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.
Questions
Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.
That which has life
- Animate
- Inanimate
- Aquatic
- Credulous
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A general pardon for political offenders
- Acquittal
- Forgiveness
- Amnesty
- Anecdote
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A medicine to counteract the effect of another medicine
- Cure
- Panacea
- Antidote
- Anecdote
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That which does not bear the name of writer
- Obscure
- Anonymous
- Posthumous
- Antedate
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A person who is extremely desirous of money
- Miserly
- Frugal
- Avaricious
- Mercenary
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The life story of a person written by himself
- Biography
- Eulogy
- Auto-biography
- Novel
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Government by officials
- Aristocracy
- Autocracy
- Anarchy
- Bureaucracy
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A person who is a hundred years old or more
- Centenarian
- Septuagenarian
- Contemporary
- None of these
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Persons working in the same institution
- Peers
- Mates
- Friends
- Colleagues
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Not likely to be easily pleased
- Affable
- Fastidious
- Obstinate
- Audacious
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Belonging to the same time
- Periodical
- Antique
- Contemporary
- Advanced
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Recovering from illness
- Convalescent
- Credulous
- Enervated
- Rejuvenated
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That which could lead to death
- Dead
- Fatal
- Critical
- Alarming
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A citizen of the world
- Metropolitan
- Cosmopolite
- Universal
- Factional
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A medicine that kills germs
- Fratricide
- Germicide
- Infanticide
- Pesticide
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To come into a country
- Immigrate
- Migrate
- Hibernate
- Nationalize
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That which cannot be noticed
- Improbable
- Impregnable
- Imperceptible
- Intangible
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Sound which cannot be heard
- Audible
- Inaudible
- Visible
- Invisible
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Spoken or done without preparation
- Extempore
- Deliberate
- Gratis
- None of these
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Incapable of being corrected
- Incorrigible
- Incredible
- Incurable
- Indelible
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That which cannot be effaced
- Indefatigable
- Ineffable
- Indelible
- Inexorable
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That which cannot be explained
- Ineligible
- Inexplicable
- Infallible
- Inexpressible
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A person who easily believes whatever is told to him
- Credible
- Creditable
- Credulous
- Credential
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Incapable of making mistakes
- Incurable
- Incorrigible
- Indelible
- Infallible
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That which cannot be imitated
- Insatiable
- Inimitable
- Invincible
- Irrevocable