One word substitution–6
Continuing our tryst with our exploration of ‘one word substitution‘ list, we present more words as they keep coming. These words are intended to give the exact meaning of a sentence by a single word. These types of lists come pretty handy if you want to improve your vocabulary in English language.
| Animate | Objects having life. |
| Gregarious | Animals which like to live in flocks. |
| Inanimate | Objects having no life. |
| Aquatic | Animals which lives in water. |
| Colleagues | Persons working in the same department. |
| Graminivorous | Animals living on grass or herbs. |
| International | That which exists between different nations. |
| Biped | Animals with two feet. |
| Convalescent | A person gradually recovering from illness. |
| Suicide | Murder of one’s-self. |
| Bigamy | The crime of having two wives or two husbands at a time. |
| Terrestrial | Animals which live on hand only. |
| Inflammable | Liable to catch fire easily. |
| Inexorable | A person not to be moved by request. |
| Inexplicable | Incapable of being explained. |
| Comprehensible | That which can be understood. |
| Democracy | Government of the people,by the people and for the people. |
| Bureaucracy | A government carried on through officers. |
| Theocracy | Government by the priests. |
| Pessimist | A person who looks at the dark side of life. |
| Illiterate | A person who can neither read nor write. |
| Biography | Life of a person written by himself else. |
| Autobiography | Life of a person written by somebody else. |
| Synonym | Words having a similar but not an identical meaning. |
| Antonym | Words opposite in meaning to each other. |
| Matinee | A cinema show held in the afternoon. |
| Drought | Want to rain. |
| Eccentric | A man of unusual habits. |
| Voluntarily | Of one’s own free will. |
| Nepotism | To favour one’s own relatives. |
| Annihilate | To completely destroy. |
| Red-tapism | Too much official formality. |