One Word Substitution
The following is the Section Officer English Language Competence Test on One Word Substitutions that has recently been published.
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1. | Pardon given to political prisoners | – Amnesty |
2. | A place where government records are kept | – Archives |
3. | A story in which ideas are symbolized as people | – Allegory |
4. | A slang word for the under world | – Alibi |
5. | The money that that court asks a man to pay to his divorced or legally separated wife | – Alimony |
6. | Washing of the human body especially in the religious ceremony | – Ablution |
7. | A tall, strong, masculine kind of woman | – Amazon |
8. | A written declaration made as an oath | – Affidavit |
9. | One who doesn’t believe in god | – Atheist |
10. | Animals living in water | – Aquatic |
11. | The right of self government | – Autonomy |
12. | A country which has no government | – Anarchy |
13. | A medicine which produces insensitivity | – Anesthetic |
14. | A substance that destroys germs | – Antiseptic |
15. | A person who plays for pleasure | – Amateur |
16. | A person appointed by two parties to settle down the dispute | – Arbiter |
17. | A group of islands lying together | – Archipelago |
18. | One who is out to destroy the government | – Anarchist |
19. | A place for keeping bees | – Apiary |
20. | Total loss of voice | – Aphonia |
21. | Yearly return of a date | – Anniversary |
22. | People at a concert | – Audience |
23. | A place where weapons and ammunitions are stored | – Arsenal/armory |
24. | A letter or document which does not bear the name of the author | – Anonymous |
25. | A person who commits the first act of attack | – Aggressor |
26. | A government where the powers are concentrated in the hands of one person especially by a king | -Autocracy |
27. | A minister representing a sovereign state in a foreign country | – Ambassador |
28. | The study of ancient societies | – Archeology |
29. | The cutting of an organ by surgery | – Amputate |
30. | Partial loss of memory | – Amnesia |
31. | A government by the rich | -Aristocracy/plutocracy |
32. | Fear of man | – Androphobia |
33. | Fear of cats | – Ailurophobia |
34. | A fear of heights | Acrophobia |
35. | A person who is not much interested in his own welfare but in the welfare of others | – Altruist |
36. | A person who is not interested in any materialistic possessions | – Ascetic |
37. | Study of human being | – Anthropology |
38. | Strong and settled dislike between two people/ parties | -Antipathy |
39. | One who studies things of the past | – Antiquarian |
40. | A person who kills for political reasons | – Assassinator |
41. | Cutting of the dead body | – Autopsy |
42. | One who learns under a more experienced person to learn the trade | – Apprentice |
43. | Commencement of a word with the same letter | – Alliteration |
44. | Old students of an institution | -Alumni |
45. | A place on which offerings to god are made | – Altar |
46. | One who gives up his religion | -Apostate |
47. | An unmarried man | -Bachelor |
48. | A person who always wants to fight | -Bellicose |
49. | A country or soldier engaged in war | – Belligerent |
50. | Using abusive language towards god | – Blasphemous |
51. | A place where soldiers stay | – Barrack |
52. | A place in a church where the bell is hung | – Belfry |
53. | The collection of flags | – Bunting |
54. | A person who loves reading books | – Bibliophile |
55. | A person who is conservative towards his religion | – Bigot/fanatic |
56. | A mistake | – Blunder |
57. | A person who breaks into another’s house to steal | – Burglar |
58. | A bunch of flowers | – Bouquet |
59. | A state of having no money | – Insolvent/bankrupt |
60. | A place where beer is made | – Brewery |
61. | Passion for reading books | – Bibliomania |
62. | An instrument for measuring pressure | – Barometer |
63. | An unwanted person | – Black sheep |
64. | A place where books are bound | – Bindery |
65. | The practice of marrying two wives/husbands | – Bigamy |
66. | A religious war | – Crusade |
67. | A person who introduces the performers and speakers | – Compere |
68. | The art of beautiful handwriting | – Calligraphy |
69. | A person who is bad at spellings | – Cacographist |
70. | A dead body of an animal | – Carcass |
71. | The dead body of human being | – Corpse |
72. | A person who mends shoes | – Cobbler |
73. | A person of the same rank, position or status | – Colleague |
74. | A person who draws maps and charts | – Cartographist |
75. | Existing at the same time | – Contemporary |
76. | The art of smuggling goods | – Contraband |
77. | Soldiers on horseback | – Cavalry |
78. | A number of stars grouped together | – Constellation |
79. | People on a ship | – Crew |
80. | A place for gambling | – Casino |
81. | One who eats human cannibal | – Cannibal |
82. | One who is more than hundred years old | – Centenarian |
83. | One who believes the whole world as his country | – Cosmopolitan |
84. | One who sells sweets and pastries | – Confectioner |
85. | People in a church, temple or mosque for devotion | – Congregation |
86. | An official bulletin | РCommuniqu̩ |
87. | A state of being unmarried | – Celibacy |
88. | A fear of enclosed places | Claustrophobia |
89. | A fear of dogs | – Cynophobia |
90. | A doctor who specializes in heart disease | – Cardiologist |
91. | A person in charge of museum | – Curator |
92. | A place where dead bodies are burnt | – Crematorium |
93. | Comical drawing of a person found in newspaper | – Caricature |
94. | A disease that is spread by touch | – Contagious |
95. | Something kept secret, hidden | – Clandestine |
96. | A person who does tricks which appear magical | – Conjuror |
97. | Money paid for damage of property | – Compensation |
98. | Study of colour | – Chromatics |
99. | A place for shelter of ships | – Dockyard |
100. | An abnormal craving for alcoholic drinks | – Dipsomania |
101. | A person who has a gloomy nature | – Despondent |
102. | A person who is skillful with his both hands | – Dexterous |
103. | A person who looks after cattle | – Drover |
104. | A language of a region having its own use | – Dialect |
105. | A doctor who specializes in skin diseases | – Dermatologist |
106. | To cause troops etc to spread out in readiness for battle | – Deploy |
107. | A very fashionable person | – Dandy |
108. | A song sung at a funeral | Dirge |
109. | A place where one lives permanently | – Domicile |
110. | One who stirs others for votes before the elections | – Demagogue |
111. | To be sent from one’s native country | – Expatriate |
112. | A person who is sent out on a mission | – Emissary |
113. | A man who has womanish characteristics | – Effeminate |
114. | Boredom and frustration in life | – Ennui |
115. | Bringing about gentle and painless death from incurable disease | – Euthanasia |
116. | Fit to be choosen | – Eligible |
117. | That which can be eaten | – Edible |
118. | A disease that spreads over a large area | – Epidemic |
119. | That which cannot be explained | – Inexplicable |
120. | The art of spying | – Espionage |
121. | A lover of food, drink and entertainment | – Epicurean |
122. | A group of most powerful and influencing people in a society | – Elite |
123. | Money given to a person without any legal binding | – Ex-gratia |
124. | A person who is frank, open, broad minded | – Extrovert |
125. | A well educated and learned person | – Erudite |
126. | Study of derivation of words | – Etymology |
127. | Study of insects | – Entomology |
128. | Study of unborn babies | – Embryology |
129. | A book containing all branches of knowledge | – Encyclopedia |
130. | A speech made at the beginning of a play or epic | – Epilogue |
131. | An order made by a government in order to stop trade with another country | – Embargo |
132. | Inscription on a tomb | – Epitaph |
133. | A large movement of a group of people from one place to another | – Exodus |
134. | An art of effective speaking | – Elocution |
135. | One who has settled down in a foreign country permanently | – Emigrant |
136. | Study of social groups | – Ethnology |
137. | A person very difficult to please | – Fastidious/insatiable |
138. | The killing of children | – Filicide |
139. | The killing of own sister | – Felicide/sororicide |
140. | The killing of one’s brother | – Fratricide |
141. | One who takes and active role in the cause of woman’s problems | – Feminist |
142. | The killing of a whole race of people | – Genocide |
143. | A very talkative person | – Garrulous/ loquacious |
144. | Study of manuscripts and written documents | – Graphology |
145. | Lover of food or who eats much | – Gourmand/ gourmet |
146. | To over see something at short notice | – Glimpse |
147. | Study of rocks | – Geology |
148. | A person who eats too much | – Glutton |
149. | Study of old aged people | – Gerontology |
150. | A person who easily believes | – Gullible/ credulous |
151. | An exaggerated statement | – Hyperbole |
152. | Fear of water | – Hydrophobia |
153. | A group of houses in a village | – Hamlet |
154. | A place where planes are kept | – Hanger |
155. | Morning prayer in a church | – Hymn |
156. | Somebody who pretends to be what he is not | – Hypocrite |
157. | One who acts against religion | – Heretic |
158. | A case in which a revolver is kept | – Holster |
159. | Something neat and clean | – Immaculate |
160. | Capable of easily being burnt | – Incombustible |
161. | That which cannot be corrected | – Incorrigible |
162. | That which cannot be avoided | – Inevitable |
163. | That which cannot be read easily | – Illegible |
164. | A person who is reserved or speaks less | – Introvert |
165. | A person who is very lazy , has no desire to work | – Indolent |
166. | That which is unplanned | – Impromptu/ extempore |
167. | That which cannot be changed | – Irrevocable |
168. | A formal charge against a person for some crime or offense | – Indictment |
169. | Murder of new born babies | – Infanticide |
170. | A plan for a route to be followed on a journey | – Itinerary |
171. | One who goes to another country to settle down | – Immigrant |
172. | Born of illegal parents | – Illegitimate |
173. | Language difficult to understand because of bad form | – Jargon |
174. | A short journey for pleasure | – Jaunt |
175. | Passion for stealing | – Kleptomania |
176. | A quickly changing scene or pattern | – Kaleidoscope |
177. | A school for young children | – Kindergarten |
178. | A place where bricks are burnt | – Kiln |
179. | Property left to someone by will | – Legacy |
180. | A false statement to damage a person’s reputation | – Libel/ defamation |
181. | The scientific study of the language | – Linguistic |
182. | The art of reasoning | – Logic |
183. | A person who cuts precious stones | – Lapidist |
184. | A person who compiles words in a dictionary | – Lexicographer |
185. | The killing of one’s mother | – Matricide |
186. | The habit of speaking with self | – Monologue |
187. | Obsession with one idea | – Monomania |
188. | The first speech made by a person | – Maiden speech |
189. | A place where monks stay | – Monastery |
190. | A person clumsy with one hands | – Maladroit |
191. | A person who hates the custom of marriage | – Misogamist |
192. | A person who hates the company of women | – Misogynist |
193. | A person who is not interested in learning | – Misologist |
194. | A very generous person | – Magnanimous |
195. | A person who hates mankind | – Misanthrope |
196. | A person who pays careful attention to very small details | – Meticulous |
197. | A handwritten document | – Manuscript |
198. | A person who kills for money | – Mercenary |
199. | A hotel for motorist | – Motel |
200. | A place where dead bodies are kept identification | – Morgue |
201. | Principles of political party | – Manifesto |
202. | Fear of nights | – Nyctophobia |
203. | A person who collects coins | – Numismatist |
204. | The act of favouring one’s own relatives | – Nepotism |
205. | Wistful longing of the past | – Nostalgia |
206. | Act of being bare clothing | – Nudity |
207. | A person who looks at the bright side of life | – Optimist |
208. | A ceremony in which somebody becomes priest | – Ordinance |
209. | Large guns on wheels artillery | – Ordnance |
210. | A person who has deep knowledge of a particular area | – Omniscient |
211. | Fear of crowds | – Ochlophobia |
212. | A person who is good at spellings | – Orthographist |
213. | A very conservative person | – Orthodox |
214. | A long wandering journey | – Odyssey |
215. | That which is all powerful | – Omnipotent |
216. | That which is no longer in use | – Obsolete |
217. | Study of mountains | – Orology |
218. | The act of putting off things | – Procrastinate |
219. | A person who looks at the dark side of life | – Pessimist |
220. | Promise made by the prisoner not to escape | – Parole |
221. | That which can be easily carried | – Portable |
222. | The killing of one’s father | – Patricide |
223. | A scholar , a person who displays his knowledge | -Pedant |
224. | A person who loves mankind | – Philanthropist |
225. | Fear of everything in general | – Panaphobia |
226. | Fear of children | – Pedaphobia |
227. | Passion for money | – Plutomania |
228. | Study of different language | – Philology |
229. | Study of prison reforms | – Penology |
230. | A false name used by an author instead of his real name | – Pseudonym |
231. | A person who steals words and ideas from others and says that it is his own | – Plagiarist |
232. | A person who shows off his newly acquired wealth | – Parvenu |
233. | Land surrounded by water on three sides | – Peninsula |
234. | The belief that god is present in all natural things | – Pantheism |
235. | Study of speech sound | – Phonetics |
236. | Property inherited from ones parents | -Patrimony |
237. | A person who knows many language | – Polyglot |
238. | A cure for all diseases | – Panacea |
239. | Happening, done, published, etc after a person has died | Posthumous |
240. | A person who want to make peace | – Pacifist |
241. | A person who collects stamps | – Philatelist |
242. | A speech made at the end of the play or epic | – Prologue |
243. | One who walks on the road | – Pedestrian |
244. | A person who loves his country very much | – Patriot |
245. | Physical examination of the dead body | – Post-mortem |
246. | A wide open view | – Panorama |
247. | Study of disease | – Pathology |
248. | Something that can be taken for granted | – Postulate |
249. | A woman who has several husbands at a time | – Polyandry |
250. | One who leads in a field | – Pioneer |
251. | Killing of one’s parents | – Parricide |
252. | Separation of patients in a hospital to avoid infection | – Quarantine |
253. | The killing of own king | – Regicide |
254. | A decision made by a majority | – Referendum |
255. | A person who gives up his religion and takes another | – Renegade |
256. | Too much government official formality | – Red-tapism |
257. | To go to the village side to relax away from the noise of the city | – Rusticate |
258. | An angry crowd | – Rabble/mob |
259. | The study of earthquakes | – Seismography |
260. | A country that respects all religions | – Secular |
261. | A thing kept in memory of a person | – Souvenir |
262. | A breaking of religious idols | – Sacrilege |
263. | Fear of food | – Sitophobia |
264. | A person who always doubts | – Skeptical |
265. | A person who talks in his sleep | – Somnaloquent |
266. | A person who talks to himself | – Soliloquist |
267. | A person who spends a lot of money | – Spendthrift |
268. | A person who takes the blame for others | – Scapegoat |
269. | An unmarried woman | – Spinster |
270. | One who loads and unloads on a ship | – Stevedore |
271. | A case in which the sword is kept | – Sheath |
272. | High salary no work | – Sinecure |
273. | A person who has given up alcoholic drinks | – Teetotaller |
274. | A person who remains quiet as a habit | – Taciturn |
275. | A person who believes in god | – Theist |
276. | Study of religion | – Theology |
277. | Study of physical features of land, study of art of printing | – Topography |
278. | A book of both antonyms and synonyms | – Thesaurus |
279. | A person who changes sides easily | – Turncoat |
280. | A person who loves his wife very much | – Uxorious |
281. | A loud mouthed turbulent kind of woman | – Virago |
282. | A well experienced person | – Veteran |
283. | One who sell goods door to door | – Vendor |
284. | A multi talented person | – Versatile |
285. | Language that has been used very much | – Verbose/ hackneyed |
286. | A quarrel among family members | -Vendetta |
287. | Daily earned money | – Wage |
288. | A place where clothes are placed | – Wardrobe |
289. | A man whose wife is dead | – Widower |
290. | A woman whose husband is dead | – Widow |
291. | Fear of foreigners | – Xenophobia |
292. | One who love oneself | – Egoist |
293. | One who believes in fate | – Fatalist |
294. | A person who is womanish in his habits | – Effeminate |
295. | One who breaks images and idols | – Iconoclast |
296. | One who walks in his sleep | – Somnambulist |
297. | One who makes scientific study of language | – Linguist |
298. | One who knows many language | – Polyglot |
299. | One who enjoys others confident | – Confidant |
300. | One who sails around stopping and robbing ships at sea | – Pirate |
301. | One who spends or wastes money for luxury | – Extravagant |
302. | One who makes eloquent public speech | – Orator |
303. | One who undergoes the penalty of death for persistence in his faith | – Martyr |
304. | A child whose parents are dead | – Orphan |
305. | A person who travels far for learning about it | – Explorer |
306. | A disease that is found regularly in a particular area | – Endemic |
307. | A disease that causes death | – Fatal |
308. | Having a tendency to break the law to do socially unacceptable things | – Delinquent |
309. | A medicine that causes sleep | – Narcotic |
310. | A game or battle in which no party gains victory | – Drawn |
311. | A roundabout way of expression | – Circumlocution |
312. | A short story designed to teach a moral or religious lesson | – Parable |
313. | A speech which is delivered without preparation | – Extempore |
314. | The life story of a man written by himself | – Autobiography |
315. | The life story of a man written by other | – Biography |
316. | Animals which live in flocks | – Gregarious |
317. | Anything no longer in use | – Obsolete |
318. | Article sold by one country to another | – Export |
319. | Article bought by one country from another | – Import |
320. | That which cannot be heard | – Inaudible |
321. | That which cannot be consumed by fire | – Incombustible |
322. | That which cannot be believed | – Incredible |
323. | That which cannot be blotted | – Indelible |
324. | That which cannot be denied or questioned | – Indisputable |
325. | That which cannot be cured | – Incurable |
326. | That without which one can’t do | – Indispensable |
327. | That which never tires out | – Inexhaustible |
328. | That which cannot be easily reached | – Inaccessible |
329. | That which cannot be defended | – Indefensible |
330. | That which never fails | – Infallible |
331. | That which can be seen through | – Transparent |
332. | That which cannot be seen | – Invisible |
333. | That which cannot be repaired | – Irreparable |
334. | That which is not to the point | – Irrelevant |
335. | That which cannot be taken away by force | – Impregnable |
336. | Incapable of being wounded | – Invulnerable |
337. | Incapable of being divided | – Indivisible |
338. | Incapable of being dissolved | – Insoluble |
339. | Incapable of being understood | – Unintelligible |
340. | Incapable of being imitated | – Inimitable |
341. | That which cannot be seen through | – Opaque |
342. | That which happens every two years | – Biennial |
343. | That which happens every four years | – Quadrennial |
344. | That which happens half year | – Semiannual |
345. | That which occurs time after time | – Perennial |
346. | A man who leads an immoral life | – Libertine |
347. | A medicine to counteract the effect of medicine | – Antidote |
348. | The science of reasoning | – Logic |
349. | Related to the sun | – Solar |
350. | Related to the moon | – Lunar |
351. | The practice of marrying only once | – Monogamy |
352. | The practice of having more than a wife at a time | – Polygamy |
353. | Allowance due to a wife on legal separation from her husband | – Alimony |
354. | The act of speaking disrespectfully about the sacred things | – Blasphemy |
355. | An office for which no salary is paid | – Honorary |
356. | The sum paid to a man for his labour | – Remuneration |
357. | Compulsory enlistment of military and other services | – Conscription |
358. | Of one’s own free will | – Volunteer |
359. | All of one mind | – Unanimous |
360. | Occurring at the same time | – Simultaneous |
361. | Give tit for tat | – Retaliate |
362. | A figure with many angles and sides | – Polygon |
363. | One who is fond of entertaining the guests | – Hospitable |
364. | One who is revengeful | – Vindictive |
365. | One who is interested in old things works of books | – Antiquarian |
366. | The original inhabitants of the country | – Aborigines |
367. | A person who has many love affairs without intending to marry | – Philanderer |
368. | One who can use either hand with perfect ease | – Ambidextrous |
369. | The state of abstention from marriage | – Celibacy |
370. | Land that grows things in abundance | – Fertile |
371. | Land that does not grow anything | – Barren |
372. | A house which is visited by ghosts | – Haunted |
373. | A place for the burial of the dead body | – Cemetery |
374. | A place erected in remembrance of a person or event | – Monument |
375. | Paradise or a place where one gets supreme delight and bliss | – Elysium |
376. | A small set or committee of top leaders which runs the election for the party | – Caucus |
377. | Person who pilots or travels in a balloon , airship or other aircraft | – Aeronaut |