Important One word Substitution Questions :
Directions :
In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
1. A form of government in which the supreme power rests with people is
(1) monarchy
(2) oligarchy
(3) democracy
(4) bureaucracy
2. The study of insects
(1) anthropology
(2) zoology
(3) etymology
(4) entomology
3. Animals that live in a particular region
(1) fauna
(2) wildlife
(3) native
(4) beast
4. One who eats human flesh
(1) maneater
(2) cannibal
(3) beast
(4) savage
5. More like a woman than a man in manners and habits
(1) unmanly
(2) effeminate
(3) womanish
(4) delicate
6. Occurring at irregular intervals in time
(1) epidemic
(2) endemic
(3) temporal
(4) sporadic
7. To play the part of, and function as, some other person
(1) imitate
(2) pretend
(3) impersonate
(4) act
8. The first speech made by a person
(1) maiden
(2) extempore
(3) debate
(4) palaver
9. To die without having made a will
(1) intaglio
(2) inveterate
(3) intestate
(4) insolvent
10. Rebellion against lawful authority
(1) mutiny
(2)coup
(3) revolution
(4)dissidence
11. Murder of a brother
(1) fratricide
(2) patricide
(3) regicide
(4) homicide
12. One who is out to destroy the Government
(1) anarchist
(2) villain
(3) criminal
(4) enemy
13. A set of three related works by the same author
(1) topology
(2) trilogy
(3) trichology
(4) ecology
14. Relating to kinship with the father
(1) patrilineal
(2) fratrilineal
(3) matrilineal
(4) familial
15. One who accepts pleasure and pain equally
(1) thespian
(2) sadist
(3) stoic
(4) humanitarian
16. To try to settle a dispute between two other parties
(1) medicate
(2) mediate
(3) meddle
(4) meditate
17. An exact- copy of handwriting or a picture produced by a machine
(1) original
(2) facsimile
(3) copy
(4) None of these
18. Tending to associate with others of one’s kind
(1) grassivorous
(2) gregarian
(3) gregarious
(4) graminivorous
19. To reduce to nothing
(1) lull
(2) null
(3) annul
(4) cull
20. To remove an objectionable part from a book.
(1) exterminate
(2) expurgate
(3) extirpate
(4) destroy
21. Words inscribed on a tomb
(1) epitaph
(2) epitome
(3) epistle
(4) epilogue
22.To free a person by a verdict of ‘not guilty’.
(1) acquaint
(2) acquit
(3) acquiesce
(4) acquire
23. A word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase
(1) abridgement
(2) almanac
(3) anachronism
(4) acronym
24. Hole excavated by an animal as dwelling
(1) borrow
(2) burrow
(3) bore
(4) pierce
25. A person who attends to the diseases of the eye is an
(1) oculist
(2) optimist
(3) obstetrician
(4) optician
