ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION
424. (1) oculist                              researcher (N.) : a scientist who   432. (1) claustrophobia
     oculist (N.) : a doctor who              devotes himself to doing research        claustrophobia (N.) : an extreme
     examines and treats people’s        428. (1) statute                              fear of being in a small confined
     eyes                                     statute (N.) : a law that is             place
     optimist (N.) : a person who             passed by a parliament, council,         aquaphobia (N.) : an extreme
     always expects good things to            etc. and formally written down           fear of drowning
     happen/ things to be successful          stature (N.) : the importance and        botanophobia (N.) : a fear of
     obstetrician (N.) : a doctor who         respect that a person has                plants
     is trained in the branch of              because of hi s ability and              kleptomania (N.) : a mental
     medicine concerned with the              achievements; a person’s height          illness in which someone has a
     birth of children                        static (Adj.) : not mo ving,             strong desire, which he cannot
     optician (N.) : a person who             changing or developing                   control, to steal things
     examines people’s eyes and               statue (N.) : a figure of a person/ 433. (3) epitaph
     recommends and sells glasses             an animal in stone, metal, etc.,         epitaph (N.) : words written/
425. (2) entomology                           usually the same size as in real         said about a dead person, on a
     entomology (N.) : the scientific         life or larger                           tomb/ gravestone
     study of insects/worms              429. (2) prop                                 epigraph (N.) : a line of writing,
     taxidermy (N.) : the art of              prop (N.) : a piece of wood,             short phrase, etc. on a building/
     stuffing dead animals, birds and         metal, etc. used for supporting          statue, or as an introduction to
     fish with a special material so          something or keepi ng i t i n            part of a book
     that they may look like living ones      position                                 epilogue (N.) : a speech at the
     and can be displayed                     scaffold (N.) : a platform used          end of a play, book/film that
     ornithology (N.) : the scientific        while executing criminals by             comments on what has happened
     study of birds                           cutting off their heads or hanging       etymology (N.) : the study of the
                                              them from a rope                         origin and history of words and
     paleontology (N.) : the study of
                                              lean-to (N.) : a small building          their meanings
     fossils (the remains of animals
                                              with its roof leaning against the   434. (1) illegible
     or plants in rocks)
                                              side of a large building, wall or        illegible (Adj.) : difficult/
426. (1) altruist
                                              fence                                    impossible to read
     altruist (N.) : someone who
                                              rafter (N.) : one of the sloping         inedible (Adj.) : that cannot be
     makes charitable donations
                                              pieces of wood that support a            eaten because it is of poor quality/
     intended to increase human well-
                                              roof                                     poisonous
     being
                                                                                       illegal (Adj.) : not allowed by the
     hermit (N.) : a person who,         430. (2) horticulturist
                                                                                       law
     usually for religious reasons,           horticulturist (N.) : an expert
                                                                                       illicit (Adj.) : not allowed by law;
     lives a very simple life alone and       in the science of cultivating
                                                                                       illegal
     does not meet or talk to other           plants (fruits, flowers, vegetables
                                                                                  435. (3) horizon
     people                                   or ornamental plants)
                                                                                       horizon (N.) : the furthest you
     volunteer (N.) : a person who            agriculturist (N.) : an expert in
                                                                                       can see, where the sky seems
     does a job without being paid for        agriculture (practice of farming)
                                                                                       to meet the land/the sea
     it; a person who offers to do            who gives advice to farmers
                                                                                       atmosphere (N.) : the mixture
     something without being forced           gardener (N.) : someone who              of gases that surrounds the earth
     to do it                                 takes care of a garden                   milky way (N.) : the Galaxy
     martyr (N.) : a person who               botanist (N.) : a scientist who          (contains any of the system of
     suffers very much or is killed           studies about plants and their           stars, etc.) in outer space
     because of his religious/ political      structure                                distant land (N.) : far-away land
     beliefs                             431. (2) panacea                         436. (1) waybill
427. (1) pedant                               panacea (N.) : something that            waybill (N.) : a receipt from the
     pedant (N.) : a person who makes         will solve all the problems of a         carrier for the good s being
     an excessive/in appropriate              particular situation                     shipped; bill of lading ; a list of
     display of learning and is too           cough syrup (N.) : a liquid              passengers/ goods being carried
     concerned with small details or          medicine that you take for a             on a vehicle
     rules, expecially while learning         cough                                    wagon (N.) : a railway/ rail road
     or teaching                              medicine (N.) : a substance              truck for carrying goods
     educationist (N.) : a person             taken to cure an illness                 wirepuller (N.) : a person who
     (specialist) in theories and             inhaler (N.) : a small device            is able to control or influence
     methods of teaching                      containing medicine that you             events without realizing it
     exhibitor (N.) : a person/               breathe in through your mouth,           whist (N.) : a card game for two
     company that shows his/its               used by people who have                  pairs of players in which each
     work/ products to the public             problems with breathing                  pair tries to win the most cards
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