In this article, you will have a list of more than 100 one-word substitutions in English Language. Here we have made a list of some of the most common one-word substitutions in English. To have no confusion in finding any one-word substitution, we have arranged the substitution in alphabetical order.
List of 100+ English One Word Substitutions
Before we present the list of word substitutions, let us understand the definition of one-word substitution in English.
What is One Word Substitution in English?
“Verbatim,” or one-word substitution, is an English language strategy that includes substituting a single word for a wordy phrase to make the sentence structure more concise and clear. This idea is crucial for many competitive tests and is a significant component of vocabulary. Communication becomes clearer and simpler when long phrases are replaced with a single word.
Example of One Word substitution:
An example of this would be to replace the phrase “One who studies the evolution of mankind” with the term “Anthropologist.”
List of One-Word Substitutions For ADRE Grade 3, SSC, Assam Police
The table below will give you a list of more than one hundred one-word substitutions in the English language. The substitution will be very helpful for Assam Direct Recruitment (ADRE 2.0) grade 3 and grade 4 examination, Assam police, SSC, etc.
You can see our post on Sentence and Its Types with Explanation in Assamese.
| Sl. No. | Word/Sentence | One Word Substitution |
| 1 | Voluntary giving up of throne in favour of someone | Abdication |
| 2 | Allowance paid to wife on legal separation | Alimony |
| 3 | A lover of others | Altruist |
| 4 | One who can use either hand with ease | Ambidextrous |
| 5 | Animals that live both on land and in water | Amphibian |
| 6 | One who is out to destroy all government law and order | Anarchist |
| 7 | One who studies the evolution of mankind | Anthropologist |
| 8 | A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute | Arbitrator |
| 9 | A place for ammunition and weapons | Arsenal |
| 10 | A person who does not believe in God | Atheist |
| 11 | The life history of a person written by himself | Autobiography |
| 12 | A nation that is in a war-like mood | Belligerent |
| 13 | The practice of having two wives or two husbands at a time | Bigamy |
| 14 | The act of speaking disrespectfully about sacred things | Blasphemy |
| 15 | Government by the officials | Bureaucracy |
| 16 | A person who is bad in spelling | Cacographist |
| 17 | One who feeds on human flesh | Cannibal |
| 18 | One who draws maps | Cartographer |
| 19 | One who teaches dancing | Choreographer |
| 20 | A critical judge of any art and craft | Connoisseur |
| 21 | Persons living at the same time | Contemporaries |
| 22 | Nursery where children are cared for while their parents are at work | Creche |
| 23 | A religious war | Crusade |
| 24 | Centre of attraction | Cynosure |
| 25 | A room for several people to sleep in, especially in a college or public institution | Dormitory |
| 26 | Fit to be eaten | Edible |
| 27 | A poem of lamentation | Elegy |
| 28 | A person who leaves his own country and goes to live in another | Emigrant |
| 29 | Lasting one day | Ephemeral |
| 30 | Words which are inscribed on the grave or the tomb in the memory of the buried | Epitaph |
| 31 | One who is very selective in one’s taste | Fastidious |
| 32 | One who believes in fate | Fatalist |
| 33 | One who works for welfare of the women | Feminist |
| 34 | The plants of particular region | Flora |
| 35 | Easily broken | Fragile |
| 36 | One who runs away from justice or the law | Fugitive |
| 37 | Animals which live in flocks | Gregarious |
| 38 | A place for housing acroplanes | Hangar |
| 39 | One who acts against religion | Heretic |
| 40 | A place for bees | Hive |
| 41 | Holding office without any remuneration | Honorary |
| 42 | Incapable of being read | Illegible |
| 43 | A person who comes to one country from another in order to settle there | Immigrant |
| 44 | A person who cannot be easily approached | Inaccessible |
| 45 | A sound that cannot be heard | Inaudible. |
| 46 | Incapable of being corrected | Incorrigible |
| 47 | That cannot be erased | Indelible |
| 48 | One who is free from all mistakes and failures | Infallible |
| 49 | Liable to catch fire easily | Inflammable |
| 50 | A person who is unable to pay his debts | Insolvent or bankrupt |
| 51 | One who supervises in the examination hall | Invigilator |
| 52 | One who is too strong to be overcome | Invincible |
| 53 | A place for dogs | Kennel |
| 54 | One who cuts precious stones | Lapidist |
| 55 | One who is skilled in foreign language | Linguist |
| 56 | One who, talks continuously | Loquacious |
| 57 | The first speech delivered by a person | Maiden speech |
| 58 | One who dies for a noble cause | Martyr |
| 59 | A place where money is made | Mint |
| 60 | A hater of mankind | Misanthrope |
| 61 | A hater of womankind | Misogynist |
| 62 | The practice of marrying one at a time | Monogamy |
| 63 | A place where dead bodies are kept for post mortem | Mortuary |
| 64 | A person having same name as another | Namesake |
| 65 | A strong desire to return home, home sickness | Nostalgia |
| 66 | One new to anything, inexperienced | Novice or tyro |
| 67 | An account of one’s achievements in the newspaper after one’s death | Obituary |
| 68 | One who is all powerful | Omnipotent |
| 69 | One, who knows everything | Omniscient |
| 70 | One who eats everything | Omnivorous |
| 71 | One who has lost parents | Orphan |
| 72 | The study of ancient writing | Paleography |
| 73 | A remedy for all diseases | Panacea |
| 74 | A person who looks at the dark side of things | Pessimist |
| 75 | A lover of mankind | Philanthropist |
| 76 | One, who does not care for art and literature | Philistine |
| 77 | Literary theft or passing off an author’s original work as one’s own | Plagiarism |
| 78 | The practice of marrying more than one husband at a time | Polyandry |
| 79 | The practice of marrying more than one wife at a time | Polygamy |
| 80 | One who speaks many languages | Polyglot |
| 81 | A thing that can be carried easily | Portable |
| 82 | The book published after the death of the writer. | Posthumous Publication |
| 83 | Child born after the death of his father | Posthumous |
| 84 | Fit to drink | Potable |
| 85 | An act of separation from other persons to avoid infection | Quarantine |
| 86 | Violating or profaning religious things/places | Sacrilege |
| 87 | A place for the sick to recover health | Sanatorium |
| 88 | A person who walks in sleep | Somnambulist |
| 89 | A person who talks in sleep | Somniloquist |
| 90 | One who is habitual drunkard | Sot, toper |
| 91 | A place for horses | Stable |
| 92 | One who does not take any intoxicating drink | Teetotaller |
| 93 | Government by religious principles | Theocracy |
| 94 | A person/student who absents himself from class or duty without permission | Truant |
| 95 | One extremely fond of one’s wife | Uxorious |
| 96 | A fault that may be forgiven | Venial |
| 97 | Able to adapt oneself readily to many situations | Versatile |
| 98 | One who offers one’s services | Volunteer |