ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION
investigate (V.) : to carefully ex- 175. (4) jauntily 180. (4) synonyms
amine the facts of a situation, an jauntily (Adv.) : cheerfully ; lively synonyms (N.) : words of the
event, a crime, etc; to find out lousily (Adv.) : very dirtily/badly same meanings
the truth about it or how it hap- homonyms (N.) : words pro-
jocularly (Adv.) : with humour;
pened nounced/spelled the same way
humorously
determine (V.) : to discover the but having different meanings
zealously (Adv.) : with humour;
facts to calculate exactly; estab- pseudonym (N.) : a fictitious
humorously
lish name used instead of his real
176. (4) barometer
detect (V.) : to discover/notice names
something that is not easy to see, barometer (N.) : an instrument
antonyms (N.) : words of oppo-
hear, etc. for measuring air pressure to
site meanings
show when the weather will
171. (2) pedant 181. (4) protocol
change
pedant (N.) : a person who is protocol (N.) : a system of fixed
too concerned with small details/ metronome (N.) : a device that
makes a regular sound like a rules and formal behaviour used
rules especially while learning/ at official meetings
teaching clock and is used by musicians
for helping them keep the cor- statesmanship (N.) : skill in man-
scholar (N.) : a person who knows aging state affairs
rect rhythm while playing a piece
all about a particular subject be- diplomacy (N.) : skill in dealing
of music.
cause he has studied it in detail with people in difficult situations
pedagogue (N.) : a teacher compass (N.) : an instrument for
finding directions without upsetting/offending
literalist (N.) : a person who them ; tact
makes/uses literal or realistic in pedometer (N.) : an instrument
hierarchy (N.) : a system,
art/literature for measuring how far you have
especially in a society or an
walked
172. (1) stoicism organisation, in which people are
177. (4) optimist
stoicism (N.) : the fact of not organised into different levels of
explaining/showing what you are optimist (N.) : a person who al- importance from highest to lowest
feeling when you are suffering ways expects good things to hap- 182. (4) abdicate
despair (N.) : the feeling of hav- pen/things to be successful
abdicate (V.) : to give up the po-
ing lost all hope magnate (N.) : a person who is sition of being king/queen; to
agony (N.) : extreme physical/ rich, powerful and successful in fail/refuse to perform a duty
mental pain business
abduct (V.) : to kidnap
materialism (N.) : the belief that creator (N.) : God; a person who
abandon (V.) : to leave
only material things exist has made/ invented a particular
abort (V.) : to end or cause to
173. (1) polyandry thing
end before something has been
polyandry (N.) : the custom of pacifist (N.) : a person who be- completed because it is likely to
having more than one husband lieves that war and violent are fail
at the same time. always wrong
183. (3) inexorable
polygamy (N.) : the custom of 178 .(2) universal
inexorable (Adj.) : that cannot
having more than one wife at the universal (Adj.) : done by or in- be stopped/changed
same time volving all the people in the world rigorous (Adj.) : done carefully
bigamy (N.) : the crime of mar- or in a particular group and with a lot of attention to de-
rying somebody when you are common (Adj.) : belonging to or tail; thorough
still legally married participated in by a community negligent (Adj.) : failing to give
debauchery (N.) : immoral be- as a whole public enough care/attention
haviour involving sex, alcohol or worldly (Adj.) : connected with despotic (Adj.) : a ruler with great
drugs the world in which we live rath- power, especially one uses it in
174. (3) hallucination er than with spiritual things a cruel way
hallucination (N.) : the fact of international (Adj.) : connect- 184. (4) specimen
seeing/hearing something that is ed with two/more countries specimen (N.) : sample ; a small
not really there 179. (2) notorious amount of something that shows
imagination (N.) : the ability to notorious (Adj.) : well-known for what the rest of it is like
create pictures in your mind bad acts specification (N.) : a detailed
presumption (N.) : something famous (Adj.) : well-known description of how something is/
that is thought to be true or prob- criminal (Adj.) : connected with should be designed/ made.
able crime spectre (N.) : something un-
supposition (N.) : an idea that terrorist (N.) : a person who pleasant that people are afraid
you think is true although you uses violent action in order to might happen in the future
may not be able to prove it; as- achieve political aims or to force spectacle (N.) : a pair of glasses
sumption a government to act (spectacles); an unusual sight/
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