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Phrase                                                                     One Word
                 Government by one person (royal)                                           Monarchy
                 Government by two agencies                                                 Diarchy
                 Government by a few powerful people                                        Oligarchy
                 Government by military class                                               Stratocracy
                 Government by departments of state                                         Bureaucracy
                 Government by nobility                                                     Aristocracy
                 Government by wealthy                                                      Plutocracy
                 Government by the people                                                   Democracy
                 A system of governing a country suggesting a father-child relation         Paternalism
                 Government by one absolutely                                               Autocracy
                 Absence of government                                                      Anarchy
                 A system ruled or controlled by men                                        Patriarchy
                 The rule or control of mother                                              Matriarchy
                 Self-rule or control                                                       Autonomy

               List of One Word Substitutions – 6
               Words related to speech and written works.
                 Phrase                                                                     One Word
                 Book containing all the published work of an author                        Omnibus
                 A written message from far off place                                       Telegraph
                 Informal, less grammatically rigid language                                Colloquial
                 Talking around, a method of talking indirectly                             Circumlocution
                 Generous, forgiving talk                                                   Magniloquent
                 Expressive in the use of words                                             Eloquent
                 High sounding pompous speech or writing                                    Grandiloquent
                 A signature of a celebrity (signature of oneself)                          Autograph
                 Walk before hand or an introductory statement                              Preamble
                 Writing of one's life story                                                Biography
                 Writing of one's own life story                                            Autobiography
                 Written by light                                                           Photograph
                 Few words packed with meaning, concise                                     Laconic
                 A speech to oneself, alone                                                 Soliloquy

               List of One Word Substitutions – 7

               Words related to specific type of things, events and places.

                 Phrase                                                                     One Word
                 A place for sun to enter where one can sunbath                             Solarium
                 A glass container in which fish and other water animals can be kept        Aquarium
                 A place for feet or speaker's platform                                     Podium
                 The part of a theatre where people who are watching and listening sit      Auditorium
                 An optical device for projecting various celestial images and effects       Planetarium
                 An establishment for the treatment of the chronically ill                  Sanatorium
                 A place where objects are exhibited                                        Museum
                 Trees whose leaves fall every autumn                                       Deciduous
                 That which falls upon, befalls, happens                                    Incident
                 That which falls to someone or something                                   Accident


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