One Word Substitution

Description: ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
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Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given phrase.

The intentional and unlawful killing of a person

  1. Death

  2. Murder

  3. Demise

  4. Egoist


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The intentional and unlawful killing of a person is called "murder".

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person who loves mankind and works for their well being

  1. Acetic

  2. Votary

  3. Compeer

  4. Philanthropist


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A person who loves mankind and works for their well being is a "philanthropist".

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The study of the external form of cranium

  1. Penology

  2. Philology

  3. Phonology

  4. Phrenology


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

"Phrenology" is the study of the external form of cranium.

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The science of teaching

  1. pedagogy

  2. pedalogy

  3. petrology

  4. lexicology


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person who controls the workers

  1. chief

  2. boss

  3. bookworm

  4. cripple


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person who is foolish and be deceived easily

  1. cripple

  2. bigot

  3. deaf

  4. simpleton


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person in charge of a prison

  1. hunter

  2. grazer

  3. gaoler

  4. mentor


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

Reasoning from parallel cases

  1. Analogy

  2. Sinology

  3. Polity

  4. Polemics


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Reasoning from parallel cases is called "analogy".

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The study of punishment and prison management

  1. Geochemistry

  2. Hydropathy

  3. Penology

  4. Petrography


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

"Penology" is the study of punishment and prison management. 

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A professional boxer

  1. pastor

  2. prankster

  3. pugilist

  4. recordist


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The study of the sounds in the language

  1. parapsychology

  2. gerontology

  3. gastronomy

  4. phonology


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

Ethical theory concerned with duties and rights.

  1. surgeon

  2. physician

  3. deontologist

  4. chiropodist


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The study of hair

  1. taxonomy

  2. polemics

  3. trichology

  4. rocketry


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The caretaker of a building

  1. janitor

  2. jockey

  3. layman

  4. polymath


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The science of the pulse

  1. Virology

  2. Topiary

  3. Sphygmic

  4. Topology


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A dealer in hardware

  1. ironmonger

  2. hater dasher

  3. nanny

  4. miner


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The science of time measurement

  1. hymnology

  2. horology

  3. graphology

  4. pedagogy


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.

  1. osteopath

  2. gerontologist

  3. chiropodist

  4. oculist


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person who collects the stamps

  1. skeptic

  2. vendor

  3. votary

  4. philatelist


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The study of the fresh water and their inhabitants

  1. Lexicology

  2. Limnology

  3. Pestology

  4. Philology


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

"Limnology" is study of the fresh water and their inhabitants.

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

Cultivation of forest trees

  1. topology

  2. silviculture

  3. topiary

  4. vulcanology


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

One who treats the disease using the diet and exercises without the medicines

  1. naturopath

  2. optometrist

  3. intern

  4. paleontologist


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

The art of the compilation of the dictionaries

  1. hydropathy

  2. futurology

  3. graphology

  4. lexicography


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A student of medicine acting as assistant physician or surgeon

  1. intern

  2. oncologist

  3. favor

  4. calmest


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the word from the options that correctly replaces the given sentence.

A person trained to assist the women in birth

  1. urologist

  2. mid-wife

  3. intern

  4. none


Correct Option: B
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