One-Word Substitutions Quiz

One-Word Substitutions

• Truant: A person who stays away from school without permission
• Impunity: Without risk of punishment
• Intermediary: One who intervenes between two or more parties to settle differences
• Pensive: Deep in thought
• Renegade: One who breaks the established traditions and image or believes and principles
• Bibliophile: One who loves books
• Epilogue: A short poem or speech addressed to the spectators after the conclusion of a drama
• Diatribe: A bitter and violent attack in words against someone or something
• Gesture: Motion of heads, hands etc., as a mode of expression indicating attitude

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Iconoclast: One who believes that gaining pleasure is the most important thing in life
• Hedonist: One who believes that gaining pleasure is the most important thing in life
• Inheritance: Property handled down after the death of a person
• Nomenclature: A system of naming things
• Misogynist: One who hates women
• Ambidextrous: Able to use right hand and left hand equally well
• Ambiguous: Capable of being interpreted in two ways
• Fanatic: One who has narrow and prejudiced religious views
• Introspect: The action of looking within or into one’s own mind

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Hijack: To seize a vehicle (such as an airplane) by force, in order to steal it, or demand something
• Repatriate: Send or bring somebody back to his own country
• Native: Animals that live in a particular region
• Extempore: A speech made without preparation
• Podium: A speaker’s platform
• Cartography: Science of practice of map drawing
• Incentive: Motive or incitement to action
• Jaunt: A short trip or excursion
• Inaudible: Speech that is not audible

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Accomplice: Partner in crime
• Florist: One who deals in flower
• Polygamist: A man who has more than one wife at a time
• Vegetarian: One who eats no animal flesh
• Widow: A woman whose husband is dead
• Mythophobia: Fear of telling lies
• Inevitable: That which cannot be avoided
• Renditi: Artistic, musical or dramatic interpretation

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Emigrant: A person who leaves his own country in order to go and live in another
• Chauffeur: A person employed as a car driver for an important person
• Claustrophobia: Fear of closed- dark places
• Horizon: The line where the land and sky seems to meet
• Illegible: Handwriting that cannot be read
• Epitaph: Words written on a tomb of a dead person
• Downpour: A heavy continuous fall of rain

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Recluse: A person who lives by himself
• Congregation: An assembly of worshippers
• Criterion: A principle or standard by which anything is or can be judged
• Egoist: A person who is self-centered
• Rancid: Having a stale smell or taste
• Penchant: A special fondness or liking for something
• Biodegradable: Material that changes naturally by the action of bacteria
• Oligarchy: Government by the few
• Speleology: Study of caves

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Pseudonym: A fictitious name especially one assumed by an author
• Obsolescent: Passing out of use
• Omnivorous: Animals that eat flesh
• Soliloquy: The act of speaking about one’s thoughts when one is alone
• Modus Operandi: The way someone does something

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Somnambulism: Walking in sleep
• Prim: Showing a dislike of anything improper
• Greenhouse: A structure where plants can be grown although it is cold outside
• Antidote: A medicine or other substance that stops or reduces the harmful effects of a poison
• Brittle: Liable to be easily broken
• Trilogy: A set of three related works by the same author

One-Word Substitutions (Continued)

• Psychology: Science of Human mind and behaviour
• Waybill: A list of passengers and luggage
• Lunar: Related to the moon
• Taxidermy: The art of preserving skin of animals, birds and fish
• Manuscript: A paper written by hand
• Brewery: A place where wine is made
• Universal: Found all over the world
• Souvenir: Something kept as a reminder of an event
• Fatal: Causing or ending in death
• Fable: An animal story with a moral
• Archaeology: The study of ancient civilizations
• Contagious: A disease that is spread by direct contact
• Delegate: To give one’s authority to another
• Choir: A body of singers
• Brittle: A thing likely to be easily broken
• Nomenclature: A system of naming things
• Calligraphy: A decorative handwriting
• Fastidious: A person difficult to please
• Bevy: A group of girls
• Cocktail: A drink usually made from a mixture of one or more alcoholic drinks