Tuesday 14 July 2015

English ---One word substitution --06

  • 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
  • To examine one's own thoughts and feelings -
  • Ans: Introspection

  • 2. A short, usually amusing, story about some real person or event-
  • Ans: Anecdote

  • 3. Woman who offers the use of her body for sexual intercourse to any one who will pay for this-
  • Ans: Prostitute

  • 4. Life history of a person written by another-
  • Ans: Biography

  • 5. Custom of having many wives-
  • Ans: Ploygamy
  • 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 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
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • .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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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


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