ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION ‘S’ For SSC and other competitive exams.

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

List One Word Substitution

• Sabotage -the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transport, machines, etc.
• Sacrament– a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive
• Sacrilege -an act of treating a holy thing or place without respect
• Sadist -a person who gets pleasure from hurting other people
• Sadistic -deriving pleasure from inflicting pain
• Sagacious– having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
• Sagacity– the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
• Sage– a very wise person
• Sallow- unhealthy looking
• Salvo– the act of firing several guns/at the same time to mark an occasion
• Samaritan -a person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it
• Sanatorium– a place like a hospital where patients who have a lasting illness/who are getting better after an illness are treated
• Sanction -approval (by authority) penalty
• Sanctity -the state of being very important and worth protecting
• Sanctuary -an area where wild birds/animals are protected and encouraged to breed
• Sangfroid– the ability to remain calm in a difficult/ dangerous situation
• Sanguine– optimistic in an apparently difficult situation
• Sanity -health of mind soundness of judgement
• Sarcasm– the use of irony to mock or convey contempt
• Sarcastic -expressing or expressive of ridicule that hurts
• Satiety -the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
• Satire– a way of criticizing a person, an idea or an institution in which you use humour to show his/its faults/ weaknesses
• Satirist -a person who criticizes a person, an idea or an institution in which you use humour to show his faults or weaknesses.
• Saute -fry briefly over high heat
• Savage- aggressive and violent // causing great harm
• Savour -the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
• Savouring -taste good food or drink and enjoy it to the full
• Savoury -having a pleasant taste/smell
• Scabbard -a sheath for the blade of a sword
• Scaffold -a platform used while executing criminals by cutting off their heads or hanging them from a rope
• Scandal -tale that brings bad reputation to somebody
• Scant -barely sufficient or adequate
• Scapegoat -a person who is blamed for the wrong doings of others
• Scarcity- the state of being in short supply.
• Scare– a sudden feeling of fear
• Scatter– the act of scattering
• Scavenge -search for and collect anything usable from discarded waste
• Sceptic– someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
• Sceptical -having doubts that a claim or statement is true or that something will happen
• Scepticism -an attitude of doubting that claims/statements that are true and that something will happen
• Sceptre -an ornamented staff carried by rulers on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of sovereignty
• Scheming -concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
• Scintillating -very clever, amusing and interesting
• Scourge-a person who inspires fear/dread
• Scrabble– a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle
• Screech -a high
• Scrimp– to spend very little money on the things that you need to live, so that you may save it to spend on something else
• Scrupulous– having scruples
• Scrutinize -examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
• Scullery– a small room next to the kitchen in an old house, originally used for washing dishes, etc.
• Sculptor -a person who makes sculptures
• Sculpture -a work of art that is a solid figure or object made by carving/shaping wood, stone, clay, metal, etc.
• Scurrilous– making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation / severely abusive writing in journals
• Seasoned -a person having a lot of experience of a particular activity.
• Secretary -a desk used for writing
• Secular– living among ordinary people rather than in a religious community /Government not connected with religious or spiritual matters
• Sedative -a drug that makes somebody go to sleep/makes him feel calm and relaxed
• Sedition– the use of words/ actions that are intended to encourage people to oppose a government
• Seditious– arousing to action/rebellion
• Seer -a person who claims that he can see what is going to happen in the future
• Seismology– the scientific study of earthquakes
• Sensible- able to make good judgements
• Sentinel – a person employed to watch for something to happen
• Sericulture – raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
• Sermon – reproving a person for his faults
• Seroculture – a bacterial culture on blood serum (watery fluid of the blood)
• Sewer – an underground pipe that is used for carrying, waste from houses, factories, etc.
• Sexagenarian – a person between the ages of 60 and 69
• Shadow – shade within clear boundaries Shanty small crude shelter used as a dwelling
• Sheath – cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
• Shelter – A place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger
• Shoal – a large number of fish swimming together as a group
• Sinecure – a job that you are paid for even though it involves little/no work
• Slanderer – one who attacks the reputation of another by speaking falsely about him
• Somnambulist – someone who walks about in sleep
• Somniloquism – talking in sleep
• Somniloquist – someone who talks while asleep
• Sonnet – a pom that has 14 lines, each containing 10 syllables, and a fixed pattern of rhyme
• Soporific – a drug making you want to go to sleep
• Soprano – a singing voice with the highest range for a woman or boy
• Sororicide – the murder of one’s sister
• Souvenir – a thing that you buy and/ or keep to remind yourself of a place, an occasion or a holiday/vacation
• Specimen – a small amount of something that shows what the rest of it is like
• Spectacular – characteristic of spectacles or drama
• Spinster – an old unmarried woman
• Splurge – an act of spending a lot of money on something that you do not really need
• Spontaneous – doing things without planning / done naturally, without being forced or practised
• Sporadic – happening only occasionally or at intervals that are not regular
• Stervedore – one who loads and uploads ships
• Stingy – not generous, especially with money
• Stir – to try to cause trouble
• Stoic – a person who is able to suffer pain/ trouble without complaining/showing what they are feeling
• Stowaway -a person who hides in a ship/plane before it leaves, in order to travel without paying or being seen
• Stratocracy -a government by the military class
• Stride -walk with long steps
• Strife– angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues
• Stroll -a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
• Stroller -a person who is enjoying a slow relaxed walk
• Stupendous– extremely large or impressive
• Sty- a pen for swine
• Submerge -put under water liquid sink out of sight
• Subservient– too willing to obey other people
• Subterfuge- a secret, usually dishonest, way of behaving
• Subterranean– lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
• Subtle– faint and difficult to analyze
• Sullen -darkened by clouds
• Sumptuary– regulating/ controlling expenditure/ personal behaviour
• Sundry -various miscellaneous separate
• Superfluous– more then is needed or wanted
• Supersonics– of, being, or relating to speeds from one to five times the speed of sound in air (ultrasonic)
• Superstition– the belief that particular events happen in a way that cannot be explained by reason/ science
• Supine- lying on the back slow to act passive
• Supplicant– a person who asks , especially god or a powerful person for something in a humble way
• Supplicate -ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly
• Supposition– an idea that you think is true although you may not be able to prove it
• Surfeit -satiate feed to fullness or to excess
• Surge -a sudden or abrupt strong increase
• Surgery -medical treatment of injuries or diseases that involves cutting, opening a person’s body and often removing or replacing some parts
• Surreptitious -Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
• Suspicious -feeling that somebody has done something wrong / illegal or dishonest, without having any proof
• Swamps -an area of ground that is very wet or covered with water and in which plants, trees, etc. are growing
• Swan Song -a person’s last performance
• Swarm -a large group of insects (bees)
• Swindler -a person who cheats somebody in order to get something from them
• Sycophant– a person who praises important or powerful people too much and in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get something from them
• Syllable– any of the units into which a word is divided, containing a vowel sound and usually one/more consonants
• Syllogism– a way of arguing in which two statements are used for proving that a third statement is true
• Symmetry -the quality of being very similar and equal
• Synagogue– a building where the Jews meet for religious worship and teaching

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