One Word Substitutions

Question 1

Become less intense or widespread

Answer 1

Abate

Question 2

A place where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food

Answer 2

Abattoir

Question 3

The superior of monastery

Answer 3

Abbot

Question 4

To reduce to a shorter form intended to stand for a whole

Answer 4

Abbreviation

Question 5

To give up ones authority or throne

Answer 5

Abdicate

Question 6

Act of giving up the throne

Answer 6

Abdication

Question 7

Deviation from the right course

Answer 7

Aberration

Question 8

The act of washing oneself

Answer 8

Ablution

Question 9

To refuse or deny oneself

Answer 9

Abnegate

Question 10

Formally put an end on a system, practice, or institution

Answer 10

Abolish

Question 11

Existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists

Answer 11

Aboriginal

Question 12

The original inhabitants/natives of a country

Answer 12

Aborigines

Question 13

To shorten a piece of writing without losing the sense

Answer 13

Abridge

Question 14

A shortened version of a larger work

Answer 14

Abridgment

Question 15

Cancel or do away with

Answer 15

Abrogate

Question 16

To go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere

Answer 16

Abscond

Question 17

Formal forgiveness of a person’s sins

Answer 17

Absolution

Question 18

Wildly unreasonable, illogical or ridiculous

Answer 18

Absurd

Question 19

To increase the speed

Answer 19

Accelerate

Question 20

Any award or honorer laudatory notice

Answer 20

Accolade

Question 21

A person who helps another to commit a crime or to do something morally wrong

Answer 21

Accomplice

Question 22

Be harmonious or consistent with

Answer 22

Accord

Question 23

A person whose profession is to keep accounts

Answer 23

Accountant

Question 24

Sharp, bitter, or harsh in temper, language etc

Answer 24

Acerbic

Question 25

The scientific study of sound

Answer 25

Acoustics

Question 26

To decide and state officially in court that somebody is not guilty of a crime

Answer 26

Acquit

Question 27

An entertainer who performs difficult physical feats

Answer 27

Acrobat

Question 28

An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word

Answer 28

Acronym

Question 29

Fear of great height

Answer 29

Acrophobia

Question 30

Giving cause for legal action

Answer 30

Actionable

Question 32

Make a machine active or operative

Answer 32

Activate

Question 33

The ability to make good judgement and take quick decision // Sharpness and accuracy of judgement

Answer 33

Acumen

Question 34

Believe in and follow the practices of

Answer 34

Adhere

Question 34

A person who is physically dependent

Answer 34

Addict

Question 35

The period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

Answer 35

Adolescence

Question 36

An extremely beautiful young man

Answer 36

Adonis

Question 37

Very attractive and easy to feel love for

Answer 37

Adorable

Question 38

Make impure by adding inferior substance

Answer 38

Adulterate

Question 39

Willing to take risks and try new ideas

Answer 39

Adventurous

Question 40

A person who support and speak in favor of something

Answer 40

Advocate

Question 41

Growing/ existing/ living in air

Answer 41

Aerial

Question 42

Concerned with beauty or the appearance of beauty

Answer 42

Aesthetics

Question 43

A list of items to be discussed at a meeting

Answer 43

Agenda

Question 44

To increase the importance , position or wealth

Answer 44

Aggrandize

Question 45

Always ready to attract or quarrel // one who is hostile and violent

Answer 45

Aggressive

Question 46

One who is not sure about god's existence

Answer 46

Agnostics

Question 47

Extreme mental or physical suffering

Answer 47

Agony

Question 48

A blank book for keeping a collection of photographs, stamps or picture

Answer 48

Album

Question 49

Study of chemistry in a medieval fashion

Answer 49

Alchemy

Question 50

A substance for killing algae

Answer 50

AlgaecideF

Question 51

fear of Pain

Answer 51

Algophobia

Question 52

A person belonging to a foreign country // different from what you are used to

Answer 52

Alien