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📚 One Word Substitution Practice
Choose an answer, then open the short learning card. Learn important one-word terms, their meanings, usage, and quick memory clues without losing practice rhythm.
Q1. To renounce a high position of authority control
Abdicate
Abdicate means to give up or renounce a high office or position of authority.
Memory tip: Think of giving up a throne as an "ab" (away) action—abdicate means to give away your position.
The king decided to abdicate the throne.
Q2. An event that causes great harm or damage.
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Q3. One who scarifies his life for a cause.
Martyr
A martyr is someone who sacrifices their life for a cause or belief.
Think: martyr = someone who dies for a belief.
He is honored as a martyr for his brave actions.
Q4. To take secretly in small quantities
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Q5. To take secretly in small quantities
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Q6. To accustom oneself to a foreign climate
Acclimatise
To acclimatise means to adapt to a new climate or environment gradually.
Think: "ACClimatise" -> climate.
It took weeks to acclimatise to the hot weather.
Q7. To scold or rebuke somebody
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Q8. Excessive similarity or resemblance with anything or anyone
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Q9. One who copies from others writers
Plagiarist is a person who uses another person's ideas or work and pretends that it is their own
Q10. Walk in a slow relaxed way
saunter
Walking in a slow, relaxed way is called sauntering.
Remember: slow and relaxed = saunter.
They decided to saunter down the street.