One word substitution–30
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.
| A place where bodies of persons found dead are placed for identification. | Morgue |
| A place where dead bodies are temporarily placed. | Mortuary |
| An account in the newspaper of the funeral of one deceased. | Obituary |
| Murder of one’s own father. | Patricide |
| Occurring of one’s own father. | Posthumous |
| A pile of wood on which a dead body is burned. | Pyre |
| Murder of a king. | Regicide |
| Mass for the dead,a piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. (s) | Requiem |
| Rising from the dead. | Resurrection |
| A stone coffin,especially one made of limestone. | Sarcophagus |
| Murder of one’s own sister. | Sororicide |
| The act of killing oneself. | Suicide |
| The cloth which is wrapped round a dead body. | Winding-sheet |
| The process by which plants take up mineral salts in solution through their roots. | Absorption |
| Soil washed down and carried away by rivers. | Alluvium |
| At home equally on land or in water. | Amphibious |
| A plant whose life-cycle completes in a year. | Annual |
| The feelers of an insect. | Antennae |
| The process by which plants manufacture food. | Assimilation |
| A plant whose life-cycle takes two years to complete. | Biennial |
| A slimy substance between the wood and bark of a stem. | Cambium |
| The green coloured pigment in the leaves of plants. | Chlorophyll |
| The pupa of a moth or a butterfly. | Chrysalis |
| The central or innermost part of a fruit. | Core |
| The seed-leaves of the embryo. | Cotyledon |
| Trees which lose their leaves annually. | Deciduous |
| An instrument for making holes in the soil for seeds. | Dibble |
| Plants with two seed-leaves,e.g. Lime. | Di-cotyledonous |
| Absence of rain for a long time. | Drought |
| An organism in its early stages of development or an organism in the process of developing its distinctive form. | Embryo |
| Generic scientific name for animals. | Fauna |