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 ONE WORD Substitutes To Improve Your Spoken  English volume -1

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SERIAL NUMBER	STATEMENT	ONE WORD SUBSTITUTE	EXEMPLI GRATIA
1.	One who pursues some sports or art as hobby	Amateur Dilettante	Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has been a dilettante of formula-1 racing.
2.	One who has the predilection for books	Bibliophile Bibliomaniac	The people we peruse encyclopedic tomes in library happen to be bibliophiles.
3.	Speech / writing / presentation made with no prior preparation	Extempore ad lib  impromptu autoschediasm off the cuff	Marketing professionals has the innate ability of making ex tempore presentations.
4.	One who is recuperating from illness	Convalescent	After having been diagnosed with enteric fever, it might take me 1 week to be convalescent.
5.	One who has no money	Pauper Penurious Impecunious Mendicant	Penurious friars are ubiquitous in the vicinity of the sanctum sanctorum of Puri.
6.	Group of people who have the same job or interests	Fraternity	Obama’s re-election as the US president might jeopardize the outsourcing hopes of the IT fraternity.
7.	Worship of Idols	Idolatry	Idolatry holds paramount position in Hindu culture .

8.	Words / expressions engraved on the tomb of a deceased  person	Epitaph	The epitaph is a souvenir which always makes us reminisce about the deceased.
9.	Free of cost / without payment	Gratis	During festive season bonanza, garment shops often offer gratis clothes.
10.	Water safe for drinking	Potable	Only Sanitized and sterilized water is potable.
11.	A fictitious name / moniker / nomenclature adopted by an author/ litterateur	Pseudonym Nom de plume Nom de guerre Pen name	Sometimes litterateurs embrace pseudonym to keep their original identity hush-hush.
12.	To transfer one’s authority to someone else	Delegate	An adept manager always delegates his tasks among his subordinates in order to festinate the accomplishment of task.
13.	Objects or materials that are collected because they are related to a particular event, person	memorabilia	Accomplished veteran actors always devote a separate room to safeguard their memorabilia like trophies, certificates et cetera.
14.	One who has performed extensive travelling	Cosmopolite Globetrotter Cosmopolitan Man of the world	Globetrotters have the luxury of commingling with a gallimaufry of cultural landscapes.
15.	A substance or drug that facilitates / induces sleep /shut-eye / land of nod	Soporific Soporiferous Somniferous Somnific Hypnogogic Hypnagogic	Patients suffering from insomnia are often administered soporific pharmaceuticals.

16.	A trivial fault	Peccadillo Venial	Stealing a one rupee coin from the father’s wallet can only be referred as a peccadillo.
17.	An undertaking that is easy to do	Sinecure Cinch Duck soup Snap doodle Child’s play Piece of cake Pushover Walkover	Experienced bureaucrats find the daily chores  a sinecure.
18.	A person who hates women	Misogynist	The recent escalation in violence against women doesn’t vindicate the India is a nation of misogynists.
19.	A person who hates  marriages	Misogamist	Bachelorhood is the holy grail for a misogamist.
20.	Cure of all diseases and problems	Panacea Catholicon	Promoting India versus Pakistan cricket match is not the panacea of the deteriorating Indo-Pak bipartite equation.
21.	A person who doubts the existence of God	Agnostic	I metamorphose myself to an agnostic during a catastrophe.
22.	A lover of wine	Oenophile	Aristocrats are affluent enough to be oenophiles.
23.	Fear of foreigners	xenophobia	People suffering from xenophobia cannot build the instant rapport with strangers.

24.	Someone who is a beginner in a particular job / domain	Tyro Neophyte Novice Tenderfoot Greenhorn Abecedarian Rookie Cub Newbie Fledgling Initiate Newcomer Entrant Freshman Apprentice Trainee	It takes learning for a tyro to metamorphose himself to be an experienced professional.
25.	One who can be easily deceived / cheated / duped	Gullible Credulous Pushover	Insurance agents often bamboozle money from gullible middle class families who are not au fait with the protocols of the policy.
26.	One who is incapable of paying his/her debts	Insolvent	DGCA imposed a moratorium on Kingfisher airline’s flying license after Dr. Vijay Mallya became insolvent.
27.	One who pretends to be who he is not	Hypocrite Dissimulator Charlatan Mountebank Whited sepulcher Phony	Hypocrites can camouflage their true intentions for the sake of accomplishing their own endeavors.
28.	Systematic study of election trends	Psephology	Psephology lets the media prognosticate the repercussions of elections/polls,
29.	Someone who is reluctant to spend money	Miser Skinflint Stingy Parsimonious Cheapskate Tightwad Niggard Pinch gut Hoarder Scrooge Churl Frugal	I have been parsimonious, when it comes to purchasing books.
30.	Some who spends money incessantly	Prodigal Profligate Spendthrift Spend-all Squanderer Scatter good Big-spender High-roller	The bourgeoisie does not have the luxury to splurge money like prodigals.
31.	One who has the proclivity of ingurgitating foods & beverages	Gastronome Epicure Glutton Bon vivant Bon viveur Ventripotent	A protuberant belly is the identifying feature of a gastronome.

32.	One who is morbidly concerned with his or her health	Valetudinarian	A valetudinarian always cogitates about his health.
33.	One whose job is to compute insurance premiums	Actuary	Sans actuaries, the insurance sector would be paralyzed.
34.	One who copies from the literary works of other writers	Plagiarist Literary pirate Copy cat Plagiarizer Stealer Thief	A plagiarist’s lack of literary capital is the rationale for who he is.
35.	A person who doesn’t exhibit alacrity for intellectual activities(art, music, literature)	Philistine	A philistine can never savor the art of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
36.	Someone who has the uncontrollable desire to set things on fire	Pyromaniac	During the celebration of Diwali, Pyromaniacs should be declared as persona non grata in homes.
37.	Someone who has the uncontrollable desire for stealing things	Kleptomaniac	Voluptuous femme fatale who are caparisoned with expensive jewelry do not really want to be in the proximity of a kleptomaniac.
38.	One who loves mankind	Philanthropist Humanitarian	Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a renowned philanthropist.
39.	Act of depriving something of its sacred character	Sacrilege Blasphemy Profanation Desecration	Micturating inside the premises of a sanctum sanctorum is an act of blasphemy.
40.	Someone who is draconian vis-à-vis stringent implementation of rules/ regulations / protocols/ guidelines	Martinet Stickler Disciplinarian Moralist Authoritarian	Our principal is stickler for discipline and punctuality.
41.	Something / someone which is present / available everywhere	Ubiquitous Omnipresent	Cell phones have become ubiquitous in India.
42.	Someone who is capable of seeing / predicting the future	Clairvoyant Soothsayer Fortune-teller Oracle Psychic Prophet	Marketing professionals are venerated as clairvoyants for their quintessential ability to vaticinate the marketing ramifications.
43.	One who stays aloof from society for religious reasons	Hermit Anchorite Eremite	Monks live like hermit.
44.	A political system in which the nation is ruled  by a handful number of people	Oligarchy	Prior to the decimation of Saddam Hussein, Iraq had an oligarchy.
45.	A political system in which the nation  is ruled by only one person	Monarchy	Gaddafi was the torch bearer of monarchy in Libya.
46.	Someone who knows multiple languages	Polyglot	Polyglots can eradicate communication barrier across wider range of linguistic spectrum.
47.	A political system in which the government is comprised of old/senile/senescent people	Gerontocracy	It would not be an exaggeration, if India were referred to as a gerontocracy.
48.	A victory which comes at a great cost	Pyrrhic victory	Obama’s triumph in Afghanistan was nothing but a pyrrhic victory.
49.	A fake doctor	Nostradamus Quack
50.	One who joins hands with the opposition	Turncoat Renegade Apostate	Renegade apparatchiks are often colluded with the rival party.

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