Kerala PSC - One Word Substitution

One word Substitution is one of the integral parts of vocabulary. It is asked in various competitive exams. It simply means that a sentence has to be replaced with a single word.

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One Word Substitution
One who is out to subvert a government	Anarchist
One who is recovering from illness	Convalescent
One who is all powerful	Omnipotent
One who is present everywhere	Omnipresent
One who knows everything	Omniscient
One who is easily deceived	Gullible
One who does not make mistakes	Infallible
One who can do anything for money	Mercenary
One who has no money	Pauper
One who changes sides	Turncoat
One who works for free	Volunteer
One who loves books	Bibliophile
One who can speak two languages	Bilingual
One who loves mankind	Philanthropist
One who hates mankind	Misanthrope
One who looks on the bright side of things	Optimist
One who looks on the dark side of things	Pessimist
One who doubts the existence of god	Agnostic
One who pretends to be what he is not	Hypocrite
One incapable of being tired	Indefatigable
One who helps others Good	Samaritan
One who copies from other writers	Plagiarist
One who hates women	Misogynist
One who knows many languages	Polyglot
One who is fond of sensuous pleasures	Epicure
One who thinks only of himself	Egoist
One who thinks only of welfare of women	Feminist
One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain	Stoic
One who is quite like a woman	Effeminate
One who has strange habits	Eccentric
One who speaks less	Reticent
One who goes on foot	Pedestrian
One who believes in fate	Fatalist
One who dies without a Will	Intestate
One who always thinks himself to be ill	Valetudinarian
A Government by the people	Democracy
A Government by a King or Queen	Monarchy
A Government by the officials	Bureaucracy
A Government by the rich	Plutocracy
A Government by the few	Oligarchy
A Government by the Nobles	Aristocracy
A Government by one	Autocracy
Rule by the mob	Mobocracy
That through which light can pass	Transparent
That through which light cannot pass	Opaque
That through which light can partly pass	Translucent
A sentence whose meaning is unclear	Ambiguous
A place where orphans live	Orphanage
That which cannot be described	Indescribable
That which cannot be imitated	Inimitable
That which cannot be avoided	Inevitable
A position for which no salary is paid	Honorary
That which cannot be defended	Indefensible
Practice of having several wives	Polygamy
Practice of having several husbands	Polyandry
Practice of having one wife or husband	Monogamy
Practice of having two wives or husbands	Bigamy
That which is not likely to happen	Improbable
People living at the same time	Contemporaries
A book published after the death of its author	Posthumous
A book written by an unknown author	Anonymous
A life history written by somebody else	Biography
People who work together	Colleagues
One who eats too much	Glutton
That which cannot be satisfied	Insatiable
One who questions everything	Cynic
A flesh eating animal	Carnivorous
A grass eating animal	Herbivorous
One who lives in a foreign country	Immigrant
To transfer one's authority to another	Delegate
One who is a newcomer	Neophyte
That which is lawful	Legal
That which is against law	Illegal
One who is unmarried	Celibate
A game in which no one wins	Draw
A study of man	Anthropology
A study of races	Ethnology
A study of the body	Physiology
A study of animals	Zoology
A study of birds	Ornithology
A study of ancient things	Archaeology
A study of derivation of words	Etymology
Murder of a human being	Homicide
Murder of a father	Patricide
Murder of a Mother	Matricide
Murder of a brother	Fratricide
Murder of an infant	Infanticide
Murder of the king	Regicide
Murder of self	Suicide
To free somebody from all blame	Exonerate
To write under a different name	Pseudonym
A thing no longer in use	Obsolete
A handwriting that cannot be read	Illegible
Words written on the tomb of a person	Epitaph
One who is greedy for money	Avaricious
Something that cannot be imitated	Inimitable
One who doesn't know how to read and write	Illiterate
A person's peculiar habit	Idiosyncrasy
An animal who preys on other animals	Predator
Violating the sanctity of a church	Sacrilege
Study and collection of coins	Numismatics
Collection and study of stamps	Philately
A group of people controlling a country	Oligarchy
A person who collects and sells antiquities	Antiquary
One who does not use Alcohol	Teetotaler
Offering of a peaceful death	Euthanasia
One who writes plays	Playwright
A place where monks live	Monastery
The original inhabitants of a place	Aborgines
A partner in crime	Accomplice
Capable of interpreted in two ways	Ambiguous
Living both on land and in water	Amphibian, amphibious

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