ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION
approve (V.) : to think that some- suicide (N.) : the act of killing citizen (N.) : a person who has
body/something is acceptable/ yourself deliberately the legal right to belong to a par-
suitable 27. (1) gastronomy ticular country
22. (4) visionary gastronomy (N.) : the art and 32. (3) misanthrope
visionary (N.) : original and practice of cooking and eating misanthrope (N.) : a person who
showing the ability to think good food hates and avoids other people
about/plan the future with great astronomy (N.) : the scientific philanthropist (N.) : a rich per-
imagination and intelligence study of the sun, moon, stars, son who helps the poor and
dreamer (N.) : a person who has planets, etc. those in need
ideas/plans that are not practi- vegetarianism (N.) : a diet ex- terrorist (N.) : a person who
cal/realistic cluding all meat and fish takes part in terrorism (political
seer (N.) : a person who claims gourmet (N.) : a person who violence)
that he can see what is going to knows a lot about good food and misogynist (N.) : a man who
happen in the future wines and who enjoys choosing, hates women
idealist (N.) : someone guided eating and drinking them. 33. (2) universal
more by ideals than by practical 28. (1) stoic universal (Adj.) : done by or in-
considerations stoic (N.) : a person who is able volving all the people in the world
23. (1) paediatrician to suffer pain or trouble without or in a particular group
paediatrician (N.) : a doctor who complaining or showing what he versatile (Adj.) : able to do many
treats children is feeling
things
pedagogue (N.) : a teacher stylist (N.) : an artist who is a
cosmopolitan (Adj.) : a having
pedestrian (N.) : a person walking master of a particular style
experience of many different
and not travelling in a vehicle cynic (N.) : someone who is crit- parts of the world
paedophile (N.) : a person who ical of the motives of others
secular (Adj.) : living among or-
is sexually attracted to children psychic (N.) : a person sensi-
dinary people rather than in a
24. (2) psephologist tive to things beyond the natural
religious community
psephologist (N.) : a person (so- range of understanding
34. (1) funambulist
ciologist) who studies election 29. (2) momentary
funambulist (N.) : a person who
trends momentary (Adj.) : lasting for a
very short time; brief performs on a tight rope or a
entomologist (N.) : a zoologist
slack rope
(person) who studies insects momentous (Adj.) : very impor-
tant or serious; historic upholsterer (N.) : a person
demagogue (N.) : a political leader
whose job is to upholster (to cover
who tries to win support by using trivial (Adj.) : not important or
a chair, etc. with a soft material
arguments based on emotion serious; not worth considering
rather than reason and cloth) furniture
petty (Adj.) : small and unim-
eugenist (N.) : a person who portant; minor acrobat (N.) : an entertainer who
studies methods of improving the performs difficult acts such as
30. (3) hijack
quality of the human race, balancing on high ropes
hijack (V.) : to use violence or
especially by selective breeding threats to take control of a vehi- aviator (N.) : a person who flies
25. (2) feminist cle, in order to force it to travel an aircraft
feminist (N.) : a person who to a different place or to demand 35. (2) etymology
supports the belief that women something from a government etymology (N.) : the study of the
should have the same rights and attack (V.) : try to hurt or kill origin and history of words and
opportunities as men somebody their meanings
male chauvinist (N.) : a man contract (N.) : an official writ- linguistics (N.) : the scientific
who bel ieves men are mo re ten agreement study of a language
important, intelligent etc. detour (V.) : to take a longer route verbose (N.) : using or contain-
fatalist (N.) : a person who believes in order to avoid a problem or to ing more words than are needed
in fate/destiny visit a place anthology (N.) : a collection of
futurist (N.) : a person who 31. (4) emigrant poems, stories, etc. That have
predicts the future emigrant (N.) : a person who been written by different people
26. (3) infanticide leaves his country to live in an- and published together in a book
infanticide (N.) : the crime of kill- other 36. (4) burglar
ing a baby immigrant (N.) : a person who burglar (N.) : a person who en-
homicide (N.) : the crime of kill- has come to a country to live in ters a building illegally in order
ing somebody deliberately; mur- it permanently to steal
der alien (N.) : strange and fright- poacher (N.) : a person who ille-
genocide (N.) : the murder of a ening; different from what you gally hunts birds, animals or fish
whole race or group of people are used to; hostile on somebody else’s property
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