One Word Substitution ‘P’

List of One Word Substitution

One word substitution asked in various exam specially, in SSC exams. These previous years one word substitution help you in cracking exam.

• Pace– the speed at which somebody/something walks, runs or moves
• Pacifism- the belief that war and violence are always wrong
• Pacifist- a person who believes that war and violent are always wrong
• Padre -father/priest in churches.
• Paediatrician -a doctor who treats children
• Paediatrics– branch of medicine concerned with children and their diseases
• Paedophile- a person who is sexually attracted to children
• Paedophilia -a sexual attraction to children
• Pagan -not acknowledging the god of christianity and Judaism and Islam
• Painter- a person whose job is painting buildings, walls, etc. // an artist who paints pictures
• Palaeography– the study of ancient writing systems
• Palatable -having a pleasant/acceptable taste (food/drink)
• Palaver– a lot of unnecessary activity, excitement/ trouble caused by something that is unimportant
• Panacea -the study of fossils (the remains of animals or plants in rocks) a word/ phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards — madam making a disease or illness less painful or unpleasant without curing it. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress able to be touched or felt something that will solve all the problems of a particular situation
• Pandemonium -a situation in which there is a lot of noise, activity and confusion, because people are angry/frightened
• Pander -gratify an immoral or distasteful desire
• Panegyric -formal praise eulogy
• Panel- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something
• Pang -anquish
• Panic -sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour
• Panjandrum -an important/ influential person
• Panorama -a view of a wide area of land
• Pantheism -the belief that god is present in all natural things
• Pantheon -a temple dedicated to all the gods
• Pantisocracy– a form of utopian social organization in which all are equal in social position and responsibility.
• Pantomime -a performance using gestures and body movements without words
• Pantry -a cupboard/closed/ small room in a house, used for storing food
• Parable- a short story that teaches a spiritual lesson, especially one of those told by Jesus as recorded in the bible
• Paranoia– a mental illness in which a person may wrongly believe that other people are trying to harm him, that he is very important, etc.
• Paraphobia -a fear of other people when there is no evidence or reason for this
• Parasite -a small animal/ plant that lives on or inside another animal/ plant and gets its food from it /a person who always relies on
• Parasitic– living on another animal/plant and getting its food from it
• Parasol -a large umbrella that is used on beaches/outside restaurants to protect people from the hot sun
• Parboil -cook briefly (vegetables)
• Parchment -skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on
• Pardon -the action of forgiving
• Parley– a discussion between enemies or people who disagree in order to try and find a way of solving a problem
• Parochial -having a limited or narrow outlook or scope
• Parody -Produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre)
• Parole -permission that is given to a prisoner to leave prison before the end of his sentence on condition that he behaves well
• Parricide -the crime of killing your father, mother or a close relative
• Parsimony -the fact of being extremely unwilling to spend money
• Partial -showing or feeling too much support for one person/ team/ idea, etc
• Particle -an adv./ a prep. that can combine with a v. to make a phr. v.
• Partisan -an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person/ activity
• Parvenu -a person from a low social or economic position who has suddenly become rich/ powerful
• Passers-By -a person who is going past somebody/ something by chance
• Passive– accepting what happens or what people do without trying to change anything or oppose them
• Pathologist -a physician who practices, evaluates, or supervises diagnostic tests
• Pathology -the scientific study of diseases
• Patience -the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining
• Patient– enduring without protest or complaint
• Patisserie -a shop/store that sells cakes, etc.
• Patriarch– the male head of a family or community
• Patricide the crime of killing your father
• Patrilineal– relationship between father and child that continues in a family with each generation
• Patrimony -property that is given to somebody when his father dies
• Patriot -a person who loves his country and who is ready to defend it against an enemy
• Pauper -a very poor person / one who has no money
• Pedagogue -a teacher Pedagogy The method and practice of teaching
• Pedant- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
• Pedantic -too worried about small details or rules
• Pedestrian– a person walking and not travelling in a vehicle
• Pediatrics -the branch of medicine dealing with children and their diseases.
• Pedometer– an instrument for measuring how far you have walked
• Peignoir -a loose dressing gown for women
• Peninsula– a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
• Pensive -thinking deeply about something because you are sad/worried
• Pentagon- a flat shape with five straight sides and five angles
• Perceptible– great enough for you to notice it
• Perennial- recurring again and again
• Periscope– a device like a long tube, containing mirrors which enable the user to see over the top of something Perishable likely to decay/or go bad quickly
• Perjury– violation of an oath.
• Peroration (rhetoric) -the concluding section of an oration
• Perpetual -continuing for a long period of time without interruption
• Perquisite -fringe benefit /an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment
• Persecute -subject someone to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs
• Perseverance -the quality of continuing to try to achieve a particular aim despite difficulties
• Persistent firm
• Personification -the practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as human in art and literature
• Personnel- a person employed in armed forces
• Perspicacious -acutely insightful and wise
• Pessimist -a person who always expects bad things to happen or something not to be successful
• Pessimistic -expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds
• Pesticider -a chemical used for killing pests, especially insects
• Pestiferous- that which is morally dangerous
• Pestle -a club
• Peter -decrease or fade gradually before coming to an end
• Petrified -taken away power (to think feel act)
• Petrify -to make hard rocklike
• Petty -small and unimportant
• Phagomania –a compulsion to eat.
• Phemophobia– fear of voices.
• Philanderer– a man who has sexual relationships with many different women
• Philanthropist– a rich person who helps the poor and those in need, especially by giving money
• Philanthropy -the practice of helping the poor and those in need, especially by giving money
• Philatelist -a person who collects or studies stamps
• Philately- the collection and study of postage stamps
• Philistine– a person who does not like/understand art, literature, music, etc.
• Philogynist -a person who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity
• Philologist- a person who studies about the development of a language
• Philology -the scientific study of the development of language or of a particular language
• Philosopher -a person who thinks deeply about things
• Philosophy- the study of the nature and meaning of the universe and of the human life
• Phlegmatic- (of a person) having an unemotional and calm disposition.
• Phobia -a strong unreasonable fear/ hatred
• Phobic– having or involving an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
• Phonetics -the study of speech sounds and how they are produced
• Phrenology– study of the shape and size of the cranium.
• Physicality– preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
• Physician -a doctor, who is a specialist in general medicine and not surgery
• Physiology– the study of the normal functions of living things
• Physiotherapy-the treatment of disease/injury/weakness in the joints or muscles by exercises, massage and the use of light and heat
• Pianist -a person who plays the piano
• Pickpocket -a person who steals money, etc. from other people’s pockets, especially in crowded places
• Pictography -the use of pictorial symbols to communicate
• Piety– righteousness by virtue of being pious
• Pilferage -the act of stealing small amounts or small articles
• Pillage -the act of stealing valuable things from a place
• Pioneer -a person who is the first to study and develop a particular area of knowledge, culture, etc. that other people then continue to develop
• Pious -dutiful to parents devoted to religion
• Pique- hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
• Piracy -the crime of attacking ships at sea in order to steal from them // the act of making illegal copies of DVD’s, computer programs, books, etc. in order to sell them
• Piscivore -a fish-eating animal.
• Piscivorous -one who lives on fish
• Pithy -concise and full of meaning
• Pittance -a very small amount of money that somebody receives, that is hardly enough to live on
• Pity– a feeling of sympathy and sadness caused by the suffering and troubles of others
• Placate -make someone less angry or hostile
• Place -the official home of a king, queen, president, etc.
• Placid -(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
• Plagiarise– to copy another person’s ideas, words/work and pretend that they are your own
• Plagiarism-an act of copying another person’s ideas, words or work and pretend that they are your own
• Plagiarist -someone who uses another person’s words/ ideas as if they were his own Plaintiff a person who makes a formal complaint against somebody in court
• Plaintive -Sounding sad and mournful
• Plan -something that you intend to do/ achieve
• Platonic– friendly but not involving sex
• Platonism -the ideas of the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato and those who followed him
• Plaudit -enthusiastic approval
• Plebiscite– a decision made by public voting.
• Pledge– a solemn promise or undertaking
• Pliant– Easily influenced or directed
• Plunder- to steal things from a place, especially using force during a time of war
• Plunge -move quickly suddenly and with force
• Pluralism-the existence of many different groups of people in one society
• Plutocracy– government by the richest people of a country
• Pneumonia -a serious illness affecting one/both lungs that makes breathing difficult
• Poacher -a person who illegally hunts birds, animals or fish on somebody else’s property
• Podiatrist -a person whose job is the care and treatment of people’s feet
• Podium -a small platform that a person stands on, while giving a speech/conducting an orchestra, etc.
• Polarism– the theory/ act of dividing or separating into two groups with opposite opinions
• Politician -a person connected with politics.
• Polyandry– the custom of having more than one husband at the same time
• Polycarp– a Christian martyr and bishop of smyma
• Polygamist -a person having more than one wife at the same time
• Polygamy-– the custom of having more than one wife at the same time
• Polyglot a person who knows, uses/writes in more than one language
• Polygon-a flat shape with at least three straight sides and three angles, and usually five or more
• Polygonum- diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions
• Polygyny– having more than one wife at a time
• Polymath -a person who knows a lot about many different subjects
• Polytheism -belief that there is more than one god
• Polytheist -one who believes in a plurality of gods Positivist a person who believes in a system of philosophy based on things that can be seen/proved, rather than on ideas
• Post Mortem– a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how he died
• Posthumous -occurring or coming into existence after a person’s death
• Postmortem -a medical examination of a dead body
• Postnatal -occurring immediately after birth
• Postscript -a note appended to a letter after the signature
• Pragmatism– thinking about solving problems in a practical and sensible way rather than by having fixed ideas and theories
• Pragmatist -one who values practicality
• Predator- any animal that lives by preying on other animals
• Predecessor– something that precedes and indicates the approach of something/someone
• Procrastination -put off for a future time
• Prodigal– wasteful reckless with money
• Prophecy– a statement that something will happen in the future
• Proselyte– a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
• Protocol- a system of fixed rules and formal behaviour used at official meetings
• Prototype -the first design of something from which other forms are copied or developed
• Providential– resulting from divine providence
• Provincial -connected with one of the large areas that the same countries are divided into, with its own local government
• Provincialism -concern for one’s own area or region at the expense of national or supranational unity
• Provocateur- a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
• Prowler-a person who moves stealthily about or loiters near a place with a view to committing a crime
• Prudent -careful and sensible
• Psalm– a song/poem/ prayer that praises god, especially one in the bible
• Psephologist a person (sociologist) who studies election trends
• Psephology-the study of how people vote in elections
• Pseudonym– a fictitious name used instead of his real names
• Psychic -a person sensitive to things beyond the natural range of understanding
• Psychologist- a scientist trained in psychology
• Psychology -the scientific study of the mind and how it influences behaviour
• Psychosis -a serious mental illness that affects the whole personality
• Psychotherapy -the treatment of mental illness by discussing somebody’s problems with him rather than by giving him drugs
• Puerile– suitable for a child rather than an adult
• Puerility -a property characteristic of a child
• Pulpit -a small platform in a church that is like a box and is high above the ground, where a priest, etc. stands to speak to the people
• Pun– the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words that have different meanings but sound the same
• Punctual -happening or doing at the arranged/ correct time
• Puncture– the act of puncturing or perforating
• Punter -A person who gambles, places a bet, or makes a risky investment
• Purgation -the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
• Purgative -a substance/ medicine that causes your bowels to empty
• Purge– an act of removing by cleansing
• Purloin -to steal something or use it without permission
• Putrefy– decay of organic matter producing a fetid smell
• Pyre -a large pile of wood on which a dead body is placed and burned in a funeral ceremony
• Pyromania– an obsessive desire to set fire to things
• Pyrophobia- fear of fire

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