English Language

One Word Substitution

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One Word Substitution Questions

Multiple choice

Directions : Out of the four alternatives, choose the one, which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and indicate the appropriate answer.

One who is greedy

  1. Voracious

  2. Avaricious

  3. Carnivorous

  4. Omnivorous
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'Avaricious' is the correct term for someone who is greedy, especially with an excessive desire for wealth or material possessions. 'Voracious' means very eager or hungry (often for food), 'carnivorous' means meat-eating, and 'omnivorous' means eating both plants and animals. Only 'avaricious' specifically describes the characteristic of greed.

Multiple choice

Directions : Out of the four alternatives, choose the one, which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and indicate the appropriate answer.

Simple, fast-spreading plant without flowers or leaves, which can often cause disease

  1. Bacteria

  2. Amoeba

  3. Virus

  4. Fungus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A fungus is a simple organism that lacks flowers, leaves, and chlorophyll, spreads rapidly via spores, and can cause various diseases in plants and animals. Bacteria and viruses have different biological classifications.

Multiple choice

Directions : Out of the four alternatives, choose the one, which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and indicate the appropriate answer.

An area of land that is controlled by a ruler

  1. Colony

  2. Dominion

  3. County

  4. Municipality
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A dominion refers to territory or land that is under the control or authority of a ruler or government. The term specifically denotes self-governing territories within the British Empire, or more broadly, any territory under someone's control or dominion. Colony refers to settlement, county is administrative division, and municipality is local governing body.

Multiple choice

Directions : Out of the four alternatives, choose the one, which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and indicate the appropriate answer.

A place where Jews worship according to their religion

  1. Cathedral

  2. Synagogue

  3. Chapel

  4. Demagogue
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A synagogue is the Jewish place of worship and religious assembly. Cathedral is a Christian church housing a bishop's seat. Chapel is a Christian place of prayer. Demagogue refers to a political leader who seeks support through prejudice rather than rational argument.

Multiple choice

Directions: Out of the four alternatives, choose the one, which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and indicate the appropriate answer.

One who is indifferent to pleasure and pain

  1. Ascetic

  2. Esoteric

  3. Stoic

  4. Sceptical
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Stoicism is a philosophy founded on the principle of remaining indifferent to pleasure, pain, and external circumstances. Stoics believe in maintaining emotional control and not being affected by things outside their control. Ascetic practices self-denial but isn't defined by indifference. Esoteric means understood by few. Sceptical means doubting.

Multiple choice

'Brook' as a verb means 'to tolerate' in para 1. As a noun, it means

Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the question by selecting the most appropriate option.

1. This was one of the Old Man's pet schemes; and one about which he would brook no interference. Each child would review the events of his school week in his own words, in his own way; he was free to comment, to criticize, to agree or disagree, with any person, subject or method, as long as it was in-some way associated with the school. No one and nothing was sacred, from the Headmaster down, and the child, moreover, was safe from any form of reprisal.

2. "Look at it this way," Mr. Florian had said. "It is of advantage to both pupil and teacher. If a child wants to write about something which matters to him, he will take some pains to set it down as carefully and with as much detail as possible; that must in some way improve his written English in terms of spelling, construction and style. Week by week we are able, through his reviews, to follow and observe his progress in such things. As for the teachers, we soon get a pretty good idea what the children think of us and whether or not we are getting close to them. It may sometimes be rather deflating to discover that a well-prepared lesson did not really excite Johnny Smith's interest, but, after all, the lesson was intended to benefit Johnny Smith, not his teacher.

  1. tolerance

  2. allow

  3. suffer

  4. stream
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

As a verb, 'brook' means to tolerate or allow (as in 'brook no interference'). As a noun, it refers to a small stream or creek. This question tests multiple meanings of the same word - a common vocabulary pattern where words have different grammatical functions with unrelated meanings.

Multiple choice

Pick out a word or phrase from the second paragraph of the passage that means the same as 'to make (something) slower'.

Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the question.

1. Max Weber laid the foundation for my belief that decent and hard-working people with high aspirations make great nations, no matter what the odds are. This was the first piece of the development puzzle for me. Mahatma Gandhi opened my eyes to the importance of good leadership in raising the aspirations of people, making them accept sacrifices to achieve a grand vision, and most importantly, in converting that vision into reality. He unleashed the most powerful instrument for gaining trust - leadership by example. He ate,dressed, travelled and lived like the poor. Walking the talk was extremely important to the Mahatma who understood the pulse of our people like no other Indian leader. The biggest lesson for me from Gandhi's book and life is the importance of leading by example. I realized fairly early that this was the second piece of the development puzzle.

2. Frantz Fanon's book on the colonizer mindset of elites in a post-colonial society opened my eyes to the role of the bureaucracy and the elite in decelerating the progress of the poor and the disenfranchised. The colonial mindset of the 'dark elite in white masks" in a post-colonial society - the mindset that the ruled and the rulers have different sets of rights and responsibilities with a huge asymmetry in favour of the rulers - was indeed the third piece of the development puzzle. I see this attitude of the Indian elite every day in how they send their children to English medium schools while forcing the children of the poor into vernacular schools, extol the virtues of poverty while living in luxury, and glorify the rural life while they sit comfortably in cities.

Source: A Better India, A Better World'

- N.R. Narayana Murthy (Adapted)

  1. decelerating

  2. vernacular

  3. disenfranchised

  4. dark elite
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The word 'decelerating' in the second paragraph literally means 'making something slower' - the author writes about elites 'decelerating the progress of the poor and the disenfranchised.' Option B 'vernacular' refers to local languages. Option C 'disenfranchised' means deprived of rights. Option D 'dark elite' is a metaphorical phrase describing the ruling class, not a synonym for slowing down.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word that substitutes the given phrase.

The science of the origin of nature and the course of disease

  1. Plaate

  2. Ascetic

  3. Pathology

  4. Synonyms
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Pathology is the branch of medicine that studies the nature, causes, and development of disease through examination of organs, tissues, and bodily fluids. 'Pathos' means disease or suffering, and '-ology' means the study of. The other options are unrelated - plaate is misspelled, ascetic relates to self-denial, and synonyms are words with same meanings.