♦ An involuntary action under stimulus is described as a : Reflex
♦ An occasion of great importance : Momentous
♦ An office or post with no work but high pay : Sinecure
♦ An office for which no salary is paid : Honorary office
♦ An official call to appear in a court of law : Summon
♦ An order requiring a person to attend a court : Subpoena
♦ An underhand device resorted to in order to justify misconduct : Manoeuvre
♦ An unexpected stroke of good luck : Windfall
♦ Animals live in flocks : Gregarious
♦ Animals living in both land and water Aquatic : Amphibious animals
♦ Animals living on grass : Graminivorous animals
♦ Animals living on human flesh : Cannibals
♦ Animals living on meat : Carnivorous animals
♦ Animals living on vegetables : Vegetarian animals
♦ Animals sucking their mother’s breast : Mammals
♦ Animals who live bordered with trees : Boulevard
♦ Anything tending to move away from centre : Centrifugal
♦ Anything written in a letter after it is signed : Postscript
♦ Arrangement in order of occurrence : Chronological
♦ Avoiding wastage : Economical
♦ Be the embodiment or perfect example of : Personify
♦ Belief or opinion contrary to what is generally accepted : Heresy
♦ Belonging to all parts of the world : Universal
♦ Beyond the power of nature : Supernatural
♦ Calmness and indifference to suffering : Stoicism
♦ Capable of being through : Transparent
♦ Characterised by dull uniformity : Monotonous
♦ Child brought up by persons who are not his parents : Fosterchild
♦ Circular building or hall with a dome : Rotunda
♦ Clues available at a scene : Circumstantial
♦ Code of diplomatic etiquette and precedence : Protocol
♦ Commencement of adjacent words with the same letter : Alliteration
♦ Constant effort to achieve something : Attempt
♦ Contrary to law : Illegal
♦ Contrary to nature : Unnatural
♦ Crime of offence : Indictment
♦ Custom of many wives : Polygamy
♦ Cutting for stone in the bladder : Lithotomy
♦ Deep in thought : Pensive
♦ Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others : Sadism
♦ Destitute of knowledge : Ignorant
♦ Detaining and confining someone : Interment
♦ Determine the nature of the disease : Diagonose
♦ Excessive preoccupation with one’s health : Hypochondria
♦ Extreme old age when one behaves like a child : Dotage
♦ Fit to be chosen : Eligible
♦ Fit to be eaten : Eatable, Edible
♦ Food which agrees with one’s taste : Palatable
♦ Giving undue favours to one’s own kith and kin : Neotism
♦ Gold or silver before using for manufacturing ornaments : Bullion
♦ Government by a ruler who has unlimited power : Autocracy
♦ Government by the God : Thearchy
♦ Government by the rich and aristocrats : Aristocracy
♦ Happening every second year : Biennial
♦ Have two wives or two husbands at a time : Bigamy
♦ He does unpaid work for the Red Cross : Honorary
♦ He is very carefully and particular about everything he does : Meticulous
♦ He spent a long time cutting all the waste paper into pieces : Shredding
♦ In difference to pleasure or pain : Stoicism
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