One Word Substitution : Be succinct while speaking or writing

One Word Substitution

Amount paid to a man for his labor	Remuneration
A post without pay	Honorary
A job without any much work but high pay	Sinecure
A diplomatic representative in another country	Ambassador
A person who has a bad reputation	Notorious
A person who looks at the dark side of things	Pessimist
A person who looks at the bright side of things	Optimist
A place where bees are kept	Apiary
A place where birds are kept	Aviary
A place where clothes are kept	Wardrobe
A period of fifteen days	Fortnight
A period of ten years	Decade
An events which happens every year	Annual
An events which happens once in two years	Biennial
An events which happens once in three years	Triennial
An events which happens once in four years	Quadrennial
An events which happens once in five years	Quinquennial
An events which happens once in six years	Sexennial
An events which happens once in seven years	Septennial
An events which happens once in eight years	Octennial
An events which happens once in ten years	Decennial
An events which happens once in hundred years	Centenary
A period of one thousand years	Millennium
Large scale departure of many people	Exodus
A dog used for hunting	Hound
A place where coins are made	Mint
A drama to be performed by a single man	Monologue
A notice of the death of a person	Obituary
Remedy for all diseases	Panacea
A set of instrument put together for a purpose	Apparatus
A person who is great admirer of art	Dilettante
A lover of poetry and art	Philomuse
A lover of learning	Philomath
A lover of woman	Philogymist
The word whose meaning is difficult to understand	Abstruse
A word for word	Verbatim
Use of mild words in place of words required by truth	Euphemism
Copy or stealing excerpts from other’s writing	Plagiarism
Things to be corrected in a printed book or magazine etc.	Corrigendum
Words or phrases inscribed on a person’s tomb	Epitaph
Remedy for all diseases	Panacea
A medicine to counteract the effect of a poison	Antidote
A substance which prevents wound from germs	Antiseptic
A substance which is used to kill a germ	Germicide
A substance which is used to kill an insect	Insecticide
A substance which is used to kill a pest	Pesticide
A substance which is used to kill a weed	Weedicide

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Noun : Gender

Noun: Number

Noun :- A Noun is the name of a person, place, animal, thing, quality, action, feeling etc.

A Noun can be One or More than one in number. So, there are two numbers in English language.

1. Singular Number
2. Plural Number

Singular Number: A Noun that denotes one person, place or a thing – is said to be in
                              Singular number.

Plural Number:   A Noun that denotes more than person, place or a thing – is said to be
                             in Plural number.

Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Book	Books	Watch	Watches
Door	Doors	Match	Matches
Law	Laws	Box	Boxes
Hero	Heroes	Key	Keys
Mango	Mangoes	Boy	Boys
Baby	Babies	Child	Children
City	Cities	Man	Men
Brother-in-law	Brothers-in-law	Father-in-law	Fathers-in-law

Plural can be made in several ways :-

• To make a Singular noun Plural we, generally, add ‘s’ to the Singular noun.
• By adding ‘es’ to the Singular noun of the nouns ending in ‘ch’, ‘s’, ‘sh’, ‘ss’, ‘x’.
• To make singular nouns that end with the letter ‘f’, ‘fe’ plural we change the ‘f’ or ‘fe’ to ‘ves’.
• To make singular nouns that end with the letter ‘y’ plural we change the ‘y’ to ‘-ies’.
• Compound nouns formed their plural by changing its key word. Some plural are irregular.
• Some nouns do not change in the plural.

Noun: Gender

Gender :- The word – gender- refer to sex. Normally, there are two sexes – male sex
                and female sex.

 

Kinds of Gender

There are four kinds of Gender.

Masculine Gender  : the male sex                   : Man, Boy, King, Father, Sir etc.
Feminine Gender   : the female sex                 : Woman, Girl, Mother, Madam etc.
Common Gender   : either of the two sexes    : Child, Student, Teacher, etc.
Neuter Gender      : neither of the two sexes  : Book, Chair, Pen, Computer etc.


Definition

Gender	Definition
Masculine Gender	Words that stand for males are masculine gender.
Feminine Gender	Words that stand for females are feminine gender.
Common Gender	Nouns that may refer to either the male or female gender are of the common gender.
Neuter Gender	Words that stand for things without life are called neuter gender.

Part of Speech : Noun

Noun: A Noun is the name of a person, place, animal or thing.

• ·         Shri Rajendra Prasad was the first president of India. 
• ·         New Delhi is a very large city. 
• ·         Cow lives on grass. 
• ·         Taj Mahal is famous for its beauty and elegance. 
  
  
  In the above sentences, Shri Rajendra Prasad, President, India, New Delhi, City, Cow, Grass, Taj Mahal, Beauty and Elegance are Noun words. 
  Kinds of Noun
  There are five kinds of Noun.
  1.      Proper Noun      :- Abhay, Lucknow, Dubai, Mt. Everest, Kaveri etc.  
  2.      Common Noun  :- Boy, City, Class, Mountain, River, Book, Girl, etc.
  3.      Collective Noun :- Class, Crew, Team, Jury, Committee, Fleet, etc.
  4.      Material Noun   :-  Silk, Wool, Wood, Gold, Paper, Copper, Clay etc.
  5.      Abstract Noun   :- Intelligence, Joy, Faith, Wisdom, Innocence etc.
  
  
  Definition

  Noun	Definition
  Proper Noun	Proper Noun is the name of particular person, place or things.
  Common Noun	Common Noun is the names of any class of person, place or things.
  Collective Noun	Collective Noun stands for a collection of persons or things, considered as one complete whole.
  Material Noun	Material Noun stands for the matter or substance of which things are made.
  Abstract Noun	Abstract Nouns refer to qualities, feelings or idea which cannot be seen or touched.

  
  
  Example of each noun

  Noun	Sentence
  Proper	Dehradun is a beautiful place.	Bible is a sacred book.
  Common	Abhishek lives in a big city.	The girl was reading a book.
  Collective	Our team won the football match.	The jury gave its verdict.
  Material	This chair is made of wood.	Her necklace is made of gold.
  Abstract	Education brings you success in life.	He loves the innocence of children.

  
  
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