Common one word substitutions :
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- Depreciate
decline in value
- Deteriorate
become worse or disintegrate
- Eccentric
conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
- Ecology
the environment as it relates to living organisms
- Fastidious
giving careful attention to detail
- Incredible
beyond belief or understanding
- Indispensable
essential
- Abolish
do away with
- Accelerate
move faster
- Accountable
responsible for one’s actions
- Amateur
someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
- Ambivalent
uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
- Amnesia
partial or total loss of memory
- Anonymous
having no known name or identity or known source
- Appreciate
be fully aware of; realize fully
- Atheist
someone who denies the existence of god
- Audience
a gathering of spectators or listeners at a performance
- Auditor
a qualified accountant who inspects accounting records
- Autobiography
a book or account of your own life
- Bilingual
using or knowing two languages
- Biography
an account of the series of events making up a person’s life
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Colleague
an associate that one works with - Congenital
present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
- Contemporaries
all the people living at the same time or of the same age
- Contemporary
occurring in the same period of time
- Cosmopolitan
composed of people from many parts of the world
- Delegate
a person appointed or elected to represent others
- Democracy
the orientation of those who favor government by the people
- Tie
fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cordDrawn
- Edible
suitable for use as food
- Eligible
qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
- Emphasize
stress or single out as important
- Epidemic
a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
- Equilibrium
a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
- Eradicate
destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- Etiquette
rules governing socially acceptable behavior
- Glutton
a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
- Gregarious
temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
- Gullible
naive and easily deceived or tricked
- Illegal
prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
- Illegible
unable to be read
- Illicit
contrary to accepted morality or convention
- Illiterate
not able to read or write
- Immigrant
a person who comes to a country in order to settle there
- Inaudible
impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear
- Inevitable
incapable of being avoided or prevented
- Inflammable
easily ignited
- Insatiable
impossible to satisfy
- Insoluble
incapable of being dissolved
- Invincible
incapable of being overcome or subdued
- Invisible
impossible or nearly impossible to see
- Invulnerable
immune to attack; impregnable
- Invincible
incapable of being overcome or subdued
- Invisible
impossible or nearly impossible to see
- Invulnerable
immune to attack; impregnable
- Irrelevant
having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
- Irritable
easily annoyed
- Legal
established by or founded upon law or official rules
- Manuscript
the form of a literary work submitted for publication
- Medieval
relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
- Depreciate
- Nostalgia
longing for something past
- Notorious
known widely and usually unfavorably
- Novice
someone new to a field or activity
- Obsolete
no longer in use
- Opaque
not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
- Optimist
a person disposed to take a favorable view of things
- Parasite
an animal or plant that lives in or on a host
- Pauper
a person who is very poor
- Pedestrian
a person who travels by foot
- Pessimist
a person who expects the worst
- Philanthropist
someone who makes charitable donations
- Potable
suitable for drinking
- Predator
any animal that lives by preying on other animals
- Ventriloquist
a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
- Veteran
a person who has served in the armed forces
- Volunteer
a person who performs work done by choice
- Aggravate
make worse
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Chauffeurdrive someone in a vehicle