One Word Substitution PDF for BPSC, PPSC, FPSC ,NTS

One Word Substitution in English for SSC CGL, Class 1,2,3,5th,7,8 BPSC, PPSC, FPSC, NTS, CSS, FPSC Exams. List one Word Substitution in English with PDF will help you in preparing most important topics in English Comprehension and all Competitive exams.

One Word Substitution in English

PHRASE	One word
One who is vowed to unmarried life	Celibate
A man whose wife is dead	Widower
A woman whose husband is dead	Widow
Engaged to be married	Betrothed
An instrument for recording the revolutions of the earth	Gyroscope
An instrument for measuring electric current	Ammeter
Smuggled goods	Contraband
The act of spying	Espionage
A knife fixed on the end of a gun	Bayonet
Soldiers on horses	Cavalry

Soldiers on foot	Infantry
A book of accounts showing debit and credit	Ledger
A book containing information on all the branches of knowledge	Encyclopedia
A record of one’s life written by oneself	Autobiography
A record of one’s life written by somebody else	Biography
A speech by the dramatist at the start of the play	Prologue
A speech by the dramatist at the end of the play	Epilogue
A poem of mourning	Elegy
A hollow space in a wall for a statue	Niche
Unable to pay off one’s debt	Insolvent

Language that has been very much used	Hackneyed
Correct spelling	Orthography
A place where ancient works are kept	Museum
A very private room	Sanctum
A mad man	Lunatic
A war of religions	Crusade
A lover of books	Bibliophile
Animals that live in water	Aquatic
A written declaration made on an oath	Affidavit
A bunch of flowers	Bouquet

A child born of unlawful marriage	Bastard
A game or battle where no party wins	Draw
A person’s first speech	Maiden speech
Killing a man	Homicide
Killing one’s king	Regicide
Killing one’s mother	Matricide
Killing one’s father	Patricide
killing one’s brother	Fratricide
Killing oneself	Suicide
Animals that suckle their young	Mammals

A speech made without preparation	Extempore
A decision on which all agree	Unanimous
A writer who steals ideas from another	Plagiarist
A medicine that loosens the bowels	Laxative
A speech made to oneself	Soliloquy
The place where clothes are kept	Wardrobe
A person’s last utterance	Swansong
Asking everyone for an opinion	Referendum
Separation from other people to avoid infection	Quarantine
An imaginary ideal	Utopia

A speech made without preparation	Extempore
A decision on which all agree	Unanimous
A writer who steals ideas from another	Plagiarist
A medicine that loosens the bowels	Laxative
A speech made to oneself	Soliloquy
The place where clothes are kept	Wardrobe
A person’s last utterance	Swansong
Asking everyone for an opinion	Referendum
Separation from other people to avoid infection	Quarantine
An imaginary ideal	Utopia

The green colouring matter in the leaves of plants	Chlorophyll
The animals of a certain region	Fauna
The plants and vegetation of a region	Flora
Incapable of being burnt	Incombustible
An instrument for seeing distant things	Telescope
A disease that ends in death	Fatal
A book or paper written by hand	Manuscript
Government which honours all religions	Secular
A word no longer in use	Obsolete
An instrument for detecting earthquakes	Seismograph

An instrument for measuring gases	Manometer
The property left to someone by a will	Legacy
Promise given by a prisoner not to escape	Parole
An exaggerated statement	Hyperbole
A nation that goes to war	Belligerent
A person who lives in a foreign country	Immigrant
Too much official formality	Red tapism
One extremely fond of one’s wife	Uxorious
A list of things to be discussed at a meeting	Agenda
Unduly attached to one’s own opinions	Opinionated

Very exact or scrupulous in the observance of forms	Punctilious
One who is completely self-satisfied	Complacent
Simple and easily deceived	Gullible
One who has delusions of one’s grandeur	Megalomaniac
The most capable part of a group, town or place	Elite
One who flaunts newly acquired wealth	Parvenu
The intelligent and educated group or class of a society or country	Intelligentsia
Exclusive commend or possession	Monopoly
Boredom and frustration in life	Ennui
Shy, timid, unwilling to face a situation	Diffident

Government by departments of state	Bureaucracy
Government of, for and by the people	Democracy
The right of self-government	Autonomy
The period between two reigns	Interregnum
A council of clergymen	Synod
The ceremony at which a man becomes a priest	Sacrilege
One intolerantly devoted to a particular creed	Bigot
The custom of marriage to more than one person at a time	Polygamy
A woman who has more than one husband at a time	Polyandries
A hater of women	Misogynist