Some Important One Word Substitutions For SSC



1.      One who knows many languages – Polyglot, Linguist
2.      One who knows everything – Omniscient
3.      One who is all powerful – Omnipotent
4.      Being present everywhere – Omnipresent
5.      One who eats human flesh – Cannibal
6.      One who feeds on flesh – Carnivorous
7.      One who eats everything – Omnivorous
8.      A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink – Epicure
9.      One does a thing for pleasure not as a profession – Amateur
10.  One who has long experience of service or occupation – Veteran
11.  One who is inexperienced in anything – Tyro, Novice
12.  Able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities – Versatile (syn: Multitalented, many-sided)
13.  One who holds a post without any salary – Honorary
14.  A post with little work but high salary – Sinecure
15.  A person who changed his religious or political belief – Apostate
16.  A person who does not believe in God – Atheist (ant: theist)
17.  A person filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters – Fanatic , Bigot
18.  A person who is blindly devoted to an idea – Chauvinist
19.  One who acts against religion – Heretic
20.  An act of speaking against God – Blasphemy, Sacrilege
21.  One who believes in fate – Fatalist
22.  That causes death – Fatal
23.  A person who thinks whole world as his country – Cosmopolitan
24.  Related to Sun – Solar
25.  Related to Moon – Lunar
26.  A person who indifferent to pleasure or pain -  Stoic
27.  A person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people– Recluse (syn: seclusion)
28.  Something is no longer in use – Obsolete (syn: redundant )



29.  Act of deceiving somebody in order to make money – Fraud (syn:- cheat , Trickery )
30.  One who looks bright side of things – Optimist
31.  One who looks dark side of things – Pessimist
32.  A person who feels pleasure by hurting others -  Sadist
33.  A husband ruled by his wife -  Henpecked
34.  One extremely fond of one’s wife – Uxorious
35.  One who is against war – Pacifist
36.  Willingness to fight – Bellicose (syn: Belligerent)
37.  Compulsory enlistment for military service – Conscription  (When a military needs people to fight in a war, but there aren’t enough volunteers, sometimes they'll begin conscription, which is a law that says if you are able to fight, you have to fight.)
38.   A religious war – Crusade
39.  The plants of a particular region – Flora
40.  The animals of a particular region – Fauna
41.  Animal that live both land and sea – Amphibian
42.  Animal that live in water – Aquatic
43.  One who resides in a country of which he is not a citizen – Alien
44.  One who leaves his country to settle elsewhere – Emigrant
45.  One who comes as a settler into a foreign country – Immigrant
46.  Life history of a person written by himself – Autobiography
47.  Life history of a person written by someone else – Biography
48.  A book that contains information on various subjects – Encyclopedia
49.  The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence – Chronology
50.  The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them of as one’s own – Plagiarism

Internation and National Awards FOR WBSSC EXAMS



                                                International Awards
Name of The Award
Fields
Year
Name of the Winner
Remarks
Abel Award
Mathematics
2016
Andrew Wiles

Grammy Award
Music
2016
http://www.eonline.com/news/739431/grammy-awards-2016-winners-the-complete-list

Lenin Peace Prize
Peace and Friendship


Soviet Union's award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin
Man Booker Prize
Literature
2016
Han Kang, Deborah Smith
Will Be Declared on 25/10/2016
Magsaysay Award
Public Service, Literature and creative arts , journalism
2016
Thodur Madabusi Krishna
(India)

Pulitzer Prize
Journalism and Literature
2016
http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2016

                                      National Award
Name of The Award
Fields
Year
Name of the Winner
Remarks
Arjun Award
Sports



Ashok Chakra
Civilians



Bhatnagar Award
Science



Bharat Ratna
Art, Science, Public services, Sports



Bharatiya Jnanpeeth Award
Literary
 2015

Dronacharya Award
Sports Coaches



Dhyanchand
Sports Person



Kalidas Samman
Classical Music,Classical dance and arts



Kalinga award
Science



Lalit Kala Akademy Award
Arts



Murtidevi Award
Literary
 2015
 For Ananta Jeevanam
Saraswati Saman
Literary



Sangeet Natak Akademy Award
Music, Dance and Drama



Shanti Swarup Bhatnaga Award
Science and Technology

http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx

Sahitya Akademi Award
Books in Indian Languages and English



Tansen Award
Music
 2015
  Indian Hindustani classical vocalist
Vyas Samman
Literature
 2015
 Sunita Jain
 For poetry collection “Kshama”

                                                Nobel Prize 2016
Fields
Winners
Nationality 

Literature
Bob Dylan

"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
Physics
J. Michael Kosterlitz, David J. Thouless, Duncan Haldane

"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
Chemistry
Fraser Stoddart , Jean-Pierre Sauvage , Ben Feringa

"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Physiology
Yoshinori Ohsumi

"for his discoveries of mechanisms for autoph-agy"
Economics
Oliver Hart,Bengt Holmstrom

"for their contributions to contract theory"
Peace
Juan Manuel Santos

"for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end"

                                                Tennis Women
Name of the Tournament
Winners (single)
Winners (Double)
Year
Mixed Doubles
US Open
Angelique Kerber
Bethanie Mattek sands, Lucie Safarova
2016

French Open
Garbine Mugurza
Kristina Lladenovic, Caroline Garcia
2016
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis
Wimbledon Open
Serena Williams
Serena Williams, Venus Williams
June July 2016

Australia Open
Angelique Kerber
Martina Hingis, Sania Mirza
2016

                                                                               
                                                Tennis Men
Name of the Tournament
Winners(Single)
Winners (Double)
Year
US Open
Stan Wawrinka
Jamie Murray, Bruno Soares
2016
French Open
Novak Dakovic
Feliciano Lopez, Mark Lopez
2016
Wimbledon Open
Andy Murray
Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Nicolas Mahut
2016
Australia Open
Novak Dakovic
Jamie Murray, Bruno Soares
2016

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