One Word Substitution: September 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

English Objective Type Examination

One Word Substitution

1. To transfer one's authority to another
Ans: Delegate

2. One who is a newcomer
Ans: Neophyte

3. That which is lawful
Ans: Legal

4. That which is against law
Ans: Illegal

5. One who is unmarried
Ans: Celibate

Exam Papers

One Word Substitution

1. That which cannot be satisfied
Ans: Insatiable

2. One who questions everything
Ans: Cynic

3. A flesh eating animal
Ans: Carnivorous

4. A grass eating animal
Ans: Herbivorous

5. One who lives in a foreign country
Ans: Immigrant

Examination Questions

One Word Substitution

1.A book written by an unknown author
Ans: Anonymous

2.A life history written by oneself
Ans: Autobiography

3.A life history written by somebody else
Ans: Biography

4.People who work together
Ans: Colleagues

5.One who eats too much
Ans: Glutton

General English Exam Questions

One Word Substitution

1.Practice of having one wife or husband
Ans: Monogamy

2.Practice of having two wives or husbands
Ans: Bigamy

3.That which is not likely to happen
Ans: Improbable

4.People living at the same time
Ans: Contemporaries

5.A book published after the death of its author
Ans: Posthumas

Some Question Answers

One Word Substitution

1.That which cannot be avoided
Ans: Inevitable

2.A position for which no salary is paid
Ans: Honorary

3.That which cannot be defended
Ans: Indefensible

4.Practice of having several wives
Ans: Polygamy

5.Practice of having several husbands
Ans: Polyandry

Objective General English

1. That through which light can partly pass
Ans: Translucent

2. A sentence whose meaning is unclear
Ans: Ambiguous

3. A place where orphans live
Ans: Orphanage

4. That which cannot be described
Ans: Indescribable

5. That which cannot be imitated
Ans: Inimitable

5 Questions Answers

One Word Substitution

1. A Government by the Nobles
Ans: Aristocracy

2. A Government by one
Ans: Autocracy

3. Rule by the mob
ANs: Mobocracy

4. That through which light can pass
Ans: Transparent

5. That through which light cannot pass
Ans: Opaque

Objective Type General English Questions

One Word Substitution

1. A Government by the people
Ans: Democracy

2. A Government by a king or queen
Ans: Monarchy

3. A Government by the officials
Ans: Bureaucracy

4. A Government by the rich
Ans: Plutocracy

5. A Government by the few
Ans: Oligarchy

Objective Type Questions

One Word Substitution

1. One who speaks less
Ans: Reticent

2. One who goes on foot
Ans: Pedestrian

3. One who believes in fate
ANs: Fatalist

4. One who dies without a Will
ANs: Intestate

5. One who always thinks himself to be ill
Ans: Valetudinarian

5 One Word Substitutions

One Word Substitution

1. One who thinks only of himself
Ans: Egoist

2. One who thinks only of welfare of women
ANs: Feminist

3. One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
Ans: Stoic

4. One who is quite like a woman
Ans: Effeminate

5. One who has strange habits
Ans: Eccentric

English Question Paper

One Word Substitution

1. One who helps others Good
Ans: Samaritan

2. One who copies from other writers
Ans: Plagiarist

3. One who hates women
Ans: Misogynist

4. One who knows many languages
Ans: Polyglot

5. One who is fond of sensuous pleasures
Ans: Epicure

Some Questions of One Word Substitution

1. One who looks on the bright side of things
Ans: Optimist

2. One who looks on the dark side of things
Ans: Pessimist

3. One who doubts the existence of god
Ans: Agnostic

4. One who pretends to be what he is not
Ans: Hypocrite

5. One incapable of being tired
Ans: Indefatigable

Question Papers

1. One who works for free
Ans: Volunteer

2. One who loves books
Ans: Bibliophile

3. One who can speak two languages
Ans: Bilingual

4. One who loves mankind
Ans: Philanthropist

5. One who hates mankind
Ans: Misanthrope

Some One Word Substitutions

1. One who is easily deceived
Ans: Gullible

2. One who does not make mistakes
Ans: Infallible

3. One who can do anything for money
Ans: Mercenary

4. One who has no money
Ans: Pauper

15. One who changes sides
Ans: Turncoat

One Word Substitution Papers

1. One who is out to subvert a government
Ans: Anarchist

2. One who is recovering from illness
Ans: Convalescent

3. One who is all powerful
Ans: Omnipotent

4. One who is present everywhere
Ans: Omnipresent

5. One who knows everything
Ans: Omniscient

Some Questions

One Word Substitution

1. To change shape, nature or substance of-
Ans: Transmute

2. Person who believes that God is every thing and everything is God-
Ans: Pantheist

3. Person who pilots or travels in a balloon, airship or other aircraft-
Ans: Aeronaut

4. Witty, clever retort
Ans: Repartee

5. Words different in meaning but similar in sound-
Ans: Homonym

Objective General English Questions

1. One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by entreaties-
Ans: Inexorable

2. Regard for others as a principle of action-
Ans: Altruism

3. Person who claims to have great love for and understanding of what is beautiful in nature, art etc-
Ans: Aesthete

4. A disease which spreads by contact-
ANs: Contagious

5. An animal story with a moral-
Ans: Fable

Question Answers

1. Paying back injury with injury-
Ans: Reprisal

2. Acutely affected by external impressions
Ans: Sensitive

3. To slap with a flat object-
Ans: Swat

4. An assembly of hearers-
Ans: Audience

5. An associate in an officer or institution-
Ans: Colleague

General English Objective Type

1. Mania for stealing articles-
Ans: Kleptomania

2. Mental wearness for want of occupation-
Ans: Ennui

3. One who loves all and sundry-
Ans: Philanthropist

4. Mania for travel-
Ans: Dromomania

5. A person living permanently in a certain place-
Ans: Domicile

General English in Exam

1. An office or post with no work but high pay-
Ans: Sinecure

2. One who is well-versed in any subject, a critical judge of any art, particularly fine arts-
Ans: Connoisseur

3. Person who is indifferent to both pleasure and pain-
Ans: Stoic

4. A person who is against the standards of ordinary society especially in dressing-
Ans: Hippy

5. Murder of a brother-
Ans: Fratricide

Some Objective General English Questions

1. One who depises persons of lower social postion-
Ans: Snob

2. Gradual recovery from illness-
Ans: Convalescence

3. One who is determined to exact full vengeance for wrong done to him-
Ans: Vindictive

4. A person who believes thats pleasure is the chief good
Ans: Hedonist

5. Commencement of words with the same letter-
Ans: Alliteration

Objective Type General English

1. Child bereaved of one or both the parents-
Ans: Orphan

2. Gift left by will-
ANs: Legacy

3. A government run by a dictator-
Ans: Autocracy

4. One who always runs away from danger-
Ans: Timid

5. A poem written on the death of someone loved and lost-
Ans: Elegy

Objective English Questions

1. A post without remuneration-
Ans: Honorary

2. Large scale departure of people-
ANs: Exodus

3. Lottery in which an article is assigned by lot to one of those buying tickets-
Ans: Raffle

4. To send an unwanted person out of the country-
Ans: Deport

5. Voluntarily giving up throne by king in favour of his son-
Ans: Abdication

Objective General English Question NAswer

1. List of headings of the business to be transacted at a meeting-
Ans: Agenda

2. A process involving too much official formality-
Ans: Red-tapism

3. Person who brings an action at law-
Ans: Plaintiff

4. The short remaining end of a cigarette-
Ans: Stub

5. The place where public, government or historical records are kept-
Ans: Archives

Objective General English Questions

1. Mania for balking-
ANs: Logomania

2. The custom of having more than one husband at the same time-
Ans: Polyandry

3. An extremely deep crack or opening in the ground-
Ans: Chasm

4. The study of ancient societies-
Ans: Archaeology

5. The foolish belief that one is God-
Ans: Theomania

Objective General English

One Word Substitution-

1. The policy of extending a country's empire and influence-
Ans: Imperialism

2. Government by a single person-
Ans: Autocracy

3. Practice of a married woman having extra marital relationship-
Ans: Adultery

4. A workman who fits and repairs pipes-
Ans: Plumber

5. Part of a church in which bells hang-
Ans: Belfry

One Word Substitution Papers

1. Strong and settled dislike between two persons-
Ans: Antipathy

2. A person who has no money to pay off his debts-
Ans: Insolvent

3. An entertainer who performs difficult physical actions-
Ans: Acrobat

4. A small house with all rooms on one floor-
Ans: Bungalow

5. A song embodying religious and sacred emotions-
Ans: Hymn

One Word Substitution Question Answer

1. One who forcibly seizes control of a bus or an aircraft-
Ans: Hijacker

2. The act of killing one's wife-
Ans: Uxoricide

3. Music sung or played at night below a person's window-
Ans: Serenade

4. A government by the nobles-
Ans: Aristocracy

5. Anything written in a letter after it is signed-
Ans: Postscript

Tuesday, September 1, 2009