One Word Substitution

PHRASE

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One who is not sure about God’s existence

Agnostic

A person who deliberately sets fire to a building

Arsonist

One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession

Amateur

One who can use either hand with ease

Ambidextrous

One who makes an official examination of accounts

Auditor

A person who believes in or tries to bring about a state of lawlessness

Anarchist

A person who has changed his faith

Apostate

One who does not believe in the existence of God

Atheist

A person appointed two parties to solve a dispute

Arbitrator

One who leads an austere life

Ascetic

One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession

Amateur

One who can either hand with ease

Ambidextrous

An unconventional style of living

Bohemian

One who is bad in spellings

Cacographer

One who feeds on human flesh

Cannibal

A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism

Chauvinist

A critical judge of any art and craft

Connoisseur

Persons living at the same time

Contemporaries

One who is recovering health after illness

Convalescent

A girl/woman who flirts with man

Coquette

A person who regards the whole world as his country

Cosmopolitan

One who is a centre of attraction

Cynosure

One who sneers at the beliefs of others

Cynic

A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people

Demagogue

A person having a sophisticated charm

Debonair

A leader who sways his followers his oratory

Demagogue

A dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature

Dilettante

One who is for pleasure of eating and drinking

Epicure

One who often talks of his achievements

Egotist

Someone who leaves one country to settle in another

Emigrant

A man who is womanish in his habits

Effeminate

One hard to please (very selective in his habits)

Fastidious

One who runs away from justice

Fugitive

One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters

Fanatic

One who believes in fate

Fatalist

A lover of good food

Gourmand

Conferred as an honour

Honorary

A person who acts against religion

Heretic

A person of intellectual or erudite tastes

Highbrow

A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments

Hypochondriac

A person who is controlled wife

Henpeck

One who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

Indefatigable

Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions

Iconoclast

One who does not express himself freely

Introvert

Who behaves without moral principles

Immoral

A person who is incapable of being tampered with

Impregnable

One who is unable to pay his debts

Insolvent

A person who is mentally ill

Lunatic

A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society

Misanthrope

A person who primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics

Mercenary

Someone in love with himself

Narcissist

One who collect coins as hob

Numismatist

A person who likes or admires women

Philogynist

A lover of mankind

Philanthropist

A person who speaks more than one language

Polyglot

One who lives in solitude

Recluse

Someone who walks in sleep

Somnambulist

A person who is indifferent to the pains and pleasures of life

Stoic

A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman

Termagant

A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife

Uxorious

One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field

Virtuoso

The medieval forerunner of chemistry

Alchemy

A person who presents a radio/television programme

Anchor

One who studies the evolution of mankind

Anthropologist

A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft

Astronaut

The scientific study of the physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance of plants

Botany

A person who draws or produces maps

Cartographer

A person who writes beautiful writing

Calligrapher

A person who composes the sequence of steps and moves for a performance of dance

Choreographer

A person employed to drive a private or hired car

Chauffeur

A person who introduces the performers or contestants in a variety show

Compere

A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection

Curator

The branch of biology concerned with cyclical physiological phenomena

Chronobiology

A secret or disguised way of writing

Cypher

The study of statistics

Demography

The use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas

Dactylology

A person who sells and arranges cut flowers

Florist

A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor

Genealogy

The therapeutic use of sunlight

Heliotherapy

The art or practice of garden cultivation and management

Horticulture

One who supervises in the examination hall

Invigilator

The theory or philosophy of law

Jurisprudence

A person who compiles dictionaries

Lexicographer

The scientific study of the structure and diseases of teeth

Odontology

One who presents a radio programme

Radio Jockey

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

Rhetoric

The branch of science concerned with the origin, structure, and composition of rocks

Petrology

One who study the elections and trends in voting

Psephologist

An artist who makes sculptures.

Sculptor

The scientific study of the behaviour, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals

Zoology