Thursday 24 July 2014

One Word Substitution : Set 38


Short saying expressing a general truth
Maxim/proverb/dictum/adage
Smash to pieces
Shatter
Something that is detested
Anathema
Something  which religion or custom regards as forbidden
Taboo
State of unconscious
Narcosis
Sticking together
Coherent
Story told to illustrate a moral or spiritual truth
Didactic
Stroke of good luck
Fluke
Study of literature dealing with lives of saints
Hagiology
Style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge
Ornate
Substance used in place of sugar
Saccharin
Suffering from bodily or mental weakness because old age
Senile
Suggest in addition to the fundamental meaning
Connote
Suggest indirectly
Insinuate
Suggesting absence of thought or intellect
vacuous
System of religious worship
Cult
That cannot be erased or removed
Indelible
That cannot be weighed
Imponderable
That easily changes into gas or vapour
Volatile
That which can lessen the severity of (pain , disease)
Palliative

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