One word substitution
Abattoir - Slaughterhouse (A place where animals are slaughtered for food) Abbot - Head (A man who is the head of an abbey of monks) Abbreviation - Shortening (A shortened form of a word or phrase) Abdication - Resignation (The act of formally giving up a throne or high office) Ablutophobia - Fear (Fear of washing or bathing) Abstruse - Complex (Something that is difficult to understand) Accomplice - Partner (A person who helps another commit a crime) Acrophobia - Height-fear (Extreme or irrational fear of heights) Adolescence - Youth (The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult) Aesthete - Art-lover (A person who has a special appreciation of art and beauty) Agenda - Program (A list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting) Aggressor - Attacker (A person or country that attacks first) Agnosticism - Doubt (The view that the existence of God is unknown or unknow...