(GK) General English - 3

(GK) General English Part - 3

One-words

51. Person who loves or collects books
Bibliophile

52. Person having uncontrollable urge to set fire to things
Pyromaniac

53. Somebody who has an irresistible urge to steal, especially when there is no economic necessity
Kleptomaniac

54. Person who achieves pleasure in suffering pain, humiliation and the acceptance of physical and verbal abuse
Masochist

55. The gaining of sexual pleasure by causing physical or mental pain to other people.
Sadist

56. Somebody who chooses a plain and simple life of self-denial
Ascetic

57. A person who always expects the worst to happen in every situation and see the worst in all things
Pessimist

58. Person who tends to feel hopeful and positive about future outcomes; Person who habitually looks at the bright side of the things.
Optimist

59. Person who hates marriage
Misogamist

60. Person who hates women
Misogynist

61. Person who hates humankind in general, or dislikes and distrusts other people and tries to avoid their company
Misanthropist

62. A desire to improve the material, social, and spiritual welfare of mankind, especially through charitable activities; A lover of mankind
Philanthropist

63. A manuscript or other document entirely handwritten by its author
Holograph

64. A typewritten document or text
Typescript

65. A book or other text written by hand, especially one written before the invention of printing
Manuscript

66. An account of somebody’s life written by that person
Autobiography

67. An account of somebody’s life written or produced by another person
Biography

68. The killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group
Genocide

69. The killing of an infant
Infanticide

70. The murder of a king
Regicide

71. The act of killing another human being
Homicide

72. The act of killing of his or her own brother
Fratricide

73. Murdering your own mother
Matricide

74. The murder of a father by his own child or children
Patricide

75. Somebody who deliberately kills himself or herself
Suicide

76. Government controlled by a mob
Mobocracy, Ochlocracy

77. A government based on the principle of majority decision-making
Democracy

78. Government by clergy (Priests)
Hierocracy

79. Government by a god or by priests.
Theocracy

80. Any wealthy social class that controls or greatly influences the government
Plutocracy

81. Government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobility
Aristocracy

82. One who believes in anarchy
Anarchist

83. The absence of any formal system of government in a society
Anarchy

84. Government or control by a small group of people
Oligarchy

85. A government ruled by a king
Monarchy

86. Government in which one person has absolute power, dictatorship
Autocracy

87. Eating any kind of food, including both plants and animals
Omnivorous

88. Animal that feeds on flesh
Carnivore

89. Feeding mainly on the flesh of other animals
Carnivorous

90. Eating only or mainly grass or other plants
Herbivorous

91. That feeds on grass (of animals)
Graminivorous

92. Producing eggs that hatch outside the body
Oviparous

93. Bringing forth young alive
Viviparous

94. An animal with a thousand legs (name of a worm like creature having many more legs than a centipede)
Millipede

95. An animal with a hundred legs (name of an insect like creature with many legs)
Centipede

96. Animal with four legs
Quadruped

97. Animal with two legs
Biped

98. Present everywhere
Omnipresent

99. All knowing
Omniscient

100. All powerful
Omnipotent

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