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One word substitutes for exams
Easily tricked: gullible
Willing to believe; not suspicious or skeptical: credulous
Inexperienced, unsophisticated: naive
Frank; not given to concealment: ingenuous
Within the city: intraurban
Anger, hatred, hostility: animus
Sophistication, courtesy, polish: urbanity
Referring to the countryside: rural
Word with negative or derogatory connotation: pejorative
To spend time in the country: rusticate
Residential areas near big cities: suburbia
Residential areas far from big cities: exurbia
Unsophisticated, uncultured: rustic
Keenness of mind: perspicacity
To interrupt suddenly: punctuate
Piercing in taste, smell, wit etc: pungent
Clearness of style or language: perspicuity
A look forward: prospect
Act or process of looking inwards: introspection
Carefully looking around: circumspect
Looked forward to: prospective
Big-heartedness; quality of forgiving easily: magnanimity
Petty-mindedness: pusillanimity
All being of one mind: unanimity
Calmness, composure: equanimity
Anger, hostility, hatred, resentment: animosity
Ability either to do many different things well, or to function successfully in many areas: versatility
Bearing of pain without complaint: stoicism
Great courage, fearlessness: intrepidity
Fear and trembling: trepidation
A sparkling with wit or cleverness: scintillation
Mother ruler of a family, tribe or nation: matriarch
A literary work or an event that follows another: sequel
Poetic word for sorrow: dolour
Burial ceremonies: obsequies
Horseman: equestrian
Relating to money: pecuniary
Exaggeratedly sad: doleful
Parade of mounted riders: cavalcade
Unmindful of another’s feelings: cavalier
Mounted soldiers: cavalry
Expression of sympathy: condolence
Gallantry to women: chivalry
Excessively polite and fawning: obsequious
Noisily troublesome: obstreperous
Courteous and attentive to women: chivalrous
Complaining, nagging: querulous
Haughtily disdainful: supercilious
Gaunt, corpselike: cadaverous
Highhanded: cavalier
Moral decay: decadence
Expression of sympathy: condolence
Courtesy to women: chivalry
Tending to drink a lot: bibulous
Relating to money: pecuniary
To give in; to stop resisting: capitulate
Working together for greater effect: synergy
To behead: decapitate
Harmless: innocuous
A feeling of well-being, both physical and emotional: euphoria
Feeling contradictory ways at the same time: ambivalent
Killing of masses of people: genocide
To spread slander about: malign
Economical in speech: laconic
Inheritance from one’s father: patrimony
Belief in many gods: polytheism
A person aggressively fighting for a cause: militant
In good faith: bona fide
Babbling ceaselessly about trivia: garrulous
To rob of life or vigour: devitalize
Scrupulously careful in the observance of proper procedure: punctilious
Secret or concealed: clandestine
Acute feeling of homesickness: nostalgia
Like a lion in appearance or temperament: leonine
Like a dog: canine
Like a cat: feline
Like a pig: porcine
Foxlike in appearance or temperament: vulpine
Like a wolf: lupine
Like a horse: equine
A riotous merrymaking or festivities: carnival
