Decsription | Word |
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One who knows many languages. | Linguist |
Being unable to pay one’s debts. | Insolvent |
Having e evil reputation. | Notorious |
One who leaves his country to settle elsewhere. | Emigrant |
A person who lives at the same time as another. | Contemporary |
A person who can neither read nor write. | Iiiiterate |
A person who spends his money recklessly. | Spendthrift |
A person who lives by himself. | Recluse |
A woman whose husband is dead. | Widow |
A person sent on mission(usually official). | Emissary |
A person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain. | Stoic |
One who makes an eloquent public speech. | Orator |
Being present everywhere. | Omnipresent |
Being all-powerful. | Omnipotent |
One who knows everything. | Omniscient |
Beyond making a mistake | Infallible |
One who eats human flesh. | Cannibal |
One who looks at the dark side of things. | Pessimist |
One who looks at the bright side of things | Optimist |
Not suitable to be elected or selected under the rules. | Ineligible |
One who hates mankind | Misanthropist |
One who lives on vegetables. | Vegetarian |
One who has belief in the existence of God. | Theist |
One who has no belief in the existence of God. | Atheist |
One who believes in fate. | Fatalist |
A member of a council. | Councilor |
The practice of having two or more spouse. | Polygamy |
A general pardon of political offenders. | Amnesty |
Fond of entertaining guests. | Hospitable |
One who totally abstains from alcoholic drinks. | Teetotaler |
One who walks on foot. | Pedestrian |
Taking of one’s own life. | Suicide |
Murder of a king. | Regicide |
Murder of a new-born infant. | Infanticide |
Murder of one’s own father/mother/brother. | Patricide/Matricide/Fratricide |
The killing of human beings. | Homicide |
Forbidden, prohibited by law. | IIIicit |
A medicine to counteract the effect of poison. | Antidote |
A speech made without preparation. | Extempore |
A language that is no longer spoken. | Dead |
The word which is no longer in use. | Obsolete |
The motive merely to get money. | Mercenary |
Existing forever – without any beginning or end. | Eternal |
Subject to death. | Mortal |
Resulting in death. | Fatal of mortal |
Property inherited from one’s father or ancestors. | Patrimony |
A paper written by hand. | Manuscript |
The result of the match where neither party wins. | Draw |
Animals which give birth to babies and feed them with their milk. | Mammals |
A place for burial or dead bodies. | Cemetery |
Counterfeiting of document. | Forgery |
Of one’s own free will. | Voluntary |
Give tit for tat. | Retaliate |
The cessation of warfare before a treaty is signed. | Armistice |
The science of reasoning. | Logic |
Belonging to all parts of the world. | Universal |
A figure with many angles or sides. | Polygon |
An instrument for measuring temperature. | Thermometer |
A place where young plants are reared. | Nursery |
The absence of government in a company. | Anarchy |
Government carried on by an absolute ruler. | Dictatorship |
Government by the representatives of the people. | Democracy |
Government by officials. | Bureaucracy |
An absolute government. | Autocracy |
The life history of a person written by himself. | Autobiography |
The yearly return of a date. | Anniversary |
Of unknown or undamitted authorship. | Anonymous |
Allowing the passage of rays of light. | Transparent |
Not allowing the passage of light. | Opaque |
A substance that kills insects. | Insecticide |
Occurring at the same time. | Simultaneous |
An assembly of worshippers. | Congregation |
An assembly of listeners. | Audience |
A substance that kills germs. | Germicide |
A cure for all diseases. | Panacea |
Contrary to law. | IIIegal |
Not definitely or clearly expressed. | Inexplicit |
That which cannot be excused. | Inexcusable |
That which cannot be taken by force of arms. | Impregnable |
That which cannot be admitted or allowed. | Inadmissible |
That which cannot be reached. | Inaccessible |
That which cannot be perceived by sense | Imperceptible |
That which cannot be burnt | Incombustible |
That which cannot be divided. | Indivisible |
That which cannot be reconciled | Irreconcilable |
That which cannot be recovered. | Irrecoverable |
That which cannot be seen. | Invisible |
That which cannot be read. | IIIegible |
That which cannot be heard. | Inaudible |
That which cannot be conquered. | Invincible |
That which cannot be wounded. | Invulnerable |
That which cannot be believed. | Incredible |
That which cannot be avoided. | Inflammable |
The only one of its type . | Unique |
The driver of a taxi cab. | Cabby |
All of one mind. | Unanimous. |
A false or mistake belief. | Fallacy |
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