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.
One who governs a kingdom during the infancy, absence, or disability of the sovereign. | Regent |
A radical change in government. | Revolution |
Facts and figures. | Statistics |
Government by a military class. | Stratocracy |
Payment of money allowed to a wife on legal separation from her husband. | Alimony |
Engaged from her husband. | Betrothed |
One who marries a second wife or husband while the legal spouse is alive. | Bigamist |
One vowed to a single or unmarried life of sexual abstinence. | Celibate |
Legal dissolution of the marriage of husband and wife. | Divorce |
The property which a new wife brings to her husband. | Dowry |
To run away with a lover in order to get married secretly. | Elope |
A man engaged to be married. | Fiance |
A woman engaged to be married. | Fiancee |
One who has only one wife or husband at a time. | Monogamist |
Woman who has more than one husband at a time. | Polyandrist |
Man who has more than one wife at a time. | Polygamist |
A bride’s outfit. | Trousseau |
A man whose wife is dead. | Widower |
Cultivating and growing crops. | Agriculture |
The science of land management. | Agronomics |
The study of the structure of the human body. | Anatomy |
The study of mankind. | Anthropology |
The art of telling the future by the study of the stars. | Astrology |
The study of ancient buildings and prehistoric remains. | Archaeology |
The study of all heavenly bodies. | Astronomy |
The art of beautiful hand-writing. | Calligraphy |
The art of making maps and charts. | Cartography |
The science of colors. | Chromatics |
The art of effective speaking or oral reading. | Elocution |
The study of the varieties of the human race. | Ethnology |
The study of the origin and history of words. | Etymology |
The science of family descent. | Genealogy |