Continuing our tryst with our exploration of ‘one word substitution‘ list, we present more words as they keep coming. These words are intended to give the exact meaning of a sentence by a single word. These types of lists come pretty handy if you want to improve your vocabulary in English language.
| A place where bodies of persons found dead are placed for identification. | Morgue |
| A place where dead bodies are temporarily placed. | Mortuary |
| An account in the newspaper of the funeral of one deceased. | Obituary |
| Murder of one’s own father. | Patricide |
| Occurring of one’s own father. | Posthumous |
| A pile of wood on which a dead body is burned. | Pyre |
| Murder of a king. | Regicide |
| Mass for the dead,a piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. (s) | Requiem |
| Rising from the dead. | Resurrection |
| A stone coffin,especially one made of limestone. | Sarcophagus |
| Murder of one’s own sister. | Sororicide |
| The act of killing oneself. | Suicide |
| The cloth which is wrapped round a dead body. | Winding-sheet |
| The process by which plants take up mineral salts in solution through their roots. | Absorption |
| Soil washed down and carried away by rivers. | Alluvium |
| At home equally on land or in water. | Amphibious |
| A plant whose life-cycle completes in a year. | Annual |
| The feelers of an insect. | Antennae |
| The process by which plants manufacture food. | Assimilation |
| A plant whose life-cycle takes two years to complete. | Biennial |
| A slimy substance between the wood and bark of a stem. | Cambium |
| The green coloured pigment in the leaves of plants. | Chlorophyll |
| The pupa of a moth or a butterfly. | Chrysalis |
| The central or innermost part of a fruit. | Core |
| The seed-leaves of the embryo. | Cotyledon |
| Trees which lose their leaves annually. | Deciduous |
| An instrument for making holes in the soil for seeds. | Dibble |
| Plants with two seed-leaves,e.g. Lime. | Di-cotyledonous |
| Absence of rain for a long time. | Drought |
| An organism in its early stages of development or an organism in the process of developing its distinctive form. | Embryo |
| Generic scientific name for animals. | Fauna |
