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Unit 13: Vocabulary and Usage: One-Word Substitution

21. One who resides in a country of which he is not a citizen. — Alien Notes
22. One who comes as a settler into a foreign country. — Immigrant
23. Being present everywhere. — Omnipresent
24. Being all-powerful. — Omnipotent
25. One who knows everything. — Omniscient
26. Beyond making a mistake. — Infallible
27. One who eats human flesh. — Cannibal
28. One who looks at the dark side of things. — Pessimist
29. One who looks at the bright side of things. — Optimist
30. Not being able to be elected or selected under the rules. — Ineligible
31. One who loves and works for his fellow men. — Philanthropist
32. One who hates mankind. — Misanthropist
33. One who lives on vegetables. — Vegetarian
34. One who has belief in the existence of God. — Theist
35. One who has no belief in the existence of God. — Atheist
36. One who believes in fate. — Fatalist
37. One who plays a game for pleasure and not professionally. — Amateur
38. One who has grown old in or has long experience of (specially military) service or occupation.
— Veteran
39. One who lends money at exhorbitant rates of interest. — Usurer
40. A member of a council. — Councillor
41. The practice of having more than one wife at the same time. — Polygamy
42. A general pardon of political offenders. — Amnesty
43. Fond of entertaining guests. — Hospitable
44. One who totally abstains from alcoholic drinks. — Teetotaller
45. One who walks on foot. — Pedestrian
46. Taking of one’s own life. — Suicide
47. Murder of a king. — Regicide
48. Murder of a new-born infant. — Infanticide
49. Murder of one’s own father/mother/brother. Patricide/Matricide/Fratricide
50. The killing of human beings. — Homicide
51. A child born after the death of his father or a book published after the death of its author.
— Posthumous
52. Forbidden, prohibited by law. — Illicit
53. A man whose manners are more like those of a woman. — Effeminate
54. A medicine to counteract the effect of poison. — Antidote
55. A speech made without preparation. — Extempore
56. A language that is no longer spoken. — Dead
57. The word which is no longer in use. — Obsolete
58. The motive merely to get money. — Mercenary
59. Existing for ever — without any beginning or end. — Eternal
60. Subject to death. — Mortal
61. Resulting in death. — Fatal or mortal

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