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.
| Not expert. | Lay-man |
| Anything fixed to frighten away birds. | Scare-crow |
| A line of persons waiting. | Queue |
| Story of old time gods or heroes. | Myth |
| The murder of infants. | Infanticide |
| The murder of a king. | Regicide |
| The murder of one’s own father. | Patricide |
| To cast a slender on a person. | Calumniate |
| An unexpected good fortune. | God-send |
| To use expressive motion for limbs. | Gesticulate |
| The art practised by statesmen. | Diplomacy |
| One who is critical beyond measure or reason. | Hypercritic |
| This was made pure by removing all objectionable matter. | Expurgated |
| A person influenced by wealth or position. | Magnate |
| Notice of somebody’s death in a newspaper. | Obituary |
| A person sharing responsibility for a political party’s discipline and tactics. | Whip |
| The place where a criminal stands in court. | Dock |
| A person who dies without making his will. | Intestate |
| A person suffering from nervous disorder. | Neurotic |
| A strict disciplinarian. | Martiner |
| Not to be blamed or censored. | Irreprehensible |
| A fleet of small vessels. | Flotilla |
| Government by nobles. | Aristocracy |
| A man who is too much like a woman. | Effeminate |
| Government by nobles. | Autocracy |
| Nations engaged in war. | Belligerents |
| Extreme old age when a man cannot keep his senses about him. | Dotage |
| The act of speaking about one’s thoughts when alone. | Soliloquy |
| An exaggerated statement. | Hyperbole |
| One who does not care for literature and art. | Philistine |
| To speak in a slow and melancholy manner. | Pensive |
| A person belonging to a foreign country. | Alien |
