Tuesday, 17 November 2015


                 One word substitution--4
  •  One who collects coins---Numismatist
  • Murdering an infant--- Infanticide
  • Murdering of the King--Regicide
  • One who compiles dictionaries- Lexicographer ( Lexicon means a dictionary)
  • One who does not take definite stand-- Evasive ( Nowadays most people are evasive)
  • One who eats everything--Omnivorous
  • One who eats human flesh-- Cannibals. ( It is widely believed that some cannibal tribes still live in Africa)
  • One who is shy and keeps within oneself-Introvert ( The opposite is an extrovert)
  • One who is neither intelligent nor dull-- Mediocre
  • One who comes from a foreign country -- Alien ( In modern jargon an alien is a person who comes from the outer space)
  • A person who loves talking and talks incessantly- Garrulous
  • A person who enjoys unlimited power over everything- Omnipotent ( Only God is omnipotent)
  • A person who is present everywhere and in everything all the time- Omnipresent. ( Again it is God and only God who is omnipresent)
  •  One who is very careful and particular in every respect-- Meticulous
  • One who is very well versed in any subject--Connoisser
  • One who lends money at high rates.. Usurer 
  • One who loves all and sundry and tries to help the people--Philanthropist
  • One who loves books --Biblophile
  • One who enters into into prohibited places-- Trespasser
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In English language only four parts of speech -- NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE and ADVERB-- occupy very important positions. They are the main words or members of the word family. We have seen that GERUND and PARTICIPLES play an important role. They are actually a combination of two parts of speech. Gerund is a verbal noun and Participle is a verbal Adjective. In this category we can add the PAST PARTICIPLE form of the verb because we can use a majority of them as an adjective. Examples: 1. a BROKEN glass 2. a LOST opportunity. 3. a WOUNDED soldier 4. a FINISHED product 5. a FORGOTTEN hero. etc.
Find as many such participial adjectives and use them in your writing. We always do that without being conscious of their identity. These participial adjectives are different from the participles in the sense that these words are used in the passive voice and in all types of perfect tenses. The root is same. We get them from verbs.
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