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. |
