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One word substitution

one who is against the


Heretic
religion
One who eats human
Cannibal
flesh
One who lives at the
Contemporary
same time
One who is more than a
Centenarian
hundred years old
One who is given to
Epicure
pleasure of the flesh
One who lives on others Parasite
ONE WHO IS A
SOTTOPER
HABITUAL DRUNKED
ONE WHO IS SETTLES IN
IMMIGRANT
ANOTHER COUNTRY
ONE WHO KNOWS
POLYGOT
MANY LANGUAGES
ONE WHO DEALS IN
DROVER
CATTLE
ONE WHO CUTS
LAPIDIST(LAPIDARY)
PRECIOUS STONES
ONE WHO CURE EYE
OCULIST
DISEASE
ONE WHO SELLS
CONFECTIONER
SWEETS AND PASTRIES
ONE WHO LOADS AND
STEVEDORE
UNLOADS SHIPS
ONE WHO RETIRES
FROM SOCITY TO LIVE A
RECLUSE
SOLITARY
LIFE
ONE WHO PRETENDS
HYPOCRITE
TO BE WHAT HE IS NOT
A PROFESSIONAL RIDER
JOCKEY
IN HORSE RACES
A NUMBER OF SHEEPS FLOCK
A COLLECTION OF
BUNTING
FLAGS
A NUMBER OF STARS
CONSTELLATION
GROUNDED TOGETHER
THE HOUSE OF AN
DOWAR
ARAB
A FACTORY FOR
MANUFACTURING OF BREWERY
BEERS
A PLACE FOR THE
COLLECTION OF DRIED HERBARIUM
PLANTS
A CASE IN WHICH THE
SHEATH
SWORD IS KEPT
FREE FROM INFECTION IMMUNE
THE DEAD BODY OF A
CARACASS
ANIMAL
THE SCIENCE OF
CHROMATICS
COLOURS
THE SCIENCE OF THE
STRUCTURE OF HUMAN ANATOMY
BODY
THE ART OF EFFECTIVE
ELOCUTION
SPEKING
THE STUDY OF ROCKS
GEOLOGY
AND SOILS
THE STUDY OF
ORALOGY
MOUNTAINS
THE STUDY OF
PHILOLOGY
LANGUAGES
THE STUDY OF THE
ORIGIN AND HISTORY ETYMOLOGY
OF WORDS
THE STUDY OF ANCIENT PALEOGRAPHY
WRITING
THE ART OF
TAXIDERMY
PRESERVING SKIN

THE PERIOD BETWEEN


INTERREGNUM
TWO REIGNS
A COUNCIL OF
SYNOD
CLERGYMEN
THE CEREMONY AT
WHICH A MAN ORDINATION
BECOMES A PRIEST
VIOLITING RELIGIOUS
SACRILIEGE
THINGS
ONE WHO
INTOLERANTLY
DEVOTED TO A BIGOT
PARTICULAR
CREED
ENGAGED TO BE
BETRODTED
MARRIED
AN INSTRUMENT FOR
RECODING THE
GYROSCOPE
REVOLUTIONS OF
THE EARTH
A POEM OF MOURNING ELEGAY
A HOLLOW SPACE IN A
NICHE
WALL FOR A STUATE
LANGUAGES THAT HAS
HACKNEYED
BEEN VERY MUCH USED
CURRECT SPELLING ORTHOGRAPHY
SANCTUM,SANCTORU
A VERY PRIVATE ROOM
M
A PLACE WHERE MAD
LUNATIC
MEN ARE KEPT
KILLING ONES FATHER PATRICIDE
A MEDICINE THAT LAXATIVE
LOOSENS THE BOWELS
A SPEECH MADE TO
SOLILOQUY
ONESELF
SEPARATION FROM
OTHER PEOPLE TO QUARANTINE
AVOID INFECTION
AN IMAGINARY IDEAL UTOPIA
A THING KEPT IN
MEOMORY OF AN SOUVENIR
EVENT
COMMON PLACE
PLATITUDES
REMARKS
BELIEF OF GOD IN
PANTHEISM
NATURE
INCAPABLE OF BEING
INCOMBUSTIBLE
BURNT
A PERSON SUFFERING
FROM NERVOUS NEUROTIC
BREAKDOWN
AN INSTRUNMENT FOR
MANOMETER
MEASURING GASES
AN EXAGGERATED
HYPERBOLE
STATEMENT
ONE WHO IS
COMPLACENT
COMPLETELY SATISFIED
SIMPLE AND EASILY
GULLIBLE
DECEIVED
ONE WHO HAS
DELUSIONS OF ONES MEGALOMANIAC
GRANDEUR
ONE WHO FLAUNTS
NEWLY ACQUIRED PARVENU
WEALTH
WEARINESS OF AND
SADNESS FOR LIFE AND WELTSCHMERZ
WORLD
BOREDOM AND ENNUI
FRUSTRATION IN LIFE
SHY,TIMID , UNWILLING
DIFFIDENT
TO FACE A SITUATION
ONE WHO IS
CHVALROUS,IDEALISTIC QUIXOTIC
AND UNPRACTICAL
ONE WHO IS GRAVE
SATURNINE
AND GLOOMY
THE ACT OF ENJOYING
OR HAVING AN
VICARIOUSLY
EXPERIENCE
INDIRECTLY
THE TENDENCY TO
POSTPONE THINGS FOR PROCRASTINATION
FUTURE

TO RELAX IN A
COUNTRYSIDE FAR
RUSTICATE
AWAY FROM THE
HUMDRUM OF TOWN
TO SPEND LIFE
WITHOUT PURPOSE VEGETATE
AND INTITATIVE
A GIRL WHO FLIRTS
COQUETTLE
EGREGIOUSLY
A WOMEN WHO LURES
MEN TO DESTROY CIRCE
THEM
A TALL
STRONG,MASCULINE AMAZON
KIND OF WOMEN
A LOUD-MOUTHED
TURBULENT KIND OF VIRAGO
WOMEN
A TRAITOR WHO CAN
JUDAS
SEL OUR EVEN HIS
FIRENDS
UNDERSTANDING
WITHOUT THE
EMPATHY
INTERFERENCE OF
FEELINGS
AN EMBARRASSING
A FAUX PAS
MISTAKE
A MEDLEY OR
HETEROGENOUS
POTPOURRI
MIXTURE OF GREAT
VARIETY
A SLANG OF THE
ARGOT
UNDERWORLD
A LANGUAGE OF
PATOIS
SPECIAL GROUP
THE ASCRIBING OF
HUMAN MOTIVATION,
CHARACTERUSTICS IFR
ANTHROPORMORPHIS
BEHAVIOUR TO
M
INANMATE
OBJECTS, ANIMAL OR
NATURAL PHENOMENA
A PAYMENT TO LEGALY
BINDNG BUT FOR
WHICH SOME EX GRATIA
MORAL OBLIGATION IS
FELT
A WASHING OR
CLEANSING OF THE
BODY ESPECIALLY IN ABLUTION
A RELIGIOUS
CEREMONY
SOMETHING PERFECTLY
IMMACULATE
NEAT AND TIDY
A TREATISE ON ONE
MONOGRAPH
SUBJECT
THE GROUP ESPECIALLY AVANT-GRADE
IN THE ARTS REGARDED
A
BEING THE MOST
EXPERIMENT
AN OFFICIAL BULLETIN COMMUNIQUE
A PASSAGE WITH ONLY
CUL-DE-SAC
ONE END
THE ART OF PAINTING
FRESCO
ON A PLASTER SURFACE
A RECORD OR TABLE
SHOWING THE DESCENT
GENEALOGY
OF A
PERSON OR A FAMILY
A CONNOISSEUR OF
GOURMENT
FOOD AND DRINK
A PERSON OR THING
THAT GOES BEFORE
AND
HARBINGER
ANNOUNES THE
COMING OF
SOMETHHING
A PERSISTENT ANXIETY
ABOUT ONES HEALTH
USUALLY HYPOCHONDRIA
INVOLVING IMAGINED
SYMPTOMS OF ILLINESS
AN ODD,A TYPICAL OR
IDIOSYNCRASY
ECCENTRIC TRAIT
TO COMENASATE A
PERSON ETC. FOR LOSS LINDEMNIFY
OR DAMAGE
A PLAN FOR OR ROUTE
TO BE FOLLOWED ON A ITINERARY
JOURENY

A GROUP OF PEOPLE JUNTA


WHO BAND TOGETHER
FOR SOME
SECRET PURPOSE
ESPECIALLY FOR
POLITICAL INTRIGUE
A SHORT JOURENY FOR
JAUNT
PLEASEURE
A SWIFTLY CHANGING
KALEIDOSCOPE
SCENE OR PATTERN
A WRITTEN ATTACK
USING HUMOUR TO
LAMPOON
PROVOKE
CONTEMPT
A FALSE WRITTEN
STATEMENT TO
LIBEL
DAMAGE A PERSONS
REPUTE
A PHARSE R SENTENCE
THAT IS COMICAL OR
NONCENSICAL BECAUSE
THE SPEAKER USED A
MALAPROPISM
WRONG
WOEK THAT SOUNDED
SOMETHING LIKE A
RIGHT WORD
A FULLSIZE MODEL OF A
COMPLETE OF PATIAL
MANNEQUIN /DUMMY
HUMAN
FIGURE
PERASONAL
REMINISCENCES IN A MEMOIR
NARRATIVE FROM
A LONG WANDERING
ODYSSEY
JOURNEY
A SPEECH OR WRITING
PRASING A PERSON OR PANEGYRIC
A THING
A LOVER SPECIALLY ONE
WHO UNLAWFULLY
TAKES THE PARAMOUR
POSITION OF A WIFE OR
A HUSBAND
AN EXPERESSION OF
THE POPULAR WILL
CONCERNING
SOME IMPORTANT PLEBISCITE
QUESTIONS GIVEN BY A
DIRECT VOTE
OF THE PEOPLE
A PORTRAIT OF A
PERSON WITH ONLY
SILHOUETTE
THE OUTLINE OF
THE PROFILE
CAUSING OR TENDING
SOPORIFIC
TO CAUSE SLEEP
A SUBSUTUTE SURROGATE
EXSISTING ONLY IN
TITULAR
NAME
A SHORT LITERARY
DESCRIPTION MARKED VIGNETTE
BY DELICACY
A LONG JOURENY
VOYAGE
ESPECIALLY BY SEA
A PERSON WHO
ANTAGONSIT
OPPOSES ANOTHER
A PERSON WHO IS VERY
SELECTIVE DISGUSTED
FASTIDIOUS
EASILY
AND IS HARD TO PLEASE
SOMETHING THAT CAN
INVIOLATE
NOT BE HARMED
FEAR OF CROWDS OCLOPHOBIA
A FUNERAL BELL KNELL
A PERSON WHO IS PURE IMMACULATE
AND CLEAN
A PERSON WHO IS
FILLED WITH EXCESSIVE EXTROVERT
ENTHUSIASM
A PERSON WHO OS BAD
CACAOGRAPHIST
IN SPELLING
A PERSON CLAMING TO
BE SUPERIOR IN
HIGHBROW
CULTURE AND
INTELLECT TO OTHERS

A PERSON LEAVING HIS


NATIVE COUNTRY TO
EMIGRANT
SETTLE IN
ANOTHER
A PERSON HAVING THE
NAMESAKE
SAME NAME
A PERSON WHO IS
GARRULOUS
TALKTIVE
SOMETHING THAT
CANNOT BE TAKEN INALIENABEL
AWAY
ONE WHO TRAVELS
TRAMP
FROM PLACE TO PLACE
TO MOVE ALONG WITH
QUICK SHORT
WRIGGLE
TWISTING
ACTIONS
BE THE EMODIMENT OR
CHARACTERISE
PERFERCT EXAMPLE OF
ONE WHO DERSERTS
APOSTATE
HIS RELIGION
CUSTOM OF HAVING
POLYGAMY
MANY WIVES
PERSON WHO BELIVES
PANTHEIST
THAT GOD IS
EVERYTHING AND
EVEYTING IS GOD
RELATIONSHIP BY
CONSANGUINITY
BLOOD OR BIRTH
BELIEF OR OPINION
CONTRARY TO WHAT IS
HERESY
GENERALLY
ACCEPTED
A COUNTRY RULED BY
CONDOMUNIUM
TWO COUNTRY
A LADYS PURSE RETICULE
A RELIGIOUS SONG HYMN
A VERSE LETTER EPISTLE
A ANIAML STORY WITH
FABLE
MORAL
ART OF CUTTING TREE
AND BUSHES INTO
TOPIARY
ORNAMENTAL
SHAPE
CHANGE ONES MIND
VACILLATION
TWO QUICKLY
CONGRULATIONS SOME
ONE IN FORMAL FELICATATE
MANNER
CREATURE HAVINGH
BOTH MALE AND HERMAPHRODITE
FEMALE ORGANS
EQUAL IN RANK PEER
FAULT THAT MAY BE
VENIAL
FORGIVEN
FEAR OF BECOMING
PHALACROPHOBIA
BLAD
Aglophobia/odynopho
Fear of pain
bia
Fear of getting fat
makes young girl stop Anorexia
eating resulting
in harmful effect
Fear of males Androphobia
Fear of ugliness Cacophobia
Fear of doctors Catrophobia
Fear of depths Bathopobia
Fear of dogs Cynophobia
Extreme fear of beauty Cellophobia
Fear of thirst Dipsophobia

Morbid compulsion of
Dipsomania
drink
Fear of work Ergophobia
Fear of marriage Gamophobia
Fear of birth Genophobia
Fear of old age Geraphobia
Fear of writing Graph phobia
Fear of pleasure Hedonophobia
Fear of travel Hydrophobia
Fear of women Gynophobia
Fear of getting fat Lipophobia
Fear of childbirth Maieusiphobia
Fear of snakes Ophiopobia
FEAR OF BEING ROBBED HARPAXOPHOBIA
FEAR OF COCKROACHES KATSARIDAPHOBIA
Fear of darkness Nyctophobia
Fear of ghosts Phasmophobia
Fear of deaths Thanatophobia
Fear of numbers Triskaidekaphobia
FEAR OF DARK LYGOPHOBIA
FEAR OF FAILURE ATYCHIPHOBIA
FEAR OF GOD ZEUSOPHOBIA
FEAR OF GOING TO BED CLINOPHOBIA
FEAR OF POVERTY PENIAPHOBIA
FEAR OF PROPERTY ORTHOPHOBIA
FEAR OF RIDING A CAR AMAXOPHOBIA
FEAR OF SEX XENOPHOBIA
FEAR OF SPEED LALOPHOBIA
FEAR OF WORDS LOGOPHOBIA
FUNNY IMITATION OF A
PARODY
POEM
GIVING UP THRONE BY
ABDICATION
THE KING
GO BACK AND FORTH SHUTTLE
GROUP OF THREE
TRILOGY
NOVALS
LANGUAGE DIFFICULT
JARGON
TO UNDERSTAND
LIST OF EXPLANTATION GLOSSARY
LOUD TALK OR SPEECH HARANGUE
MAN HAVING THE
EFFEMINATE
WOMANS QUALLITY
MAN OF LAX MORAL LICENTIOUS
MAN WHOSE WIFE IS
CUCKOLD
UNFAITHFUL TO HIM
MANIA FOR TRAVEL DROMOMANIA

MANIA OF BEING
MEGALOMANIA
IMPORTANT
MEDICINE WHICH
ANODYNE
LESSENS PAIN
MORNING PRAYER MATIN
OLD AGE WHEN A MAN
DOTAGE
BEHAVE LIKE A FOOL
ONE WHO COMES
FROM A VILLAGE AND
BUMPKIN
CONSIDERED
STUPID
ONE WHO FIGHTS FOR
MERCENARY
MONEY
ONE WHO FORSAKES
RENEGADE
RELIGION
ONW WHO IS GUILTY ARSONIST
OF FIRING PROPERTY
ONE WHO IS VERY
CAREFUL AND METICULOUS
PARTICULAR
ONE WHO PAYS TOO
MUCH ATTENTION TO
DANDY
HIS CLOTHS
AND APPEARANCE
ONW WHO PRETENDS
ILLNESS TO ESCAPE MALINGERER
DUTY
ONE WHO TALKS
LOQUACIOUS
CONTINUOUSLY
ONE WHO WORKS IN
RETURN FOR BEING
DISCIPLE
TAUGHT THE
TRADE
ONE WHOSE ATTITUDE
IS TO EAT, DRINK AND EPICUREAN
MERRY
PEOPLE IN ROWDY
RABBLE
SCENCE
PERASON OBSESSED
WITH ONE IDEA OR MONOMANIIAC
SUBJECT
PERSON WHO DOES
NOT BELIEVE IN ANY PAGAN
RELIGION
PERSON WHO HOLDS
SCHOLARSHIP AT A BURSAR
UNIVERSITY
PERSON WHO IS
AGAINST THE
HIPPY
ORDINARY SOCIETY ESP.
DRESSING
PERSON WHO IS
MALCONTENT
ALWAYS DISSATISFIED
PERSON WHO LIVES
ALONE AND AVOID RECLUSE
OTHERS
PERSON WHO LOVES
AESTHETE
NATURE
PERSON WHO
PRETENDS TO HAVE CHARLATAN
MORE KNOWLEDGE
PERSUASIVE AND
ELOQUENCE
FLUENT SPEECH
PHYSICIAN WHO
OBSTERICIAN
DELIVERS BABIES
PLACE WHERE COWS
BYRE
ARE SHELTERED
PLACE WHICH
PROVIDES BOTH BOARD INN
AND LODGING
POWER OF READING
TELEPATHY
THOUGHTS OF OTHERS
RIDICULULOUS USE OF
MALAPROPISM
WORKS
RIDE ON SOMEONES
PIGGYBACK
BACK
ROOM LEADING INTO A
ANTEROOM
LARGE ROOM
SEAT ON ELEPHANTS
HOWDAH
BACK
SONG SUNG AT BURIAL DIRGE
THING THAT BRING
GENTLE AND PAINLESS
EUTHANASIA
DEATH FROM
INCURABLE DISEASE

TO EXPLAIN A SPRITUAL
BENIGN
TRUTH
TO DO AWAY WITH ABROGATE
RULE
TO EXPLAIN A SPRITUAL
PARABLE
TRUTH
USING OF NEW WORDS NEOLOGY
A SMALL ENCLOSERE
FOR CATTLE ,SHEEP PEN
,POLUTRY ETC
MUSIC PLAYED OR
SUNG AT NIGHT BELOW
SERENADE
A PERSONS
WINDOW
STRONG AND SETTLED
DISLIKE BETWEEN TWO ANTIPATHY
PERSONS
A SMALL HOUSE WITH
ALL ROOMS ON ONE BUNAGLOW
FLOOR
AN EXTERMELY DEEP
CRACK OR OPENING IN
CHASM
THE
GROUND
LOTTERY IN WHICH AN
ARTICLE IS ASSIGNED BY
LOT TO RAFFLE /Draw
ONE OF THOSE BUYING
TICKTS
ONE WHO ALWAYS
RUNS AWAY FROM TIMID
DANGER
ONE WHO DESPISES
PERSONS OF LOWER
SNOB
SOCIAL
POSITION
GRADUAL RECOVERY
CONVALESCENCE
FROM ILLNESS
ONE WHO IS
VINDICTIVE
DETERMINED TO EXACT
FULL VEGEANCE
FOR WRONG DONE TO
HIM
COMMENCEMENT OF
WORDS WITH THE ALLITERATION
SAME LETTER
A PERSON LIVING
PERMANENETLY IN A DOMICILE
CERTAIN PLAC E
TO SLAP WITH A FLAT
SWAT
OBJACT
AN ASSEMBLY OF
ASSEMBLAGE
HEARAERS
ONE WHO IS
UNRELENTING AND
INEXORABLE
CANNOT BE MOVED BY
ENTREATIES
REGARD FOR OTHERS
AS PRINCIPLE OF A ALTRUISM
ACTION
PERSON WHO CLAIMS
TO HAVE GREAT LOVE
FOR
UNDERSTANDING OF AESTHETE
WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL IN
NATURE ,
ART ETC
A DISEASE WHICH
CONTAGIOUS
SPREADS BY CONTACT
AN ANIMAL STORY
FABLE
WITH MORAL
PERSON WHO PIOLTS
OR TRAVELS IN A
AERONAUT
BALLON AIRSHIP
OR OTHER AIRCRAFT
WITTY , CLEVER RETORT REPARTEE
A STORY IN WHICH ALLEGORY
IDEAS ARE SYMBOLISED
AS PEOPLE
A COMMON PLACE
PLATITUDE
REMARK
A SUDDEN RUSH OF
GUST
WIND
NOT CONFORMING TO
ORDINARY RULES OF ECCENTRIC
BEHAVIOUR

SHORT DESCRIPATIVE
POEM OR PICTURESQUE
IDYLL
SCENE OR
INCIDENT
A PERSON WHO IS
RETICENT
RESEREVED IN TALKS
A SHORT STAY AT A
SOJOURN
PLACE
A RAISED PLACE ON
WHICH OFFERING TO A
ALTAR
GOD ARE
MADE
GOVERNMENT BY THE
THERACHY
GODS
A PERSON WITH FULL
DISCRETINARY POWER
PLENIPOTENTIARY
TO ACT ON
BEHALF OF A COUNTRY
TO DERIVE A THING OF
DESCRATE
ITS HOLY CHARACTER
A SMALL PIECE OF
CHIP
WOOD
A pioneer of a reform
Apostle
movement
Wicked to a high degree Heinous
The original inhabitants Aborigines
of a country
Dungeon entered by
Oubliette
trapdoor
Science of printing Typography
One who robs smuggler
of his smuggled goods
after the Hijacker
border has been
crossed
Use of more words than
are needed to express
Pleonasm
the
meaning
The science of judging
of a persons character
capabilities etc. From an
Phrenology
examination of the
shape of his
skull
A political leader who
Demagogue
tries to stir up people
A light sailing boat built
Yacht
especially for racing
Atonement for ones
Repentance
sins
Be the embodiment or
Personify
perfect example
A person who
maliciously destroys by Incendiary
fire
The line which a plough
Furrow
cuts in the ground
A person who forsakes
Renegade
religion
A person concerned
with practical results Pragmatist
and values
Responsible according
Legitimate
to law
Decision made upon a
political question by the
Plebiscite
votes of
all qualified persons
Shining , brilliant and
Resplendent
magnificent
Cutting for stone in the
Lithotomy
bladder
A heavy unnatural
Stupor
slumber
Changing ones mind
Vacillation
too quickly
To do away with rules Abrogate

A person sharing
responsibility for a
Whip
political partys
discipline and tactics
Food which agrees with
Palatable
ones taste
A story in verse Ballad
Plain or self evident
Truism
truth
A person who has just
Apprentice
started learning
A low area storm with
high winds rotating
about a centre Cyclone
of low atmospheric
pressure
A fault that may be
Venial
forgiven
One who is likeable Amiable
Person who gives Voluptuary
himself up to luxury and
sexual
pleasures
A field or a part of a
garden where fruit trees Orchard
grow
A women of lax moral Harlot
A person who gives
written testimony for Deponent
use in a court
A person who makes
and sells ladies hats, Milliner
etc.
To mediate between
Intercede
two parties in a dispute
The branch of science
which deals with the
Geriatrics
problems of
the old
Property inherited from
ones father pr Patrimony
ancestors
Something left in a will
by someone who has Legacy
died
The doctrine that
human souls pass from
one body to Transmigration
another at the time of
death
A drawing on
Transparency
transparent paper
The act of violating the
Sacrilege
sanctity of church
A style in which a writer
makes a display of his Pedantic
knowledge
One who thinks that
human nature is Cynic
essentially evil
Interested mainly in a
Insular
small group country etc.
The period between
Interregnum
two reigns
Poem in short stanzas
narrating a popular Ballad
story
One who does not know
Spendthrift
how to save the money
Walk in a vain , self-
Strut
important way
Clumsy or ill-bred fellow Boor
A small shop that sells
fashionable clothes,
Boutique
cosmetics
etc.
The normal abode of
Habitant
any animal or plant
A person who is skilled
Equestrian
in horsemanship
To atone ones sins Expiate

The rule of a person


Despotism
who is tyrant
Of outstanding
Monumental
significance
A tumour which is not
Benign
likely to spared
To remove the skin of a
Peel
potato or and orange
Explicit understanding
Promise
to do something
To surround with armed Besiege
forces
A person who wishes to
throw over all Anarchist
establishments
Forcing out(blood etc.)
Extravasate
from its vessel
A book or picture
produced merely to Pot-boiler
bring in money
Deviation or departure
from common rule of Anomaly
standard
Elderly women in
charge of a girl on social Chaperon
occasions
land so surrounded by
water as to e almost Peninsula
and island
Part-song for several
voices without
Madrigal
instrumental
accompaniment
A person without
Hallucination
objective reality
Open rebellion of
soldiers and sailors
Mutiny
against lawful
authority
A verse letter Epistle
A person who travels
Itinerant
from place to place
Something which can be
Postulate
taken for granted
Words used in ancient
time but no longer in
Archaic
general use
now
Cutting all the waste
Shredding
paper into pieces
A solider who fights for
mercenary
money
Government by all Pant isocracy
Two wheeled cab for
two to ride indie with
Hansom
driver
mounted up behind
Destroy without any
Obliterate
trace
Submarines operate
below the surface of the Subterranean
seas
Morning prayer in the
Matin
church regularly
An unreal and visionary
Chimerical
ideal
Give back to the users
their youthful vigour
Rejuvenate
and
appearance
A lover of mankind Altruist/philanthropist
An unconventional style
Bohemian
of living
A person who is blindly
Chauvinist
devoted to an idea
Suave (polished and
Debonair
light hearted person)
A dabbler (not serious
in art, Science and Dilettante
literature
That cannot be entered
Impregnable
by force

A person who leads an Libertine/Lecher


immoral life
One hates the
Misogamist
institution of marriage
One who eats
Omnivorous
everything
One who works for the
Philogynist /Feminist
welfare of the women
A boastful fellow Swashbuckler
A noisy quarrelsome
Termagant
women, a shrew
One who is habitual
Toper/sot
drunken
One who is brilliant
performer on Virtuoso
stage(specially music)
An annual calendar with
Almanac
position of stars
A statement accepted
Axiom
as true without proof
Examination of living
Biopsy
tissue
Compulsory enlistment
Conscription
for military service
An exact copy of
Facsimile/Xerox
handwriting ,printing
Animals which live in a
flock , used for human
Gregarious/sociable
beings
also
An act of separation
from a person to avoid Quarantine
infection
Dress with medals,
ribbons worn at official Regalia
ceremonies
A thing kept in memory
Souvenir
of an event
A place where animals
are slaughtered for the Abattoir
market
The dwelling place if an
Borrow
animal underground
A place where
treasurers ,stores Cache
,ammunition are hidden
A graveyard where dead
Crche
are buried
An original glass bottle
for holding wine or
Decanter
other
alcoholic drinks
A squirrels home Drey
A home for old people Infirmary
A place for wild animals
Menagerie
and birds
A house or shelter for a
Kennel
dog
A place where pigs are
Sty
kept
A case in which the
Sheath ,Scabbard
blade of a sword is kept
A place where lather is
Tannery
tanned
One who drives a motor
Chauffeur
car
One who introduces
performing artists on
Compere
the stage
programmes
One who studies the
pattern of voting in Psephologist
elections
Government by old man Gerontocracy
Government by the Kekistocracy
worst citizen
Government run
Panarcy
universally
A funeral procession
comprising a number of Cortege
mourners

Murder of ones
Filicide
children
Murder of ones brother Fratricide
Murder of ones parents Parricide
Murder of ones sister Sororicide
Live in relationship a
man and a woman living
Concubiange
without
being married
Happening in five years Quinquennial
150th anniversary Sesquicentennial
A collection of poem Anthology
A large number of
Bale
cotton tied in a bundle
A large group of
Bevy
girls/ladies
A pair of pigeons Brace
Of inner circle of
members of Caucus
government
A small person
Clique
belonging to a body
A group[p of applauders
Claque
i.e. paid to clap
A group of islands Cluster
A group of worshipers Congregation
A small fleet of boats Flotilla
A number of fish caught
Haul
(in net) caught at one
time
A number of ruins,
Heap
stones
Of young pigs, dogs at
Litter
birth
A group of people who
are the same in some Posse
way
A section of hair Lock
A large number of fish
Shoal
swimming together
A sequence of similar
String
items
A flies or locusts, bees
Swarm
,ants
A framework of rafters,
Truss
posts and bars
A large crowd of people Throng
A group of dancers,
Troupe
artists or acrobats
Of abusive invectives Torrent
Of grass ,hair Tuft
In questions Barrage
The study of sounds Acoustics
The science of soil
management and the
Agronomy
production of
field crops
Chemistry in ancient
Alchemy
times
Cultivation of tress and
Arboriculture
vegetables
The study of duration of
Chronology
life
The art of making
Chromatics
fireworks
The study of cells,
especially their
Cytology
formation structure
and functions
The study of finger
prints for the purpose
Dactylographic
of
identification
The study of animal
Ethology
behaviour
The study of production
of better offspring by
the Eugenics
careful selection of
parents
The study of effect of
environment on Ergonomy
workers
The sun therapy Heliotherapy
The study of tissues Histology
The study of teeth Odontology
The study of correct
Orthoepy
pronunciation
The art of method of
Pedagogy
teaching
The study of rocks Petrology
The study of written
records their Philology
authenticity etc.
The study of speech
sounds and production, Phonetics
transmission , reception
The study of human
Physiognomy
face
The study of ancient
Palaeography
writing
The art of elegant Rhetoric
speech or writing
The study of caves Spelelogy
An admirer of art Dilettante
Use of mild word in
place of words required Euphemism
by truth
That which is pig like Porcine
That is fox like Vulpine
Study of law Nomo logy
Study of fossils Palaeontology
Statement that is
Platitude
obviously true
Temple dedicated to all
Pantheon
the gods
The study of physical
Limnology
phenomenon of lakes
Serious crime like
Felony
murder ,arson
Secret place difficult to
Recess
reach
Secret religious meeting Conventicle
Showing contemptuous
Supercilious
indifference
A short summary of a
Epitome
book or speech
A short saying or poem
which express an idea in
Epigram
a very
clever and amusing way
Scornful and
Opprobrium
contemptuous language
Science of time Horology

Science of the races of


mankind and their Ethnology
relation to one
another
Science of the causes of
Etiology/aetiology
diseases
Science of human
Kalology
beauty
Science and philosophy
Jurisprudence
of human law
To raise a pattern or
design on the surface of Emboss
something
Quick to judge and
Perspicacious
understand
Pull out of usual shape Distort
Public marry making
Carnival
and feasting
Prevent from being
Circumvent
carried out
Present from or before
Congenital
birth
Lover of dogs Canophilist
Guided by ones sense
Conscientious
of duty
Gust of wing Draught
Offering made to god Oblation
Gathering of all things Omnibus
A garland of flowers Wreath
Give the right to vote Enfranchise
Future generation Posterity
Fit for bad temper or
Tantrum
anger
Blessing given by priest Benediction
Bring under control in
Subjugate
war
That can live without
Viable
outside help
Angry at injustice Indignant
Change to something Perversion
abnormal , unnatural
Habitual character and
Ethos
deposition
To destroy Annihilate
Recurrence of some
disease after generation
or
Atavism
similarity in special
features with remote
ancestors
To mitigate of lessen
Alleviate
the suffering or pain
To make better , to
improve or to lift or a Ameliorate
better place
A mistake in the
chronological order or a
thing which is Anachronism
out of harmony with a
period
Any language speaking
Colloquialism
only
A person who fails in
the performance of this
Delinquent
duty or
commits and offence
Something regularly
found among a
Endemic
particular people or
community
A professor who has
Emeritus
retired from service

To free from the


confines of something Emancipate
to liberate from
Something artificial
having the appearance
Factitious
of some thing
got up
As opposed to realistic ,
Fictitious
imagined not real
Tendency to grow
Geotropism
downwards
A personal peculiarity of
temperament or Idiosyncrasy
constitution
A person who has a
most uncompromising
Intransigent
attitude
especially on politics
A subtle allusive and
generally deprecatory Innuendo
remark
Extremely extravagant
Licentious
in manners and morals
Belonging to this word ,
Mundane
earthly
Application of name or
descriptive term to an
object to Metaphor
which it is not literally
applicable
A scene or situation
which is gruesomely
Macabre
imaginative or
full of gruesome details
A change that befalls
Mutation
something
A drama which is
marked by very crude
Melodrama
appeal to
feelings and emotions
One who believes in the
philosophy that nothing
Nihilist
has real
existence
A quick remedy or
apparent medicine or
Nostrum
similarly a pet
scheme
The art of spelling
Orthography
words correctly
A passage marking the
Peroration
close of speech
A school teacher or a
Pedagogue
man affecting learning
Original modal Prototype
To mediate, to pander
Ruminate
over a question
A person who refuses
Recalcitrant
compliance with
A reasoned willing to
avail himself of fallacies
Sophist
that will
help his case
A very delicate flaw or
mistake which is not
expected Solecism
from the person making
it
A symbolic religious
ceremony especially Sacrament
baptism
Abounding in blood Sanguine
Affectedly and
pompously formal Sententious
person or style
That which surpasses Transcendental
The practise of taking Usury
exorbitant or excessive
interest on
the money lent
Guilty of accepting
bribes extremely Venal
mercenary

A person sent on a
Emissary
mission
Not definitely or clearly
Inexplicit
expressed
Incapable of being
Impregnable
taken by force or arms
To increase the gravity
of an offence or the
Aggravate
intensity of a
dispute
A man or woman with
skin and hair or auburn Blonde
colour
Wilful and persistent
resistance to lawful Contumacy
authority
A person who is
insensible to kind
Callous
thoughts or
sympathetic feeling
Total loss of voice Aphonia
To do away with a rule Abrogate
To make thin or fine or
Attenuate
to reduce the strength
Deviation from eh
common rule of Anomaly
standard
Stealthy done Surreptitious
Mental derangement Paranoia
Wild and noisy disorder Pandemonium
Placing a thing beside
Juxtapose
another
The abandonment of
Desertion
ones country or cause
Bitter and violent attack
Diatribe
in words
The state of being
miserable , bereft of all Destitute
possessions
Commencement of
adjacent words with the Alliteration
same letter
A wall built to prevent
the sea or a river from
Embankment
flooding an
area
Something that is
Trivial
poisonous or unhealthy
A small umbrella Parasol
To have a very high
Conceited
opinion of oneself
The highest singing
voice in women or boys
Soprano
or a music in
highest voice
A song to put babies to
Lullaby
sleep
The original inhabitants
Aborigines
of a country
Winding sheet of a
Shroud
corpse
Bearing youngs by eggs Oviparous
Bearing living youngs Viviparous
Fond of much alcoholic
Bibulous
drinks
A hater of new things Misoneist
Hatter of smoking Misocapnic
A lover of animals Philozoic
A lover of learning Philomath
A lover of poetry and
Philomuse
art

That which is not


Incorporeal
composed of matter
One who always gets
Scapegrace
into trouble
Persuade by flattery Cajole
That which has very
harmful and dangerous Detrimental
effects
That which is corpse like Cadaverous
That is cat like Feline
A vehicle that is used to
Hearse
carry a dead body
A person who is very
Fiend
cruel
Swelling part of a body Inflammation
The dad body of a
Carcase
animal
A medicine which
Emetic
induces vomit
A spear on a rope for
catching whales and
Harpoon
other larger
fish
A female of gander Goose
An adult male of deer Hart
A word that is the same
in sound as another but Homonym
different in meaning
Words alike in sound
Paronym
but different in meaning
and
spelling
A dog used for hunting Hound
A magnificent tomb Mausoleum
An impudent girl Minx
Flesh of sheep used as
Mutton
food
Secretion of a plant
which attracts the
Nectar
insects or birds
that pollinate flowers
A member of a
Nomad
wandering tribe
A person who looks
Ostler
after horses in a inn
A set of instruments put
Apparatus
together for a purpose
An area planted with
Vineyard
grapes
A disease that is found
regularly in a particular Endemic
place
A disease widely
Pandemic
epidemic
That which can not be
Incombustible
burnt
A person who is very
careful in the use of Frugal/parsimonious
money
Able to walk after being
Ambulatory
bedridden
Absolute right Prerogative
Accept without protest
Acquiesce
or silently
Being economical in
speech or expressed in Laconic
few words
Belief accepted without
Dogma
question
Branches of learning
concerned with Humanities
literature history

and philosophy
Bring under control
especially a group of
Subdue
people causing
trouble
Calmness of mind and
Equanimity
temper
Ceremony of crowning a
Coronation
king
Chain of flowers ,leaves
Festoon
ribbons etc.
Collection of flowers Anthology
Compel to a course of
Coerce
action
Compensation of loss Indemnity
Complain or protest
Grudge /grumble
irritatingly
Concluding part of
Peroration
speech
Confused and disorderly Promiscuous
Conference for
Symposium
discussion on a subject
Confused struggle or
Scrimmage
fight
Copy or reproduction of
Replica
a work
Craze for flowers Anthomania
Cud-chewing animal Ruminant
Cut into small peaces Mince
Cutting or arm, leg, etc. Amputation
By surgery
Cutting and gathering of
Harvest
grain
Difficult or dangerous
Predicament
situation
Done or obtained
without payment or Gratuitous
free of charge
Easily bending Supple
Equally sensitive to all
Panchromatic
colours
Express earnest
Deprecate
disapproval of
Expand and contract
Pulsate
rhythmically
Fastest speed of a horse Gallop
Felling of fear and
Dismay
disappointment
Feeling or impression
that something evil is
Presentment
going to
happen
Feeling that everything
Giddiness
turns
Fixed sum of money
paid to somebody as
Annuity
income in his
lifetime
Fond of new things Newfangled
Foolish love Infatuation
Forecast of the
probable course of a Prognosis
disease or illness
Gay and elegant dress
Finery
or appearance
Give more force or
Accentuate
importance to
Give something as a
Pawn/mortgage
security for debt

Having a common
Coterminous
terminus or boundary
Having a full , deep
Sonorous
sound
Having a similar nature,
Congenial
common interest
Having a vague desire Wistful
Having the same source
Cognate
or origin
Hiding of true feelings Dissimulation
In a primitive or
Savage
uncivilized state
Incur loss through some
Forfeit
fault
Identical in all respects Congruent
Indirect effect or
remote effect of some Repercussion
event
Instrument for
measuring the intensity Photometer
of light
Interrupt and ask
Heckle
troublesome questions
Interrupt the
proceeding and demand
Interrelate
a statement or
explanation from
Judicial process or order
Injunction
to stop something
Killing of ones husband Mariticide
Lacking in sexual power
or sufficient strength to Impotent
do
something
Loss of ability to use
Aphasia
speech/understand
Make a deep sound of
Groan
pain
Make desolate Devastate
Make (something
misleading) additions to Interpolate
a book
Military forces and their
Armament
equipments
Miscellaneous articles
Sundries
not listed separately
Money in form of coins Specie
Name derived from
Patronymic
fathers name
Natural tendency to do
Propensity
something
Noisy drinking party or
Carousal
merry making
Not shoeing proper
Impertinent
respect
Occurring here and
there or now and then Sporadic
of or for all
Of the daytime Diurnal
Of all sorts Omnifarious
One preying on or
Predator
exploiting others
One who arranges for
the supply of food in a
Steward
club, school
etc.
One who courts or
Suitor
woos a woman
One who explains a
Exponent
theory , idea etc.
One who habitually
relapses into crime or
one who Recidivist
cannot be cured of
criminal activities

One who has no means


Pauper
of live hood
One who makes an
Orator
eloquent public speech
One who spends ones
Spendthrift/Prodigal
money recklessly
One who sells fruit,
vegetables etc. From a
Grocer
barrow in the
streets
One who shows lack of
respect or religious Impious
reverence
Page number of a book Folio
Pardon or forgiveness
Remission
of sins by god
Particular point of good
conduct , ceremony Punctilio
honour
Period of rest or sleep
taken in the early Siesta
afternoon
Person singing jointly
Cosignatory
with others
Person to whom
another gives
Protg
encouragement and
help
Person who changes his
Renegate/ Renegade
religious belief
Personal belonging ,
Paraphernalia
equipments etc.
Place for ideal peace
Elysium
and happiness
Place for public
Rostrum
speaking
Plead to obtain a favour Intercede
Pleasant or sharp to the
Piquant
taste
Practise of using abuse Scurrility
Presented in a forceful
Cogent
and convening manner
Principal raw material
or commodity grown in Staple
a locality
Put under the surface of
Submerge
water
Scatter things among
others or place here Intersperse
and there
Severe test of character
Ordeal
or endurance
Short saying expressing Maxim/proverb/dictum
a general truth /adage
Smash to pieces Shatter
Something that is
Anathema
detested
Something which
religion or custom
Taboo
regards as
forbidden
State of unconscious Narcosis
Sticking together Coherent
Story told to illustrate a
Didactic
moral or spiritual truth
Stroke of good luck Fluke
Study of literature Hagiology
dealing with lives of
saints
Style in which a writer
makes a display of his Ornate
knowledge
Substance used in place
Saccharin
of sugar
Suffering from bodily or
mental weakness
Senile
because old
age
Suggest in addition to
the fundamental Connote
meaning

Suggest indirectly Insinuate


Suggesting absence of
vacuous
thought or intellect
System of religious
Cult
worship
That cannot be erased
Indelible
or removed
That cannot be weighed Imponderable
That easily changes into
Volatile
gas or vapour
That which can lessen
the severity of (pain , Palliative
disease)
That which cannot be
Unimpeachable
doubted or questioned
That which eats grass Herbivore /herbivorous
Thing to be added at
Addendum
the end of a book etc.
Theory of utility Pragmatism
Turn or wander away
Digress
from the main topic
Union of states, parties,
Confederacy
or persons
Use in an unworthy or
Desecrate /defile
wicked way
Use of public money for Peculation/embezzlem
ones own benefit ent
Way out for water or
Outlet
stream
Whole body of wage
Proletariat
earners
Wide spread violence Havoc
Witty clever retort Repartee
Word formed from
Acronym
initial letters of a name
Word made by changing
the order of the letters
Anagram
in
another word
Woven fabric richly
ornamented with Brocade
designs
Written law passed by
Statute
the law making body
Of a very short duration
Transient
of period
Not clearly expressed or
Inscrutable
understand
Area of land almost
Peninsula
surrounded by sea
Salt water lake
separated from the sea Lagoon
by sand banks
Person who caters to
Sycophant
the rich
One who doubts the
Aesthetic
soundness of inferences
An expression of mild Denigration
disapproval
Art of poetry Ceramics
Extreme old age when a
Dotage
man behaves like a fool

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