One Word Substitution 

Most important one-word substitutions for all exams

One Word Substitution

One Word Substitution

What is One Word Substitution? 

One Word Substitution simply means using a specific word replacing a wordy phrase or sentence and making it shorter, concise and clearer to understand.

In this article, we are representing the most important one word substitution for all of you.

The competitive exams like SSC, IBPS, WBPSC, WBCS, WBSSC TET, CTET, PTET and UPSC comprise a test of English Comprehension. Here we are helping you to prepare one of the most important topics in English Comprehension: One Word Substitution or One Word Expression.

Here you can learn the complete list of one-word substitution that is important for the competitive and government jobs exams. 

List of One Word Substitution - Important for Compititive Exams.

GROUP OF WORDS	SINGLE WORD
A place where money is coined	Mint
A handsome man	Adonis
An error in printing or writing	Erratum
An official numbering of the population	Census
Animals which eat both plants and animals	Omnivorous
A person out to destroy the government	An Anarchist
A person of outgoing nature	Extrovert
A person who makes his journey on foot	Pedestrian
An abnormal fear of death or corpses	Necrophobia
A complete loss of voice	Aphonia
A lover of mankind	Philanthropist
A cure of all disease	Panacea
A hater of mankind	Misanthropist
A man who catches fish as a hobby	Angler
A hater of marriage	Misogamist
A hater of womankind	Misogynist
An obsession with death or dead	Necromania
A road full of twists and turns	Tortuous
A collection of poems	Anthology
A group of ships	Fleet
A collection of books	library
A fourteen-lined of poems is called	Sonnet
An annual calender	Almanac
A person who looks at the brighter sight of things	Optimist
A number of disorderly people	Mob
An imaginary name assumed by an author for disguise	Pseudonym
A disease affecting widely scattered groups of people	Sporadic
A person having same name as another	Namesake
A person who is specialist in children's diseases	Paediatrician
A school boy who cuts classes frequently	Truant
A person who readily believes others	Credulous
A place where birds are kept	Aviary
A person extremely desirous of money	Avaricious
A collection of flowers	Bouquet
A fault that may be forgiven	Venial
A long list	Genre
A place where dead bodies are kept for post mortem	Mortuary
A story in which ideas are symbolized as people	Allegory
A job with high salary but littile responsibility	Sinecure
An event which happens once in three years	Triennial
An event which happens once in two years	Biennial
A person who deliberately sets fire to a building	Arsonist
A person who has changed his faith	Apostate
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute	Arbitrator
An unconventional style of living	Bohemian
A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism	Chauvinist
A critical judge of any art and craft	Connoisseur
A girl/woman who flirts with man	Coquette
A person who regards the whole world as his country	Cosmopolitan
A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people	Demagogue
A person having a sophisticated charm	Debonair
A man who is womanish in his habits	Effeminate
A lover of good food	Gourmand
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments	Hypochondriac
A person who is controlled by wife	Henpeck
A person who is mentally ill	Lunatic
A person who primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics	Mercenary
A person who speaks more than one language	Polyglot
A person who is indifferent to the pains and pleasures of life	Stoic
A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman	Termagant
A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one's wife	Uxorious
A group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place	Battery
A large bundle bound for storage or transport	Bale
A large gathering of people of a particular type	Bevy
An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present	Bouquet
A family of young animals	Brood
A group of things that have been hidden in a secret place	Cache
A group of people, typically with vehicles or animals travelling together	Caravan
A closed political meeting	Caucus
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose	Clique
A group of followers hired to applaud at a performance	Claque
A series of stars	Constellation
A funeral procession	Cortege
A group of worshippers	Congregation
A herd or flock of animals being driven in a body	Drove
A small fleet of ships or boats	Flotilla
A small growth of trees without underbrush	Grove
A community of people smaller than a village	Hamlet
A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals	Herd
A temporary police force	Posse
A large number of fish swimming together	Shoal
A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid	Torrent
A large group of people	Horde
A person who presents a radio/television programme	Anchor
A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft	Astronaut
A person who draws or produces maps	Cartographer
A person who writes beautiful writing	Calligrapher
A person who composes the sequence of steps and moves for a performance of dance	Choreographer
A person employed to drive a private or hired car	Chauffeur
A person who introduces the performers or contestants in a variety show	Compere
A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection	Curator
A secret or disguised way of writing	Cypher
A person who sells and arranges cut flowers	Florist
A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor	Genealogy
A person who compiles dictionaries	Lexicographer
An artist who makes sculptures.	Sculptor
A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people	Archives
A building where animals are butchered	Abattoir
A place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives	Apiary
A building containing tanks of live fish of different species	Aquarium
A place or scene of activity, debate, or conflict	Arena
A collection of weapons and millitary equipment	Arsenal
An institution for the care of people who are mentally ill	Asylum
A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling	Burrow
A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place	Cache
A public room or building where gambling games are played	Casino
A large burial ground, especially one not in a churchyard	Cemetery
A room in a public building where outdoor clothes or luggage may be left	Cloakroom
A place where a dead person's body is cremated	Crematorium
A room or building equipped for gymnastics, games, and other physical exercise	Gymnasium
A Christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows	Convent
A stoppered glass container into which wine or spirit is decanted	Decanter
A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution	Dormitory
A storehouse for threshed grain	Granary
A large building with an extensive floor area, typically for housing aircraft	Hangar
A box or cage, typically with a wire mesh front, for keeping rabbits or other small domesticated animals	Hutch
A place in a large institution for the care of those who are ill	Infirmary
A small shelter for a dog	Kennel
A place where wild animal live	Lair
A place where coins, medals, or tokens are made	Mint
A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition	Menagerie
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows	Monastery
A place where bodies are kept for identification	Morgue
A piece of enclosed land planted with fruit trees	Orchard
A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply	Reservoir
A small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and another dirty household work	Scullery
A close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword	Sheath
A room or building for sick children in a boarding school	Sanatorium
A place where animal hides are tanned	Tannery
A large, tall cupboard in which clothes may be hung or stored	Wardrobe
A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems	Anarchy
A form of government in which power is held by the nobility	Aristocracy
A system of government by one person with absolute power	Autocracy
A self-governing country or region	Autonomy
A system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives	Bureaucracy
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives	Democracy
A state, society, or group governed by old people	Gerontocracy
A state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens	Kakistocracy
A small group of people having control of a country or organization	Oligarchy
A form of government with a monarch at the head	Monarchy
A political system based on government of men by God	Theocracy
An extreme or irrational fear of heights	Acrophobia
An irrational fear of fresh air or drafts of air	Aerophobia
A phobia of pain	Algophobia
An abnormal fear of heights	Altophobia
An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat	Anorexia
An extreme or irrational fear of open or public places	Agoraphobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of depths	Bathophobia
A dislike of being in the centre	Centrophobia
An extreme fear about beauty	Cellophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of confined places	Claustrophobia
A delusion of being possessed by evil spirits	Demonomania
An abnormal and persistent fear of drinking alcohol	Dipsophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of work or finding employment	Ergophobia
An irrational and intense fear of travel	Hodophobia
An excessive fear or aversion to obtaining pleasure	Hedonophobia
An extreme fear of wind or drafts	Menemophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of the night or of darkness	Nyctophobia
A solemn procession, especially for a funeral	Cortege
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	Elegy
A phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died	Epitaph
A room or building in which dead bodies are kept	Mortuary
A news article that reports the recent death of a person	Obituary
An examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death	Postmortem
Act of intentionally causing one's own death	Suicide
An act of abdicating or renouncing the throne	Abdication
An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables	Almanac
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that is born in water and breathes with gills	Amphibian
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	Allegory
A statement or proposition on which an abstractly defined structure is based	Axiom
A nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law	Belligerent
An examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease	Biopsy
A vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change	Crusade
A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past	Nostalgia
A doctrine which identifies God with the universe	Pantheism
A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit	Sinecure
A thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event	Souvenir
An imaginary ideal society free of poverty and suffering	Utopia
One who is not sure about God's existence	Agnostic
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession	Amateur
One who can use either hand with ease	Ambidextrous
One who makes an official examination of accounts	Auditor
One who does not believe in the existence of God	Atheist
One who leads an austere life	Ascetic
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession	Amateur
One who is bad in spellings	Cacographer
One who feeds on human flesh	Cannibal
One who is recovering health after illness	Convalescent
One who is a centre of attraction	Cynosure
One who sneers at the beliefs of others	Cynic
One who is for pleasure of eating and drinking	Epicure
One who often talks of his achievements	Egotist
One hard to please (very selective in his habits)	Fastidious
One who runs away from justice	Fugitive
One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters	Fanatic
One who believes in fate	Fatalist
One who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality	Indefatigable
One who does not express himself freely	Introvert
One who collect coins as hobby	Numismatist
One who lives in solitude	Recluse
One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field	Virtuoso
One who studies the evolution of mankind	Anthropologist
One who supervises in the examination hall	Invigilator
One who presents a radio programme Radio	Jockey
One who study the elections and trends in voting	Psephologist
Someone who leaves one country to settle in another	Emigrant
Someone who walks in sleep	Somnambulist
The medieval forerunner of chemistry	Alchemy
The scientific study of the physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance of plants	Botany
The branch of biology concerned with cyclical physiological phenomena	Chronobiology
The study of statistics	Demography
The use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas	Dactylology
The therapeutic use of sunlight	Heliotherapy
The art or practice of garden cultivation and management	Horticulture
The theory or philosophy of law	Jurisprudence
The scientific study of the structure and diseases of teeth	Odontology
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing	Rhetoric
The branch of science concerned with the origin, structure, and composition of rocks	Petrology
The scientific study of the behaviour, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals	Zoology
Government by new or inexperienced hands	Neocracy
Government by the populace	Ochlocracy
Government by the wealthy	Plutocracy
Government not connected with religious or spiritual matters	Secular
Fear of being egotistical, being alone or isolated	Autophobia
Fear or hatred of books	Bibliophobia
Fear of ugliness and things that are ugly	Cacophobia
Fear of time	Chronophobia
Fear of dogs	Cynophobia
Fear of getting married, being in a relationship, or commitment	Gamophobia
Physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse	Genophobia
Fear of old age	Geraphobia
Fear of knowledge	Gnosiophobia
Fear of women	Gynaephobia
Fear of writing or handwriting	Graphophobia
Fear of disease	Haemetophobia
Fear of medication	Pharamacophobia
Fear of death	Thanatophobia
Extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen	Triskaidekaphobia
Killing of one's son or daughter	Filicide
Destruction or abortion of a fetus	Foeticide
Killing of one's brother or sister	Fratricide
Killing of a large group of people	Genocide
Killing of one person by another	Homicide
Killing of infants	Infanticide
Burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb	Interment
Killing of one's mother	Matricide
Killing of one's father	Patricide
Killing of one's sister	Sororicide
Killing of one's wife	Uxoricide
The branch of physics concerned with the properties of sound	Acoustics
The sound of Alligators	Bellow
The sound of Deers	Bell
The sound of Crows	Caw
The sound of Geese	Cackle
The sound of Hens	Cluck
The sound of Dolphins	Click
The sound of Frogs	Croak
The sound of Crickets	Creak
The sound of Monkeys	Gibber
The sound of Camels	Grunt
The sound of Owls	Hoot
The sound of Penguins	Honk
The sound of Cattle	Moo
The sound of Horses	Neigh
The sound of Nightingales	Pipe
The sound of Ducks	Quack
The sound of Parrots	Screech
The sound of Rats	Squeak
The sound of Birds	Twitter
The sound of Elephants	Trumpet
The sound of Mosquitoes	Whine
The action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk	Blasphemy
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence	Chronology
Lasting for a very short time	Ephemeral
Spoken or done without preparation	Extempore
Release someone from a duty or obligation	Exonerate
Fond of company	Gregarious
Making marks that cannot be removed	Indelible
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong	Infallible
Certain to happen	Inevitable
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules	Pedantic
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own	Plagiarism
Safe to drink	Potable
The emblems or insignia of royalty	Regalia
Violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred	Sacrilege
Denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace	Venial
In exactly the same words as were used originally	Verbatim
Free from blame	Irreproachable
Happenning evry year	Annual
Having life	Animate
Hundredth anniversary	Centenary
Judges at a court	Bench
Notice of someone's death in the newspaper etc	Obituary
One who has long experience	Veteran
One who is a great lover of books	Bibliophile
One who knows everything	Omniscient
One who is unable to pay debt	Bankrupt Insolvent
One who steals from the pocket of others	Pick Pocket
Person wrking in the same department	Colleagues
Property inheritance from ancistors	Patrimony
The actors in a play	Cast
The life story of a person by another	Biography
The life story of a person written by himself	Autobiography
The wrong use of name	Misnomer
Too much official formality and delay	Red-tapism
Without life	Inanimate
Without paying of charges	Gratis
Worship of images of idols	Idolatry
Introductory part or lines to a discourse or play	Prologue
Intentional damage to arrest procedure	Sabotage
To banish from one country's	Exile
To destroy completely	Annihilate
One who talks continuously	Loquacious
A general perdon of offenders	Amnesty
Something leading to death	Lethal
A child who has lost both his parents	Orphan
A seller of cakes	Confectioner
A dwelling in which soldiers live
Barracks
A piece of writing done by hand	Manuscript
Part of examination should be conducted by word or mouth	Orraly
The people of the country rebelled against the oppressive and cruel ruler	Tyrant
The trees which shed all their leaves at a particular time of the year	Deciduous
The two men coming from the same country booked the same hotel in the neighboring state	Compatriots
A market where old and used good are sold	Flea market
Love for the whole world	Philanthropy
A disease affecting many persons at the same time	Epidemic

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