Friday, June 19, 2015

One – Word Substitution Day - Four

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 4th day dose of one- word substitution for you to prepare it.



One- word Substitution (Collection for Day- 4)

31.  A disease peculiar to a country or a region.                               → Endemic. 

32.  To root out (an evil, disease).                                                       → Eradicate. 

33.  Worship of idol or images.                                                           → Idolatry.

34.  To involve a person in accusation.                                              → Incriminate.

35.  To exclaim against a person or thing.                                         → Inveigh.

36.  Ordinary and common place remarks.                                       → Platitudes.

37.  A victory gained at too great an expense.                                  → Pyrrhic.

38.  Tendency to quarrel or fight.                                                       → Pugnacity.

39.  Dumb dramatic performance.                                                     → Pantomime.


40.  The ceremony of shaving the whole head.                                → Tonsure.

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