Diminutive

Certain nouns are formed from other nouns to express smallest, affection or contempt, such which are called diminutive

Ankle:                          Anklet

Arm:                            Armlet

Baron:                         Baronet

Book:                           Booklet

Brook:                         Brooklet

Bull:                             Bullock

Cat:                              Kitten

Crown:                         Coronet

Dame:                          Damsel

Dear:                            Darling

Duck:                            Duckling

Eagle:                           Eaglet

Eye:                              Eyelet

Hill:                               Hillock

Lamb:                          Lambkin

Lance:                          Lancet

Leaf:                             Leaflet

Man:                             Manikin

Nest:                             Nestling

Owl:                              Owlet

Part:                             Particle

Poet:                            Poetaster

Ring:                             Ringlet

River:                           Rivulet

Shad:                            Shadow

Stream:                        Streamlet

Tower:                          Turret

Weak:                           Weakling

Single words used in place of phrases

Single words used in place of phrases:

1.         He is liked by the people. (Popular)

2.         The council was all of one mind. (Unanimous)

3.         The two poets referred to were men who lived at the same time. (Contemporaries)

4.         The applicant is one who, according to the rules, cannot be elected. (Ineligible)

5.         A woman who wrote under the assumed name of the George Eliot. (Pseudonym)

6.         Certain words used by Shakespeare are now no longer in use. (Obsolete)

7.         That author’s style is too full of words. (Verbose)

8.         A woman is like a man. (manners) (Effeminate)

9.         He proposes plans that cannot be put into practice. (Impracticable)

10.     That woman has a son who was born after the death of his father. (Posthumous)

11.     The patient is gradually recovering health.(Convalescent)

12.     The habit of walking in sleep. (Somnambulism)

13. A post which carries good salary for little or no work. (Sinecure)