ONE WORD SUBSTITUTES - A
1.
acute adj. Having fine and penetrating
discernment.
2.
adamant n. Any substance of exceeding
hardness or impenetrability.
3.
addendum n. Something added, or to be
added.
4.
addle v. To make inefficient or
worthless; muddle.
5.
adduce v. To bring forward or name for
consideration.
6.
adhere v. To stick fast or together.
7.
adherence n. Attachment.
8.
adherent adj. Clinging or sticking
fast.
9.
adhesion n. The state of being
attached or joined.
10. adieu
inter. Good-by; farewell.
11. adjacency
n. The state of being adjacent.
12. adjacent
n. That which is near or bordering upon.
13. adjudge
v. To award or bestow by formal decision.
14. adjunct
n. Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a
subordinate place.
15. adjuration
n. A vehement appeal.
16. adjutant
adj. Auxiliary.
17. administrator
n. One who manages affairs of any kind.
18. admissible
adj. Having the right or privilege of entry.
19. admittance
n. Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
20. admonish
v. To warn of a fault.
21. admonition
n. Gentle reproof.
22. ado
n. unnecessary activity or ceremony.
23. adoration
n. Profound devotion.
24. adroit
adj. Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
25. adulterant
n. An adulterating substance.
26. adulterate
v. To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
27. adumbrate
v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
28. advent
n. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or
personage.
29. adverse
adj. Opposing or opposed.
30. adversity
n. Misfortune.
31. advert
v. To refer incidentally.
32. advertiser
n. One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
33. advisory
adj. Not mandatory.
34. advocacy
n. The act of pleading a cause.
35. advocate
n. One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
36. aerial
adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
37. aeronaut
n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
38. aeronautics
n. the art or practice of flying aircraft
39. aerostat
n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
40. aerostatics
n. The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical
properties.
41. affable
adj. Easy to approach.
42. affect
v. To act upon
43. affectation
n. A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
44. affiliate
n. Some auxiliary person or thing.
45. affirmative
adj. Answering yes; to a question at issue.
46. affix
v. To fasten.
47. affluence
n. A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
48. affront
n. An open insult or indignity.
49. afire
adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
50. afoot
adv. In progress.
51. aforesaid
adj. Said in a preceding part or before.
52. afresh
adv. Once more, after rest or interval.
53. afterthought
n. A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
54. agglomerate
v. To pile or heap together.
55. aggrandize
v. To cause to appear greatly.
56. aggravate
v. To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
57. aggravation
n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune,
etc.
58. aggregate
n. The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
59. aggress
v. To make the first attack.
60. aggression
n. An unprovoked attack.
61. aggrieve
v. To give grief or sorrow to.
62. aghast
adj. Struck with terror and amazement.
63. agile
adj. Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
64. agitate
v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
65. agrarian
adj. Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
66. aide-de-camp
n. An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
67. ailment
n. Slight sickness.
68. airy
adj. Delicate, ethereal.
69. akin
adj. Of similar nature or qualities.
70. alabaster
n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
71. alacrity
n. Cheerful willingness.
72. albeit
conj. Even though.
73. albino
n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and
usually pink iris.
74. album
n. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs
or the like.
75. alchemy
n. Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base
metals to gold.
76. alcohol
n. A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning
taste.
77. alcoholism
n. A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
78. alcove
n. A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
79. alder
n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
80. alderman
n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain
judicial functions.
81. aldermanship
n. The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
82. alias
n. An assumed name.
83. alien
n. One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
84. alienable
adj. Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
85. alienate
v. To cause to turn away.
86. alienation
n. Estrangement.
87. aliment
n. That which nourishes.
88. alkali
n. Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
89. allay
v. To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
90. allege
v. To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
91. allegory
n. The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly
suggestive likeness.
92. alleviate
v. To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
93. alley
n. A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
94. alliance
n. Any combination or union for some common purpose.
95. allot
v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
96. allotment
n. Portion.
97. allude
v. To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
98. allusion
n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention
of it.
99. alluvion
n. Flood.
100.
ally n. A person or thing connected
with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
101.
almanac n. A series of tables giving
the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
102.
aloof adv. Not in sympathy with or
desiring to associate with others.
103.
altar n. Any raised place or structure
on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
104.
alter v. To make change in.
105.
alteration n. Change or modification.
106.
altercate v. To contend angrily or
zealously in words.
107.
alternate n. One chosen to act in
place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
108.
alternative n. Something that may or
must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
109.
altitude n. Vertical distance or
elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
110.
alto n. The lowest or deepest female
voice or part.
111.
altruism n. Benevolence to others on
subordination to self-interest.
112.
altruist n. One who advocates or
practices altruism.
113.
amalgam n. An alloy or union of
mercury with another metal.
114.
amalgamate v. To mix or blend together
in a homogeneous body.
115.
amateur adj. Practicing an art or
occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
116.
amatory adj. Designed to excite love.
117.
ambidextrous adj. Having the ability
of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
118.
ambiguous adj. Having a double
meaning.
119.
ambitious adj. Eagerly desirous and
aspiring.
120.
ambrosial adj. Divinely sweet,
fragrant, or delicious.
121.
ambulance n. A vehicle fitted for
conveying the sick and wounded.
122.
ambulate v. To walk about
123.
ambush n. The act or state of lying
concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
124.
ameliorate v. To relieve, as from pain
or hardship
125.
amenable adj. Willing and ready to
submit.
126.
Americanism n. A peculiar sense in
which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
127.
amicable adj. Done in a friendly
spirit.
128.
amity n. Friendship.
129.
amorous adj. Having a propensity for
falling in love.
130.
amorphous adj. Without determinate
shape.
131.
amour n. A love-affair, especially one
of an illicit nature.
132.
ampere n. The practical unit of
electric-current strength.
133.
ampersand n. The character &; and.
134.
amphibious adj. Living both on land
and in water.
135.
amphitheater n. An edifice of
elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
136.
amplitude n. Largeness.
137.
amply adv. Sufficiently.
138.
amputate v. To remove by cutting, as a
limb or some portion of the body.
139.
amusement n. Diversion.
140.
anachronism n. Anything occurring or
existing out of its proper time.
141.
anagram n. The letters of a word or
phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
142.
analogous adj. Corresponding (to some
other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
143.
analogy n. Reasoning in which from
certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
144.
analyst n. One who analyzes or makes
use of the analytical method.
145.
analyze v. To examine minutely or
critically.
146.
anarchy n. Absence or utter disregard
of government.
147.
anathema n. Anything forbidden, as by
social usage.
148.
anatomy n. That branch of morphology
which treats of the structure of organisms.
149.
ancestry n. One's ancestors
collectively.
150.
anecdote n. A brief account of some
interesting event or incident.
151.
anemia n. Deficiency of blood or red
corpuscles.
152.
anemic adj. Affected with anemia.
153.
anemometer n. An instrument for
measuring the force or velocity of wind.
154.
anesthetic adj. Pertaining to or
producing loss of sensation.
155.
anew adv. Once more.
156.
angelic adj. Saintly.
157.
Anglophobia n. Hatred or dread of
England or of what is English.
158.
Anglo-Saxon n. The entire English race
wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
159.
angular adj. Sharp-cornered.
160.
anhydrous adj. Withered.
161.
animadversion n. The utterance of
criticism or censure.
162.
animadvert v. To pass criticism or
censure.
163.
animalcule n. An animal of microscopic
smallness.
164.
animate v. To make alive.
165.
animosity n. Hatred.
166.
annalist n. Historian.
167.
annals n. A record of events in their
chronological order, year by year.
168.
annex v. To add or affix at the end.
169.
annihilate v. To destroy absolutely.
170.
annotate v. To make explanatory or
critical notes on or upon.
171.
annual adj. Occurring every year.
172.
annuity n. An annual allowance,
payment, or income.
173.
annunciation n. Proclamation.
174.
anode n. The point where or path by
which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
175.
anonymous adj. Of unknown authorship.
176.
antagonism n. Mutual opposition or
resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
177.
Antarctic adj. Pertaining to the south
pole or the regions near it.
178.
ante v. In the game of poker, to put
up a stake before the cards are dealt.
179.
antecede v. To precede.
180.
antecedent n. One who or that which
precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
181.
antechamber n. A waiting room for
those who seek audience.
182.
antedate v. To assign or affix a date
to earlier than the actual one.
183.
antediluvian adj. Of or pertaining to
the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
184.
antemeridian adj. Before noon.
185.
antemundane adj. Pertaining to time
before the world's creation.
186.
antenatal adj. Occurring or existing
before birth.
187.
anterior adj. Prior.
188.
anteroom n. A room situated before and
opening into another, usually larger.
189.
anthology n. A collection of extracts
from the writings of various authors.
190.
anthracite n. Hard coal.
191.
anthropology n. The science of man in
general.
192.
anthropomorphous adj. Having or
resembling human form.
193.
antic n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or
fantastic action.
194.
Antichrist n. Any opponent or enemy of
Christ, whether a person or a power.
195.
anticlimax n. A gradual or sudden
decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
196.
anticyclone n. An atmospheric
condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
197.
antidote n. Anything that will
counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like.
198.
antilogy n. Inconsistency or
contradiction in terms or ideas.
199.
antipathize v. To show or feel a
feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
200.
antiphon n. A response or alteration
of responses, generally musical.
201.
antiphony n. An anthem or other
composition sung responsively.
202.
antipodes n. A place or region on the
opposite side of the earth.
203.
antiquary n. One who collects and
examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
204.
antiquate v. To make old or out of
date.
205.
antique adj. Pertaining to ancient
times.
206.
antiseptic n. Anything that destroys
or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
207.
antislavery adj. Opposed to human
slavery.
208.
antispasmodic adj. Tending to prevent
or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
209.
antistrophe n. The inversion of terms
in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
210.
antitoxin n. A substance which
neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
211.
antonym n. A word directly opposed to
another in meaning.
212.
anxious adj. Distressed in mind
respecting some uncertain matter.
213.
apathy n. Insensibility to emotion or
passionate feeling.
214.
aperture n. Hole.
215.
apex n. The highest point, as of a
mountain.
216.
aphorism n. Proverb.
217.
apiary n. A place where bees are kept.
218.
apogee n. The climax.
219.
apology n. A disclaimer of intentional
error or offense.
220.
apostasy n. A total departure from
one's faith or religion.
221.
apostate adj. False.
222.
apostle n. Any messenger commissioned
by or as by divine authority.
223.
apothecary n. One who keeps drugs for
sale and puts up prescriptions.
224.
apotheosis n. Deification.
225.
appall v. To fill with dismay or
horror.
226.
apparent adj. Easily understood.
227.
apparition n. Ghost.
228.
appease v. To soothe by quieting anger
or indignation.
229.
appellate adj. Capable of being
appealed to.
230.
appellation n. The name or title by
which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
231.
append v. To add or attach, as
something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
232.
appertain v. To belong, as by right,
fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
233.
apposite adj. Appropriate.
234.
apposition n. The act of placing side
by side, together, or in contact.
235.
appraise v. To estimate the money
value of.
236.
appreciable adj. Capable of being
discerned by the senses or intellect.
237.
apprehend v. To make a prisoner of (a
person) in the name of the law.
238.
apprehensible adj. Capable of being
conceived.
239.
approbation n. Sanction.
240.
appropriate adj. Suitable for the
purpose and circumstances.
241.
aqueduct n. A water-conduit, particularly
one for supplying a community from a distance.
242.
aqueous adj. Of, pertaining to, or
containing water.
243.
arbiter n. One chosen or appointed, by
mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
244.
arbitrary adj. Fixed or done
capriciously.
245.
arbitrate v. To act or give judgment
as umpire.
246.
arbor n. A tree.
247.
arboreal adj. Of or pertaining to a
tree or trees.
248.
arborescent adj. Having the nature of
a tree.
249.
arboretum n. A botanical garden or
place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
250.
arboriculture n. The cultivation of
trees or shrubs.
251.
arcade n. A vaulted passageway or
street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
252.
archaic adj. Antiquated
253.
archaism n. Obsolescence.
254.
archangel n. An angel of high rank.
255.
archbishop n. The chief of the bishops
of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
256.
archdeacon n. A high official
administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
257.
archaeology n. The branch of
anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
258.
archetype n. A prototype.
259.
archipelago n. Any large body of water
studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
260.
ardent adj. Burning with passion.
261.
ardor n. Intensity of passion or
affection.
262.
arid adj. Very dry.
263.
aristocracy n. A hereditary nobility
264.
aristocrat n. A hereditary noble or
one nearly connected with nobility.
265.
armada n. A fleet of war-vessels.
266.
armful n. As much as can be held in
the arm or arms.
267.
armory n. An arsenal.
268.
aroma n. An agreeable odor.
269.
arraign v. To call into court, as a
person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
270.
arrange v. To put in definite or
proper order.
271.
arrangement n. The act of putting in
proper order, or the state of being put in order.
272.
arrant adj. Notoriously bad.
273.
arrear n. Something overdue and
unpaid.
274.
arrival n. A coming to stopping-place
or destination.
275.
arrogant adj. Unduly or excessively
proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc.
276.
arrogate v. To take, demand, or claim,
especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
277.
Artesian well n. A very deep bored
well. water rises due to underground pressure
278.
artful adj. Characterized by craft or
cunning.
279.
Arthurian adj. Pertaining to King
Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
280.
artifice n. Trickery.
281.
artless adj. Ingenuous.
282.
ascendant adj. Dominant.
283.
ascension n. The act of rising.
284.
ascent n. A rising, soaring, or
climbing.
285.
ascetic adj. Given to severe
self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
286.
ascribe v. To assign as a quality or
attribute.
287.
asexual adj. Having no distinct sexual
organs.
288.
ashen adj. Pale.
289.
askance adv. With a side or indirect
glance or meaning.
290.
asperity n. Harshness or roughness of
temper.
291.
aspirant n. One who seeks earnestly,
as for advancement, honors, place.
292.
aspiration n. An earnest wish for that
which is above one's present reach.
293.
aspire v. To have an earnest desire,
wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
294.
assailant n. One who attacks.
295.
assassin n. One who kills, or tries to
kill, treacherously or secretly.
296.
assassinate v. To kill, as by surprise
or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
297.
assassination n. Murderer, as by
secret assault or treachery.
298.
assay n. The chemical analysis or
testing of an alloy ore.
299.
assent v. To express agreement with a
statement or matter of opinion.
300.
assess v. To determine the amount of
(a tax or other sum to be paid).
301.
assessor n. An officer whose duty it
is to assess taxes.
302.
assets n. pl. Property in general,
regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
303.
assiduous adj. Diligent.
304.
assignee n. One who is appointed to
act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
305.
assimilate v. To adapt.
306.
assonance n. Resemblance or
correspondence in sound.
307.
assonant adj. Having resemblance of
sound.
308.
assonate v. To accord in sound,
especially vowel sound.
309.
assuage v. To cause to be less harsh,
violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
310.
astringent adj. Harsh in disposition
or character.
311.
astute adj. Keen in discernment.
312.
atheism n. The denial of the existence
of God.
313.
athirst adj. Wanting water.
314.
athwart adv. From side to side.
315.
atomizer n. An apparatus for reducing
a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
316.
atone v. To make amends for.
317.
atonement n. Amends, reparation, or
expiation made from wrong or injury.
318.
atrocious adj. Outrageously or
wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
319.
atrocity n. Great cruelty or reckless
wickedness.
320.
attache n. A subordinate member of a
diplomatic embassy.
321.
attest v. To certify as accurate,
genuine, or true.
322.
attorney-general n. The chief
law-officer of a government.
323.
auburn adj. Reddish-brown, said
usually of the hair.
324.
audacious adj. Fearless.
325.
audible adj. Loud enough to be heard.
326.
audition n. The act or sensation of
hearing.
327.
auditory adj. Of or pertaining to
hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
328.
augment v. To make bigger.
329.
augur v. To predict.
330.
Augustinian adj. Pertaining to St.
Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
331.
aura n. Pervasive psychic influence
supposed to emanate from persons
332.
aural adj. Of or pertaining to the
ear.
333.
auricle n. One of the two chambers of
the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
334.
auricular adj. Of or pertaining to the
ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
335.
auriferous adj. Containing gold.
336.
aurora n. A luminous phenomenon in the
upper regions of the atmosphere.
337.
auspice n. favoring, protecting, or
propitious influence or guidance.
338.
austere adj. Severely simple;
unadorned.
339.
autarchy n. Unrestricted power.
340.
authentic adj. Of undisputed origin.
341.
authenticity n. The state or quality
of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
342.
autobiography n. The story of one's
life written by himself.
343.
autocracy n. Absolute government.
344.
autocrat n. Any one who claims or
wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
345.
automaton n. Any living being whose
actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
346.
autonomous adj. Self-governing.
347.
autonomy n. Self-government.
348.
autopsy n. The examination of a dead
body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
349.
autumnal adj. Of or pertaining to
autumn.
350.
auxiliary n. One who or that which
aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
351.
avalanche n. The fall or sliding of a
mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
352.
avarice n. Passion for getting and
keeping riches.
353.
aver v. To assert as a fact.
354.
averse adj. Reluctant.
355.
aversion n. A mental condition of
fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
356.
avert v. To turn away or aside.
357.
aviary n. A spacious cage or enclosure
in which live birds are kept.
358.
avidity n. Greediness.
359.
avocation n. Diversion.
360.
avow v. To declare openly.
361.
awaken v. To arouse, as emotion,
interest, or the like.
362.
awry adv. & adj. Out of the proper
form, direction, or position.
363.
aye adv. An expression of assent.
364.
azalea n. A flowering shrub.
365.
azure n. The color of the sky.
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