One-Word Substitution

One-Word Substitution

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

One who cannot die

  1. perpetual
  2. immortal
  3. constant
  4. timeless
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

An instrument for measuring electric current

  1. altimeter
  2. anemometer
  3. ammeter
  4. audiometer
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A person who has unusual or remarkable abilities

  1. freak
  2. marvel
  3. fraud
  4. prodigy
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

That which is found everywhere

  1. universal
  2. transient
  3. fresh
  4. confined
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A place where bees are kept

  1. apiary
  2. zoo
  3. aquarium
  4. aviary
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

That which catches fire easily

  1. incombustible
  2. incorrigible
  3. inaudible
  4. inflammable
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A homeless, forsaken child

  1. truant
  2. waif
  3. orphan
  4. illegitimate
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

The doctrine that there is only one God

  1. monotheism
  2. atheism
  3. theism
  4. pantheism
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A person who is a great lover of his country

  1. patriot
  2. cheat
  3. moral
  4. ideal
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

Time of the year at which the sun crosses the equator and when day and night are of equal length

  1. nadir
  2. zenith
  3. equinox
  4. equator
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A child brought up by person who are not his parents

  1. orphan
  2. foster-child
  3. illegitimate
  4. licit
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

To favour one's own relatives

  1. nepotism
  2. favouritism
  3. red-tapism
  4. optimism
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A place where money is coined

  1. bank
  2. store
  3. press
  4. mint
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

The house of an Eskimo

  1. rider
  2. resort
  3. igloo
  4. dock
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

The animals of a particular region

  1. flora
  2. fluorescent
  3. flagrant
  4. fauna
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

Official counting of the people in a country

  1. collection
  2. gathering
  3. census
  4. crowd
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A book containing every kind of information

  1. compendium
  2. encyclopaedia
  3. ledger
  4. epitome
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

Speaking disrespectfully about God and sacred things

  1. pantheism
  2. sacred
  3. stoicism
  4. blasphemy
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

The state of being unmarried

  1. bachelorhood
  2. bigamy
  3. monogamy
  4. polygamy
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

Those living on the opposite side of the globe

  1. platitudes
  2. antiquities
  3. antipodes
  4. mastiffs
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

One who makes a scientific study of insects

  1. anthropologist
  2. anthropolist
  3. entomologist
  4. misogynist
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

An animal with two feet

  1. quadruped
  2. tripod
  3. biped
  4. centipede
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

Notice of death, especially in a newspaper

  1. advertisement
  2. declaration
  3. obituary
  4. referendum
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

A place where neither grass nor trees grow

  1. fertile
  2. rough
  3. barren
  4. hard
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option from the following that replaces the given word/phrase.

Belief that the soul passes at death into another body

  1. transmigration
  2. postmortem
  3. autopsy
  4. coffin