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)
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