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Etymology - 2 (Eponyms and Toponyms)

Etymology - Eponyms & Toponyms (Mod-1)

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

Excessive love or admiration of oneself

  1. Masochism
  2. Chauvinism
  3. Serendipity
  4. Narcissism
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

When you refuse to have anything to do with anyone

  1. Bowdlerize
  2. Boycott
  3. Proscribe
  4. Embargo
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

An extended adventurous voyage or trip in the face of hardships

  1. Sojourn
  2. Epic
  3. Odyssey
  4. Peripatetic
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

An unwitting source of many problems or great suffering

  1. Achilles’ tendon
  2. Pandora’s Box
  3. Caesar Cipher
  4. Gordian knot
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

Simple, frugal, or austere

  1. Armageddon
  2. Laodecian
  3. Spartan
  4. Parthian
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

The accidental discovery of something pleasant, valuable, or useful

  1. Congeniality
  2. Serendipity
  3. Prosperity
  4. Kismet
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

A victory in which there is more of a loss than gain

  1. Hermitic
  2. Savage
  3. Desultory
  4. Pyrrhic
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

A complicated, perplexing arrangement, course of affairs, etc

  1. Labyrinth
  2. Maze
  3. Bedlam
  4. Meander
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

Deriving of pleasure from being physically or emotionally abused, especially out of injury inflicted upon self

  1. Malice
  2. Sadova
  3. Masochism
  4. Solecism
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

A non-conformist, unorthodox person

  1. Cassandra
  2. Maverick
  3. Martinet
  4. Beatnik
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