One word substitution–9
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.
| Not expert. | Lay-man |
| Anything fixed to frighten away birds. | Scare-crow |
| A line of persons waiting. | Queue |
| Story of old time gods or heroes. | Myth |
| The murder of infants. | Infanticide |
| The murder of a king. | Regicide |
| The murder of one’s own father. | Patricide |
| To cast a slender on a person. | Calumniate |
| An unexpected good fortune. | God-send |
| To use expressive motion for limbs. | Gesticulate |
| The art practised by statesmen. | Diplomacy |
| One who is critical beyond measure or reason. | Hypercritic |
| This was made pure by removing all objectionable matter. | Expurgated |
| A person influenced by wealth or position. | Magnate |
| Notice of somebody’s death in a newspaper. | Obituary |
| A person sharing responsibility for a political party’s discipline and tactics. | Whip |
| The place where a criminal stands in court. | Dock |
| A person who dies without making his will. | Intestate |
| A person suffering from nervous disorder. | Neurotic |
| A strict disciplinarian. | Martiner |
| Not to be blamed or censored. | Irreprehensible |
| A fleet of small vessels. | Flotilla |
| Government by nobles. | Aristocracy |
| A man who is too much like a woman. | Effeminate |
| Government by nobles. | Autocracy |
| Nations engaged in war. | Belligerents |
| Extreme old age when a man cannot keep his senses about him. | Dotage |
| The act of speaking about one’s thoughts when alone. | Soliloquy |
| An exaggerated statement. | Hyperbole |
| One who does not care for literature and art. | Philistine |
| To speak in a slow and melancholy manner. | Pensive |
| A person belonging to a foreign country. | Alien |