ONE WORD SUBSTITUTIONS ASKED IN SSC Exams Part 7

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTIONS VOCABULARY BOOSTER SET 7

Hello Aspirants, As all of you know that if you are preparing for exams like, SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, IB, RRB( Railways) or some other state government competitive exam, what is the importance of English Language section. So keeping that in mind we are providing you this quiz on One word Substitutions so that you can assess your preparation.

  1. An underhand device resorted in order to justify misconduct
    a) Subterfuge
    b) Manoeuvre
    c) Stratagem
    d) Complicity

    Answer

    b) Manoeuvre

  2. Imposible to describe
    a) Miraculous
    b) Ineffable
    c)  Stupendous
    d) Appalling

    Answer

    b)Ineffable

  3. One who criticise popular beliefs which he thinks is mistaken or unwise
    a) Philistine
    b) Iconoclast
    c) Imposter
    d) Cannibal

    Answer

    b)Iconoclast

  4. Detaining and confining someone
    a) Interruption
    b) Interrogation
    c) Interment
    d) Internment

    Answer

    d) Internment

  5. Science of the races of mankind
    a) Genealogy
    b) Epistemology
    c) Ethnology
    d) Sociology

    Answer

    c) Ethnology

  6. One who hides away on a ship to obtain a free passage
    a) Compisitor
    b) Stoker
    c) Stowaway
    d) Shipwrite

    Answer

    c) Stowaway

  7. Clues available at a scene
    a) Circumstantial
    b) Derivative
    c) Inferential
    d) Suggestive

    Answer

    a) Circumstantial

  8. An unexpected piece of good fortune
    a) Windafall
    b) Philanthropy
    c) Benevolence
    d) Trunstile

    Answer

    a) Windafall

  9. An emolument over and above fixed income or salary
    a) Honorarium
    b) Sinecure
    c) Perquisite
    d) Prerogative

    Answer

    a) Honorarium

  10. The Animals of a particular region
    a) Flora
    b) Museum
    c) Perquisite
    d) Fauna

    Answer

    d) Fauna

  11. The plants of a particular region
    a) Flora
    b) Museum
    c) Zoo
    d) Fauna

    Answer

    a) Flora

  12. An involuntary action under a stimulus is described as a
    a) Complex
    b) Reflex
    c) Reflection
    d) Response

    Answer

    b) Reflex

  13. A continuous process of change is known as
    a) Transformation
    b) Metamorphosis
    c) Flux
    d) Dynamism

    Answer

    c) Flux

  14. The use of many words where only a few are necessary
    a) Circumlocution
    b) Circumspection
    c) Circumscription
    d) Circumvention

    Answer

    a) Circumlocution

  15. Circular building or hall with a dome
    a) Edifice
    b) Palace
    c) Rotunda
    d) Spire

    Answer

    c) Rotunda

  16. One who is a citizen not of a country but of the world
    a) Bohemian
    b) Cosmopolitan
    c) Philanthropist
    d) Internationalist

    Answer

    b) Cosmopolitan

  17. To run away with a lover
    a) Deceive
    b) Cheat
    c) Escape
    d) Elope

    Answer

    d) Elope

  18. Science of heredity
    a) Hereditary
    b) Genetics
    c) Genesis
    d) Inheritance

    Answer

    b) Genetics

  19. Arrangement in order of occurrence
    a) Timely
    b) Chronological
    c) Chronic
    d) Temporal

    Answer

    b) Chronological

  20. Occurring at night
    a) Nightly
    b) Dark
    c) Neurotic
    d) Nocturnal

    Answer

    d) Nocturnal

  21. Determine the nature of the disese
    a) Investigate
    b) Determine
    c) Diagnose
    d) Detect

    Answer

    c) Diagnose

  22. Person who insists on adherence to formal rules or literary meaning
    a) Scholar
    b) Pedant
    c) Pedagogue
    d) Literalist

    Answer

    b) Pedant

  23. Calmness and indifference to suffering
    a) Stoicism
    b) Despair
    c) Agony
    d) Materialism

    Answer

    a) Stoicism

  24. The practice of having more than one husband
    a) Polyandry
    b) Polygamy
    c) Bigamy
    d) Debauchery

    Answer

    a) Polyandry

  25. Seeing something which is not actually present
    a) Imagination
    b) Presumption
    c) Hallucination
    d) Supposition

    Answer

    c) Hallucination

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