel abroad - Passport
One who looks only at the darker side of life - Pessimist
One who looks at the brighter side of life - Optimist
A place where horses are kept - Stable
A type of small dog with a turned up nose - Pug
Remains of prehistoric animal or plant preserved by being buried in earth - Fossils
A place where meals are sold and eaten - Restaurant
Things given or received as gift - Present
A large number of people or animals suffering from
the same kind of disease at the sametime - Epidemic
A man who does not know how to read and write - Illiterate
One who travels in a space vehicle - Astronaut
A book giving inforamtion on all branches of knowledge - Encyclopaedia
Liquid waste that flows out from a factory - Effluents
A living creature that is so small that it cannot be seen
without a microscope and that may cause diseases - Microbe
Part of the earth where life is found - Biosphere
Government of the people, by the people and for the people - Democracy
The act of killing oneself - Suicide
Soldiers who fight on horse back - Cavalry
Soldiers who fight on foot - Infantry
Strong rush of air, rain, smoke etc. carried by wind - Gust
A person who uses his strength or power to frighten or hurt others - Bully
A part of a horse’s harness that goes on to its head - Briddle
A wild or half trained horse or bull - Bronco
A sudden rush of frightened animals - Stampede
Space or room which is immediately below the roof of a house - Attic
A person who has been found guilty and is being punished - Criminal
A person who does banking business - Banker
A mad person - Lunatic
A person who is incharge of keys of a prison - Turnkeys
A person in charge of a jail and the prisoners in it - Jailor
One who is unable to pay his debts - Bankrupt
Long hard journey especially on foot - Trek
Group of people living together - Community
A group of soldiers living in a town or a fort, and defending it - Garrison
Flesh eating animals - Carnivorous
Flesh and Vegetable eating animals - Omnivorous
Plants of a particular region - Flora
Government by small groups - Oligarchy
Storehouse of grains - Granary
Practice of talking too much about oneself - Egotism
A person who uses his strength to frighten weaker people - Bully
A person who flies an aeroplane - Pilot
Number of books housed in one building - Library
A person who studies Physics - Physicist
The act of killing oneself - Suicide
A place where meals are sold and bought - Restaurant
Story of one’s own life written by others - Biography
A mark remaining on the skin from a wound - Scar
Name shared by all the members of the family - Surname
A teacher of the highest rank in a university department - Professor
Making someone angry - Provocate
A person who flies an aircraft - Pilot
Difficulty in breathing - Suffocation
A sudden rush of frightened people or animals - Stampede
To shift people from a place of danger to a safer place - Evacuate
Government by small groups of people - Oligarchy
To make impure by mixing dirty and poisonous matter - Contaminate
Special quality not found anywhere else - Uniqueness
A book written by a person about his own life - Autobiography
A person who writes poems - Poet
Study of organisms in relation to their environment - Ecology
Name shared by all the members of a family - Surname
Group of people living together - Community
One who is very eager for knowledge - Voracious
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