One Word Substitution

Practice one word substitution questions for competitive exams including CAT, GRE, SSC, Bank PO, and other entrance tests. Master vocabulary by finding single words that substitute longer phrases.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which has life

  1. Animate
  2. Inanimate
  3. Aquatic
  4. Credulous
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A general pardon for political offenders

  1. Acquittal
  2. Forgiveness
  3. Amnesty
  4. Anecdote
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A medicine to counteract the effect of another medicine

  1. Cure
  2. Panacea
  3. Antidote
  4. Anecdote
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which does not bear the name of writer

  1. Obscure
  2. Anonymous
  3. Posthumous
  4. Antedate
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A person who is extremely desirous of money

  1. Miserly
  2. Frugal
  3. Avaricious
  4. Mercenary
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

The life story of a person written by himself

  1. Biography
  2. Eulogy
  3. Auto-biography
  4. Novel
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Government by officials

  1. Aristocracy
  2. Autocracy
  3. Anarchy
  4. Bureaucracy
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A person who is a hundred years old or more

  1. Centenarian
  2. Septuagenarian
  3. Contemporary
  4. None of these
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Persons working in the same institution

  1. Peers
  2. Mates
  3. Friends
  4. Colleagues
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Not likely to be easily pleased

  1. Affable
  2. Fastidious
  3. Obstinate
  4. Audacious
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Belonging to the same time

  1. Periodical
  2. Antique
  3. Contemporary
  4. Advanced
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Recovering from illness

  1. Convalescent
  2. Credulous
  3. Enervated
  4. Rejuvenated
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which could lead to death

  1. Dead
  2. Fatal
  3. Critical
  4. Alarming
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A citizen of the world

  1. Metropolitan
  2. Cosmopolite
  3. Universal
  4. Factional
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A medicine that kills germs

  1. Fratricide
  2. Germicide
  3. Infanticide
  4. Pesticide
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

To come into a country

  1. Immigrate
  2. Migrate
  3. Hibernate
  4. Nationalize
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which cannot be noticed

  1. Improbable
  2. Impregnable
  3. Imperceptible
  4. Intangible
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Sound which cannot be heard

  1. Audible
  2. Inaudible
  3. Visible
  4. Invisible
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Spoken or done without preparation

  1. Extempore
  2. Deliberate
  3. Gratis
  4. None of these
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Incapable of being corrected

  1. Incorrigible
  2. Incredible
  3. Incurable
  4. Indelible
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which cannot be effaced

  1. Indefatigable
  2. Ineffable
  3. Indelible
  4. Inexorable
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which cannot be explained

  1. Ineligible
  2. Inexplicable
  3. Infallible
  4. Inexpressible
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

A person who easily believes whatever is told to him

  1. Credible
  2. Creditable
  3. Credulous
  4. Credential
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

Incapable of making mistakes

  1. Incurable
  2. Incorrigible
  3. Indelible
  4. Infallible
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

That which cannot be imitated

  1. Insatiable
  2. Inimitable
  3. Invincible
  4. Irrevocable

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