Gate Way To CGL Mains : English Notes On One Word Substitution

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION :

PERSONALITY TRAITS:

1) Saboteur : One  who damages things.

2) Stingy   :   One who tries to save money as far as possible.

3) Pedantic :  One who tries to sound more learned than others.

4) Distraught : One who is extremely worried

.5) Incorrigible : One who cannot be corrected / reformed.

6) Stubborn : One who is not flexible in behaviour.

7) Reverend  : One who deserve respect.

8) Unpredictable : One whose behaviour is cannot be predicted.

9) Hilarious : funny in behaviour.

10) Eminent : Known & respect

11) Diffident : One who lacks confidence.

12) Ambivalent : Having mixed feeling.

13) Ambivert : Neither too extrovert nor too introvert.

14) Extrovert : One who share his feelings with other.

15) Extrovert : One who does not shares his feelings with others.

16) Benevolent : One who wards/prays for others.

17) Capricious  : Unpredictable acentric 

18) Heretical : Unorthodox

19) Psychotic : A person with mental disease in which he feels unreal things present around him.

20) Misanthrope : One who hates mankind.

21) Misogynist : One who hates women.

22) Misogamist : One who hates marriage.

23) Flamboyant : (synonym) Showy/Ostentatious/Pompous (antonym) modest/ascetic

24) Fastidious : Hard to please (finicy: synonym)

25) Celibate : unmarried male (bachelor), unmarried female (spinster)

Animals Eating habits :

a) Herbivores : Animals that eats vegetation.

b) Carnivores :That eat flesh.

c) Omnivores : Eats both vegetation of flesh.

d) Scavenger  : Eats dirt & decay flesh.

e) Parasitism : One is benefited other is harmed. Animals or plants living one another.

f) Mutualism : Both are benefited.

g) Commensal : One is benefited other is not harmed.

h) Cannibal : that eats its own species. The man who eats human flesh.

i) Predator : that runs & catches is prey.

j) Decomposer : That converts complex substances into simpler form.

k) Symbotic : living together.

Food habits / Human beings :

a) Gourmand : One who eats too much.   

b) Phagomanioc : One who is afraid of food/eating.

c) Sitophobic : One who is afraid of food/eating.

d) Epicure : One who is found of eating & drinking.

e) Cannibal : A man who eats human flesh.

f) Gourmet : Specialist in food making.

g) Dipsomaniac : One who is addicted to alcoholic drinks.

h) Dipsophobic :  One who is afraid of alcoholic drinks.

i) Teetotaler : One who is not addicted to anything.