One Word Substitution is a very important topic for competitive exams aspirants. Questions ranging between 5 & 10 are asked each year in exams like CDS, NDA, AFCAT, CAPF AC, SSC CGL, SSC CPO and other exams. This article lists down some of the most important one word substitutes that are expected to be asked in CDS NDA AFCAT CAPF AC & SSC written exam. You can also read our 100 Repeatedly Asked One Word Substitution here. These One Word Substitutes are explained with the Hindi meaning of each word.
MOST EXPECTED ONE WORD SUBSTITUTES FOR UPSC CDS NDA AFCAT & CAPF AC EXAM
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Quartet: a group or set of four
Angioplasty: a procedure to restore blood flow through the artery
Warder: a guard in a prison
Autotomy - the ability of certain animals to release part of the body that has been grasped by an external agent.
Ex: lizards that break off the tail when it is seized by a predator
Monocarpic: (of a plant) flowering only once and then dying
Creche: a nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day
Diamantaire: a member of a successful diamond-dealing family or group
Sinecure: a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit
Scullery: a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work
Realtor: a person who acts as an agent for the sale and purchase of buildings and land
Eternal: that which lasts forever or is never ending
Katsaridaphobia: fear of cockroaches
Quinquennial: lasting for or relating to a period of five years
Demagogue: a political leader, who wins support by exciting the emotions of ordinary people rather than by having good or morally right ideas
Refectory: a room used for communal meals in an educational or religious institution
Gastronomy: the practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food
Proletariat: working class people especially those who do not own any property
Dormitory: a large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution
Museology: the study of museums and the history of their establishment and development
Nephrology: the branch of medicine that deals with the physiology and diseases of the kidneys
Polysomnography: an essential tool for diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders
Oviparous: animal that produce eggs rather than live babies
Doppelganger: someone who looks exactly like someone else
Impregnable: unable to be defeated or overcome
Cadaver: a dead human body that is used in scientific or medical research, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being
Homonym: each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings
Oligarchy: a small group of people having control of a country or organization
Anglophile - is a person who is not from England but greatly admires or favors England
Infodemic - a situation in which a lot of false information is being spread in a way that is harmful
One who is bad in spelling - Cacographist
Ethology: scientific and objective study of animal behavior
Regimen: a plan, or course of action such as a diet, exercise or medical treatment
Penitentiary: a prison for people convicted of serious crimes
Cartelisation: industry participants coming together to fix pricing of products and services
Exorcism: removing of evil spirits from a person or place
Stiletto: a woman's shoe with a thin, high tapering heel
Primogeniture: the custom by which all of a family's property goes to the oldest son when the father dies
Culling: something picked out and put aside as inferior
Impressive knowledge that is learned by studying - Erudition
Vintner: a person whose job it is to buy and sell wine
Serology: study of blood tests that look for antibodies in your blood
Oncology: the study and treatment of tumors
Ossification: the process of bone formation
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