ONE WORD SUBSTITUTES
1. Quart - A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to / 4 gallon or 32 ounces
Polygamy = a person marrying or having more than one woman.
Polyandry = a woman having more than one humsband.
Polynomial = ax + by + c is called a polynomial. It can have more than one word.
2. Shuck - A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn. The shell of an oyster or clam
3. Green - Lacking training or experience
4. Furrow - A long shallow trench in the ground; make wrinkled or creased; a deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead
5. Trite - Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed
6. Suture - The process of joining two surfaces or edges together along a line by or as if by sewing
7. Furor - A general commotion; public disorder or uproar. Violent anger; frenzy; a fashion adopted enthusiastically by the public; a fad
8. Castigate - To inflict severe punishment on; to criticize severely
9. Pique - A state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity; a feeling of wounded pride
10. Sanctimonious - Excessively or hypocritically pious; feigning piety or righteousness; of or practicing hypocrisy
11. Evacuant - Of, relating to, or tending to eliminate; tending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels
12. Striate - Marked with striae; striped, grooved, or ridged; to mark with a line or band, as of different color or texture
13. Legerdemain - A show of skill or deceitful cleverness; the use of skillful tricks and deceptions to produce entertainingly baffling effects
14. Overture- An instrumental composition intended especially as an introduction to an extended work, such as an opera or oratorio
15. Opera - A theatrical presentation in which a dramatic performance is set to music; the score of such a work
16. Chasten - To castigate for the purpose of improving; to correct using punishment or suffering
17. Hirsute - Covered with hair; having a hairy covering
18. Chortle - To laugh quietly; a snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle
19. Topical - Of or belonging to a particular location or place; local;currently of interest; contemporary
20. Perfunctory - Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
21. Terrestrial - Earthly
22. Livestock - Domestic animals, such as cattle or horses, raised for home use or for profit, especially on a farm
23. Gall - The quality or state of feeling bitter; the state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident; to trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations; nerve, brashness; upset, irritate
24. Frisky - Playful
25. Quatrain - A stanza or poem of four lines
26. Hubris - Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance
27. Kudos - Acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement
28. Exodus - A departure from a place or country, especially of many people; act of leaving
29. Vulgaris - Being of the usual type; common
30. Frill - Something costly and unnecessary
31. Superficiality - Trivial; insignificant
32. Void - An empty space
33. Swath - A path or strip; the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
34. Haughty - Scornfully and condescendingly proud; arrogant
35. Vaporous - Extravagantly fanciful; high-flown; so light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film
36. Saga - Epic tale, long story; a long detailed report
37. Sagittal - Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull;
38. Eyesore - Something, such as a distressed building, that is unpleasant or offensive to view
39. Vim - Ebullient vitality and energy; an imaginative lively style
40. Formulaic - Being of no special quality or type
41. Budge - To move very slightly; overformal; pompous
42. Superfluity - Overabundance; excess
43. Pelf - Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired
44. Impecunious - Lacking money; penniless
45. Confinement - Imprisonment; restriction
46. Rostrum - A stage or raised platform for public speaking
47. Denude - To divest of covering; make bare
48. Stultify - Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; cause to appear foolish; prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone’s incompetence
49. Faradic - Of, relating to, or using an intermittent asymmetrical alternating electric current produced by an induction coil
50. Martinet - A strict disciplinarian, especially in the armed forces; one who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules
51. Vulgar - Common, general; rude, offensive
52. Aesthetic - Showing good taste
53. Cistern - A receptacle for holding water or other liquid, especially a tank for catching and storing rainwater
54. Wanton - Careless; cruel, malicious
55. Grovel - To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior; to behave in a servile or demeaning manner
56. Shoal - A shallow part of a body of water: shallow; measuring little from bottom to top or surface
57. Sylvan - Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions; abounding in trees; wooded
Words from Proper Names
58. Jingoist: One who boasts about his patriotism and favors a warlike foreign policy.
59. Lothario: rake; seducer; lover. Lothario was an amorous character in an eighteenth-century play. The Fair Penitent.
60. Maverick: one who acts independently. Samuel Maverick was a Texas rancher who refused to brand his cattle as others were doing.
61. Nemesis: Agent of retribution; just punishment. In Greek mythology, the goddess Nemesis punished pretentiousness with her swords and avenging wings.
62. Philanderer: one who makes love insincerely; one who engages in passing love affairs. The word comes from the Greek philandros (“man loving”) but gained its current usage because many English playwrights gave the name to their romantic leads.
6. Philippic: Bitter verbal attack. Philip II of Macedon wanted to make Greece into a monarchy. He was opposed by the great orator, Demosthenes, who denounced Philip in devastating speeches that came to be known as philippics.
7. Procrustean: designed to secure conformity; drastic. An ancient Greek robber named Procrustes tied his victims to a bed and then, to make them fit the bed, stretched the short ones and hacked off the limbs of the taller ones.
8. Protean: changeable; taking on different forms. In Greek mythology, Proteus was a sea god who could change his appearance at will.
9. Pyrrhic victory: a victory that is exceptionally costly. Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 279 B.C. but his losses were terribly heavy.
10. Quixotic: romantically idealistic; impractical. The Spanish novelist, Cervantes, brought this word into our language when he wrote Don Quixote. His hero went forth foolishly to tilt against windmills and help the downtrodden.
11. Saturnine: sluggish; gloomy; grave. The planet Saturn is so far form the sun that it was thought to be cold and dismal.
12. Solecism: substandard use of words; violation of good manners. This word derives form the Greek inhabitants of the colony of Soloi who used a slangy dialect.
13. Spoonerism: an unintentional exchange of sounds. Reverend Spooner of New College, Oxford occasionally twisted his words around when he got excited so that “conquering kings: came out as “kinkering congs”
14. Sybarite: one who is fond of luxury and soft living. Sybaris was a fabulously wealthy Italian city, symbolic of the good life.
15. Tawdry: cheap; gaudy; showy. This word can be terraced to St. Audrey. Scarves called “St. Audrey’s laces” were sold in England where the local people changed the pronunciation to tawdry. The quality of the scarves, which at first was good, deteriorated, when they were mass produced for the peasant trade.
1. Digress- To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray
2. Aphorism - A brief statement of a principle; a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage
3. Eulogy - A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died; high praise or commendation
4. Fallacious - Tending to mislead; deceptive
5. Solemn - Deeply earnest, serious, and sober; gloomy; somber; performed with full ceremony; invoking the force of religion; sacred
6. Dissention - Difference of opinion; disagreement
7. Suture - The fine thread or other material used surgically to close a wound or join tissues; a seam used in surgery; thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together; join with a suture, as of a wound in surgery
8. Sangfroid - A stable, calm state of the emotions
9. Humdrum - Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring , dull; monotonous talk or routine.
10. Untenable - Incapable of being defended or justified
11. Inexpungeable - Not capable of being expunged
12. Expunged - To erase or strike out
13. Obliterate - To do away with completely so as to leave no trace
14. Happenstance - An unexpected random event
15. Charisma - The power or quality of attracting
16. Bore - One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious
17. Muster - To assemble, prepare, or put into operation, as for war or a similar emergency; a number of persons who have come or been gathered together
18. Crew - A group of people organized for a particular purpose; serve as a crew member on
19. Cord - To pile (wood) in cords; a line made of twisted fibers or threads
20. Polymorphous - Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles
21. Incontrovertible - Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
22. Pulchritude - Great physical beauty and appeal
23. Flounder - To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one’s balance
24. Nugatory - Of little or no importance; trifling. having no force; invalid
25. Hull - Dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut; the frame or body of ship
26. Succinct - Marked by or consisting of few words that are carefully chosen; brief, to the point; briefly giving the gist of something
27. Diazepam - A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA
28. Sagitta - A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Aquila and Vulpecula
29. Amity - Peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship
30. Decimate - To destroy or kill a large part of (a group)
31. Fecund - Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful. Marked by intellectual productivity
32. Tawdry - Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance; cheap, tasteless
33. Marrow - The most central and material part; the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
34. Cognizant - Fully informed; conscious
35. Fiasco - A complete failure
36. Folly - A lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight; an act or instance of foolishness: regretted the follies of his youth
37. Forage - Food for domestic animals; fodder. The act of looking or searching for food or provisions
