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This document defines and provides examples of 184 English language words or terms. It covers a wide range of vocabulary including verbs, nouns, adjectives and more that relate to topics like politics, religion, science, society and more. The definitions are concise but provide the essential meaning of each word or term.

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This document defines and provides examples of 184 English language words or terms. It covers a wide range of vocabulary including verbs, nouns, adjectives and more that relate to topics like politics, religion, science, society and more. The definitions are concise but provide the essential meaning of each word or term.

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1.

Make soil productive: Fertilize

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2. Make rusty; go rusty: Oxidise

3. Prepare for movement or action; collect together for service or use: Mobilise
4. Fill with terror by threats or acts of violence: Terrify, Terrorize
5. Reduce to minimum: Minimize
6. Use sparingly: Economise
7. Speak in general terms: Generalize

9. Subject to penalty: Penalise


10. Establish a colony: Colonise
11. Put in danger: Jeopardize

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12. Make permissible by law: Legalise

nZ

8. Give authority to: Authorise

13. Be fully conscious; understand: Realise

14. Arouse horror and indignation in a person; offend the moral feelings or the
ideas of etiquette of: Scandalise
15. Compose or produce something without preparation: Improvise

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16. Act as a deputy: Deputise

17. Happen at the same time; be simultaneous: Synchronise


18. Say sorry for wrong doing: Apologise
19. Support by means of a subsidy: Subsidise

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8A

20. Exclude from society; refuse to associate with: Ostracise


21. Become fact: Materialise
22. That cannot be tamed: Untameable
23. Which cannot be put into practice: Impracticable
24. Open to objection: Objectionable
25. Which cannot be seized: Impregnable
26. Perform the service at: Officiate
27. Found fault with someone: Censure

29. Sail round the globe: Circumnavigate


30. Never to be effaced: Ineffaceable
31. Very easily made angry: Irritable
32. Averse to mixing in society: Unsociable
33. Cannot be deciphered at all: Undecipherable
34. So high that it cannot be estimated: Inestimable

nZ

35. Beyond all price: Invaluable

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28. Do not rightly understand: Misunderstand

36. Beyond a doubt: Unquestionable, Indubitable


37. Make away with: Murder
38. At the beginning of the day: Dawn

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39. Uncalled for; quite motiveless: Gratuitous


40. Those who serve for hire: Hirelings

41. One who believes in going naked on all occasions: Nudist


42. State of being married: Matrimony

43. State of complete continence on the part of a woman: Virginity

mb

44. From parents and forefathers: Hereditary

45. One residing in a country of which one is not a full-fledged citizen: Alien
46. Which cannot be solved: Insoluble
47. Full of words: Verbose

Gr
8A

48. Which cannot be suppressed: Irrepressible


49. Which cannot be believed: Incredible
50. A person of infirm health: Valetudinarian
51. A breaker of images: Iconoclast
52. A lover of woman: Philogynist
53. A medicine tending to loosen the bowels: Laxative
54. Disease caught from others: Infectious

56. That which is not possible to justify: Unjustifiable


57. That which is not possible to apply: Inapplicable
58. Not giving attention: Inattentive

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55. That which cannot be escaped from: Inescapable

59. That which cannot be withdrawn or cancelled: Irrevocable


60. That which cannot be refuted: Irrefutable
61. Perfectly beyond answer: Unanswerable

nZ

62. Cannot be measured: Immeasurable

63. A state in which the succession is through women only: Matriarchy


64. Lasting only a very short time: Ephemeral, Temporary, Transient
65. Deserving all praise: Laudable

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66. That which cannot be recovered: Irrecoverable

67. A person who can disguise the direction from which his voice comes:
Ventriloquist
68. The art practised by statesmen and ambassadors or the skill in managing
international affairs: Diplomacy

mb

69. A speech addressed to oneself: Soliloquy

70. A person who walks while sleeping: Somnambulist


71. A person who is overscrupulous about small details: Meticulous
72. Property inherited by a person from his ancestors: Patrimony
73. Small, trifling ornamental articles: Knick-knacks

Gr
8A

74. Fit to marry: Marriageable

75. Nature belonging to men: Masculine


76. A change surprising enough to be called magical: Transformation,
Metamorphosis
77. At the age of growth between boyhood and youth: Adolescent
78. Easy to carry over long distances: Portable
79. Easy to shape in any desired mould: Pliable
80. Apply the money fraudulently for ones use: Misappropriate

82. Specify by name, one by one all: Enumerate


83. Surround on all sides: Envelope

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81. Interpretation of dreams: Oneirocriticism

84. Ambiguous words to conceal the truth or mislead hearers and readers:
Equivocal
85. Not easily disturbed by sudden misfortune: Unruffled

86. Much too lofty to harbour petty feelings: Magnanimous


87. A graduate of the university of Oxford: Oxonian

89. A ladys umbrella: Parasol


90. A ladys purse: Reticule

nZ

88. A graduate of the university of Cambridge: Cantab

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91. Relating to a barber or his work: Tonsorial


92. Pertaining to tailors or clothes: Sartorial

93. A person who is hard to please: Fastidious


94. A figure with eight sides: Octagon

mb

95. Undue favour shown by a man in high position to his own relatives:
Nepotism
96. A statement that is absolutely clear: Explicit
97. A person who cannot be easily approached: Inaccessible
98. To urge a person to commit a crime: Instigate
99. To root out an evil: Eradicate

Gr
8A

100. To destroy anything completely: Annihilate


101. The act of renouncing the crown by a king: Abdication
102. Morning prayer in a church: Matins
103. Not only blameable, but can also be proceeded against in a court of law:
Culpable
104. Marked by open and effusive exhibition of feelings: Demonstrative
105. Capable of being proved: Demonstrable
106. Of set design: Deliberate

107. Cut off: Amputate

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108. Total abstainer from all alcoholic drinks: teetotaller

109. Believers in the doctrine that the total abolition of war is both possible and
desirable: Pacifist

110. Direct vote of all the electorate of the state to obtain a public expression of
the whole communitys opinion: Referendum, Plebiscite
111. Organized scheme of popularising: Propaganda
112. Without any variation: Uniform

114. A very sad condition: Predicament

nZ

113. Skilfully planning the movements of troops: Manoeuvring

115. So much like one another that it could not be said which was which:
Indistinguishable

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116. Beyond all power of time to destroy:

117. That nothing can avail to appease: Fastidious

118. The quality of doing the right thing at right time and place: Tact
119. The purest and most essential part of the drug: Quintessence

mb

120. The doctrine that human souls migrate into other bodies of animals:
Transmigration
121. That which can be allowed: Permissible
122. That which will last a very long time: Durable, Long-lasting, Permanent
123. The power of seeing everything: Omniscience

Gr
8A

124. The power of being present everywhere: Omnipresence


125. Emitting a bad smell: Foul-smelling, Malodorous
126. That which cannot be surmounted or overcome: Insurmountable
127. One who acts between two or more parties: Intermediary
128. Give and receive mutually: Reciprocate
129. Walking from place to place on business: Itinerant, Peripatetic
130. Cessation of hostilities before a formal treaty is signed: Armistice
131. That which can be wounded or penetrated: Invulnerable

132. The loyalty of subjects to their sovereign and Government: Allegiance

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133. One who is learned in the science dealing with bird life: Ornithologist
134. Composed of elements highly diverse in character: Heterogeneous
135. At one and the same time: Simultaneous

136. Assailing the use of images in religious worship: Iconoclast

137. The power of reading the thoughts or mind of others immediately:


Thought-reading, Telepathy
138. Very pleasing to eat: Toothsome

nZ

139. One who can use both hands with equal facility: Ambidextrous
140. Self-generated; free of external incitement: Spontaneous
141. Evening prayer in a church: Vespers

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142. To use expressive motion of limbs while speaking: Gesticulate


143. To express disapproval of anything or any person: Deprecate
144. Literary theft: Plagiarism

145. To frighten a person with the purpose of getting something out of him:
Coerce

mb

146. A self-evident truth: Truism

147. To happen simultaneously with another event: Synchronize


148. Allowance paid by a husband to his wife on legal separation: Alimony
149. New-coined word: Neologism

150. Examination of the body of a dead person: Post-mortem

Gr
8A

151. A drug that induce sleep: Narcotic

152. A person who suffers from nervous disease: Neurotic


153. A medicine which prevents putrefaction: Antiseptic
154. Things which contain elements of the same nature: Homogeneous
155. Nations engaged in war: Belligerent
156. An effect which has reference to what is past: Retrospective
157. A nation that is fond of fighting: Bellicose

159. Relating to the sun: Solar


160. Relating to the moon: Lunar

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158. A substance which can be easily broken: Brittle, Fragile

161. A round-about way of expressing oneself: Circumlocution


162. To reproduce a passage word for word: Verbatim
163. Money paid to employees on retirement: Gratuity
164. A person who eats vegetables: Vegetarian

nZ

165. A room where dead bodies are kept for post mortem examination: Mortuary
166. To wander from the main theme: Digress
167. A shed of cars: Garage

168. A person who goes on horseback: Equestrian

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169. A place where clothes are kept: Wardrobe

170. Pertaining to land or land owner-ship: Agrarian


171. Practice of spying: Espionage

172. Anything that is marked by dull uniformity: Monotonous


173. A door that is partly open: Ajar

mb

174. Substance capable of burning or used for burning: Incombustible


175. A man whose wife is dead: Widower
176. One who knows many languages: Linguistic, polyglot
177. Incapable of being explained: Inexplicable

Gr
8A

178. Talking disrespectfully of sacred things; to utter profanity about sacred


things: Blasphemy, Sacrilege
179. To compel a person to do a thing by force: Coerce
180. Disease or defect inherited from birth: Congenital
181. Two countries whose frontiers touch each other: Contiguous
182. An insect with many legs: Centipede
183. Science of insects: Entomology
184. The part of the government which makes laws: Legislature

185. The part of the government which enforces laws: Executive

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186. Throw light on something difficult or mysterious: Elucidate


187. A medicine that produces the desired effect: Efficacious
188. A law that is not subject to change: Imputable
189. To involve a person in accusation: Incriminate

190. An extremely talkative person: Garrulous, Talkative, Loquacious

192. Commonplace remarks: Platitude


193. A remedy for all diseases: Panacea

nZ

191. Afternoon performance at a theatre; a cinema show held in the afternoon:


Matinee

194. A person who is indifferent to art or literature: Philistine

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195. Amount paid to a person for work done by him: Remuneration


196. A book, picture etc. produced merely to bring in money: Pot-boiler
197. People who revolt against the government: Rebels
198. Too much official routine; excessive use of formalities in public business:
Red-tapism

mb

199. Reserved in speech; disposed to silence: Reticent


200. To rise and fall in the form of waves: Undulate
201. To establish the justice of a cause: Vindicate
202. A person with a long experience of military or civil service: Veteran
203. Able to keep water out: Water-proof

Gr
8A

204. To take out the man from the debris: Extricate


205. To go from bad to worse: Deteriorate
206. A person who is eighty years old: Octogenarian
207. A bird of passage: Migratory
208. Causing no harm: Innocuous
209. The science of language: Philology
210. Capable of different interpretation: Equivocal

212. Unwilling to do: Reluctant


213. Without end: Interminable
214. Lack of interest: Indifference
215. At the same time: Concurrent
216. In most respects: Substantially
217. In a secret manner: Clandestinely

nZ

218. Something that may be imagined: Conceivable

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211. Mental weariness from lack of occupation: Ennui

219. Without any reticence or reserve: Outspokenly


220. In a complaining manner: Querulously
221. In a very fundamental way: Radically

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222. Beyond all doubts: Conclusively

223. Without regard to differences in quality or theme: Indiscriminately


224. Before ones minds eye: Imaginatively
225. On the surface only: Superficially

226. Without making any noise: Stealthily, Noiselessly

mb

227. Without any mental reservation: Explicitly

228. With a nervous and shaking voice: Tremulously


229. With a great care and thoroughness: Conscientiously
230. Very wisely: Judicially

Gr
8A

231. With uncontrollable emotion and fear: Hysterically


232. With Unremitting effort: Tirelessly
233. Looking at the question from the opposite point of view: Conversely
234. Regardless of expense: Lavishly
235. With complete lack of originality: Slavishly
236. Through an oversight: Inadvertently
237. With intention and determination: Wilfully

239. Before the right time: Prematurely


240. Without reason and poise: Emotionally
241. With skill and resourcefulness: Adroitly

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238. At a very inconvenient time: Inopportunely

242. Without exercising our own independent judgement: Blindly


243. By artificial means: Synthetically
244. Expressing pride in victory: Triumphantly

246. In an extreme way: Severely

nZ

245. In a hesitating way: Tentatively

247. By disposition and character: Temperamentally

248. In a way that no one would notice: Surreptitiously

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249. Perfectly and in every way: Scrupulously


250. With unsatisfied longing at: Wistfully
251. In a quarrelsome way: Aggressively
252. Actively and with energy: Briskly

253. Without impartial consideration: Arbitrarily

mb

254. With anxious fear: Apprehensively


255. In a soft manner: Leniently

256. In a winning manner: Persuasively


257. In a sincere manner: Earnestly

Gr
8A

258. In a lovely manner: Briskly

259. In a friendly way: Amicably


260. Very soon: Presently
261. In a few words: Concisely
262. By hand: Manually

263. By machines: Mechanically


264. So badly: Fatally

266. For the time being: Temporarily


267. In a manner lacking all respect: Disrespectfully
268. By reputation: Reputedly
269. Of ones own free will: Voluntarily
270. With the agreement of all: Unanimously
271. In a manner showing good taste: Tastefully

273. Beyond all hope of recall: Irrevocable

nZ

272. One after another: Successively

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265. Time and again: Constantly

274. In comparison with those of other: Comparatively


275. To be regretted: Regrettable

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276. Every reason to be: Justifiable

277. In its appeal to ones sense of beauty: Aesthetically


278. At the very moment of: Instantaneously
279. Easily influenced: Susceptible

280. Lacking in any sense of responsibility: Irresponsible

mb

281. Cannot answer: Unanswerable

282. Could not be repressed: Irrepressible


283. Absolutely necessary: Indispensible
284. Opposed in nature or character: Incompatible

Gr
8A

285. Very much to be regretted: Regretful


286. Cannot be defended: Indefensible
287. Determined not to be turned aside from or to modify purpose: Intractable
288. Of little or no significance: Negligible
289. Impossible to replace: Irreplaceable
290. Unable to endure: Intolerable
291. Cannot be chosen: Ineligible

292. Cannot be reconciled to each other: Irreconcilable

294. Impossible to pronounce: Unpronounceable


295. Can be divided: Divisible
296. One could imagine: Imaginable

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293. Cannot be understood; Difficult to understand: Unintelligible

297. Fixed so firmly that could not be rooted out: Ineradicable


298. Impossible to define or explain: Inexplicable

300. Without faults: Impeccable

nZ

299. Impossible to put into practice: Impractical

301. Wanting to gain things for itself: Acquisitive

302. Merely humble and meekly unassertive: Submissive

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303. Showing Some sign of: Indicative

304. That which was decisive in shaping something: Formative


305. That was meant to be insulting: Abusive

306. That has had a widespread effect: Pervasive


307. Mournful and sorrowful: Plaintive

mb

308. That which do not work properly: Defective


309. That which Ended in failure: Abortive

310. That was intended to avoid being a direct reply: Evasive


311. That which brings a lot of money: Lucrative

Gr
8A

312. Too prone to wander from one point to another without plan: Discursive
313. Liable to mislead: Deceptive
314. Intended for defending: Defensive
315. An overdose of: Excessive
316. Deep and thorough: Intensive
317. Causing a feeling of disgust: Repulsive
318. Covered with a sticky substance: Adhesive

320. Apt to ask questions: Inquisitive


321. Able to remember facts: Retentive
322. Whose purpose is to describe: Descriptive
323. A great deal of: Extensive

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m

319. Apt to be moved by sudden impulse: Unimpulsive

324. Land that produces crops of a very high yield: Productive

326. Likely to lead to: Conducive


327. Apply to the past: Retrospective

nZ

325. Intentionally irritating of designed to produce a strong reaction:


Provocative

328. Contemptuous and haughty: Supercilious

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329. Unpredictable and ever changing: Capricious


330. Based on terror: Fallacious

331. Thoroughly unpleasant: Obnoxious

332. One who develops faculties at an unusually early age: Precocious


333. That which is not directly relevant to the subject: Extraneous

mb

334. That which seems right or true but are not really so: Specious
335. Of great importance and gravity: Momentous
336. Polite and showing good manners: Courteous
337. To make the people disobey the government: Seditious

Gr
8A

338. Something that spoke about God in a disrespectful or wicked way:


Blasphemous, Sacrilegious
339. Claiming great merit and importance: Presumptuous
340. Threatening or unfavourable: Ominous
341. Likely to cause harm or injury: Injurious
342. Having strength or liveliness: Vivacious
343. Containing something printed likely to damage the character or reputation
of a person: Libellous
344. Full of turns and bends: Tortuous

346. Native; belonging naturally: Indigenous


347. Roundabout or indirect: Circuitous

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345. Plentiful; in abundance: Copious

348. Shocking; beyond all reasonable limits: Outrageous

349. Taking care not to make mistakes or get into danger: Cautious
350. Offering service that is not wanted; intrusive: Officious
351. Taking in unwarranted-liberty: Presumptuous

nZ

352. An open and innocent: Ingenuous


353. Motivated by ill-will and spite: Malicious

354. Very difficult to please or very particular: Fastidious


355. Appear absurd or ridiculous: Ludicrous

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356. Noisy and cheerful: Boisterous

357. Cleverly conceived and original in design: Ingenious


358. Collection of different kinds of (goods): Miscellaneous
359. Of great effort and energy: Strenuous

360. Likely to spread and influence others: Infectious

mb

361. To have a plenty of space: Commodious


362. Natural and unforced: Spontaneous

363. Trees that shed their leaves each year: Deciduous


364. Almost fierce from lack of food: Ravenous

Gr
8A

365. Being of the same mind: Unanimous


366. Hard and intensive: Intensive
367. Difficult; requiring the use of much energy: Arduous
368. Careful to act according to ones conscience; showing a strong sense of
duty: Conscientious
369. Full of a strong desire to do or be something or for success, fame or
honour: Ambitious
370. Untrustworthy or disloyal; not to be depended on: Treacherous

371. Suggesting lavish expenditure; rich and costly: Sumptuous

373. Delighting in infliction of injury: Vicious


374. Thoughtless of others: Inconsiderate
375. Avoiding extremes: Moderate
376. Permitted by law: Legitimate
377. In proper proportion with: Commensurate

nZ

378. Having little or no hope: Desperate

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372. Merry or gay, usually in a rather noisy way: Boisterous

379. Possessed from birth; in ones nature: Innate


380. Inflexible of will or stubborn: Obstinate

381. Insistent on ones demands: Importunate

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382. Proportionate to the requirements: Adequate

383. Settled and not impulsive or lively; quiet, calm, grave: Sedate
384. Dominated by or easily giving way to strong feelings: Passionate
385. Richly adorned, not simple in style: Ornate

386. Requiring nice handling, critical, ticklish: Delicate

mb

387. Work together with someone: Cooperate

388. Instil a particular set of beliefs into: Inculcate


389. Lower the dignity or self-respect of; mortify; belittle: Humiliate
390. Make worse: Aggravate, Deteriorate

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8A

391. Make complex: Complicate


392. Make drunk: Intoxicate

393. Put together; invent: Fabricate


394. Make easy: Facilitate
395. Play the part of another person: Impersonate
396. Make bad or impure: Contaminate
397. Break up land to prepare it for crops; pay attention to; cherish: Cultivate

399. Pull up by the roots; get rid of: Exterminate


400. Utterly destroy: Annihilate
401. Take part in: Participate
402. Make enquiries into: Investigate
403. Soak thoroughly: Saturate
404. Restore to good condition: Renovate

406. Estimate too highly: Exaggerate


407. Propose for election: Nominate

nZ

405. Fill with holes: Perforate

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398. Win over; regain ones good will or esteem; soothe; Conciliate: Pacify

408. Fill with fury; make very angry; enrage: Infuriate

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409. Turn into vapours: Evaporate


410. Subject to questioning: Interrogate

411. Have commanding influence and position: Dominate


412. Supply land with water: Irrigate

413. Preserve in memory by celebration: Commemorate

mb

414. Try to do as well as or better than: Emulate

415. Enter into; pierce; discern a persons mind: Penetrate


416. Look forward to a thing before it comes: Anticipate

Gr
8A

417. Buy or sell where there is a great chance of loss and a great chance of
gain: Speculate
418. Go round axis; revolve: Rotate
419. Go through the main points again: Recapitulate
420. Place apart or alone: Isolate
421. Look at or think about seriously: Contemplate
422. Make pure: Purify

423. calm down angry feelings: Soothe, Pacify


424. Insure against loss: Indemnify

426. Go rotten: Putrefy


427. Put right: Rectify
428. Invest with glory: Glorify
429. Strengthen morally or physically: Fortify
430. Confirm or formally accept an agreement: Ratify
431. Give notice of; report: Notify

nZ

432. Make false or incorrect: Falsify

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425. Make clear: Clarify

433. Make or become hard or firm: Strengthen

434. Bear witness; serve as evidence of: Testify


435. Check the truth or accuracy of: Verify

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436. Make null and void: Nullify

437. Fill with horror, puzzle, bewilder: Horrify


438. Make or become liquid: Liquefy

439. Arrange in classes, put in groups: Classify


440. Show to be reasonable or proper: Justify

mb

441. Make or become more intense: Intensify


442. Illustrate by example: Exemplify
443. Make larger or fuller: Amplify
444. Unite, form into one: Unify

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8A

445. The art of cultivating the land: Agriculture


446. Not subject to death: Immortal
447. Of a disposition inclining to cast doubt upon generally accepted opinions:
Sceptical
448. In process of dying: Moribund
449. A letter of certificate testifying to ones character or fitness for a position:
Testimonial
450. Handed down from one generation of a family to another: Bequeathed

451. A charge put on foreign goods entering the country: Customs

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452. A position in which one has to choose between two courses both of which
seem equally undesirable: Dilemma
453. A list of articles in an estate or a house with a brief description of each:
Inventory

454. To take by force the power or position which rightfully belongs to another:
Usurp

456. A state of great disorder: Chaos

nZ

455. A summary of a document in which only the important points are included:
Synopsis

457. A settlement to a dispute in which each side concedes something to the


other: Compromise
458. To clear from blame or accusation: Exonerate

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459. That which cannot be doubted: Indubitable

460. One who is an expert in the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting skins:
Taxidermist
461. Food that is tasteless and wanting in flavour is: Insipid
462. That cannot be surmounted: Insurmountable

mb

463. That is harmless, not poisonous: Innocuous

464. That cannot be explained or accounted for: Insoluble


465. That cannot be taken out: Indelible
466. Unable to speak distinctly: Inarticulate

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8A

467. Who is incurably bad: Incorrigible

468. Which is not decisive or convincing: Inconclusive


469. Who cannot be tired out: Inexhaustible
470. That which cannot be explained: Inexplicable
471. That can never come to an end: Interminable
472. To spring from seed: Germinate
473. To come to a climax; to reach its highest point: Culminate
474. To murder by surprise or secret assault: Assassinate

476. To maintain successfully the cause of: Vindicate

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475. To surrender especially on terms: Capitulate

477. To seize by authority; to appropriate to the public treasury by way of


penalty: Confiscate
478. To make up on the spur of the moment: Improvise
479. To remove offend portion of a book: Excise

480. To utter ones thought aloud when alone: Soliloquise

482. To have sole control of: Monopoly


483. To drive out an evil spirit: Exorcise

nZ

481. To lay a solemn curse on: Anathematise

484. To habituate animals, plants or oneself to a new climate: Acclimatise

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485. To become antiquated or incapable of further development: Fossilise


486. To admit an alien to citizenship, to introduce into another country:
Naturalize
487. Not likely to be true: Dubious
488. Far distant: Remote

mb

489. A scientific study of fishes: Ichthyology

490. A scientific study of birds, eggs: Oology


491. A scientific study of the development and nature and laws of human
society: Sociology
492. A study of Chinese, their history, religion, literature is called: Sinology

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493. A study of coins is called: Numismatics, Numismatology


494. A place in which public records are kept: Archives
495. A place where birds are kept: Aviary
496. A place where weapons are stored or manufactured: Arsenal
497. The place where bees are kept: Apiary
498. A company of merchants crossing a desert: Caravan
499. A drink made from the juice of apples: Cider
500. A drink made from the juice of pears: Perry

501. A person who enquires into sudden deaths: Coroner

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502. That part of the roof which projects beyond the walls: Eaves

503. One who stands under the eaves(or near a window or door) to listen:
Eavesdropper
504. Pertaining to cats: Feline
505. Pertaining to dogs: Canine

506. A light open trough used by a bricklayer to carry bricks, mortar: Hood
507. The central stone of an arch: Keystone

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508. Place where explosive are kept: Magazine

509. The tall buildings in America: Skyscrapers


510. The flesh of the calves: Veal

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511. The flesh of the deer: Venison

512. One who abandons his principles or party: Turncoat, Renegade, Apostate
513. A nut that has no kernel: Deaf-nut

514. Things given, kept etc. recall the past, some occasion or place: Souvenir,
Memento

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515. A child nursed not by its parents: Foster-child


516. A wound not healed: Green-wound
517. Something to terrify birds: Scarecrow
518. One who speaks for others: Spokesman
519. What does not burn: Incombustible

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520. The head of a notorious party: Ring-leader


521. That vote that decides: Casting-vote
522. Relating to the sense of hearing: Acoustic
523. The art of preparing, stuffing and mounting skins: Taxidermy
524. The study or science of population: Demography
525. Drag through the mud: Disgrace
526. Gave and take: Reciprocity

527. Up in arms: Quarrelsome

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528. Wise as a serpent: Astute


529. With a sparing hand: Stingily
530. Keep open house: Entertain
531. By fits and starts: Capriciously
532. Busy as a bee: Diligent
533. Diamond cut diamond: Retaliation

535. Keep at bay: Repel


536. Hold at arms length: Unfriendly
537. In every ones mouth: Current

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538. Pour water into a sieve: Prodigality

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534. Neither more nor less: Exactly

539. Call in question: Doubt or Challenge

540. In the front rank: Important, Prominent

541. Science of diseases of women: Gynaecology

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542. Branch of medicine and surgery dealing with midwifery, childbirth its
antecedents and sequels: Obstetrics
543. Public slaughterhouse: Abattoir

544. Too strange to be believed: Incredible


545. Without making any noise: Noiselessly

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546. Formally renounce the crown: Abdicate


547. Before a moment had elapsed: Instantaneously
548. Not once or twice, but several times: Frequent
549. Not in accordance with the facts: False
550. Go off from the main subject of discourse: digress
551. The last thing anyone would have expected of: Unthinkable
552. Daily allowance of food: Ration
553. Decorate with lights: Illuminate

554. Systematic study of election trends: Psephology.

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555. Do away with wholly: Abolish.

556. A shortened form of a word or phrase: Abbreviation.

557. To increase the speed; to hasten the progress of: Accelerate.

558. To increase the gravity of an offence or the intensity of a disease:


Aggravate.
559. To turn friends in enemies: Alienate.

560. One who does something not professionally but for pleasure: Amateur.

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561. A diplomatic minister of the higher order sent by a country to another:


Ambassador, Diplomat, Envoy.
562. A statement open to more than interpretation: Ambiguous.
563. Having opposing feelings: Ambivalent.

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564. A letter, poem etc. whose author is unknown: Anonymous.


565. Absence of government: Anarchy.

566. A person liable to be called to account for his action: Answerable.


567. To rise in value: Appreciate.

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568. To go down in value: Depreciate.

569. One who does not believe in the existence of God: Atheist.
570. One who believe in God: Theist.

571. One who makes an official examination of accounts: Auditor.


572. The life story of a man written by himself: Autobiography.

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573. Life story of a man written by other: Biography


574. Government by the officials: Bureaucracy.
575. Government by the people: Democracy.
576. To take away some ones right to vote: Disenfranchisement.
577. The science which treats with life: Biology.
578. One who has narrow and prejudiced religious views: Bigot.
579. A member of the middle class: Bourgeois.

581. One who damages public property: Vandal.

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580. General pardon: Amnesty.

582. One who does not care for art, literature etc.: Philistine.

583. People working together in the same office or department: Colleagues.


584. Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth: Con-genital.
585. Men living in the same age: Contemporary.

586. One who can make himself at home in all countries: Cosmopolitan.

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587. A person who believes easily whatever he is told: Credulous.


588. To give ones authority to another: Delegate.

589. A game or batter in which neither party wins: Drawn.


590. A thing that is fit to be eaten: Edible.

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591. Water fit for drinking: Potable.


592. Study of environment: Ecology.

593. One who thinks only for oneself: Egoist.

594. One who is qualifies for election: Eligible.

595. To explain something mysterious or difficult: Elucidate.

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596. To lay special stress on: Emphasize.

597. A state of perfect balance: Equilibrium.


598. To root out an evil, disease: Eradicate.

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599. A speech delivered without any previous preparation: Extempore or


Impromptu.
600. A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion: Fanatic.
601. An exact copy: Facsimile
602. One who is not easily pleased: Fastidious
603. A medicine that kills germs: Germicide.
604. Work for which no salary is paid: Honorary.
605. One who feels sympathetic towards human beings: Humanitarian.
606. An office with high salary but no work: Sinecure.

608. A trade that is prohibited by law: Illicit.


609. One who cannot read or write: Illiterate.
610. Science of coins or medals: Numismatics.
611. Misappropriation of money: Embezzlement.
612. A sound that cannot be heard: Inaudible.

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607. That which cannot be read: Illegible.

613. A statement which cannot be understood: Incomprehensible.

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614. One who cannot be corrected: Incorrigible.


615. That which cannot be explained: Inexplicable.

616. A method that cannot be imitated: Inimitable.


617. That which cannot be satisfied: Insatiable.

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618. One who is unable to pay his debts: Insolvent.


619. That which cannot be hurt: Invulnerable.

620. The action of looking back on past time: Introspection.


621. A thing that cannot be seen with human eyes: Invisible.
622. Looking into ones own thoughts: Introspection.

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623. Remarks which do not ally apply to the subject under discussion:
Irrelevant.
624. A loss of damage that cannot be compensated: Irreparable.
625. That cannot be altered or withdrawn: Irrevocable.

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626. The area over which an official has control: Jurisdiction.


627. The first speech made by a person: Maiden.
628. Hater of mankind: Misanthropist.
629. Lover of mankind: Philanthropist.
630. A silly person: Goose
631. A person who lives a wandering life: Vagabond
632. Social position or rank: Status
633. Someone who knows a lot about the subject: Scholar

635. A building in which monks live: Monastery

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634. Deeply religious: Pious

636. An instrument used to see distant objects :Telescope


637. A person who is slow to learn: Dunce
638. The path in which planets move :Orbit

639. A permit from an authority to own, use or do something: Licence

640. One who does the scientific study of the sun, the moon, etc.: Astronomer

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641. The study or practice of travelling through the air: Aeronautics


642. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft :Astronaut
643. Say a prayer in singing voice :Chant
644. Visit a place often: Haunt

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645. Final release from rebirth : Deliverance

646. A person who loves money and hates spending it: Miser
647. An ugly woman: Hag

648. An animal that is cruel and dangerous :Beast


649. Skilful in inventing: Ingenious

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650. Say publicly that something important is true: Proclaim


651. To be disloyal to someone who trusts you: Betray
652. Situation in which everything is happening in a confused way: Chaotic

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653. A drink usually made from a mixture of one or more alcoholic drinks:
Cocktail
654. A loose piece of clothing without sleeves: Mantle
655. A painting, drawing or photograph of a person especially of the head and
shoulders: Portrait
656. To make someone angry: Grieve
657. Height above sea level :Altitude
658. To shift people from a place of danger to a safer place :Evacuate
659. To cause to feel no pain: Numb

660. Men who work on shores loading unloading ships: Longshoremen

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661. Name shared by all the members of a family: Surname

662. One who is very eager for knowledge and reads a lot: Voracious
663. A flightless bird now extinct : Dodo
664. Storehouse for grains :Granary
665. Animals that live in a particular region: Fauna
666. A place in a house where food is kept: Storeroom

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667. A person who belongs to another country: Foreigner


668. Study of ancient monuments and arts: Archaeology

669. Science which deals with the study of living beings: Biology
670. Science of earths crust and the interior strata: Geology

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671. The art of understanding the influence of heavenly bodies: Astrology


672. To seek protection from danger: Refuge

673. One who presides over the function: President

674. A man servant who serves at the table: Waiter


675. Waste material: Garbage

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676. One who makes furniture: Carpenter


677. One who treats patients: Doctor

678. One who can read and write: Literate


679. A place where prisoners are kept: Jail / Gaol

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680. One who does farming: Farmer

681. A poem of fourteen (14) lines: Sonnet


682. A book where you find meanings for words: Dictionary
683. A document with a code of laws which checks both ruler and ruled:
Constitution
684. A period of one hundred years (100 years) : Century
685. A light pleasure boat: Yacht
686. Short stories with an element of moral : Fable

688. A person who writes novels: Novelist

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687. Red or yellow burning gas seen when something is on: Flame

689. A document allowing persons to travel abroad: Passport


690. One who looks only at the darker side of life: Pessimist
691. One who looks at the brighter side of life: Optimist
692. A place where horses are kept : Stable
693. A type of small dog with a turned up nose: Pug

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694. Remains of prehistoric animal or plant preserved by being buried in earth:


Fossils
695. A place where meals are sold and eaten: Restaurant
696. Things given or received as gift: Present

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697. A man who does not know how to read and write: Illiterate

698. A large number of people or animals suffering from the same kind of
disease at the same time: Epidemic
699. A book giving information on all branches of knowledge: Encyclopaedia
700. Liquid waste that flows out from a factory: Effluents

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701. A living creature that is so small that it cannot be seen without a


microscope and that may cause diseases: Microbe
702. Part of the earth where life is found: Biosphere
703. The act of killing oneself: Suicide

704. Soldiers who fight on horseback: Cavalry

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705. Soldiers who fight on foot: Infantry


706. Strong rush of air, rain, smoke etc. carried by wind: Gust
707. A person who uses his strength or power to frighten or hurt others: Bully
708. A part of a horses harness that goes on to its head: Bridle
709. A sudden rush of frightened animals: Stampede
710. A person who has been found guilty and is being punished: Criminal
711. A person who does banking business: Banker
712. A mad person: Lunatic

713. A person who is in charge of keys of a prison: Turnkeys

715. One who is unable to pay his debts: Bankrupt


716. Long hard journey especially on foot: Trek
717. Group of people living together: Community

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714. A person in charge of a jail and the prisoners in it: Jailor

718. A group of soldiers living in a town or a fort, and defending it: Garrison
719. Flesh and Vegetable eating animals: Omnivorous

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720. Plants of a particular region: Flora


721. Government by small groups: Oligarchy

722. A policeman in ordinary clothes while on duty: Plainclothesman


723. A person who flies an aeroplane: Pilot

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724. Number of books housed in one building: Library


725. A person who studies Physics: Physicist

726. A mark remaining on the skin from a wound: Scar


727. Making someone angry: Provoke

728. Difficulty in breathing: Suffocation

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729. Special quality not found anywhere: Uniqueness

730. To make impure by mixing dirty or poisonous matter: Contaminate


731. A person who writes poems: Poet

732. One who is out to subvert a government: Anarchist

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733. One who is recovering from illness: Convalescent


734. One who is all powerful: Omnipotent
735. One who is present everywhere: Omnipresent
736. One who knows everything: Omniscient
737. One who is easily deceived: Gullible, Credulous
738. One who does not make mistakes: Infallible
739. One who can do anything for money: Mercenary

741. One who changes sides: Turncoat


742. One who works for free: Volunteer
743. One who loves books: Bibliophile
744. One who can speak two languages: Bilingual
745. One who hates mankind: Misanthrope
746. One who doubts the existence of god: Agnostic

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740. One who has no money: Pauper, bankrupt

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747. One who pretends to be what he is not: Hypocrite


748. One incapable of being tired: Indefatigable
749. One who helps others Good: Samaritan

750. One who copies from other writers: Plagiarist

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751. One who hates women: Misogynist

752. One who knows many languages: Polyglot

753. One who is fond of sensuous pleasures: Epicure

754. One who thinks only of welfare of women: Feminist


755. One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain: Stoic

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756. One who is quite like a woman: Effeminate


757. One who has strange habits: Eccentric
758. One who speaks less: Reticent

759. One who goes on foot: Pedestrian

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760. One who believes in fate: Fatalist

761. One who dies without a Will: Intestate


762. One who always thinks himself to be ill: Valetudinarian
763. A Government by a king or queen: Monarchy
764. A Government by the rich: Plutocracy
765. A Government by the Nobles: Aristocracy
766. A Government by one: Autocracy

768. That through which light can pass: Transparent


769. That through which light cannot pass: Opaque

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767. Rule by the mob: Mobocracy

770. That through which light can partly pass: Translucent


771. A sentence whose meaning is unclear: Ambiguous
772. A place where orphans live: Orphanage
773. That which cannot be described: Indescribable

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774. That which cannot be avoided: Inevitable


775. That which cannot be defended: Indefensible
776. Practice of having several wives: Polygamy

777. Practice of having several husbands: Polyandry

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778. Practice of having one wife or husband: Monogamy


779. Practice of having two wives or husbands: Bigamy
780. That which is not likely to happen: Improbable

781. People living at the same time: Contemporaries

782. A book published after the death of its author: Posthumous

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783. One who eats too much: Glutton

784. One who questions everything: Cynic


785. A flesh eating animal: Carnivorous

786. A grass eating animal: Herbivorous

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787. One who lives in a foreign country: Immigrant


788. To transfer one's authority to another: Delegate
789. One who is a newcomer: Neophyte
790. That which is lawful: Legal
791. That which is against law: Illegal
792. One who is unmarried: Celibate
793. A study of man: Anthropology

795. A study of the body: Physiology


796. A study of animals: Zoology
797. A study of birds: Ornithology
798. A study of ancient things: Archaeology
799. A study of derivation of words: Etymology
800. Murder of a human being: Homicide

802. Murder of a mother: Matricide


803. Murder of an brother: Fratricide
804. Murder of an infant: Infanticide

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805. Murder of the king: Regicide

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801. Murder of a father: Patricide

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794. A study of races: Ethnology

806. To free somebody from all blame: Exonerate, absolve from


807. To write under a different name: Pseudonym
808. A thing no longer in use: Obsolete

809. Words written on the tomb of a person: Epitaph

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810. One who is greedy for money: Avaricious


811. A person's peculiar habit: Idiosyncrasy

812. An animal who preys on other animals: Predator


813. Violating the sanctity of a church: Sacrilege

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814. Not normal: Abnormal


815. Go with: Accompany

816. Succeed in doing: Accomplish


817. Take as one's own: Adopt
818. By oneself: Alone

819. Once a year: Annually


820. Become invisible: Disappear

821. Express approval by clapping: Applaud

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822. Loud enough to be heard: Audible


823. Keep oneself away from: Avoid
824. At the back of: Behind
825. Not sharp: Blunt
826. Period of 100 years: Century
827. Low in cost or value: Cheap

829. Never ending: Continually


830. Without interval: Continuous
831. Move on hands and knees: Crawl

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832. Lame person: Cripple

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828. Comfort in time of sorrow: Console

833. Period of 10 years: Decade

834. Move up one's mind: Decide

835. Go out of sight or existence: Disappear


836. Find out: Discover

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837. Far away: Distant

838. Long spell of dry weather: Drought


839. Suitable for eating: Edible

840. Qualified to be chosen: Eligible

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841. Leave one country and go to settle in another: Emigrate


842. Put up with: Endure
843. Way in: Entrance

844. Time that has no limit: Eternity


845. Way out: Exit

846. Show clearly the meaning of: Explain


847. Send goods to another country for sales: Export

849. Able to bend easily without breaking: Flexible


850. Go or come after: Follow
851. Period of two weeks: Fortnight
852. Easily broken: Fragile
853. Physically weak: Frail

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848. Extreme scarcity of food: Famine

854. Small articles of dress, sewing-goods, etc: Haberdashery

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855. Suitable for living in: Habitable

856. An animal's or plant's natural environment: Habitat


857. Doing something constantly: Habitual
858. Argue about price of goods: Haggle

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859. Suffering from a mental or physical disability: Handicapped


860. Spend the winter in sleep: Hibernate
861. Push roughly: Hustle

862. Who or what a person is: Identity


863. Doing no work or lazy: Idle

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864. Light up: Illuminate

865. Make clear by examples or pictures: Illustrate


866. Without any delay: Immediately

867. Come into a foreign country as a permanent resident: Immigrate

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868. Living forever: Immortal

869. Become better: Improve


870. Incapable of being wrong: Infallible
871. Not guilty: Innocent
872. Cannot be conquered: Invincible
873. Cannot be seen: Invisible
874. Cannot be repaired: Irreparable

876. Person who is insane or very foolish: Lunatic


877. Dumb person: Mute
878. Person living next door: Neighbour
879. Well-known in an unfavourable way: Notorious
880. Happening from time to time: Occasionally

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875. Unable to walk normally: Lame

881. Person who takes a hopeful views of things: Optimist

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882. Father and mother: Parents


883. Person walking in a street: Pedestrian

884. Person who takes a gloomy views of things: Pessimist


885. Science and art of government: Politics

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886. Liked by many people: Popular


887. Put off until a later time: Postpone
888. On time: Punctual

889. Four-legged animal: Quadruped


890. With little or no sound: Quiet

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891. Again and again: Repeatedly


892. Come or go back: Return
893. Make known: Reveal
894. Turn round: Revolve

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895. Make along piercing cry or sound: Scream


896. Loud cry: Shout

897. In a short time: Soon


898. Person who watches a show or game or incident: Spectator
899. Not fresh: Stale

900. Look long and steadily: Stare


901. Remain alive or in existence: Survive

902. Go from one place to another: Travel

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903. Able to be seen through: Transparent


904. Not occupied: Uninhabited
905. Of no use: Useless
906. Surrounding district: Vicinity
907. Once a week: Weekly
908. Speak softly: Whisper

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909. Young person: Youth


910. Group of people who watch a show: Audience
911. Having an evil reputation: Notorious
912. One who is new to a profession:

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913. Collection of coins: Numismatics

914. Fear of darkness: Nyctophobia and Scotophobia


915. One which is not in use, out-dated: Obsolete
916. Study of mountains: Orography

917. Fear of mountains: Alpine phobia

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918. Fear of snakes: Ophidiophobia or ophiophobia


919. A child whose parents are dead: Orphan
920. Study Of Correct spelling: Orthography
921. Study of ancient writing: Palaeography

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922. A cure for all diseases: Panacea

923. Fear of everything: Pan phobia or Panto phobia


924. Belief of God in nature: Pantheism. "Pan" is Greek for English "All".
"Theism" is from the Greek "Theos" which means "God". "All is God".
925. A temporary release allowed on certain conditions: Bail
926. Killing one's own father: Patricide
927. Property inherited from ones father or ancestor: Patrimony
928. A home for pigs: Pigsty or Pigpen

930. Fear of eating: Phagophobia


931. Fear of drugs: Pharmacopobia
932. Fear of ghosts: Phasmophobia
933. Fear of sound: Acousticophobia
934. Fear of light: Photophobia
935. Study of languages: Linguistics

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936. A figure with many angles or sides: Polygon

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929. That which is everlasting:

937. A forecast of the result of a disease of illness: The prognosis (Greek for
knowing the future)
938. Fear of fever: Pyrexiophobia

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939. Fear of fire: Arsnophobia

940. Confinement to one place to avoid spread of infection: Quarantine


941. A person who lives by himself: Hermit or Recluse
942. Asking everyone for an opinion: Census

943. An institution for reforming young offenders: Reformatory

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944. To send back a person to his own country: Deportation or Extradition


945. The art of elegant speech or writing: Rhetoric
946. Violating or profaning religious things: Blasphemy
947. An instrument for detecting earthquakes: Richter Scale

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948. A case in which sword is kept: Scabbard


949. One who talks in sleep: Sleep-talking or Somniloquy
950. Killing one's own sister: Sororicide
951. One who is a habitual drunker: Drunkard
952. That which is a government by the military class: Dictatorship
953. Fear of hell: Hadephobia
954. A person who abstains from alcoholic drinks: Teetotaller
955. Fear of death: Thanatophobia

957. A brides outfit: Trousseau.


958. An imaginary ideal state: Utopia
959. Killing one's own wife: Uxoricide
960. One extremely fond of one's wife: Uxorious
961. Fear of foreigners: Xenophobia
962. Fear of animals: Zoophobia

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956. Fear of hair: Trichophobia

964. Collection of stamps: Philately


965. Excessive desire for money: Avarice
966. Study of mind: Psychology

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963. One who donates liberally for good causes: Altruist

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967. A speech by the dramatist at the beginning of the play: Epilogue


968. One who attends to the diseases of the eye: Oculist
969. One who tests eyesight and sell spectacles: Optician
970. One who attends to sick people and prescribes medicines: Physician
971. One who compounds and sells drugs: Druggist

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972. One who compounds and sells drugs: Pharmacist


973. One who treats disease by performing operations: Surgeon
974. One who attends to the teeth: Dentist
975. One skilled in the care of hands and feet: Chiropodist

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976. One who treats diseases by rubbing the muscles: Masseur


977. A physician who assists women in child-birth: Obstetrician
978. A physician who assists women in child-birth: Accoucher
979. One who drives a motor-car: Chauffeur
980. One who attends to an engine: Engineer
981. One who attends to sick people and prescribes medicines: Doctor
982. The person in charge of a ship: Captain

984. One who carves in stone: Sculptor


985. One who cuts precious stone: Lapidar
986. One who cuts precious stone: Lapidist
987. One who writes for the newspaper: Journalist
988. One who writes for the newspaper: Reporter

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983. The commander of a fleet: Admiral

989. One who writes for the newspaper: Correspondent

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990. One who sets type for books: compositor

991. One who draws and plans the design of the building: Architect
992. One who draws plans: Draughtsman
993. One who deals in flowers: Florist

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994. One who deals in fruits: Fruiterer


995. One who deals in cattle: Drover

996. One who sells fruits or vegetables: Costermonger


997. One who sells iron and hardware: Ironmonger
998. One who deals in medicinal herbs: Herbalist

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999. One who deals in fish: fishmonger


1000. One who deals in furs: furrier

1001. One who works in glass: Glazier

1002. One who deals in wines: Vintner

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1003. One who works mending water pipes: Plumber


1004. One who attends to the fire of steam engine: Stoker
1005. One who makes barrels: Cooper
1006. One employed to do excavating works: Navvy
1007. One who makes and sells ladies hats: Milliner
1008. One who sells small articles such as ribbons or thread or laces:
Haberdasher
1009. One who deals in cloths and other fabrics: draper

1011. A professional rider in horse races: Jockey


1012. One who shoes horses: Farrier
1013. One who studies rocks and soils: Geologist

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1010. One who deals in silk: Mercer

1014. One who studies the past through the objects left behind: Archaeologist
1015. One who studies the stars: Astronomer
1016. One who flies an aero plane: Pilot

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1017. One who flies an aero plane: Aviator


1018. One who works in a coal-mine: Collier

1019. An institution for the education in the Arts and Sciences: Polytechnic

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1020. The study of all heavenly bodies and the earth in relation to them:
Astronomy
1021. The art of tilling the soil: Agriculture

1022. The art of cultivating and managing gardens: Horticulture


1023. The Science of land management: Agronomics
1024. The science of family descent: Genealogy

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1025. The study of ancient building and prehistoric remains: Archaeology


1026. The study of ancient writings: Palaeography
1027. The art of beautiful hand-writing: Calligraphy
1028. The art of metal working: Metallurgy

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1029. The study of coins: Numismatics

1030. The study of numbers: Mathematics


1031. The art of measuring lands: Surveying
1032. The science of triangles: Trigonometry
1033. The art of preserving skins: Taxidermy
1034. The art of making fire-works: Pyrotechnics
1035. The science of colours: Chromatics
1036. The art of elegant speech and writing: Rhetoric

1037. The art of effective speaking: Elocution

1039. The study of mankind: Anthropology

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1038. The art of telling the future by the study of the stars: Astrology

1040. The science which deals with the varieties of human-kinds: Ethnology
1041. The science of the structure of the human-body: Anatomy

1042. The science which deals with the way in which the human-body works:
Physiology
1043. The scientific study of industrial arts: Technology

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1044. The study of the human-mind: Psychology


1045. The study of human face: Physiognomy
1046. The study of living matter: Biology

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1047. The study of plants: Botany


1048. The study of animals: Zoology

1049. The study of rocks and soils: Geology


1050. The study of birds: Ornithology
1051. The study of egg: Oology

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1052. The study of mountains: Orology

1053. The study of languages: Philology


1054. The study of origin and history of words: Etymology
1055. The study of stars: Astronomy

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1056. The study of lakes: Limnology

1057. killing of a foetus: Abortion, Aborticide


1058. killer of algae: Algaecide
1059. murder of a friend: Amicicide
1060. killer of aphids: Aphicide
1061. killing of birds: Avicide
1062. killer of bacteria: Bacillicide
1063. killer of bacteria: Bactericide

1064. killing living material: Biocide

1066. killing of whales and other cetaceans: Ceticide


1067. substance used to kill bed-bugs: Cimicide
1068. destruction or killing of a god: Deicide
1069. destruction of the environment: Ecocide
1070. killing of bishops: Episcopicide

1072. killing of a woman: Femicide


1073. killing of a foetus: Feticide
1074. killing of one's own child: Filicide

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1075. killing or killer of flowers: Floricide

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1071. killing of a cat: Felicide

1076. killing a foetus: Foeticide

1077. substance that kills ants: Formicide


1078. killing of one's brother: Fratricide
1079. killing of fungus: Fungicide

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1080. killing of a race or ethnic group: Genocide


1081. substance that kills germs: Germicide
1082. killing of a giant: Gianticide

1083. killing of women: Gynaecide

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1084. killing of plants: Herbicide

1085. killing of heretics: Hereticide


1086. killing of a human being: Homicide
1087. killing of an infant: Infanticide
1088. killing of insects: Insecticide
1089. killing of larvae: Larvicide
1090. destruction of liberty: Liberticide

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1065. slaughter of cattle; one who kills cattle: bovicide

1092. killing or killer of one's husband: Mariticide


1093. killing of one's mother: Matricide

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1091. killing of a wolf: Lupicide

1094. reduction of mind by psychological pressure: Menticide


1095. killing or killer of microbes: Microbicide
1096. agent which kills mites: Miticide
1097. killing of mollusc: Molluscicide

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1098. substance for killing flies: Muscicide


1099. killing or killer of a newborn infant: Neonaticide
1100. killing insect eggs: Ovicide
1101. killing of parasites: Parasiticide

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1102. harmful act appearing to be an attempt at suicide: Parasuicide


1103. killing or killer of one's parents: Parenticide

1104. killing of parents or a parent-like close relative: Parricide


1105. killing of one's father: Patricide
1106. killer of partridges: Perdricide

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1107. killing of pests: Pesticide

1108. killing of offspring; killing of the human race: Prolicide


1109. flea-killer: Pullicide

1110. substance or person who kills rats: Raticide

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1111. killing of a monarch: Regicide

1112. killing of rodents: Rodenticide


1113. killing of old men: Senicide
1114. killing or killer of a snake: Serpenticide
1115. killing or killer of a sibling: Siblicide
1116. substance that kills trees: Silvicide
1117. killing of one's own sister: Soriricide

1119. killing of sperm: Spermicide


1120. killing of spores: Sporiricide
1121. killing of oneself: Suicide
1122. killing of tapeworms: Taeniacide
1123. killing or killer of a bull: Tauricide
1124. killing of trypanosomes: Trypanocide

1126. destruction of a city: Urbicide


1127. killing or killer of a bear: Ursicide
1128. killing of one's own wife: Uxoricide

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1125. killing or killer of a tyrant: Tyrannicide

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1118. destruction of an entire species: Speciocide

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1129. killing or killer of a prophet: Vaticide

1130. destroying the meaning of a word: Verbicide


1131. killing of worms: Vermicide

1132. substance or person who kills wasps: Vespacide


1133. killing of viruses: Virucide

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1134. killing of a fox: Vulpicide

1135. something that kills weeds: Weedicide


More One Word Substitution:
ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

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A country ruled by two country -Condominium

* A dramatic performance -Masque


* A ladys purse -Reticule
* A man of odd habits -Eccentric
* A man who dances to the tunes of his wife -Henpecked
* A nation engaged in war -Belligerent

* A person behind time -Antiquated

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* A person who wishes to throw his establishment - Anarchist


* A place of good climate -Sanatorium

* A place of washing dishes adjoining kitchen -Scullery


* A religious song -Hymn
* A remarkable talent - Prodigy
* A short but amusing story - Anecdote

* Act of killing ones wife - Uxoricide


* An animal story with a moral -Fable

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* A verse letter -Epistle

* An instrument for viewing objects at a distance - Telescope

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* An unknown person - Anonymous

* Animals living on land and in water - Amphibian

* Appointment by two parties to settle a dispute - Arbiter


* Art of cutting tree and bushes into ornamental shape -Topiary
* At the same time - Contemporary

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* Award given after death - Posthumous

* Borrow ideas and steal others words is called -Plagiarism


* Care taker of a public building -Custodian
* Change ones mind too quickly -Vacillation

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* Congratulate somebody in formal manner -Felicitate


* Contempt of God -Blasphemy
* Creature having both male and female organs -Hermaphrodite
* Cure for all disease -Panacea
* Custom of having many husbands - Polyandry
* Custom of having many wives -Polygamy
* Dealing of counterfeit things -Forgery

* Disease which is spread by contact - Contagious

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* Doctor who treats children -Pediatrician


* Equal in rank -Peer
* Fault that may be forgiven - Venial
* Favouring own kith and kin -Nepotism
* Fear of bathing -Ablutophobia
* Fear of becoming bald - Phalacrophobia

* Fear of cockroaches -Katsaridaphobia


* Fear of crowd -Ochlophobia
* Fear of darkness -Lygophobia

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* Fear of death -Nicrophobia


* Fear of dentist -Dentophobia

* Fear of disease -Pathophobia


* Fear of failure -Atychiphobia

* Fear of foreigners -Xenophobia

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* Fear of God -Zeusophobia

* Fear of going to bed -Clinophobia


* Fear of height -Acrophobia

* Fear of making decisions -Decidophobia


* Fear of poverty - Peniaphobia

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* Fear of being robbed -Harpaxophobia

* Fear of property -Orthophobia


* Fear of radiation -Radiophobia
* Fear of riding a car - Amaxophobia
* Fear of school -Scolionophobia
* Fear of sex -Genophobia
* Fear of speaking - Lalophobia

* Fear of water -Hydrophobia


* Fear of words -Logophobia
* First speech -Maiden
* Food agrees with ones taste -Palatable
* Funny imitation of a poem -Parody
* Giving up throne by the king -Abdication

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* Go back and forth -Shuttle

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* Fear of speed -Tachophobia

* Government by a single person -Autocracy


* Government by the Gods -Theocracy

* Government run by a dictator - Autocracy

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* Group of three novels -Trilogy

* Incapable of being wounded -Invulnerable


* In-charge of museum /Pitch -Curator

* Indifference to pleasure or pain -Stoicism

* Instruments which makes smaller objects larger -Microscope

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* Intentional destruction of racial group -Genocide


* Interval between two events -Interlude
* Just punishment for wrong doing - Nemesis
* Killing of another human being -Homicide

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* Language difficult to understand -Jargon


* Large scale departure of people -Exodus
* List of explanation of words -Glossary
* List of goods with their price -Invoice
* Longing for something -Nostalgia
* Loop of rope is called -Noose
* Loud talk or speech -Harangue

* Man having the qualities of woman -Effeminate

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* Man of lax moral - Licentious

* Man whose wife has been unfaithful to him -Cuckold


* Mania for setting fires - Pyromania
* Mania for stealing things - Kleptomania
* Mania for talking -Logo mania
* Mania for travel -Dromomania

* Medicine which lessens pain -Anodyne


* Member of a band of robbers -Brigand
* Morning prayer -Matin

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* Murdering of a family - Familicide

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* Mania of being important -Megalomania

* Murdering of an infant -Infanticide


* Murdering of Brother -Fratricide

* Murdering of husband by his wife -Mariticide


* Murdering of the king -Regicide

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* Murdering of tyrant -Tyrannicide

* Old age when a man behaves like a fool -Dotage


* One who believes one is God -Theo mania
* One who believes that everything is pre-destined - Fatalist

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* One who believes that pleasure is the chief good -Hedonist


* One who betrays one -Traitor
* One who collects coins -Numismatist
* One who comes from a village and considered stupid -Bumpkin
* One who compiles dictionary -Lexicographer
* One who cuts precious stones -Lapidist
* One who deserts his religion -Apostate

* One who does not care for literature -Philistine

* One who does not take definite stand -Evasive


* One who draws maps and charts -Cartographer
* One who eats everything

-Omnivorous

* One who eats human flesh -Cannibal


* One who fights for the sake of money - Mercenary

* One who has many talents -Versatile

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* One who forsakes religion -Renegade

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* One who does not respect something sacred or holy -Blasphemy

* One who has suddenly gained new wealth -Parvenu

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* One who has unreasoning enthusiasm for the glorification of ones country Chauvinism
* One who hates knowledge and learning -Misologist
* One who is bad in spelling -Cacographic

* One who is guilty of firing property -Arsonist

* One who is more interested in himself - Introvert

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* One who is more interested in others -Extrovert

* One who is neither intelligent nor dull -Mediocre


* One who is not the citizen of country -Alien
* One who is talkative -Garrulous

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* One who is the most powerful -Omnipotent


* One who is very careful and particular - Meticulous
* One who is very well versed in any subject - Connoisseur
* One who lends money at high rate -Usurer
* One who loves all and sundry -Philanthropist
* One who loves books -Bibliophile
* One who passes through the gate without taking permission -Trespasser
* One who pays too much attention to his clothes and appearance -Dandy

* One who plays a game for pleasure not professionally - Amateur

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* One who pretends illness to escape duty - Malingerer


* One who reads only books -Bookworm
* One who sacrifices his life for country -Martyr
* One who sneaks into a country -Infiltrator
* One who speaks many languages - Polyglot

* One who studies skin and its diseases -Dermatologist

* One who talks continuously -Loquacious

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* One who studies the formation of the earth -Geologist

* One who thinks human nature is evil - Cynic

* One who totally abstain from alcohol -Teetotaler

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* One who travels from place to place -Itinerant

* One who treats female problems -Gynecologist


* One who wants to see others unhappy -Sadist

* One who works in return for being taught the trade -Disciple
* One who works without getting any salary - Honorary

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* One whose attitude is to eat, drink and merry


* Opposing arguments
* Out of date things

-Epicurean

-Rebut

-Obsolescent

* Paper written in ones own handwriting

-Manuscript

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* Part of a church in which bells are hung - Belfry


* People in rowdy scene

-Rabble

* Person different to pleasure and pain

-Stoic

* Person obsessed with one idea or subject - Monomaniac


* Person pretending to be somebody he is not - Imposter
* Person who believes God is everything
* Person who believes others

-Credulous

-Ban theist

* Person who enjoys sensuous enjoyments

-Pagan

-Epicure

* Person who has long experience - Veteran


* Person who hates women - Misogynist
* Person who holds scholarship at a university

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* Person who does not believe in any religion

-Bursar

* Person who is against ordinary society especially dressing


-Malcontent

* Person who is made to bear the blame

-Scapegoat

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* Person who is always dissatisfied

-Hippy

* Person who kill others for political reason - Assassin


* Person who lives alone and avoids other people
* Person who loves nature

-Aesthete

-Philanderer

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* Person who makes love for amusement

-Recluse

* Person who pretends to have more knowledge

-Charlatan

* Person who regards the whole world as his country


* Person with a beautiful handwriting
* Person without manners

-Cosmopolitan

-Calligrapher

-Rustic

-Eloquence

* Physician who delivers babies

-Obstetrician

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* Persuasive and fluent speech

* Place where birds are kept

-Aviary

* Place where cows are sheltered -Byre

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* Place where govt. records are kept -Archives


* Place where women dwelled (Ancient time) - Harem
* Place which provides both board and lodging - Inn
* Plants and vegetation

-Flora

* Poem narrating a popular story

-Ballad

* Poem written on the death of someone loved and lost


* Policy of political party

-Manifesto

-Elegy

-Telepathy

* Public building where weapons are made and stored


* Responsible according to law - Legitimate
* Ride on someone else back

-Piggyback

* Ridiculous use of words - Malapropism


* Room leading into a large room

-Lavatory

* School for infants and children


* Seat on elephants back

-Kindergarten

-Howdah

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* Room with toilet facilities

-Anteroom

-Arsenal

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* Power of reading thoughts of others

* Send unwanted person out of the country -Deport

* Short journey made by a group of persons together -Excursion


-Stub

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* Short remaining end of cigarette

* Short walk for pleasure or exercise


* Slow witted person

-Duffer

* Song sung at burial

-Dirge

-Stroll

* Speech by an actor at the end of play -Epilogue


-Extempore

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* Speech without preparation

* Stage between boyhood and youth -Adolescence


* Statement which cannot be understood
* Stories of old time Gods and heroes

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* Story that cannot be believed


* Study of ancient science
* Study of birds

-Incomprehensible

-Legend

-Incredible

-Archaeology

-Ornithologist

* Study of human body -Anatomy


* Study of mankind

-Anthropology

* Study of statistics of birth, death and diseases


* Sudden rush of winds

-Gust

-Demography

* Thing that cannot be touched of felt -Palpable


* Thing that destroys the effect of poison

-Antidote

* Thing through which light cannot pass -Opaque


* Thing which cannot be done without

-Indispensable

* Things that can be seen and touched


* Things that cannot be understood

-Unintelligible

-Abrogate

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* To do away with a rule

-Tangible

* To explain a spiritual truth -Parable


* To spread troops for battle

-Deploy

* Tumour which is not likely to spread

* Using of new words

-Benign

-Windfall

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* Unexpected stroke of good luck


-Neology

* Views which are not of ones liking

-Irritating

* Walking in sleep - Somnambulism


* Which cannot be rectified

-Irreparable

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* Woman who has extra marital relationship

-Adultery

* Work which involves too much official formalities Red-Tapism

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-Euthanasia

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* Thing that bring gentle and painless death from incurable death

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