One Word Substitution Questions for Competitive Exams

Meditation: the action or practice of meditating.
Retrospection: the action of looking back on or reviewing past events or situations, especially those in one’s own life.
Reflection: the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it.
Introspection: the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.

Autobiography: an account of a person’s life written by that person.
Biography: an account of someone’s life written by someone else.
Bibliography: a list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an appendix.
Memoir: a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge.

Suicide: the action of killing oneself intentionally.
Euphoria: a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
Gallows: a structure, typically of two uprights and a crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals.
Euthanasia: the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.

Align: place or arrange (things) in a straight line.
Collocate: place side by side or in a particular relation.
Deploy: move (troops or equipment) into position for military action.
Disperse: distribute or spread over a wide area.

Serenade: a piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his beloved.
Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Lyric: (of poetry) expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
Primo: the leading or upper part in a duet.

Apathy: the quality of being well meaning; kindness.
Benevolence: intense dislike; hate.
Antipathy: a deep-seated feeling of aversion.
Goodwill: friendly, helpful, or cooperative feelings or attitude.

Bungalow: a low house having only one storey or, in some cases, upper rooms set in the roof, typically with dormer windows.
Cottage: a small house, typically one in the country.
Flat: having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations.
Castle: a large building, typically of the medieval period, fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat.

Monarchy: a form of government with a monarch at the head.
Autocracy: a system of government by one person with absolute power.
Plutocracy: government by the wealthy.
Aristocracy: a form of government in which power is held by the nobility.

Minaret: a slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.
Chapel: a small building or room used for Christian worship in a school, prison, hospital, or large private house.
Belfry: the part of a bell tower or steeple in which bells are housed.
Spire: a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower.

Chasm: a deep fissure in the earth’s surface.
Aperture: an opening, hole, or gap.
Ditch: a narrow channel dug at the side of a road or field, to hold or carry away water.
Pit: a coal mine.