| Decsription | Word |
|---|---|
| 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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