One Word Substitution

Underline the key detail in the question (habit, job, what they do).

Pick the option that matches that detail exactly.

Match the victim: mother = matricide, father = patricide, brother = fratricide, infant = infanticide.

If no victim is named, use homicide.

Decide if it is fear or study first.

Then match the root to the thing: ornitho = birds, entomo = insects.

Find the key noun and recall its partner word.

Watch look-alikes such as apiary (bees) and aviary (birds).

Name who rules: people = democracy, officials = bureaucracy, the rich = plutocracy.

The first part of the word names the ruler.

Decide what the writing does: praises = eulogy, mourns = elegy.

Then match it to the option.

For a disease, check the spread: one area = epidemic, the whole world = pandemic.

For a medicine, check its job: against poison = antidote.

First recall the word from its meaning.

Then check each part of the spelling one by one.