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One Words Denoting

By Vinay Yadav Updated: 11 February 2018 7 min read Verified Civil Services Notes

One Words Denoting Professions Different Professions being denoted by One Word Substitutions 1 anchor a person who presents a radio/television programme 2 ...

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One Words Denoting Professions

Different Professions being denoted by One Word Substitutions
1	anchor	a person who presents a radio/television programme
2	anthropologist	one who studies the evolution of mankind
3	astronaut	a person, who travels in spacecraft
4	calligraphist	a person who writes beautiful writing
5	cartographer	one who draws maps
6	choreographer	one who teaches art of dancing
7	chauffeur	one who drives a motor car
8	compere	one who introduces performing artistes on the stage programmes
9	curator	one who is incharge of a museum/a cricket pitch
10	florist	one who deals in flowers
11	invigilator	one who supervises in the examination hall
12	lexicographer	one who compiles a dictionary
13	radio jockey	one who presents a radio programme
14	psephologist	one who studies the pattern of voting in election
15	sculptor	one who gives shape to stone
16	usurer	one who lends money at very high rates

One Words Denoting Kinds of Governments

One Words Denoting Kinds of Governments
1	anarchy	absence of Government
2	aristocracy	Government by the nobles/lords
3	autocracy	Government by one person (Synonym of this word is Dictatorship)
4	Autonomy	the right of self-government
5	bureaucracy	Government run by officials
6	Democracy	Government by the people
7	gerontocracy	Government by old men
8	kakistocracy	Government by the worst citizen
9	neocracy	Government by the inexperienced persons
10	ochlocracy	Government by mob(Synonym of this word is Mobocracy)
11	oligarchy	Government by a few persons
12	panarchy	Government run universally
13	plutocracy	Government by the rich
14	secular	Government not by the laws of religion
15	Monarchy	Government by a king/Queen
16	thearchy	Government by the Gods
17	theocracy	Government by the laws of religion

One Words Denoting Killings / Deaths of Persons

One Word Substitutions Denoting Mortality
1	cemetery	a graveyard where the dead are buried
2	cortege	a funeral procession comprising a number of mourners
3	cremation ground/crematorium	a place where the last funeral rites are performed
4	obituary	an account in the newspaper about the funeral of the deceased
5	elegy	a poem of lamentation on the death of someone loved and admired
6	epitaph	words inscribed on the grave/tomb in the memory of the one buried
7	filicide	murder of one’s children
8	foeticide	murder of one’s foetus
9	fratricide	murder of one’s brother
10	genocide	murder of race
11	homicide	murder of a man/woman
12	infanticide	murder of an infant
13	matricide	murder of one’s mother
14	parricide	murder of one’s parents
15	patricide	murder of one’s father
16	regicide	murder of king or queen
17	suicide	murder of oneself
18	uxoricide	murder of one’s wife
19	sororicide	murder of one’s sister
20	mortuary	a place where dead bodies are kept for postmortem
21	morgue	a place where bodies are kept for identification
22	post mortem	Medical Examination of a dead body (Synonym of this word is Autopsy)

One Words Denoting Marriages

One Word Substitutions Denoting Marriages
1	adultery	the practice of having extra-marital relations
2	alimony	an allowance paid to wife on divorce
3	bigamy	the practice of having two wives or husbands at a time
4	celibacy	a state of abstention from marriage
5	concubinage-live-in relationship	a man and a woman living without being married
6	misogamist	one who hates marriage
7	matrimony	a state of being married
8	monogamy	the practice of marrying one at a time
9	polygamy	the practice of marrying more than one wife at a time
10	polyandry	the practice of marrying more than one husband at a time
11	spinister	an older woman who is not married

One Words Denoting Time Period

One Word Substitutions Denoting Time Period
1	annual	happening once in a years
2	biennial	happening in two years
3	triennial	happening in three years
4	quadrennial	happening in four years
5	quinquennial	happening in five years
6	decennial	happening in ten years
7	semicentennial	50th anniversary
8	Centennial	100th anniversary (Centenary)
9	sesquicentennial	150th anniversary
10	bicentennial	200th anniversary (bicentenary)
11	tricentennial(tercentenary)	300th anniversary
12	Tetra centennial	400th anniversary
13	penta centennial	500th anniversary
14	sexagenarian	one who is in sixties
15	septuagenarian	one who is in seventies
16	octogenarian	one who is in eighties
17	nonagenarian	one who is in nineties
18	centenarian	one who is hundred years old
19	century	a period of hundred years
20	millennium	a period of 1000 years

One Words Denoting Young ones

One Words Denoting Young ones
S.No.	Adult	Young-One
1.	Ass	Foal
2.	Bird	Nestling
3.	Butterfly,Moth	Caterpillar
4.	Cat	Kitten
5.	Cock	Cockerel
6.	Cow	Calf
7.	Cow	Heifer
8.	Deer	Fawn
9.	Dog	Puppy
10.	Duck	Duckling
11.	Eagle	Eaglet
12.	Elephant	Calf
13,	Fowl	Chicken
14.	Frog (Toad)	Tadpole
15.	Goat	Kid
16.	Goose	Gosling
17.	Hare	Leveret
18	Hen	Pullet
19.	Horse	Foal,colt
20.	Lion,Bear,Fox	Cub
21.	Mare	Filly
22.	Owl	Owlet
23.	Pig	Piglet
24.	Sheep	Lamb
25.	Stallion (horse)	Colt or Foal
26.	Swan	Cygnet

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