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One Word Substitution > 700 > Flashcards

700 Flashcards

1
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Etiquette

A

Rules governing socially accepted behaviour

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2
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Tangible

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Clearly seen to be exist

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3
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Ephemeral

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Lasting or used for a very short time

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Metronomic

Friable

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Happening regularly

Easily broken into pieces

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5
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Fatalism

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Submission to all that happens

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Pragmatism

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Thinking about solving a problem in practical way rather than using theories and formula

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Pragmatism

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Thinking about solving a problem in practical way rather than using theories and formula

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8
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Premiere

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First public show of film or musical event

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9
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Embezzlement

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The act of stealing money to which you are responsible

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Debasememt

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More like defamation

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11
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Evoluted

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Geometric curve

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Evaded

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To escape from somebody or something

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13
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Orchard

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Place qhere fruit trees are grown

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14
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Antagonist

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Person who strongly opposes something or somebody

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15
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Rhetoric

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Speech or writing that is to motivate people but need not be true

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16
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Recitation

Rhapsody

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To repeat something aloud to keep in mind (memoriaing)

Epic poem adapted for memorising(unachi ponga vaikum)

17
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Quinquagenarian

Nonagenarian

A

Person in 50-59

Person in 90-99

18
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extirpate
Expropriate
Exile

A

Destroy
To officially take away a private property
Expel from a country

19
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Polycarp

Polymath

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Christian martyr

Person who knows lot about different subject

20
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Misologist

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One who hates reason , enlightenment and arguememt

21
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Nelomania
Kosmomania
Melanomania

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Obsession for glass
Onsession to cosmos / cosmic
Obsession to black colour

22
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Abstain

Abrogate

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To choose not to vote for sometjing

To officially end a law or an agreement

23
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Palliation

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To make a disease or pain lesser

24
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Dilettante

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Not doing or studying something seriously

25
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Rustic

Bizarre

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Simple

Weird , very strange

26
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Arachnology

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Study of spiders and scorpions

27
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Enigmatic(esortic)

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Unknown or not understandable person

28
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Archipelago
Islet
Reef
Atoll

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Group of islands
Very small island
Long line of rocks near sea
Island containing coral reef surrounding a water body

29
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innuendo

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Indirectly say rude or bad thing about a person

30
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Neophytr

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A person who recently started an activity

31
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mint

Cannery

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Place where money or coins a made

Factory where food is canned

32
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Panjandrum(tycoon,magnate)

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Influential person

33
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Malapropism

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Amusing mistake somebody makes by using a similar sounding wrong word

34
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Spoonerism
Blooper
Corpsing

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Change of first word while pronuncing

Embarassing mistake
Spoiling a whole play by forgetting ones line

35
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Cerography

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Designing or writing in wax

36
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Puerile

A

Suitable for child(silly)

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