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Word Substitution
1. Place where animals are killed for food
----> Abattoir
2. Ritual washing of the body ----> Ablution
3. Hard to understand ----> Abstruse
4. A quantity that is more than enough ----> Abundance
5. Give more force or important to ----> Accentuate
6. Helper in a wrong deed or crime ----> Accomplice
7. Word formed from initial letters of a name----> Acronym
8. Thing to be added at the end of a book, etc. ----> Addendum
9. Commencement of adjacent words with the same
letter ---->
Aliteration
10. A public notice offering or asking for goods,
services, ets ---->
Advertisement
11. A designated section of seats in any part of a
teater ----> Amphitheater
12. The loss of ability to feel pain while still
conscious ---->
Analgesia
13. The absence of government in a country ----> Anarchy
14. The cessation of warfare before a treaty is
signed ----> Armistice
15. One who practices self denial as a
spriritual discipline
---->
Ascetic
16. A tank where fish or water plants are
kept ----> Aquarium
17. Science of the influence of the stars on
human affairs ---->
Astrology
18. A government by officials
---->
Bureaucracy
19. One who loves books ----->
Bibliophile
20. A group of girls ---->
Bevy
21.One who gives financial help to a school,
hospital, etc --->
Benefactor
22. One who loves and collects books ----> Bibliophile
23. That which happens once in two years.
----> Biennial
24. The custom of having two wives or two husbands. ----> Bigamy
25. One who is filled with narrow and prejudiced opinion ----> Bigot
26. One who can speak two languages ---->
Bilingual
27. The life history of a man written by someone else
----> Biography
28. Animal with two feet ----> Biped
29. Speaking irreverently about God or sacred things ---->
Blaspheme
30. Perfect happiness ----> Bliss
31. One who does not follow the usual norms of social life ----> Bohemian
32. One who is interested in reading books and nothing else ----> Bibliophilic
33. Person who is rough and ill mannered ----> Boorish
34. The science of vegetable life ----> Botany
35. A thing which can be easily broken ----> Brittle
36. A series of cabre dance / acts at night club ----> Cabaret
37. The driver of a taxi cab ----> Cabby Or Cabdriver
38. Harsh sound ---->
Cacophony
39. Persuade by flattery ----> Cajole
40. Art of beautiful hand writing ---->
Calligraphy
41. The men who can eat human flesh ---->
Cannibal
42. Overturn in water ---->
Capsize
43. Killing of large numbers of people ----> Carnage
44.To have a very high opinion about oneself
----> Conceited
45. Place of burial (especially not in churchyard) ---->
Cemetery
46. A person who is above hundred years ---->
Centenarian
47. A citizen of the world ----> Cosmopolite
48. A flesh eating animal ----> Carnivorous
49 A list of Book -----> Catalogue
50. A man devoid of kind feeling and sympathy---->
Callous
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