One word substitution PART-11

One who has no means of live hood	Pauper
One who makes an eloquent public speech	Orator
One who spends one’s money recklessly	Spendthrift/Prodigal
One who sells fruit, vegetables etc. From a barrow in the streets	Grocer
One who shows lack of respect or religious reverence	Impious
Page number of a book	Folio
Pardon or forgiveness of sins by god	Remission
Particular point of good conduct , ceremony honour	Punctilio
Period of rest or sleep taken in the early afternoon	Siesta
Person singing jointly with others	Cosignatory
Person to whom another gives encouragement and help	Protégé
Person who changes his religious belief	Renegate/ Renegade
Personal belonging , equipments etc.	Paraphernalia
Place for ideal peace and happiness	Elysium
Place for public speaking	Rostrum
Plead to obtain a favour	Intercede
Pleasant or sharp to the taste	Piquant
Practise of using abuse	Scurrility
Presented in a forceful and convening manner	Cogent
Principal raw material or commodity grown in a locality	Staple
Put under the surface of water	Submerge
Scatter things among others or place here and there	Intersperse
Severe test of character or endurance	Ordeal
Short saying expressing a general truth	Maxim/proverb/dictum/adage
Smash to pieces	Shatter
Something that is detested	Anathema
Something which religion or custom regards as forbidden	Taboo
State of unconscious	Narcosis
Sticking together	Coherent
Story told to illustrate a moral or spiritual truth	Didactic
Stroke of good luck	Fluke
Study of literature dealing with lives of saints	Hagiology
Style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge	Ornate
Substance used in place of sugar	Saccharin
Suffering from bodily or mental weakness because old age	Senile
Suggest in addition to the fundamental meaning	Connote

Suggest indirectly	Insinuate
Suggesting absence of thought or intellect	vacuous
System of religious worship	Cult
That cannot be erased or removed	Indelible
That cannot be weighed	Imponderable
That easily changes into gas or vapour	Volatile
That which can lessen the severity of (pain , disease)	Palliative
That which cannot be doubted or questioned	Unimpeachable
That which eats grass	Herbivore /herbivorous
Thing to be added at the end of a book etc.	Addendum
Theory of utility	Pragmatism
Turn or wander away from the main topic	Digress
Union of states, parties, or persons	Confederacy
Use in an unworthy or wicked way	Desecrate /defile
Use of public money for one’s own benefit	Peculation/embezzlement
Way out for water or stream	Outlet
Whole body of wage earners	Proletariat
Wide spread violence	Havoc
Witty clever retort	Repartee
Word formed from initial letters of a name	Acronym
Word made by changing the order of the letters in another word	Anagram
Woven fabric richly ornamented with designs	Brocade
Written law passed by the law making body	Statute
Of a very short duration of period	Transient
Not clearly expressed or understand	Inscrutable
Area of land almost surrounded by sea	Peninsula
Salt water lake separated from the sea by sand banks	Lagoon
Person who caters to the rich	Sycophant
One who doubts the soundness of inferences	Aesthetic
An expression of mild disapproval	Denigration
Art of poetry	Ceramics
Extreme old age when a man behaves like a fool	Dotage

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One word substitution PART- 10

That which is not composed of matter	Incorporeal
One who always gets into trouble	Scapegrace
Persuade by flattery	Cajole
That which has very harmful and dangerous effects	Detrimental
That which is corpse like	Cadaverous
That is cat like	Feline
A vehicle that is used to carry a dead body	Hearse
A person who is very cruel	Fiend
Swelling part of a body	Inflammation
The dad body of a animal	Carcase
A medicine which induces vomit	Emetic
A spear on a rope for catching whales and other larger fish	Harpoon
A female of gander	Goose
An adult male of deer	Hart
A word that is the same in sound as another but different in meaning	Homonym
Words alike in sound but different in meaning and spelling	Paronym
A dog used for hunting	Hound
A magnificent tomb	Mausoleum
An impudent girl	Minx
Flesh of sheep used as food	Mutton
Secretion of a plant which attracts the insects or birds that pollinate flowers	Nectar
A member of a wandering tribe	Nomad
A person who looks after horses in a inn	Ostler
A set of instruments put together for a purpose	Apparatus
An area planted with grapes	Vineyard
A disease that is found regularly in a particular place	Endemic
A disease widely epidemic	Pandemic
That which can not be burnt	Incombustible
A person who is very careful in the use of money	Frugal/parsimonious
Able to walk after being bedridden	Ambulatory
Absolute right	Prerogative
Accept without protest or silently	Acquiesce
Being economical in speech or expressed in few words	Laconic
Belief accepted without question	Dogma
Branches of learning concerned with literature history	Humanities

and philosophy
Bring under control especially a group of people causing trouble	Subdue
Calmness of mind and temper	Equanimity
Ceremony of crowning a king	Coronation
Chain of flowers ,leaves ribbons etc.	Festoon
Collection of flowers	Anthology
Compel to a course of action	Coerce
Compensation of loss	Indemnity
Complain or protest irritatingly	Grudge /grumble
Concluding part of speech	Peroration
Confused and disorderly	Promiscuous
Conference for discussion on a subject	Symposium
Confused struggle or fight	Scrimmage
Copy or reproduction of a work	Replica
Craze for flowers	Anthomania
Cud-chewing animal	Ruminant
Cut into small peaces	Mince
Cutting or arm, leg, etc. By surgery	Amputation
Cutting and gathering of grain	Harvest
Difficult or dangerous situation	Predicament
Done or obtained without payment or free of charge	Gratuitous
Easily bending	Supple
Equally sensitive to all colours	Panchromatic
Express earnest disapproval of	Deprecate
Expand and contract rhythmically	Pulsate
Fastest speed of a horse	Gallop
Felling of fear and disappointment	Dismay
Feeling or impression that something evil is going to happen	Presentment
Feeling that everything turns	Giddiness
Fixed sum of money paid to somebody as income in his lifetime	Annuity
Fond of new things	Newfangled
Foolish love	Infatuation
Forecast of the probable course of a disease or illness	Prognosis
Gay and elegant dress or appearance	Finery
Give more force or importance to	Accentuate
Give something as a security for debt	Pawn/mortgage

Having a common terminus or boundary	Coterminous
Having a full , deep sound	Sonorous
Having a similar nature, common interest	Congenial
Having a vague desire	Wistful
Having the same source or origin	Cognate
Hiding of true feelings	Dissimulation
In a primitive or uncivilized state	Savage
Incur loss through some fault	Forfeit
Identical in all respects	Congruent
Indirect effect or remote effect of some event	Repercussion
Instrument for measuring the intensity of light	Photometer
Interrupt and ask troublesome questions	Heckle
Interrupt the proceeding and demand a statement or explanation from	Interrelate
Judicial process or order to stop something	Injunction
Killing of one’s husband	Mariticide
Lacking in sexual power or sufficient strength to do something	Impotent
Loss of ability to use speech/understand	Aphasia
Make a deep sound of pain	Groan
Make desolate	Devastate
Make (something misleading) additions to a book	Interpolate
Military forces and their equipments	Armament
Miscellaneous articles not listed separately	Sundries
Money in form of coins	Specie
Name derived from father’s name	Patronymic
Natural tendency to do something	Propensity
Noisy drinking party or merry making	Carousal
Not shoeing proper respect	Impertinent
Occurring here and there or now and then of or for all	Sporadic
Of the daytime	Diurnal
Of all sorts	Omnifarious
One preying on or exploiting others	Predator
One who arranges for the supply of food in a club, school etc.	Steward
One who courts or woos a woman	Suitor
One who explains a theory , idea etc.	Exponent
One who habitually relapses into crime or one who cannot be cured of criminal activities	Recidivist

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