1. BEST 100 ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION 

One words substitution is one of the integral parts of vocabulary
it simply means that a sentence has to be  replaced with a single word . Questions based on one word substitution are often asked in various competitive exams. Here is a list of 100 One Word Substitutions asked in bank jobs, CSS, SSC,UPSC,IBPS and other competitive exams. Enhance your vocabulary and learn new words related to one word substitution to boost your exam preparation

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phrase                -             word                


1. A small  shop that sells fashionable clothes   -   boutique


2.Temple dedicated to all the gods    -    pantheon


3. study of law         -   Nomology


4. Study of fossils         -  palaentology


5. Study of oceans and their phenomena      -  oceanography


6. An admirer of art                -  dilettante


7. wants of  sleep          - insomnia 


8. that which cannot  be calculated    - incalculable 


9. touch or stroke lovingly   -   fondle


10. that which is pig like   - porcine 


11. word for  word   - verbatim 


12. the study of insects  -  entomology


13. spreading by infection - infectious


14. shamelessly  rude      - impudent 


15. fear of animals     -  zoophobia


16. fear of dead bodies   - necrophobia


17. greedy for money   - repacious


18. hatter of books     -  misobiblic


19. hatter of marriage      - misogamist


20. hatter of learning   -  misologist


21. fear of foreigners    - xenophobia


22. fear of  home surroundings     -  ecophobia


23. bring back to life        - revive 


24. that which cannot be read  -  illigible 


25. A person who sells  drugs   - druggist 


26. a period of 15 nights          -  fortnight 


27. a period of 10 years     -  decade 


28. a person who travels to a holy place   -  pilgrim 


29. a person who walks    -  pedestrian 


30. a person who travels in space    -  astronaut 


31. from one generation to another   - hereditary 


32. a lover of good meals   -  gourdmand 


33. a man of millions     - millionaire 


34. an impudent girl  -  minx 


35. a building in which monks live    - monastery 


36. a young of animals   - offspring 


37. a lovely young girl  - nymph 


38. one who looks on    - onlooker


39. a disease that cause death    - fatal 


40. hundredth anniversary   - centenary 


41. that which can be seen     - visible 


42. a disease widely epidemic    - epidemic 


43. a female of gander    - goose 


44. a supreme ruler - monarch 


45. a  person who looks at the dark side of things    -  pessimist 


46. a women whose husband is dead  - widow 


47. a women who entertaining guests   - hostess 


48. one who receives something   - recipient 


49. one who analyses writing  - graphologists 


50. that which is corpse like     - cadaverous 


51. that which is cat like     - feline 


52. that which is cow like  - bowine 


53. that which is fish like  - piscine 


54. that which is mortally dangerous - pestiferous 


55. that which is prohibited by law    - prohibitory 


56. a person who is specialist in bone disease   - orthopaedist 


57. a  women who is a specialist in reproductive organs    -gyanaecologist 


58. a person who specialists in heart disease      - cardiologists 


59. a person who is specialists in nervous systems   - neurologists 


60. a person who is specialist in child disease   -pediatrician 


61. a place of shelter of ships    - harbour 


62. a supreme rule  - monarch 


63. the murder of political reasons  - assassination 


64. the murder of one`s sister   - sorocide 


65. the murder of one`s husband         - mariticide 


66. the murder of one`s mother    - matricide 


67. the murder of one`s wife      - uxoricide 


68. a large retail store             - emporium 


69. a large destruction by fire     - holocaust 


70. a law making body of a country \ state    - legislature 


71. a lover of  animals - philozoic 


72. a lover of arts     - philotechnic 


73. a lover of dogs          - canophilist 


74. a lover of god   - philotheist 


75. a funeral rite    - funeral 


76. a girl \ women who flirt   - coquette 


77. relationship by blood or birth   - consanguinity 


78. a hater of new things    - misoneist 


79. a hater of smoking      - misocapnic 


80. a bad smell or taste     -  foul 


81. a person who helps in a wrong deed or crime     - accomplice 


82. helpful but not an essential part      - accessory 


83. a holy or sacred place    - sanctuary 


84. that which cannot be altered    - unalterable 


85. honesty and uprightness of character   - integrity 


86. fear of water    - hydrophobia 


87. a killer of  a king     - regicide 


88. a killer of an infant      -infanticide 


89. a marriage of god    - theogamy 


90. a lover of learning         - philomath 


91. a lover of women             - philogynist 


92. a lover of poetry and art      - philomuse 


93. one who always gets into trouble    - scapegrace 


94. one who studies the mind        - psychologist


95. one who receives something      - recepient 


96. one who speaks two languages      - bilingual 


97. a perfect happiness                    - ecstasy


98. a person who is very cruel               - fiend 


99. science of the fossils        - palaentology 


100. that which eat grass    - herbivore






BEST 100 ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION One words substitution is one of the integral parts of vocabulary it simply means that a sentence has to be  replaced with a single word .