Good composition examination always checks our mental ability. They arrange many tricky questions as well as a descriptive question in various selection processes. In various competitive exams, many of time they ask one-word Substitution in their English section or some related questions. So, our team has prepared a set of few phrases and their one word that are frequently asked in the examination.
These one-word substitutions help in English section which is a mandatory section for any competitive exam. The various competitive exams like SSC, IBPS, UPSC, consist of which is based on English Comprehension. In these comprehensions, many of words we ever heard about it, so we here to help you in preparing one of the most important topics in English Comprehension that is One Word Substitution.
Lists of One Word Substitution For Various Competitive Exam
Following are the list of one-word substitution which is mostly asked in the competitive exam every year, read and learn all these one words with their phrases:
| Phrase | One Word |
| A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems | Anarchy |
| A form of government in which power is held by the nobility | Aristocracy |
| A system of government by one person with absolute power | Autocracy |
| A self-governing country or region | Autonomy |
| An extreme or irrational fear of heights | Acrophobia |
| A system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives | Bureaucracy |
| An abnormal and persistent fear of depths | Bathophobia |
| Fear or hatred of books | Bibliophobia |
| a person, nation that is involved in war | Belligerent |
| an event which happens once in two years | Biennial |
| the practice of having two wives or husbands at a time | Bigamy |
| the act of speaking disrespectfully about sacred things | Blasphemy |
| a nursery where children are cared for while their parents are at work | Creche |
| a person who regards whole world as his country | Cosmopolitan |
| one, who is employed to drive a motor car | Chauffeur – |
| a person incharge of a museum | Curator |
| one, who lives on flesh | Carnivorous |
| one, who feeds on human flesh | Cannibal |
| belonging to or living at the same time | Contemporaries |
| a place for luggage at railway station | Cloak room |
| one, who is recovering health | Convalescent – |
| soldiers, who fight on horse back | Cavalry |
| a person, who is specialist in heart diseases | Cardiologist |
| one, who draws maps | Cartographer |
| a game that results neither in victory nor in defeat | Drawn |
| the sleeping rooms with several beds especially in a college or institution | Dormitory |
| A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives | Democracy |
| a poem of lamentation | Elegy |
| words which are inscribed on the grave or the tomb in the memory of the buried | Epitaph |
| lasting one day | Ephemeral |
| a person who is womanish | Effeminate |
| a person who leaves his own country and goes to live in another | Emigrant |
| fit to be eaten | Edible |
| one, who deals-in flowers | Florist |
| one, who is very -selective in one’s taste | Fastidious |
| one, who is filled with excessive and mistaken enthusiasm in religious matters | Fanatic or Bigot |
| causing death | Fatal |
| one, who believes in fate | Fatalist |
| an exact copy of handwriting, printing etc | Facsimile |
| the animals of a certain region | Fauna |
| the plants of a particular region | Flora |
| murder of brother | Fratricide |
| one, who runs away from justice or the law | Fugitive |
| Fear of getting married, being in a relationship, or commitment | Gamophobia |
| Physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse | Genophobia |
| Fear of old age | Geraphobia |
| Fear of women | Gynaephobia |
| Fear of writing or handwriting | Graphophobia |
| An irrational and intense fear of travel | Hodophobia |
| A state, society, or group governed by old people | Gerontocracy |
| a place for housing Aeroplanes | Hangar – |
| a place for bees | Hive |
| the art of cultivating and managing gardens | Horticulture |
| murder of man | Homicide |
| a vehicle which is used to carry a dead body | Hearse |
| one, who believes that pleasure is the chief good (sensual) | Hedonist |
| One who is breaker of images and traditions | Iconoclast – |
| A person who comes to a country from his own country for settling. |
Immigrant |
| one who can’t read and write | Illiterate |
| That cannot be entered by force | Impregnable |
| One who pretends to be Somebody else. | Imposter |
| One who does not expresses himself freely | Introvert |
| That cannot be conquered | Invincible |
| A state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens | Kakistocracy |
| One who hates Mankind | Misanthrope |
| A soldier who fights for money. | Mercenary |
| One who hates the institution of marriage. | Misogamist |
| one who hates knowledge ( Ant. Bibliologist) | Misologist |
| ( Syn. Tyro ) one who is inexperienced in anything | Novice |
| One who collects coins | Numismatists |
| Government by new or inexperienced hands | Neocracy |
| A small group of people having control of a country or organization | Oligarchy |
| Government by the populace | Ochlocracy |
| Government by the wealthy | Plutocracy |
| literary theft or passing off an author’s original work as one’s own | Plagiarism |
| the practice of marrying more than one wife at a time | Polygamy |
| the practice of marrying more than one husband at a time | Polyandry |
| a lover of womankind | Philogynist |
| (a decision made by) votes of all qualified citizens | Plebiscite |
| one, who amuses himself by love making | Philanderer |
| Government not connected with religious or spiritual matters | Secular |
| A form of government with a monarch at the head | Monarchy |
| A political system based on government of men by God | Thearchy |
| A place where animal hides are tanned | Tannery |
| A small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and another dirty household work | Scullery |
| A close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword | Sheath |
| A room or building for sick children in a boarding school | Sanatorium |
| Killing of one’s sister | Sororicide |
| Act of intentionally causing one’s own death | Suicide |
| one extremely fond of one’s wife | Uxorious |
| an imaginary perfect social and political system | Utopia |
| murder of wife | Uxoricide |
| repetition of speech or writing word for word | Verbatim |
| one, who offers one’s services | Volunteer |
| a woman who has no sexual experience | Virgin |
| a place for clothes | Wardrobe |
We hope that you have gone through this and learn these one-word substitutions.