ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

DIRECTIONS: Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the
words or sentence.
1. The history of a man written by others.
A. history
B. manuscript
C. biography
D. autobiography
2.

3.

4.

A plant or animal living on another.

A. bush
B. creeper
C. hydra
D. parasite
A place for keeping bees.
A. cage
B. apiary
C. aviary
D. nest
A writer who deals ideas from others.
A. copier
B. editor
C. translator
D. plagiarist

5. A person who is bad in spelling.

A. pedant
B. cacographist
C. linguist
D. calligraphist
6. A book or paper written in hand.
A. draft
B. edition
C. manuscript
D. handwritten
7.

A speech made without preparation.

A. debate
B. prepared

 C. extempore
D. elocution
8.

A professional rider in horse races.

A. coach
B. rider
C. jockey
D. horse courser

9.

One who is hundred years old.

A. old
B. octogenarian
C. septagenarian
D. centenarian

10 The practice of having more than one wife

. at a time.
A. digamy
B. polygamy
C. polyandry
D. monogamy
11.A persons first speech.
A. preface
B. extempore
C. opener
D. maiden
12.

13.

14.

A sweet music.
A. melody
B. duet
C. lullaby
D. folk song
A place where animals are kept.
A. museum
B. sanitorium
C. zoo
D. aviary
A number of ships.
A. group
B. fleet
C. galaxy

 D. constellation
15. A person who is pure and clean.
A. clean
B. neat
C. immaculate
D. irrevocable
16. A person who opposes another.
A. soldier
B. prophet
C. fighter
D. antagonist
17.

18.

19.

A disease which ends in death.

A. cancer
B. deadly
C. fatal
D. lifesucking
A decision on which all are agreed.
A. confession
B. unanimous
C. obsolete
D. anonymous
A long journey, especially by sea.
A. safari
B. voyage
C. flight
D. odyssey

20
A place where everything is perfect.
.
A. utopia
B. cosmos
C. paltoon
D. heaven
21.

A person who is talkative.

A. orator
B. speaker
C. laxative

 D. garrulous
22.

Something that cannot be taken away.

A. legible
B. edible
C. natural
D. inalienable

23.

A funeral bell.
A. call
B. knell
C. replica
D. windfall

Ans: B.
Sol.
Knell
24.

A place good for the sick.

A. resort
B. asylum
C. sanitoriun
D. hospital

Ans: A.
Sol.
Resort
25. The plants and vegetation of a certain region.
A. flora
B. fauna
C. forest
D. vegetation
Ans: A.
Sol.
Flora
26.
One who lives among strangers.
A. alien
B. rustic
C. stoic
D. recluse
Ans: A.
Sol.
Alien

27.

A person who can be cheated easily.

A. egoist
B. client
C. credulous
D. faithful
Ans: C.
Sol.
Credulous
28.

A person who has beautiful handwriting.

A. writer
B. calligraphist
C. artist
D. painter
Ans: B.
Sol.
Calligraphist
29.

One who walks in ones sleep.

A. ignorant
B. neomatic
C. dreamer
D. somnambulist

Ans: D.
Sol.
Somnambulist
30.

The art of beautiful handwriting.

A. painter
B. calligraphy
C. palegraphy
D. draftsman

Ans: B.
Sol.
Calligraphy
31.

Ans: A.
Sol.
Autocracy

Government by one man.

A. autocracy
B. democracy
C. monocracy
D. anarchy

32.

A word no longer in use.

A. extant
B. nervous
C. obsolete
D. out dated

Ans: C.
Sol.
Obsolete
33.

Scientific study of fungi.

A. zoology
B. botany
C. mycology
D. physiology

Ans: C.
Sol.
Mycology
34.

A person who has just started learning.

A. foreman
B. novice
C. supervisor
D. apprentice
Ans: D.
Sol.
Apprentice
35.

One who knows many languages.

A. polyglot
B. stylist
C. debator
D. linguist
Ans: A.
Sol.
Polyglot
36.
A commonplace remark.
A. epigram
B. remark
C. statement
D. statement
Ans: D.
Sol.
Statement

37.

A sneering person who always finds faults.

A. crone
B. cupid
C. cynic
D. kleptomaniac
Ans: C.
Sol.
Cynic
38.

Words inscribed on a tomb.

A. honour
B. memento
C. lyric
D. epitaph

Ans: D.
Sol.
Epitaph
39.

A speech made to oneself.

A. speech
B. intercourse
C. dialogue
D. soliloquy
Answer
Explanation

Ans: D.
Sol.
Soliloquy
40.

One whose wife is dead.

A. widow
B. celibate
C. widower
D. divorcee

Ans: C.
Sol.
Widower
41.

Ans: D.

A poem of mouring.
A. epic
B. sonnet
C. lyric
D. elegy

Sol.
Elegy
42.

The study of birds.

A. orology
B. ornithology
C. geology
D. philology

Ans: B.
Sol.
Ornithology
43.

Government in which all regions are honoured.

A. secular
B. catholic
C. progressive
D. fanatic
Ans: A.
Sol.
Secular
44. A person leaving his native country to settle in another.
A. immigrant
B. emigrant
C. traveller
D. nomad
Ans: B.
Sol.
Emigrant
45.

One who cuts precious stones.

A. drover
B. oculist
C. philatelist
D. lapidist
Ans: D.
Sol.
Lapidist
46.
One who believes in God.
A. agnostic
B. theist
C. secularist
D. devotee
Ans: B.

Sol.
Theist
47.

The story of a man written by himself.

A. history
B. biography
C. autobiography
D. life history
Ans: C.
Sol.
Autobiography
48.

A gane in which no one wins.

A. drawn
B. postponed
C. abandoned
D. obsolete

Ans: A.
Sol.
Drawn
49.

Examination of a dead body.

A. tanning
B. surgery
C. postmortem
D. operation

Ans: C.
Sol.
Postmortem
50.

A thing kept in the memory of a person.

A. gift
B. elegy
C. momento
D. epitaph
Ans: C.
Sol.
Momento