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One Word Substitution

Description: This tests covers the type of one-word substitution tasks found in competitive exams.
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Which of the following words refers to a man who possesses feminine traits and tastes?

  1. Effete

  2. Womanizer

  3. Feminine

  4. Womanly

  5. Effeminate


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

An effeminate is a man/boy who possesses the traits of a woman.

Which of the following words refers to a fellow citizen?

  1. Compatriot

  2. Comrade

  3. Native

  4. Indigenous

  5. Aboriginal


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Compatriot means a fellow citizen.

Which of the following words refers to a person who forsakes his religion or cause?

  1. Senility

  2. Apostate

  3. Docile

  4. Imbecile

  5. Quack


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

An apostate is a person who abandons his religion, party or cause.

Which of the following words is used to refer to a person who is interested in the study of rare or old books?

  1. Rustic

  2. Antiquarian

  3. Heretic

  4. Glutton

  5. Recluse


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Antiquarian means pertaining to the study of antiquities or dealing in old books.

Ideas that are deliberately spread to help a movement or cause.

  1. Agenda

  2. Propaganda

  3. Stoicism

  4. Itinerary

  5. Polyglot


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Propaganda means the deliberate spreading of information with the objective of helping a cause.

Which of the following words is used to refer to the study of ancient cultures, races and people?

  1. Ethnology

  2. Lexicology

  3. Taxonomy

  4. Archaeology

  5. Paleontology


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ethnology is the study of cultures.

Which of the following words is used to refer to a person who claims to be more knowledgeable than he/she is?

  1. Bigot

  2. Eccentric

  3. Reveler

  4. Charlatan

  5. Imposter


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A charlatan is a person who claims to have more knowledge than he possesses.

A person who insists on something.

  1. Boisterous

  2. Disciplinarian

  3. Stickler

  4. Belligerent

  5. Pedantic


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A stickler is a person who insists on something.

Which of the following words is synonymous with prejudice?

  1. Bigotry

  2. Skepticism

  3. Agnosticism

  4. Theism

  5. Hypocrisy


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Bigotry means prejudice or intolerance.

Which of the following words denotes a person who is habitually silent?

  1. Equivocal

  2. Resilient

  3. Reticent

  4. Voracious

  5. Tacit


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Reticent means reserved or diffident. A reticent person will not talk much or reveal their thoughts readily.

Which of the following words refers to a person who has luxurious tastes or habits?

  1. Sensuous

  2. Epicurean

  3. Sentient

  4. Credulous

  5. Gullible


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Epicurean is a person who has luxurious habits or tastes.

Which of the following words is used to refer to the practice of stealing small quantities?

  1. Spoilage

  2. Loot

  3. Burglary

  4. Pilferage

  5. Robbery


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Pilferage means petty theft.

Which of the following words refers to a person who doubts the existence of God?

  1. Pantheist

  2. Secularist

  3. Agnostic

  4. Antagonistic

  5. Atheist


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

An agnostic is a non-believer or a doubter.

Which of the following terms is used to refer to general lawlessness and confusion?

  1. Plutarchy

  2. Anarchy

  3. Theocracy

  4. Mobocracy

  5. Autocracy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Anarchy means general lawlessness and confusion arising from the failure of the government.

Which of the following words refers to the concluding part of a literary work?

  1. Prologue

  2. Synopsis

  3. Epilogue

  4. Monologue

  5. Soliloquy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Epilogue is the concluding part added to a literary work.

Which of the following terms is used to refer to a government in which all power is vested in a few persons?

  1. Monarchy

  2. Oligarchy

  3. Plutocracy

  4. Matriarchy

  5. Aristocracy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Oligarchy is the government by the few.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct option.

If something is beyond correction, it is _____________

  1. incorrigible

  2. indelible

  3. irrefutable

  4. credible

  5. tangible


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Incorrigible means that which cannot be corrected or reformed.

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