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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

Some Important One Word Substitutions For SSC

  1. One who always doubting- Skeptic
  2. A collection of slaves - Coffle
  3. Thoughtful and sad- Pensive  
  4. A speech of praise- Eulogy
  5. A common place remark- Platitude
  6. Newly gained wealth- Parvenu
  7. Who thinks independently not like others- Maverick
  8. Take great pleasure- Revel
  9. Strong dislike- Animosity
  10. A standard by which anything to be judged- Epitome
  11. firing many guns at he same time- Salvo
  12. Who repairs broken window glasses- Glazier
  13. The stand from which a preacher delivers his sermon - Pulpit
  14. The science of Govt.- Politics
  15.  One who specializes in the mathematics of insurance- An Actuary
  16. A messenger sent in great haste - Courier
  17.  A supplement to a will- Codicil
  18. Estimation of a things worth- Appraisal
  19. A gigantic Statue-  Colossus
  20. Specify as part of an agreement - Stipulate
  21. A person who has had one or more limbs cut off - Amputee
  22. Deeply worried or agitated- Distraught
  23. Throwing snow- Slosh
  24. Of one mind or opinion - Unanimous
  25. A building for housing curious - Museum 
  26. Of one mind or opinion - Unanimous
  27. Partner in crime- Accomplice
  28. A short trip or excursion - Jaunt
  29. Motive or incitement to action - incentive
  30.  Round arrangement of flower - Wreath
  31. A method o boiling briefly to cook food slightly - Parboil
  32. Wealthy businessman - Tycoon
  33. One helps people by giving them money- Benefactor
  34. A special fondness or liking for - Penchant
  35. Relating to kinship with the father - Patrineal
  36. A drink usually made from a mixture of one more alcoholic drinks -  Cocktail 
  37. Pertaining to cats- Feline
  38. Pertaining to sheeps- Ovine
  39. Pertaining to fox- Vulpine
  40. All pieces of metals that fly out from an exploding bomb- Shrapnel
  41. To remove objectionable part from a book - Expurgate
  42. Hole Excavated by an animal as dwelling - Burrow
  43. Walk in a proud and confident way - Swagger
  44. A part of a stage infront of the curtain- Proscenium
  45. Having a  smell or taste - Rancid
  46. Specialization of nose - Rhinologist
  47. Specialization  of ear - Otologist
  48. Study of caves - Speleology
  49. Study of body parts - Topology
  50. A book which holds several works of one author - Omnibus

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