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One Word Substitute 1. Make soil productive: Fertilize 2. Make rusty; go rusty: Oxidise 3. Prepare for movement or action; collect together for service or use: Mobilise 4. Fill with terror by threats or acts of violence: Terrify, Terrorize 5. Reduce to minimum: Minimize 6. Use sparingly: Economise 7. Speak in general terms: Generalize 8. Give authority to: Authorise 9. Subject to penalty: Penalise 10. Establish a colony: Colonise 11. Put in danger: Jeopardize 12. Make permissible by law: Legalise 13. Be fully conscious; understand: Realise 14. Arouse horror and indignation in a person; offend the moral feelings or the ideas of etiquette of: Scandalise 15. Compose or produce something without preparation: Improvise 16. Act as a deputy: Deputise 17. Happen at the same time; be simultaneous: Synchronise 18. Say sorry for wrong doing: Apologise 19. Support by means of a subsidy: Subsidise

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One Word Substitute

1. Make soil productive: Fertilize

2. Make rusty; go rusty: Oxidise

3. Prepare for movement or action; collect together for service or use: Mobilise

4. Fill with terror by threats or acts of violence: Terrify, Terrorize

5. Reduce to minimum: Minimize

6. Use sparingly: Economise

7. Speak in general terms: Generalize

8. Give authority to: Authorise

9. Subject to penalty: Penalise

10. Establish a colony: Colonise

11. Put in danger: Jeopardize

12. Make permissible by law: Legalise

13. Be fully conscious; understand: Realise

14. Arouse horror and indignation in a person; offend the moral feelings or the ideas of etiquette of: Scandalise

15. Compose or produce something without preparation: Improvise

16. Act as a deputy: Deputise

17. Happen at the same time; be simultaneous: Synchronise

18. Say sorry for wrong doing: Apologise

19. Support by means of a subsidy: Subsidise

20. Exclude from society; refuse to associate with: Ostracise

21. Become fact: Materialise

22. That cannot be tamed: Untameable

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23. Which cannot be put into practice: Impracticable

24. Open to objection: Objectionable

25. Which cannot be seized: Impregnable

26. Perform the service at: Officiate

27. Found fault with someone: Censure

28. Do not rightly understand: Misunderstand

29. Sail round the globe: Circumnavigate

30. Never to be effaced: Ineffaceable

31. Very easily made angry: Irritable

32. Averse to mixing in society: Unsociable

33. Cannot be deciphered at all: Undecipherable

34. So high that it cannot be estimated: Inestimable

35. Beyond all price: Invaluable

36. Beyond a doubt: Unquestionable, Indubitable

37. Make away with: Murder 38. At the beginning of the day: Dawn

39. Uncalled for; quite motiveless: Gratuitous

40. Those who serve for hire: Hirelings

41. One who believes in going naked on all occasions: Nudist

42. State of being married: Matrimony

43. State of complete continence on the part of a woman: Virginity

44. From parents and forefathers: Hereditary

45. One residing in a country of which one is not a full-fledged citizen: Alien

46. Which cannot be solved: Insoluble

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47. Full of words: Verbose

48. Which cannot be suppressed: Irrepressible

49. Which cannot be believed: Incredible

50. A person of infirm health: Valetudinarian

51. A breaker of images: Iconoclast

52. A lover of woman: Philogynist

53. A medicine tending to loosen the bowels: Laxative

54. Disease caught from others: Infectious

55. That which cannot be escaped from: Inescapable

56. That which is not possible to justify: Unjustifiable

57. That which is not possible to apply: Inapplicable

58. Not giving attention: Inattentive

59. That which cannot be withdrawn or cancelled: Irrevocable

60. That which cannot be refuted: Irrefutable

61. Perfectly beyond answer: Unanswerable

62. Cannot be measured: Immeasurable

63. A state in which the succession is through women only: Matriarchy

64. Lasting only a very short time: Ephemeral, Temporary, Transient

65. Deserving all praise: Laudable

66. That which cannot be recovered: Irrecoverable

67. A person who can disguise the direction from which his voice comes: Ventriloquist

68. The art practised by statesmen and ambassadors or the skill in managing international affairs: Diplomacy

69. A speech addressed to oneself: Soliloquy

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70. A person who walks while sleeping: Somnambulist

71. A person who is overscrupulous about small details: Meticulous

72. Property inherited by a person from his ancestors: Patrimony

73. Small, trifling ornamental articles: Knick-knacks

74. Fit to marry: Marriageable

75. Nature belonging to men: Masculine

76. A change surprising enough to be called magical: Transformation, Metamorphosis

77. At the age of growth between boyhood and youth: Adolescent

78. Easy to carry over long distances: Portable

79. Easy to shape in any desired mould: Pliable

80. Apply the money fraudulently for one’s use: Misappropriate

81. Interpretation of dreams: Oneirocriticism

82. Specify by name, one by one all: Enumerate

83. Surround on all sides: Envelope

84. Ambiguous words to conceal the truth or mislead hearers and readers: Equivocal

85. Not easily disturbed by sudden misfortune: Unruffled

86. Much too lofty to harbour petty feelings: Magnanimous

87. A graduate of the university of Oxford: Oxonian

88. A graduate of the university of Cambridge: Cantab

89. A lady’s umbrella: Parasol

90. A lady’s purse: Reticule

91. Relating to a barber or his work: Tonsorial

92. Pertaining to tailors or clothes: Sartorial

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93. A person who is hard to please: Fastidious

94. A figure with eight sides: Octagon

95. Undue favour shown by a man in high position to his own relatives: Nepotism

96. A statement that is absolutely clear: Explicit

97. A person who cannot be easily approached: Inaccessible

98. To urge a person to commit a crime: Instigate

99. To root out an evil: Eradicate

100. To destroy anything completely: Annihilate

101. The act of renouncing the crown by a king: Abdication

102. Morning prayer in a church: Matins

103. Not only blameable, but can also be proceeded against in a court of law: Culpable

104. Marked by open and effusive exhibition of feelings: Demonstrative

105. Capable of being proved: Demonstrable

106. Of set design: Deliberate

107. Cut off: Amputate

108. Total abstainer from all alcoholic drinks: teetotaller

109. Believers in the doctrine that the total abolition of war is both possible and desirable: Pacifist

110. Direct vote of all the electorate of the state to obtain a public expression of the whole community’s opinion: Referendum, Plebiscite

111. Organized scheme of popularising: Propaganda

112. Without any variation: Uniform

113. Skilfully planning the movements of troops: Manoeuvring

114. A very sad condition: Predicament

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115. So much like one another that it could not be said which was which: Indistinguishable

116. Beyond all power of time to destroy:

117. That nothing can avail to appease: Fastidious

118. The quality of doing the right thing at right time and place: Tact

119. The purest and most essential part of the drug: Quintessence

120. The doctrine that human souls migrate into other bodies of animals: Transmigration

121. That which can be allowed: Permissible

122. That which will last a very long time: Durable, Long-lasting, Permanent

123. The power of seeing everything: Omniscience

124. The power of being present everywhere: Omnipresence

125. Emitting a bad smell: Foul-smelling, Malodorous

126. That which cannot be surmounted or overcome: Insurmountable

127. One who acts between two or more parties: Intermediary

128. Give and receive mutually: Reciprocate

129. Walking from place to place on business: Itinerant, Peripatetic

130. Cessation of hostilities before a formal treaty is signed: Armistice

131. That which can be wounded or penetrated: Invulnerable

132. The loyalty of subjects to their sovereign and Government: Allegiance

133. One who is learned in the science dealing with bird life: Ornithologist

134. Composed of elements highly diverse in character: Heterogeneous

135. At one and the same time: Simultaneous

136. Assailing the use of images in religious worship: Iconoclast

137. The power of reading the thoughts or mind of others immediately: Thought-reading, Telepathy

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138. Very pleasing to eat: Toothsome

139. One who can use both hands with equal facility: Ambidextrous

140. Self-generated; free of external incitement: Spontaneous

141. Evening prayer in a church: Vespers

142. To use expressive motion of limbs while speaking: Gesticulate

143. To express disapproval of anything or any person: Deprecate

144. Literary theft: Plagiarism

145. To frighten a person with the purpose of getting something out of him: Coerce

146. A self-evident truth: Truism

147. To happen simultaneously with another event: Synchronize

148. Allowance paid by a husband to his wife on legal separation: Alimony

149. New-coined word: Neologism

150. Examination of the body of a dead person: Post-mortem

151. A drug that induce sleep: Narcotic

152. A person who suffers from nervous disease: Neurotic

153. A medicine which prevents putrefaction: Antiseptic

154. Things which contain elements of the same nature: Homogeneous

155. Nations engaged in war: Belligerent

156. An effect which has reference to what is past: Retrospective

157. A nation that is fond of fighting: Bellicose

158. A substance which can be easily broken: Brittle, Fragile

159. Relating to the sun: Solar

160. Relating to the moon: Lunar

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161. A round-about way of expressing oneself: Circumlocution

162. To reproduce a passage word for word: Verbatim

163. Money paid to employees on retirement: Gratuity

164. A person who eats vegetables: Vegetarian

165. A room where dead bodies are kept for post mortem examination: Mortuary

166. To wander from the main theme: Digress

167. A shed of cars: Garage

168. A person who goes on horseback: Equestrian

169. A place where clothes are kept: Wardrobe

170. Pertaining to land or land owner-ship: Agrarian

171. Practice of spying: Espionage

172. Anything that is marked by dull uniformity: Monotonous

173. A door that is partly open: Ajar

174. Substance capable of burning or used for burning: Incombustible

175. A man whose wife is dead: Widower

176. One who knows many languages: Linguistic, polyglot

177. Incapable of being explained: Inexplicable

178. Talking disrespectfully of sacred things; to utter profanity about sacred things: Blasphemy, Sacrilege

179. To compel a person to do a thing by force: Coerce

180. Disease or defect inherited from birth: Congenital

181. Two countries whose frontiers touch each other: Contiguous

182. An insect with many legs: Centipede

183. Science of insects: Entomology

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184. The part of the government which makes laws: Legislature

185. The part of the government which enforces laws: Executive

186. Throw light on something difficult or mysterious: Elucidate

187. A medicine that produces the desired effect: Efficacious

188. A law that is not subject to change: Imputable

189. To involve a person in accusation: Incriminate

190. An extremely talkative person: Garrulous, Talkative, Loquacious

191. Afternoon performance at a theatre; a cinema show held in the afternoon: Matinee

192. Commonplace remarks: Platitude

193. A remedy for all diseases: Panacea

194. A person who is indifferent to art or literature: Philistine

195. Amount paid to a person for work done by him: Remuneration

196. A book, picture etc. produced merely to bring in money: Pot-boiler

197. People who revolt against the government: Rebels

198. Too much official routine; excessive use of formalities in public business: Red-tapism

199. Reserved in speech; disposed to silence: Reticent

200. To rise and fall in the form of waves: Undulate

201. To establish the justice of a cause: Vindicate

202. A person with a long experience of military or civil service: Veteran

203. Able to keep water out: Water-proof

204. To take out the man from the debris: Extricate

205. To go from bad to worse: Deteriorate

206. A person who is eighty years old: Octogenarian

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207. A bird of passage: Migratory

208. Causing no harm: Innocuous

209. The science of language: Philology

210. Capable of different interpretation: Equivocal

211. Mental weariness from lack of occupation: Ennui

212. Unwilling to do: Reluctant

213. Without end: Interminable

214. Lack of interest: Indifference

215. At the same time: Concurrent

216. In most respects: Substantially

217. In a secret manner: Clandestinely

218. Something that may be imagined: Conceivable

219. Without any reticence or reserve: Outspokenly

220. In a complaining manner: Querulously

221. In a very fundamental way: Radically

222. Beyond all doubts: Conclusively

223. Without regard to differences in quality or theme: Indiscriminately

224. Before one’s mind’s eye: Imaginatively

225. On the surface only: Superficially

226. Without making any noise: Stealthily, Noiselessly

227. Without any mental reservation: Explicitly

228. With a nervous and shaking voice: Tremulously

229. With a great care and thoroughness: Conscientiously

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230. Very wisely: Judicially

231. With uncontrollable emotion and fear: Hysterically

232. With Unremitting effort: Tirelessly

233. Looking at the question from the opposite point of view: Conversely

234. Regardless of expense: Lavishly

235. With complete lack of originality: Slavishly

236. Through an oversight: Inadvertently

237. With intention and determination: Wilfully

238. At a very inconvenient time: Inopportunely

239. Before the right time: Prematurely

240. Without reason and poise: Emotionally

241. With skill and resourcefulness: Adroitly

242. Without exercising our own independent judgement: Blindly

243. By artificial means: Synthetically

244. Expressing pride in victory: Triumphantly

245. In a hesitating way: Tentatively

246. In an extreme way: Severely

247. By disposition and character: Temperamentally

248. In a way that no one would notice: Surreptitiously

249. Perfectly and in every way: Scrupulously

250. With unsatisfied longing at: Wistfully

251. In a quarrelsome way: Aggressively

252. Actively and with energy: Briskly

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253. Without impartial consideration: Arbitrarily

254. With anxious fear: Apprehensively

255. In a soft manner: Leniently

256. In a winning manner: Persuasively

257. In a sincere manner: Earnestly

258. In a lovely manner: Briskly

259. In a friendly way: Amicably

260. Very soon: Presently

261. In a few words: Concisely

262. By hand: Manually

263. By machines: Mechanically

264. So badly: Fatally

265. Time and again: Constantly

266. For the time being: Temporarily

267. In a manner lacking all respect: Disrespectfully

268. By reputation: Reputedly

269. Of one’s own free will: Voluntarily

270. With the agreement of all: Unanimously

271. In a manner showing good taste: Tastefully

272. One after another: Successively

273. Beyond all hope of recall: Irrevocable

274. In comparison with those of other: Comparatively

275. To be regretted: Regrettable

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276. Every reason to be: Justifiable

277. In its appeal to one’s sense of beauty: Aesthetically

278. At the very moment of: Instantaneously

279. Easily influenced: Susceptible

280. Lacking in any sense of responsibility: Irresponsible

281. Cannot answer: Unanswerable

282. Could not be repressed: Irrepressible

283. Absolutely necessary: Indispensible

284. Opposed in nature or character: Incompatible

285. Very much to be regretted: Regretful

286. Cannot be defended: Indefensible

287. Determined not to be turned aside from or to modify purpose: Intractable

288. Of little or no significance: Negligible

289. Impossible to replace: Irreplaceable

290. Unable to endure: Intolerable

291. Cannot be chosen: Ineligible

292. Cannot be reconciled to each other: Irreconcilable

293. Cannot be understood; Difficult to understand: Unintelligible

294. Impossible to pronounce: Unpronounceable

295. Can be divided: Divisible

296. One could imagine: Imaginable

297. Fixed so firmly that could not be rooted out: Ineradicable

298. Impossible to define or explain: Inexplicable

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299. Impossible to put into practice: Impractical

300. Without faults: Impeccable

301. Wanting to gain things for itself: Acquisitive

302. Merely humble and meekly unassertive: Submissive

303. Showing Some sign of: Indicative

304. That which was decisive in shaping something: Formative

305. That was meant to be insulting: Abusive

306. That has had a widespread effect: Pervasive

307. Mournful and sorrowful: Plaintive

308. That which do not work properly: Defective

309. That which Ended in failure: Abortive

310. That was intended to avoid being a direct reply: Evasive

311. That which brings a lot of money: Lucrative

312. Too prone to wander from one point to another without plan: Discursive

313. Liable to mislead: Deceptive

314. Intended for defending: Defensive

315. An overdose of: Excessive

316. Deep and thorough: Intensive

317. Causing a feeling of disgust: Repulsive

318. Covered with a sticky substance: Adhesive

319. Apt to be moved by sudden impulse: Unimpulsive

320. Apt to ask questions: Inquisitive

321. Able to remember facts: Retentive

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322. Whose purpose is to describe: Descriptive

323. A great deal of: Extensive

324. Land that produces crops of a very high yield: Productive

325. Intentionally irritating of designed to produce a strong reaction: Provocative

326. Likely to lead to: Conducive

327. Apply to the past: Retrospective

328. Contemptuous and haughty: Supercilious

329. Unpredictable and ever changing: Capricious

330. Based on terror: Fallacious

331. Thoroughly unpleasant: Obnoxious

332. One who develops faculties at an unusually early age: Precocious

333. That which is not directly relevant to the subject: Extraneous

334. That which seems right or true but are not really so: Specious

335. Of great importance and gravity: Momentous

336. Polite and showing good manners: Courteous

337. To make the people disobey the government: Seditious

338. Something that spoke about God in a disrespectful or wicked way: Blasphemous, Sacrilegious

339. Claiming great merit and importance: Presumptuous

340. Threatening or unfavorable: Ominous

341. Likely to cause harm or injury: Injurious

342. Having strength or liveliness: Vivacious

343. Containing something printed likely to damage the character or reputation of a person: Libelous

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344. Full of turns and bends: Tortuous

345. Plentiful; in abundance: Copious

346. Native; belonging naturally: Indigenous

347. Roundabout or indirect: Circuitous

348. Shocking; beyond all reasonable limits: Outrageous

349. Taking care not to make mistakes or get into danger: Cautious

350. Offering service that is not wanted; intrusive: Officious

351. Taking in unwarranted-liberty: Presumptuous

352. An open and innocent: Ingenuous

353. Motivated by ill-will and spite: Malicious

354. Very difficult to please or very particular: Fastidious

355. Appear absurd or ridiculous: Ludicrous

356. Noisy and cheerful: Boisterous

357. Cleverly conceived and original in design: Ingenious

358. Collection of different kinds of (goods): Miscellaneous

359. Of great effort and energy: Strenuous

360. Likely to spread and influence others: Infectious

361. To have a plenty of space: Commodious

362. Natural and unforced: Spontaneous

363. Trees that shed their leaves each year: Deciduous

364. Almost fierce from lack of food: Ravenous

365. Being of the same mind: Unanimous

366. Hard and intensive: Intensive

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367. Difficult; requiring the use of much energy: Arduous

368. Careful to act according to one’s conscience; showing a strong sense of duty: Conscientious

369. Full of a strong desire to do or be something or for success, fame or honour: Ambitious

370. Untrustworthy or disloyal; not to be depended on: Treacherous

371. Suggesting lavish expenditure; rich and costly: Sumptuous

372. Merry or gay, usually in a rather noisy way: Boisterous

373. Delighting in infliction of injury: Vicious

374. Thoughtless of others: Inconsiderate

375. Avoiding extremes: Moderate

376. Permitted by law: Legitimate

377. In proper proportion with: Commensurate

378. Having little or no hope: Desperate

379. Possessed from birth; in one’s nature: Innate

380. Inflexible of will or stubborn: Obstinate

381. Insistent on one’s demands: Importunate

382. Proportionate to the requirements: Adequate

383. Settled and not impulsive or lively; quiet, calm, grave: Sedate

384. Dominated by or easily giving way to strong feelings: Passionate

385. Richly adorned, not simple in style: Ornate

386. Requiring nice handling, critical, ticklish: Delicate

387. Work together with someone: Cooperate

388. Instil a particular set of beliefs into: Inculcate

389. Lower the dignity or self-respect of; mortify; belittle: Humiliate

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390. Make worse: Aggravate, Deteriorate

391. Make complex: Complicate

392. Make drunk: Intoxicate

393. Put together; invent: Fabricate

394. Make easy: Facilitate

395. Play the part of another person: Impersonate

396. Make bad or impure: Contaminate

397. Break up land to prepare it for crops; pay attention to; cherish: Cultivate

398. Win over; regain one’s good will or esteem; soothe; Conciliate: Pacify

399. Pull up by the roots; get rid of: Exterminate

400. Utterly destroy: Annihilate

401. Take part in: Participate

402. Make enquiries into: Investigate

403. Soak thoroughly: Saturate

404. Restore to good condition: Renovate

405. Fill with holes: Perforate

406. Estimate too highly: Exaggerate

407. Propose for election: Nominate

408. Fill with fury; make very angry; enrage: Infuriate

409. Turn into vapours: Evaporate

410. Subject to questioning: Interrogate

411. Have commanding influence and position: Dominate

412. Supply land with water: Irrigate

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413. Preserve in memory by celebration: Commemorate

414. Try to do as well as or better than: Emulate

415. Enter into; pierce; discern a person’s mind: Penetrate

416. Look forward to a thing before it comes: Anticipate

417. Buy or sell where there is a great chance of loss and a great chance of gain: Speculate

418. Go round axis; revolve: Rotate

419. Go through the main points again: Recapitulate

420. Place apart or alone: Isolate

421. Look at or think about seriously: Contemplate

422. Make pure: Purify

423. calm down angry feelings: Soothe, Pacify

424. Insure against loss: Indemnify

425. Make clear: Clarify

426. Go rotten: Putrefy

427. Put right: Rectify

428. Invest with glory: Glorify

429. Strengthen morally or physically: Fortify

430. Confirm or formally accept an agreement: Ratify

431. Give notice of; report: Notify

432. Make false or incorrect: Falsify

433. Make or become hard or firm: Strengthen

434. Bear witness; serve as evidence of: Testify

435. Check the truth or accuracy of: Verify

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436. Make null and void: Nullify

437. Fill with horror, puzzle, bewilder: Horrify

438. Make or become liquid: Liquefy

439. Arrange in classes, put in groups: Classify

440. Show to be reasonable or proper: Justify

441. Make or become more intense: Intensify

442. Illustrate by example: Exemplify

443. Make larger or fuller: Amplify

444. Unite, form into one: Unify

445. The art of cultivating the land: Agriculture

446. Not subject to death: Immortal

447. Of a disposition inclining to cast doubt upon generally accepted opinions: Sceptical

448. In process of dying: Moribund

449. A letter of certificate testifying to one’s character or fitness for a position: Testimonial

450. Handed down from one generation of a family to another: Bequeathed

451. A charge put on foreign goods entering the country: Customs

452. A position in which one has to choose between two courses both of which seem equally undesirable: Dilemma

453. A list of articles in an estate or a house with a brief description of each: Inventory

454. To take by force the power or position which rightfully belongs to another: Usurp

455. A summary of a document in which only the important points are included: Synopsis

456. A state of great disorder: Chaos

457. A settlement to a dispute in which each side concedes something to the other: Compromise

458. To clear from blame or accusation: Exonerate

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459. That which cannot be doubted: Indubitable

460. One who is an expert in the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting skins: Taxidermist

461. Food that is tasteless and wanting in flavour is: Insipid

462. That cannot be surmounted: Insurmountable

463. That is harmless, not poisonous: Innocuous

464. That cannot be explained or accounted for: Insoluble

465. That cannot be taken out: Indelible

466. Unable to speak distinctly: Inarticulate

467. Who is incurably bad: Incorrigible

468. Which is not decisive or convincing: Inconclusive

469. Who cannot be tired out: Inexhaustible

470. That which cannot be explained: Inexplicable

471. That can never come to an end: Interminable

472. To spring from seed: Germinate

473. To come to a climax; to reach its highest point: Culminate

474. To murder by surprise or secret assault: Assassinate

475. To surrender especially on terms: Capitulate

476. To maintain successfully the cause of: Vindicate

477. To seize by authority; to appropriate to the public treasury by way of penalty: Confiscate

478. To make up on the spur of the moment: Improvise

479. To remove offend portion of a book: Excise

480. To utter one’s thought aloud when alone: Soliloquise

481. To lay a solemn curse on: Anathematise

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482. To have sole control of: Monopoly

483. To drive out an evil spirit: Exorcise

484. To habituate animals, plants or oneself to a new climate: Acclimatise

485. To become antiquated or incapable of further development: Fossilise

486. To admit an alien to citizenship, to introduce into another country: Naturalize

487. Not likely to be true: Dubious

488. Far distant: Remote

489. A scientific study of fishes: Ichthyology

490. A scientific study of birds, eggs: Oology

491. A scientific study of the development and nature and laws of human society: Sociology

492. A study of Chinese, their history, religion, literature is called: Sinology

493. A study of coins is called: Numismatics, Numismatology

494. A place in which public records are kept: Archives

495. A place where birds are kept: Aviary

496. A place where weapons are stored or manufactured: Arsenal

497. The place where bees are kept: Apiary

498. A company of merchants crossing a desert: Caravan

499. A drink made from the juice of apples: Cider

500. A drink made from the juice of pears: Perry

501. A person who enquires into sudden deaths: Coroner

502. That part of the roof which projects beyond the walls: Eaves

503. One who stands under the eaves(or near a window or door) to listen: Eavesdropper

504. Pertaining to cats: Feline

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505. Pertaining to dogs: Canine

506. A light open trough used by a bricklayer to carry bricks, mortar: Hood

507. The central stone of an arch: Keystone

508. Place where explosive are kept: Magazine

509. The tall buildings in America: Skyscrapers

510. The flesh of the calves: Veal

511. The flesh of the deer: Venison

512. One who abandons his principles or party: Turncoat, Renegade, Apostate

513. A nut that has no kernel: Deaf-nut

514. Things given, kept etc. recall the past, some occasion or place: Souvenir, Memento

515. A child nursed not by its parents: Foster-child

516. A wound not healed: Green-wound

517. Something to terrify birds: Scarecrow

518. One who speaks for others: Spokesman

519. What does not burn: Incombustible

520. The head of a notorious party: Ring-leader

521. That vote that decides: Casting-vote

522. Relating to the sense of hearing: Acoustic

523. The art of preparing, stuffing and mounting skins: Taxidermy

524. The study or science of population: Demography

525. Drag through the mud: Disgrace

526. Gave and take: Reciprocity

527. Up in arms: Quarrelsome

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528. Wise as a serpent: Astute

529. With a sparing hand: Stingily

530. Keep open house: Entertain

531. By fits and starts: Capriciously

532. Busy as a bee: Diligent

533. Diamond cut diamond: Retaliation

534. Neither more nor less: Exactly

535. Keep at bay: Repel

536. Hold at arm’s length: Unfriendly

537. In every one’s mouth: Current

538. Pour water into a sieve: Prodigality

539. Call in question: Doubt or Challenge

540. In the front rank: Important, Prominent

541. Science of diseases of women: Gynaecology

542. Branch of medicine and surgery dealing with midwifery, childbirth its antecedents and sequels: Obstetrics

543. Public slaughterhouse: Abattoir

544. Too strange to be believed: Incredible

545. Without making any noise: Noiselessly

546. Formally renounce the crown: Abdicate

547. Before a moment had elapsed: Instantaneously

548. Not once or twice, but several times: Frequent

549. Not in accordance with the facts: False

550. Go off from the main subject of discourse: digress

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551. The last thing anyone would have expected of: Unthinkable

552. Daily allowance of food: Ration

553. Decorate with lights: Illuminate

554. Systematic study of election trends: Psephology.

555. Do away with wholly: Abolish.

556. A shortened form of a word or phrase: Abbreviation.

557. To increase the speed; to hasten the progress of: Accelerate.

558. To increase the gravity of an offence or the intensity of a disease: Aggravate.

559. To turn friends in enemies: Alienate.

560. One who does something not professionally but for pleasure: Amateur.

561. A diplomatic minister of the higher order sent by a country to another: Ambassador, Diplomat, Envoy.

562. A statement open to more than interpretation: Ambiguous.

563. Having opposing feelings: Ambivalent.

564. A letter, poem etc. whose author is unknown: Anonymous.

565. Absence of government: Anarchy.

566. A person liable to be called to account for his action: Answerable.

567. To rise in value: Appreciate.

568. To go down in value: Depreciate.

569. One who does not believe in the existence of God: Atheist.

570. One who believe in God: Theist.

571. One who makes an official examination of accounts: Auditor.

572. The life story of a man written by himself: Autobiography.

573. Life story of a man written by other: Biography

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574. Government by the officials: Bureaucracy.

575. Government by the people: Democracy.

576. To take away some one’s right to vote: Disenfranchisement.

577. The science which treats with life: Biology.

578. One who has narrow and prejudiced religious views: Bigot.

579. A member of the middle class: Bourgeois.

580. General pardon: Amnesty.

581. One who damages public property: Vandal.

582. One who does not care for art, literature etc.: Philistine.

583. People working together in the same office or department: Colleagues.

584. Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth: Con-genital.

585. Men living in the same age: Contemporary.

586. One who can make himself at home in all countries: Cosmopolitan.

587. A person who believes easily whatever he is told: Credulous.

588. To give one’s authority to another: Delegate.

589. A game or batter in which neither party wins: Drawn.

590. A thing that is fit to be eaten: Edible.

591. Water fit for drinking: Potable.

592. Study of environment: Ecology.

593. One who thinks only for oneself: Egoist.

594. One who is qualifies for election: Eligible.

595. To explain something mysterious or difficult: Elucidate.

596. To lay special stress on: Emphasize.

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597. A state of perfect balance: Equilibrium.

598. To root out an evil, disease: Eradicate.

599. A speech delivered without any previous preparation: Extempore or Impromptu.

600. A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion: Fanatic. List Continues

601. An exact copy: Facsimile

602. One who is not easily pleased: Fastidious

603. A medicine that kills germs: Germicide.

604. Work for which no salary is paid: Honorary.

605. One who feels sympathetic towards human beings: Humanitarian.

606. An office with high salary but no work: Sinecure.

607. That which cannot be read: Illegible.

608. A trade that is prohibited by law: Illicit.

609. One who cannot read or write: Illiterate.

610. Science of coins or medals: Numismatics.

611. Misappropriation of money: Embezzlement.

612. A sound that cannot be heard: Inaudible.

613. A statement which cannot be understood: Incomprehensible.

614. One who cannot be corrected: Incorrigible.

615. That which cannot be explained: Inexplicable.

616. A method that cannot be imitated: Inimitable.

617. That which cannot be satisfied: Insatiable.

618. One who is unable to pay his debts: Insolvent.

619. That which cannot be hurt: Invulnerable.

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620. The action of looking back on past time: Introspection.

621. A thing that cannot be seen with human eyes: Invisible.

622. Looking into one’s own thoughts: Introspection.

623. Remarks which do not ally apply to the subject under discussion: Irrelevant.

624. A loss of damage that cannot be compensated: Irreparable.

625. That cannot be altered or withdrawn: Irrevocable.

626. The area over which an official has control: Jurisdiction.

627. The first speech made by a person: Maiden.

628. Hater of mankind: Misanthropist.

629. Lover of mankind: Philanthropist.

630. A silly person: Goose

631. A person who lives a wandering life: Vagabond

632. Social position or rank: Status

633. Someone who knows a lot about the subject: Scholar

634. Deeply religious: Pious

635. A building in which monks live: Monastery

636. An instrument used to see distant objects :Telescope

637. A person who is slow to learn: Dunce

638. The path in which planets move :Orbit

639. A permit from an authority to own, use or do something: Licence

640. One who does the scientific study of the sun, the moon, etc.: Astronomer

641. The study or practice of travelling through the air: Aeronautics

642. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft : Astronaut

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643. Say a prayer in singing voice : Chant

644. Visit a place often: Haunt

645. Final release from rebirth : Deliverance

646. A person who loves money and hates spending it: Miser

647. An ugly woman: Hag

648. An animal that is cruel and dangerous : Beast

649. Skilful in inventing: Ingenious

650. Say publicly that something important is true: Proclaim

651. To be disloyal to someone who trusts you: Betray

652. Situation in which everything is happening in a confused way: Chaotic

653. A drink usually made from a mixture of one or more alcoholic drinks: Cocktail

654. A loose piece of clothing without sleeves: Mantle

655. A painting, drawing or photograph of a person especially of the head and shoulders: Portrait

656. To make someone angry: Grieve

657. Height above sea level : Altitude

658. To shift people from a place of danger to a safer place : Evacuate

659. To cause to feel no pain: Numb

660. Men who work on shores loading unloading ships: Longshoremen

661. Name shared by all the members of a family: Surname

662. One who is very eager for knowledge and reads a lot: Voracious

663. A flightless bird now extinct : Dodo

664. Storehouse for grains : Granary

665. Animals that live in a particular region: Fauna

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666. A place in a house where food is kept: Storeroom

667. A person who belongs to another country: Foreigner

668. Study of ancient monuments and arts: Archaeology

669. Science which deals with the study of living beings: Biology

670. Science of earth’s crust and the interior strata: Geology

671. The art of understanding the influence of heavenly bodies: Astrology

672. To seek protection from danger: Refuge

673. One who presides over the function: President

674. A man servant who serves at the table: Waiter

675. Waste material: Garbage

676. One who makes furniture: Carpenter

677. One who treats patients: Doctor

678. One who can read and write: Literate

679. A place where prisoners are kept: Jail / Gaol

680. One who does farming: Farmer

681. A poem of fourteen (14) lines: Sonnet

682. A book where you find meanings for words: Dictionary

683. A document with a code of laws which checks both ruler and ruled: Constitution

684. A period of one hundred years (100 years) : Century

685. A light pleasure boat: Yacht

686. Short stories with an element of moral : Fable

687. Red or yellow burning gas seen when something is on: Flame

688. A person who writes novels: Novelist

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689. A document allowing persons to travel abroad: Passport

690. One who looks only at the darker side of life: Pessimist

691. One who looks at the brighter side of life: Optimist

692. A place where horses are kept : Stable

693. A type of small dog with a turned up nose: Pug

694. Remains of prehistoric animal or plant preserved by being buried in earth: Fossils

695. A place where meals are sold and eaten: Restaurant

696. Things given or received as gift: Present

697. A man who does not know how to read and write: Illiterate

698. A large number of people or animals suffering from the same kind of disease at the same time: Epidemic

699. A book giving information on all branches of knowledge: Encyclopaedia

700. Liquid waste that flows out from a factory: Effluents

701. A living creature that is so small that it cannot be seen without a microscope and that may cause diseases: Microbe

702. Part of the earth where life is found: Biosphere

703. The act of killing oneself: Suicide

704. Soldiers who fight on horseback: Cavalry

705. Soldiers who fight on foot: Infantry

706. Strong rush of air, rain, smoke etc. carried by wind: Gust

707. A person who uses his strength or power to frighten or hurt others: Bully

708. A part of a horse’s harness that goes on to its head: Bridle

709. A sudden rush of frightened animals: Stampede

710. A person who has been found guilty and is being punished: Criminal

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711. A person who does banking business: Banker

712. A mad person: Lunatic

713. A person who is in charge of keys of a prison: Turnkeys

714. A person in charge of a jail and the prisoners in it: Jailor

715. One who is unable to pay his debts: Bankrupt

716. Long hard journey especially on foot: Trek

717. Group of people living together: Community

718. A group of soldiers living in a town or a fort, and defending it: Garrison

719. Flesh and Vegetable eating animals: Omnivorous

720. Plants of a particular region: Flora

721. Government by small groups: Oligarchy

722. A policeman in ordinary clothes while on duty: Plainclothesman

723. A person who flies an aeroplane: Pilot

724. Number of books housed in one building: Library

725. A person who studies Physics: Physicist

726. A mark remaining on the skin from a wound: Scar

727. Making someone angry: Provoke

728. Difficulty in breathing: Suffocation

729. Special quality not found anywhere: Uniqueness

730. To make impure by mixing dirty or poisonous matter: Contaminate

731. A person who writes poems: Poet

732. One who is out to subvert a government: Anarchist

733. One who is recovering from illness: Convalescent

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734. One who is all powerful: Omnipotent

735. One who is present everywhere: Omnipresent

736. One who knows everything: Omniscient

737. One who is easily deceived: Gullible, Credulous

738. One who does not make mistakes: Infallible

739. One who can do anything for money: Mercenary

740. One who has no money: Pauper, bankrupt

741. One who changes sides: Turncoat

742. One who works for free: Volunteer

743. One who loves books: Bibliophile

744. One who can speak two languages: Bilingual

745. One who hates mankind: Misanthrope

746. One who doubts the existence of god: Agnostic

747. One who pretends to be what he is not: Hypocrite

748. One incapable of being tired: Indefatigable

749. One who helps others Good: Samaritan

750. One who copies from other writers: Plagiarist

751. One who hates women: Misogynist

752. One who knows many languages: Polyglot

753. One who is fond of sensuous pleasures: Epicure

754. One who thinks only of welfare of women: Feminist

755. One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain: Stoic

756. One who is quite like a woman: Effeminate

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757. One who has strange habits: Eccentric

758. One who speaks less: Reticent

759. One who goes on foot: Pedestrian

760. One who believes in fate: Fatalist

761. One who dies without a Will: Intestate

762. One who always thinks himself to be ill: Valetudinarian

763. A Government by a king or queen: Monarchy

764. A Government by the rich: Plutocracy

765. A Government by the Nobles: Aristocracy

766. A Government by one: Autocracy

767. Rule by the mob: Mobocracy

768. That through which light can pass: Transparent

769. That through which light cannot pass: Opaque

770. That through which light can partly pass: Translucent

771. A sentence whose meaning is unclear: Ambiguous

772. A place where orphans live: Orphanage

773. That which cannot be described: Indescribable

774. That which cannot be avoided: Inevitable

775. That which cannot be defended: Indefensible

776. Practice of having several wives: Polygamy

777. Practice of having several husbands: Polyandry

778. Practice of having one wife or husband: Monogamy

779. Practice of having two wives or husbands: Bigamy

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780. That which is not likely to happen: Improbable

781. People living at the same time: Contemporaries

782. A book published after the death of its author: Posthumous

783. One who eats too much: Glutton

784. One who questions everything: Cynic

785. A flesh eating animal: Carnivorous

786. A grass eating animal: Herbivorous

787. One who lives in a foreign country: Immigrant

788. To transfer one's authority to another: Delegate

789. One who is a newcomer: Neophyte

790. That which is lawful: Legal

791. That which is against law: Illegal

792. One who is unmarried: Celibate

793. A study of man: Anthropology

794. A study of races: Ethnology

795. A study of the body: Physiology

796. A study of animals: Zoology

797. A study of birds: Ornithology

798. A study of ancient things: Archaeology

799. A study of derivation of words: Etymology

800. Murder of a human being: Homicide

801. Murder of a father: Patricide

802. Murder of a mother: Matricide

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803. Murder of an brother: Fratricide

804. Murder of an infant: Infanticide

805. Murder of the king: Regicide

806. To free somebody from all blame: Exonerate, absolve from

807. To write under a different name: Pseudonym

808. A thing no longer in use: Obsolete

809. Words written on the tomb of a person: Epitaph

810. One who is greedy for money: Avaricious

811. A person's peculiar habit: Idiosyncrasy

812. An animal who preys on other animals: Predator

813. Violating the sanctity of a church: Sacrilege

814. Not normal: Abnormal

815. Go with: Accompany

816. Succeed in doing: Accomplish

817. Take as one's own: Adopt

818. By oneself: Alone

819. Once a year: Annually

820. Become invisible: Disappear

821. Express approval by clapping: Applaud

822. Loud enough to be heard: Audible

823. Keep oneself away from: Avoid

824. At the back of: Behind

825. Not sharp: Blunt

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826. Period of 100 years: Century

827. Low in cost or value: Cheap

828. Comfort in time of sorrow: Console

829. Never ending: Continually

830. Without interval: Continuous

831. Move on hands and knees: Crawl

832. Lame person: Cripple

833. Period of 10 years: Decade

834. Move up one's mind: Decide

835. Go out of sight or existence: Disappear

836. Find out: Discover

837. Far away: Distant

838. Long spell of dry weather: Drought

839. Suitable for eating: Edible

840. Qualified to be chosen: Eligible

841. Leave one country and go to settle in another: Emigrate

842. Put up with: Endure

843. Way in: Entrance

844. Time that has no limit: Eternity

845. Way out: Exit

846. Show clearly the meaning of: Explain

847. Send goods to another country for sales: Export

848. Extreme scarcity of food: Famine

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849. Able to bend easily without breaking: Flexible

850. Go or come after: Follow

851. Period of two weeks: Fortnight

852. Easily broken: Fragile

853. Physically weak: Frail

854. Small articles of dress, sewing-goods, etc: Haberdashery

855. Suitable for living in: Habitable

856. An animal's or plant's natural environment: Habitat

857. Doing something constantly: Habitual

858. Argue about price of goods: Haggle

859. Suffering from a mental or physical disability: Handicapped

860. Spend the winter in sleep: Hibernate

861. Push roughly: Hustle

862. Who or what a person is: Identity

863. Doing no work or lazy: Idle

864. Light up: Illuminate

865. Make clear by examples or pictures: Illustrate

866. Without any delay: Immediately

867. Come into a foreign country as a permanent resident: Immigrate

868. Living forever: Immortal

869. Become better: Improve

870. Incapable of being wrong: Infallible

871. Not guilty: Innocent

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872. Cannot be conquered: Invincible

873. Cannot be seen: Invisible

874. Cannot be repaired: Irreparable

875. Unable to walk normally: Lame

876. Person who is insane or very foolish: Lunatic 877. Dumb person: Mute

878. Person living next door: Neighbour

879. Well-known in an unfavourable way: Notorious

880. Happening from time to time: Occasionally

881. Person who takes a hopeful views of things: Optimist

882. Father and mother: Parents

883. Person walking in a street: Pedestrian

884. Person who takes a gloomy views of things: Pessimist

885. Science and art of government: Politics

886. Liked by many people: Popular

887. Put off until a later time: Postpone

888. On time: Punctual

889. Four-legged animal: Quadruped

890. With little or no sound: Quiet

891. Again and again: Repeatedly

892. Come or go back: Return

893. Make known: Reveal

894. Turn round: Revolve

895. Make along piercing cry or sound: Scream

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896. Loud cry: Shout

897. In a short time: Soon

898. Person who watches a show or game or incident: Spectator

899. Not fresh: Stale

900. Look long and steadily: Stare

901. Remain alive or in existence: Survive

902. Go from one place to another: Travel

903. Able to be seen through: Transparent

904. Not occupied: Uninhabited

905. Of no use: Useless

906. Surrounding district: Vicinity

907. Once a week: Weekly

908. Speak softly: Whisper

909. Young person: Youth

910. Group of people who watch a show: Audience

911. Having an evil reputation: Notorious

912. One who is new to a profession:

913. Collection of coins: Numismatics

914. Fear of darkness: Nyctophobia and Scotophobia

915. One which is not in use, out-dated: Obsolete

916. Study of mountains: Orography

917. Fear of mountains: Alpine phobia

918. Fear of snakes: Ophidiophobia or ophiophobia

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919. A child whose parents are dead: Orphan

920. Study Of Correct spelling: Orthography

921. Study of ancient writing: Palaeography

922. A cure for all diseases: Panacea

923. Fear of everything: Pan phobia or Panto phobia

924. Belief of God in nature: Pantheism. "Pan" is Greek for English "All". "Theism" is from the Greek "Theos" which means "God". "All is God".

925. A temporary release allowed on certain conditions: Bail

926. Killing one's own father: Patricide

927. Property inherited from one’s father or ancestor: Patrimony

928. A home for pigs: Pigsty or Pigpen

929. That which is everlasting:

930. Fear of eating: Phagophobia

931. Fear of drugs: Pharmacopobia

932. Fear of ghosts: Phasmophobia

933. Fear of sound: Acousticophobia

934. Fear of light: Photophobia

935. Study of languages: Linguistics

936. A figure with many angles or sides: Polygon

937. A forecast of the result of a disease of illness: The prognosis (Greek for knowing the future)

938. Fear of fever: Pyrexiophobia

939. Fear of fire: Arsnophobia

940. Confinement to one place to avoid spread of infection: Quarantine

941. A person who lives by himself: Hermit or Recluse

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942. Asking everyone for an opinion: Census

943. An institution for reforming young offenders: Reformatory

944. To send back a person to his own country: Deportation or Extradition

945. The art of elegant speech or writing: Rhetoric

946. Violating or profaning religious things: Blasphemy

947. An instrument for detecting earthquakes: Richter Scale

948. A case in which sword is kept: Scabbard

949. One who talks in sleep: Sleep-talking or Somniloquy

950. Killing one's own sister: Sororicide

951. One who is a habitual drunker: Drunkard

952. That which is a government by the military class: Dictatorship

953. Fear of hell: Hadephobia

954. A person who abstains from alcoholic drinks: Teetotaller

955. Fear of death: Thanatophobia

956. Fear of hair: Trichophobia

957. A bride’s outfit: Trousseau.

958. An imaginary ideal state: Utopia

959. Killing one's own wife: Uxoricide

960. One extremely fond of one's wife: Uxorious

961. Fear of foreigners: Xenophobia

962. Fear of animals: Zoophobia

963. One who donates liberally for good causes: Altruist

964. Collection of stamps: Philately

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965. Excessive desire for money: Avarice

966. Study of mind: Psychology

967. A speech by the dramatist at the beginning of the play: Epilogue

968. One who attends to the diseases of the eye: Oculist

969. One who tests eyesight and sell spectacles: Optician

970. One who attends to sick people and prescribes medicines: Physician

971. One who compounds and sells drugs: Druggist

972. One who compounds and sells drugs: Pharmacist

973. One who treats disease by performing operations: Surgeon

974. One who attends to the teeth: Dentist

975. One skilled in the care of hands and feet: Chiropodist

976. One who treats diseases by rubbing the muscles: Masseur

977. A physician who assists women in child-birth: Obstetrician

978. A physician who assists women in child-birth: Accoucher

979. One who drives a motor-car: Chauffeur

980. One who attends to an engine: Engineer

981. One who attends to sick people and prescribes medicines: Doctor

982. The person in charge of a ship: Captain

983. The commander of a fleet: Admiral

984. One who carves in stone: Sculptor

985. One who cuts precious stone: Lapidar

986. One who cuts precious stone: Lapidist

987. One who writes for the newspaper: Journalist

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988. One who writes for the newspaper: Reporter

989. One who writes for the newspaper: Correspondent

990. One who sets type for books: compositor

991. One who draws and plans the design of the building: Architect

992. One who draws plans: Draughtsman

993. One who deals in flowers: Florist

994. One who deals in fruits: Fruiterer

995. One who deals in cattle: Drover

996. One who sells fruits or vegetables: Costermonger

997. One who sells iron and hardware: Ironmonger

998. One who deals in medicinal herbs: Herbalist

999. One who deals in fish: fishmonger

1000. One who deals in furs: furrier List Continues

1001. One who works in glass: Glazier

1002. One who deals in wines: Vintner

1003. One who works mending water pipes: Plumber

1004. One who attends to the fire of steam engine: Stoker

1005. One who makes barrels: Cooper

1006. One employed to do excavating works: Navvy

1007. One who makes and sells ladies hats: Milliner

1008. One who sells small articles such as ribbons or thread or laces: Haberdasher

1009. One who deals in cloths and other fabrics: draper

1010. One who deals in silk: Mercer

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1011. A professional rider in horse races: Jockey

1012. One who shoes horses: Farrier

1013. One who studies rocks and soils: Geologist

1014. One who studies the past through the objects left behind: Archaeologist

1015. One who studies the stars: Astronomer

1016. One who flies an aero plane: Pilot

1017. One who flies an aero plane: Aviator

1018. One who works in a coal-mine: Collier

1019. An institution for the education in the Arts and Sciences: Polytechnic

1020. The study of all heavenly bodies and the earth in relation to them: Astronomy

1021. The art of tilling the soil: Agriculture

1022. The art of cultivating and managing gardens: Horticulture

1023. The Science of land management: Agronomics

1024. The science of family descent: Genealogy

1025. The study of ancient building and prehistoric remains: Archaeology

1026. The study of ancient writings: Palaeography

1027. The art of beautiful hand-writing: Calligraphy

1028. The art of metal working: Metallurgy

1029. The study of coins: Numismatics

1030. The study of numbers: Mathematics

1031. The art of measuring lands: Surveying

1032. The science of triangles: Trigonometry

1033. The art of preserving skins: Taxidermy

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1034. The art of making fire-works: Pyrotechnics

1035. The science of colours: Chromatics

1036. The art of elegant speech and writing: Rhetoric

1037. The art of effective speaking: Elocution

1038. The art of telling the future by the study of the stars: Astrology

1039. The study of mankind: Anthropology

1040. The science which deals with the varieties of human-kinds: Ethnology

1041. The science of the structure of the human-body: Anatomy

1042. The science which deals with the way in which the human-body works: Physiology

1043. The scientific study of industrial arts: Technology

1044. The study of the human-mind: Psychology

1045. The study of human face: Physiognomy

1046. The study of living matter: Biology

1047. The study of plants: Botany

1048. The study of animals: Zoology

1049. The study of rocks and soils: Geology

1050. The study of birds: Ornithology

1051. The study of egg: Oology

1052. The study of mountains: Orology

1053. The study of languages: Philology

1054. The study of origin and history of words: Etymology

1055. The study of stars: Astronomy

1056. The study of lakes: Limnology

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1057. killing of a foetus: Abortion, Aborticide

1058. killer of algae: Algaecide

1059. murder of a friend: Amicicide

1060. killer of aphids: Aphicide

1061. killing of birds: Avicide

1062. killer of bacteria: Bacillicide

1063. killer of bacteria: Bactericide

1064. killing living material: Biocide

1065. slaughter of cattle; one who kills cattle: bovicide

1066. killing of whales and other cetaceans: Ceticide

1067. substance used to kill bed-bugs: Cimicide

1068. destruction or killing of a god: Deicide

1069. destruction of the environment: Ecocide

1070. killing of bishops: Episcopicide

1071. killing of a cat: Felicide

1072. killing of a woman: Femicide

1073. killing of a foetus: Feticide

1074. killing of one's own child: Filicide

1075. killing or killer of flowers: Floricide

1076. killing a foetus: Foeticide

1077. substance that kills ants: Formicide

1078. killing of one's brother: Fratricide

1079. killing of fungus: Fungicide

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1080. killing of a race or ethnic group: Genocide

1081. substance that kills germs: Germicide

1082. killing of a giant: Gianticide

1083. killing of women: Gynaecide

1084. killing of plants: Herbicide

1085. killing of heretics: Hereticide

1086. killing of a human being: Homicide

1087. killing of an infant: Infanticide

1088. killing of insects: Insecticide

1089. killing of larvae: Larvicide

1090. destruction of liberty: Liberticide

1091. killing of a wolf: Lupicide

1092. killing or killer of one's husband: Mariticide

1093. killing of one's mother: Matricide

1094. reduction of mind by psychological pressure: Menticide

1095. killing or killer of microbes: Microbicide

1096. agent which kills mites: Miticide

1097. killing of mollusc: Molluscicide

1098. substance for killing flies: Muscicide

1099. killing or killer of a newborn infant: Neonaticide

1100. killing insect eggs: Ovicide

1101. killing of parasites: Parasiticide

1102. harmful act appearing to be an attempt at suicide: Parasuicide

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1103. killing or killer of one's parents: Parenticide

1104. killing of parents or a parent-like close relative: Parricide

1105. killing of one's father: Patricide

1106. killer of partridges: Perdricide

1107. killing of pests: Pesticide

1108. killing of offspring; killing of the human race: Prolicide

1109. flea-killer: Pullicide

1110. substance or person who kills rats: Raticide

1111. killing of a monarch: Regicide

1112. killing of rodents: Rodenticide

1113. killing of old men: Senicide

1114. killing or killer of a snake: Serpenticide

1115. killing or killer of a sibling: Siblicide

1116. substance that kills trees: Silvicide

1117. killing of one's own sister: Soriricide

1118. destruction of an entire species: Speciocide

1119. killing of sperm: Spermicide

1120. killing of spores: Sporiricide

1121. killing of oneself: Suicide

1122. killing of tapeworms: Taeniacide

1123. killing or killer of a bull: Tauricide

1124. killing of trypanosomes: Trypanocide

1125. killing or killer of a tyrant: Tyrannicide

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1126. destruction of a city: Urbicide

1127. killing or killer of a bear: Ursicide

1128. killing of one's own wife: Uxoricide

1129. killing or killer of a prophet: Vaticide

1130. destroying the meaning of a word: Verbicide

1131. killing of worms: Vermicide

1132. substance or person who kills wasps: Vespacide

1133. killing of viruses: Virucide

1134. killing of a fox: Vulpicide

1135. something that kills weeds: Weedicide