This is the set-3 of our upcoming posts of one-word substitution.Stay in touch for the next update.
- To lay special stress on: Emphasize
- A state of perfect balance: Equilibrium
- To root out an evil, disease: Eradicate
- One who is fond of sensuous pleasures: Epicure
- One who is quite like a woman: Effeminate
- One who has strange habits: Eccentric
- A study of races: Ethnology
- A study of derivation of words: Etymology
- To free somebody from all blame: Exonerate
- Words written on the tomb of a person: Epitaph
- A speech delivered without any previous preparation: Extempore or Impromptuc
- Misappropriation of money: Embezzlement
- A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion: Fanatic
- An exact copy: Facsimile
- One who is not easily pleased: Fastidious
- One who thinks only of welfare of women: Feminist
- One who believes in fate: Fatalist
- Murder of an brother: Fratricide
- One who eats too much: Glutton
- A medicine that kills germs: Germicide
- One who is easily deceived: Gullible
- Assembly or parliament in which no party has got clear majority: Hung
- Work for which no salary is paid: Honorary
- One who feels sympathetic towards human beings: Humanitarian
- One who pretends to be what he is not: Hypocrite
- Murder of a human being: Homicide
- A grass eating animal: Herbivorous
- That which cannot be read: Illegible
- A trade that is prohibited by law: Illicit
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