One word substitution–17
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.
| Incapable of making a mistake. | Infallible |
| Income just sufficient to live on. | Subsistence |
| Influence secretly exerted. | Backdoor |
| Liable to be called to account. | Answerable |
| Liable to be easily broken. | Brittle |
| Living on fish. | Piscivorous |
| Living on flesh. | Carnivorous |
| Loss of memory. | Amnesia |
| Method of sending messages without the help of wires. | Wireless |
| Not being able to be elected or selected under the rules. | Ineligible |
| Not definitely or clearly expressed. | Inexplicit |
| Objects possessed on life. | Animate |
| Occurring possessed of life. | Simultaneous |
| One who travels from place to place to give instructions. | Peripatetic |
| One who to anything. | Novice/Tyro/Neophyte |
| One to whom goods are dispatched. | Consignee |
| One who accompanies a lady to public places. | Apostate |
| One who accompanies a lady to public places. | Chaperone |
| One who attends to diseases of the eyes. | Oculist |
| One who attends believes in single God. | Monotheist |
| One who attends to the teeth. | Dentist |
| One who believes in fate. | Fatalist |
| One who believes in many Gods. | Polytheist |
| One who believes in the existence of God. | Theist |
| One who can help understand another’s language. | Interpreter |
| One who foretells events correctly. | Prophet |
| One who foretells things by reference to stars. | Astrologer |
| One who has been before another in office or employment. | Predecessor |
| One who has grown old in or had long experience in service or occupation. | Veteran |
| One who hates mankind. | Misanthrope/Misanthropist |