One Word Substitutions Quiz

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