Friday, June 19, 2015

One – Word Substitution Day - Five

Hope you have prepared the one- word substitutions provided to you in the previous posts to by- heart for the shake of your vocabulary and favorable for systematic competition preparations. Now here I am providing 5th day dose of one- word substitution for you to prepare it.

One- word Substitution (Collection for Day- 5)

41.  A man who can disguise the direction from which his voice is coming. → Ventriloquist.

42.  A society composed of elements highly diverse in character.                 → Heterogeneous.

43.  Purest and most essential part of a thing.                                                   → Quintessence.

44.  Total abstainer from all alcoholic drinks.                                                    → Teetotaler.

45.  Accusation most unwanted, most uncalled for.                                        → Gratuitous.

46.  Movement or action so stealthy that none might observe.                      → Surreptitious.

47.  A medicine that causes vomiting.                                                               → Emetic.

48.  A member of the middle class.                                                                    → Bourgeois.

49.  The practice of having many wives.                                                           → Polygamy.


50.  Custom of a woman having many husbands.                                          → Polyandry.

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