100+ One Word Substitution in English Language

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