Phrase | One Word |
A book of names and addresses | Directory |
A fear of confined spaces | Claustrophobia |
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A land fit for growing crops | Arable |
A light sailing boat built specially for racing | Yacht |
A loud talk or speech | Harangue |
A man who pays too much attention to his clothes and personal appearance | Dandy |
A number of ships | Fleet |
A paper written in one’s own handwriting | Manuscript |
A perception without objective reality | Hallucination |
A person extremely desirous of money | Avaricious |
A person who agrees to work for somebody in order to learn skills | Apprentice |
A person who deliberately sets fire to building | Arsonist |
A person who has had one or more limbs removed | Amputee |
A person who is very selective, disgusted easily, and is hard to please | Fastidious |
A person who knows may foreign languages | Polyglot |
A person who looks for bright side of things | Polyglot |
A person working in same place with another | Colleague |
A raised passageway in a building | Walkway |
A record of historical events | Archives |
A recurrent compulsive urge to steal | Kleptomania |
A reserve for animals ,birds etc in their natural habitat | Sanctuary |
A sea abounding in islands | Archipelago |
A song sung at a burial | Dirge |
A song sung at the death of a person | Elegy |
A statement in which you say the same thing twice in different words | Tautology |
A story having in end death or murder | Tragedy |
Able to use Both Left and right hand | Ambidextrous |
According to one’s own will | Voluntarily |
Act of injuring another’s reputation by any slanderous communication | Defamation |
An animal story with a moral | Fable |
An error or misprint in printing or writing | Erratum |
Art of making fireworks | Pyrotechnics |
Boundary of an area | Periphery |
Conferred as an honor | Honorary |
Country behind the coast or river’banks | Hinterland |
Cure for all diseases | Panacea |
Dabbler in arts, science or literature | Connoisseur |
Existing and known | Extant |
Fear Of Height | Acrophobia |
Pretended Attack | Feint |
First speech of life | Maiden |
Foreigner who settles in a country | Immigrant |
Looking in one’s own mind | Introspection |
Loss of memory | Flounder |
Make Pale by excluding light | Etiolate |
Mania for balking | Logomania |
Mania for stealing articles | Kleptomania |
Mania for travel | Dromomania |
Medical Study of skin and its diseases | Dermatology |
Murder of a king | Regicide |
Murder of brother | Fratricide |
Murder of father | Patricide |
Named group of fixed stars | Constellation |
No longer in existence or use | Obsolete |
Not Suitable for Eating | Inedible |
Occurring at irregular intervals in time | Sporadic |
One who can not be corrected | Incorrigible |
one who does not believe in existence of God | Atheist |
One who hates mankind | Misanthropist |
One who is known but usually unfavorably is | Notorious |
one who know many Languages | Polyglot |
One who plays a game for pleasure not professionally | Amateur |
One who sacrifices his life for a cause | Martyr |
Opinion contrary to accepted doctrines | Heresy |
Person who has no money to pay depts. | Insolvent |
Place where bricks are baked | Kiln |
Policeman riding on motorcycles as quards to a VIP | Outriders |
Ridiculous use of words | Malapropism |
Rub or wipe out | Efface |
Someone who is designated to hear both sides of a dispute and make a judgement | Arbitrator |
Something that causes death | Fatal |
Speaking too much on oneself | Egoism |
State in which the few govern the many | Oligarchy |
Study of ancient civilizations | Archaeology |
That can be heard | Audible |
That which can not be effaced | Indelible |
The animals of particular region | Fauna |
The area of medicines that cares diseases of Bones | Orthopedics |
The Burial of a corpse | Interment |
The loop of rope with a running knot used to hang a person | Noose |
The period between two reigns | Interregnum |
Things to be discussed at time of meeting | Agenda |
Time Between Midnight and noon | Ante Meridian |
To confirm with the help of evidence | Corroborate |
To destroy completely | Annihilate |
To die without making a will | Intestate |
To free someone from all blames | Exonerate |
Too willing to obey other people | Subservient |
Unpaid work for Red Cross | Honorary |
Which can not be avoided | Inevitable |
Which is perceptible by touch is | Tangible |
Who can not speak | Dumb |
Who does not make mistakes | Infallible |
Who eats everything | Omnivorous |
Who hates women | Misogynist |
Who is concerned with welfare of others | Altruist |
Who knows everything | Omniscient |
Who loves mankind | Philanthropist |
Without Invitation | Intruder |
Word for word reproduction | Verbatim |
Words of opposite meaning | Antonyms |
Words of similar meaning | Synonyms |