Vocabulary (One Word Substitution)

To test students' knowledge of one-word substitutions in English vocabulary

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

A person living permanently in a certain place

  1. Native
  2. Resident
  3. Domicile
  4. Sojourner
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Life history of a person written by another

  1. Autobiography
  2. Biography
  3. Bibliography
  4. Memoir
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

One who forcibly seizes control of a bus or an aircraft

  1. Pirate
  2. Swindler
  3. Hijacker
  4. Plunderer
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

A person who has no money to pay his debts

  1. Debtor
  2. Pauper
  3. Beggar
  4. Insolvent
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

The policy of extending a country' s empire and influence

  1. Imperialism
  2. Capitalism
  3. Internationalism
  4. Communism
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Murder of a brother

  1. Patricide
  2. Regicide
  3. Homicide
  4. Fratricide
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

One who loves mankind

  1. Anthropologist
  2. Philanthropist
  3. Seismologist
  4. Optometrist
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Constant effort to achieve something

  1. Perseverance
  2. Attempt
  3. Enthusiasm
  4. Vigour
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Stealing from the writings of others

  1. Copying
  2. Reframing
  3. Reproducing
  4. Plagiarism
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Relationship by blood or by birth

  1. Parentage
  2. Affiliation
  3. Consanguinity
  4. Nepotism
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Design made by putting together coloured pieces of glass or stones

  1. Oleograph
  2. Mosaic
  3. Tracery
  4. Relief
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

A small house with all the rooms on ground floor

  1. Bungalow
  2. Cottage
  3. Flat
  4. Castle
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

A government run by a dictator

  1. Democracy
  2. Autocracy
  3. Anarchy
  4. Aristocracy
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

A post without remuneration

  1. Voluntary
  2. Sinecure
  3. Honorary
  4. Gratuitous
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose one word substitution for the following:

List of things to be dealt with at a meeting

  1. Schedule
  2. Agenda
  3. Proceeding
  4. Docket
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

The custom of having more than one husband at the same time

  1. Polygamy
  2. Polyandry
  3. Bigamy
  4. Polygyny
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

A government by the nobles

  1. Democracy
  2. Bureaucracy
  3. Autocracy
  4. Aristocracy
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Revengeful in spirit

  1. Vindicator
  2. Usurer
  3. Vindictive
  4. Advocator
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

An office or a post with no work but high pay

  1. Honorary
  2. Sinecure
  3. Gratis
  4. Voluntary
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Unselfish concern for the welfare of others

  1. Cynicism
  2. Nepotism
  3. Philanthropy
  4. Altruism
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

To slap with a flat object

  1. Hew
  2. Swat
  3. Chop
  4. Gnaw
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Person who believes that God is everything and everything is God

  1. Agnostic
  2. Theist
  3. Pantheist
  4. Atheist
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

The simplest and the smallest form of plant life present in air, water and soil : essential to life but may cause diseases

  1. Virus
  2. Amoeba
  3. Bacteria
  4. Toxin
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Walking in sleep

  1. Somniloquism
  2. Somnambulism
  3. Obsession
  4. Narcolepsy
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the phrase given below.

Opposed to a great or a sudden change

  1. Static
  2. Revolutionary
  3. Conservative
  4. Evolutionary