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Hi friends ,today we can learn several one word English questions and answers.This type of questions surely asked in all competitive exams like UPSC,SSC,PSC and all other Gov exams. So friends try to grasp the tricks of questions, so you can solve an easy manner.  

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ONE WORD

• A word  formed out of the first letters of a few words

                                 - Acronym

• A person who avoids physical pleasures and leads a simple life.

                                - Ascetic

• A list of matters to be discussed at a meeting 

                               - Agenda

• The story of one's own life 

                               - Autobiography

• Proof that someone else was at another place when the crime alleged to have been committed by that person

                               - Alibi

• General pardon by the government to all political offenders

                              - Amnesty

• That which does not bear the name of the writer

                             - Anonymous

• Disbelief in the existence of god

                            - Atheism

• To turn friends into enemies

                           - Alienate

• Government by the nobility

                           - Aristocracy

• The right of self-government

                          - Autonomy

• The science of the structure of the human body

                           - Anatomy

• A person who lives in a foreign country 

                          - Alien

• A substance that destroys germs

                           - Antiseptic

• A government carried on through officers

                           - Bureaucracy

• A person who is unable to pay debts

                           - Bankrupt

• A lover of books

                            - Bibliophile

• A bunch of flowers

                             - Bouquet

• A person who breaks into a house 

                             - Burglar

• The study and treatment of the medical condition of the heart

                             - Cardiology

• An expert in any field

                             - Connoisseur

• A list of books 

                             - Catalogue

• One who is more than one hundred years old

                             - Centenarian

• A place with gambling tables

                             - Casino

• A number of stars grouped together

                            - Constellation

• One vowed to unmarried life

                            - Celibated

• One in charge of a museum,an art gallery,etc.

                            - Curator

• Difficult and perplexing situation

                             - Dilemma

• A person who leaves a country permanently and goes to live in another one.

                             - Emigrant

• One who is given to pleasures of eating, drinking etc.

                            - Epicure

• A book containing information on all branches of knowledge

                            - Encyclopedia

• A speech made without preparation

                            - Extempore

• One who believes implicity in fate

                           - Fatalist

• Killing of one's own brother

                           - Fratricide

• A person who is running away or hiding from the police or a dangerous situation

                           - Fugitive

• Deliberate destruction of a race of people

                           - Genocide

• A medicine that kills germs

                             - Germicide

• Without payment

                            - Gratis

• Of animals living in flocks

                             - Gregarious

• Irregular luminous band of stars

                             - Galaxy

• A shed for motor car

                             - Garage

• A government publication relating to order,notification etc.

                             - Gazette

• A long list words with their meaning

                             - Glossary

• A cluster of houses in a village

                            - Hamlet

• One who is sympathetic to mankind

                            - Humanitarian

• An exaggerated statement

                           - Hyperbole

• Murder of a human being

                            - Homicide

• Intense aggression or anger state of antagonism

                            - Hostility

• One who feels sympathetic towards human beings

                             - Humanitarian

• Incapable of being conquered 

                           - Invincible

• One who lives in foreign country 

                          - Immigrant

• Incapable of being seized by attack

                          - Impregnable 

• Breaker of art and literature

                          - Iconoclast

• A handwriting that cannot be read

                          - Illegible      

• A statement which cannot be understood

                           - Incomprehensible

• That which cannot be believed

                            - Incredible

• The act of killing an infant

                            - Infanticide

• Something that is quickly and easily set on fire and burned

                            - Inflammable

• One who compiles a dictionary

                           - Lexicographer

• A medicine that loosens the bowels

                           - Laxative

• Land belonging to a lord of nobleman

                           - Manor

• Dull and uninteresting

                          - Monotonous

• A study of birds

                          - Ornithology

• Study of mountains

                          - Orology

• Government by a few

                          - Oligarchy

• Correct spelling

                          - Orthography

• One who believes in total abolition of war

                          - Pacifist

• Study of fossils

                          - Paleontology

• A supposed cure for all diseases or problems

                           - Panacea

• One who has no money

                           - Pauper

• Belief of god in nature

                         - Pantheism

• A style in which author displays his knowledge

                           - Pedantic 

• One who looks on the dark side of things

                           - Pessimist

• Common place remarks

                          - Platitudes

• One who leads others

                         - Pioneer

• A government by the rich

                         - Plutocracy

• Practice of having several husbands

                          - Polyandry

• Practice of having several wives

                          - Polygamy

• One who pretends skills in medicine and surgery

                          - Quack

• Stanza of four lines

                          - Quatrain

• An imaginary idea of a perfect society

                         - Utopia

• One given to sensual pleasures of the body

                          - Voluptuary

• Gifted with several talents

                           - Versatile

• Intense dislike or fear of foreigners or strangers

                           - Xenophobia

• Sleepy or bored

                           -Yawn

• A person who is extremely enthusiastic about religion politics etc.

                           -Zealot

• Soft gentle breeze

                           -Zephyr

 Plural nouns in English:

1. Mouse - mice
2. Louse - lice
3. Foot - feet
4. Tooth - teeth
5. Goose - geese
6. Louse - lice
7. Ox – oxen
8. Foot – feet
9. Child – children
10. Man – men
11. Woman – women
12. Person - people
13. Criterion  - criteria
14. Bacterium  - bacteria
15. Curriculum - curricula
16. Medium -  media
17. Species - species
18. Stimulus -stimuli
19. Stratum  - strata
20. Swine -swine

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