One Word Substitution Chapter 29

One Word Substitution

• Abattoir is a place where animals are killed for food.
• An Abbot is the head of a monastery or an abbey.
• Abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase, eg. "Engg." for Engineering.
• Abdication is the act of formally giving up or relinquishing a post.
• Ablution refers to the ritual washing of the body.
• Abstruse means something that is hard to understand.
• Abundance refers to a quantity that is more than enough.
• To accentuate means to give more force or importance to something.
• An accomplice is a partner in crime.
• An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, eg. "MP" for Member of Parliament.
• An addendum is something added at the end of a book, notification, etc.
• Advertisement is a public notice offering or asking for goods, services, etc.
• Afforestation refers to the act of forestation by planting many trees.
• Agenda refers to the items of business for consideration at a meeting.
• An aggressor is someone who attacks first.
• Agnosticism is a belief that is doubtful about the existence of God.
• An alien is someone who belongs to a different country, race, group, or planet.
• Alimony is an allowance fixed after divorce to a wife.
• An allegory is a story in which ideas are symbolized as people.
• Alliteration is the commencement of adjacent words with the same letter, eg. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."