English-- One word Substitutions --04

A collection of People

1. at a lecture: audience
2. at a match: spectators
3. in the street: crowd
4. in a riot: mob
5. in a church, mosque, temple: congregation
6. in a rowdy scene: rabble
7. watching a TV programme: viewers
8. attending a funeral: mourners
9. listening to a broadcast programme: listeners
10. A minister representing a sovereign or a state in a foreign country: ambassador
11. A person sent on a mission: emissary
12. A person who spends his money recklessly: spendthrift
13. A person who can neither read nor write: illiterate
14. A person who lives at the same time as another: contemporary
15. A lover of mankind: philanthropist
16. A lover of womankind: philogynist
17. A lover of oneself: egoist
18. A lover of others: altruist
19. A lover of food: gourmand
20. A person who loves his own country: patriot
21. A person who regards the whole world as his country: cosmopolitan
22. A person who believes in the total abolition of war: pacifist
23. A person who is fond of fighting: bellicose
24. A man who is womanish in his habits: effeminate
25. A person who is devoted to the welfare of women: feminist
26. One who is all-powerful: omnipotent
27. One who is present everywhere: omnipresent
28. One who knows everything: omniscient
29. One who believes in fate: fatalist
30. One who supplicates or entreats earnestly: supplicant
31. One who has narrow religious views: bigot
32. One who plays for pleasure: amateur
33. One who plays for money: professional
34. One who eats too much: glutton
35. One who feeds on vegetables: vegetarian
36. One who eats human flesh: cannibal
37. One who breaks images and idols: iconoclast
38. One who is over-enthusiastic about some religious principles or beliefs: fanatic
39. One who walks in sleep: somnambulist
40. One who talks in sleep: somniloquent
41. One who makes scientific study of language: linguist
42. One who knows many languages: polyglot
43. One who enjoys another person's confidence: confidant
44. One who is appointed by parties to settle disputes: arbitrator
45. One who breaks in a house to steal: burglar
46. One who sails around stopping and robbing ships at sea: pirate
47. One who abstains from alcoholic drink: teetotaller
48. One who leaves his own country and goes to live in another: emigrant
49. One who comes to one country from another to settle: immigrant
50. To send out of one’s native country: expatriate
51. One who leads others in any field: pioneer
52. One who commits the first act of attack: aggressor
53. One who speaks for others : spokesman
54. One who wastes money for luxury: extravagant
55. One who is unable to bay his debt: insolvent/bankrupt
56. One who abandons his religious faith: apostate
57. One who makes an eloquent public speech: orator
58. One who undergoes the penalty of death for persistence in his faith: martyr
59. A child whose parents are dead: orphan
60. A man whose wife is dead: widower
61. A woman whose husband is dead: widow
62. A person who takes advantage of every chance in success, sometimes to other people’s disadvantage: opportunist
63. A girl or woman who flirts, that is , tries to attract people and make advances in love simply to satisfy her vanity: coquette
64. A person who has a long experience of any occupation: veteran
65. A person who does clever tricks which appear magical: conjuror
66. A person who travels into or through a country for the purpose of learning about it: explorer
67. A disease that can be spread by touch: contagious
68. A disease that is found regularly in a particular place: endemic
69. A disease that causes death: fatal
70. A child born after the death of its father: posthumous
71. A child brought up by person who are not its parents: foster-child
72. Having a tendency to break the law to do socially unacceptable things: delinquent
73. A disease caused by bacteria and passed from one person to another: infectious
74. A remedy for all kinds of diseases: panacea
75. An office which has no work but high salary: sinecure
76. A game or battle which no party gains victory: drawn
77. A roundabout way of expression: circumlocution
78. A story in which ideas are symbolized as people: allegory
79. A short simple story designed to teach a moral or religious story: parable
80. A short story in which animals or objects speak a story that gives wholesome moral lesson: fable
81. A talk between two people: dialogue
82. An old story about great events and people in ancient times, which may not be true: legend
83. A long speech for a single actor or actress, usually alone on the stage: monologue
84. An introduction to a long poem, a play, etc : prologue
85. A speech made by one of the actors at the end of a play: epilogue
86. A string of beads used for prayer: rosary
87. The act of speaking aloud one’s thoughts when alone: soliloquy
88. A speech which is delivered without any previous preparation: extempore
89. The first venture of a person: maiden
90. A short story in which animals or objects speak a story that gives wholesome moral lesson: fable
91. A talk between two people: dialogue
92. An old story about great events and people in ancient times, which may not be true: legend
93. A long speech for a single actor or actress, usually alone on the stage: monologue
94. An introduction to a long poem, a play, etc : prologue
95. A speech made by one of the actors at the end of a play: epilogue
96. A string of beads used for prayer: rosary
97. The act of speaking aloud one’s thoughts when alone: soliloquy
98. A speech which is delivered without any previous preparation: extempore
99. The first venture of a person: maiden
100. Words opposite in meaning: antonym
101. Words different in meaning but similar in sound: homonym
102. Words similar in meaning: synonym
103. Anything which is no longer in use: obsolete
104. Article sold by one country to another: export
105. Article bought by one country from another: import
106. A state which is impartial to all religions: secular
107. That which cannot be heard: inaudible
108. That which cannot be consumed by fire: incombustible
109. That which cannot be believed: incredible