English Language

One Word Substitution

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One Word Substitution Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the sentence. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate it as your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (4) as your answer.

I like to be alone for short periods, but after a few days, I start feeling alone.

  1. lonely

  2. lone

  3. solitary

  4. No improvement needed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

You can feel 'lonely', but not 'alone'. 'Lonely' is an adjective, which means that you are unhappy because you are not with other people. 'Alone' means to be without other people, e.g. you can feel lonely when you are alone. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Egypt is, at all seasons, a strange country, but presents the most surprising appearance at the period of the flood. At that time, not only is the lengthy valley from Assouan to Cairo laid under water, but the Delta itself becomes one vast lake, interspersed with islands, which stud its surface here and there at intervals, and which reminded Herodotus of "the islands of the Ægean. The elevations, which are the work of man, are crowned for the most part with the white walls of towns and villages sparkling in the sunlight, and sometimes glassed in the flood beneath them.

Which word in the passage means the same as 'mixed together'?

  1. Flood

  2. Interspersed

  3. Elevations

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Interspersed means ‘mixed together’ or ‘intermixed’.