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What is the term for the superior of a monastery?
What is the one word for 'The act of washing oneself'?
Which word means 'To shorten a piece of writing without losing the sense'?
What is the term that describes a wildly unreasonable, illogical, or ridiculous situation?
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Which word means 'to formally put an end to a system, practice, or institution'?
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What is the one word for 'Existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists'?
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What is the term for a person whose profession is to keep accounts?
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Which word means 'to go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere'?
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Study Notes
One Word Substitutions
General
- Abate means to become less intense or widespread
- Abdicate means to give up one's authority or throne
- Abolish means to formally put an end to a system, practice, or institution
- Accelerate means to increase the speed
- Abscond means to go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere
Places
- Abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food
- Monastery is a place where an Abbot is the superior
People
- Abbot is the superior of a monastery
- Accountant is a person whose profession is to keep accounts
- Accomplice is a person who helps another to commit a crime or to do something morally wrong
- Aborigines are the original inhabitants/natives of a country
Actions
- Abbreviation means to reduce to a shorter form intended to stand for the whole
- Abdication means the act of giving up (renouncing) the throne
- Aberration means a deviation from the right course
- Ablution means the act of washing oneself
- Abnegate means to refuse or deny oneself
- Abridge means to shorten a piece of writing without losing the sense
- Abrogate means to cancel or do away with (a law or agreement)
Characteristics
- Aboriginal means existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists
- Absurd means wildly unreasonable, illogical or ridiculous
- Accord means to be harmonious or consistent with
Miscellaneous
- Accolade means any award, honour or laudatory notice
- Absolution means formal forgiveness of a person's sins
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Test your vocabulary with this quiz on one word substitutions, covering words like abate, abdicate, abolish, and more!
