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English – One Word Substitution – Set 4
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- The test contains 20 questions.
- Each question has 4 options, of which only one is correct.
- You have to finish the test in 10 minutes.
- You are awarded 1 mark for each correct answer, and 0.25 marks are deducted for each wrong answer.
- There is no negative marking for questions you do not attempt.
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This free practice set from AndamanJobs has 20 questions to be solved in 10 minutes. Every question is listed below with four options. Open Show answer and explanation under a question to see the correct option and why it is correct. Try the timed test above first, then use this list to revise the questions you got wrong.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Paying back injury with injury- A. Vendetta
- B. repression
- C. subjugation
- D. reprisal
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. reprisal
The correct one word is reprisal.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Acutely affected by external impressions- A. impressionable
- B. credulous
- C. sensitive
- D. Ingenious
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Answer: A. impressionable
The correct one word is impressionable.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
To slap with a flat object- A. swat
- B. Hew
- C. chop
- D. gnaw
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Answer: A. swat
The correct one word is swat.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
An assembly of hearers- A. congregation
- B. assemblage
- C. Audience
- D. crowd
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Answer: C. Audience
The correct one word is Audience.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
As associate in an office of institution- A. accomplice
- B. Companion
- C. colleague
- D. ally
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Answer: C. colleague
The correct one word is colleague.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by entreaties- A. infallible
- B. Inexorable
- C. Impregnable
- D. inexplicable
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Answer: B. Inexorable
The correct one word is Inexorable.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Regard for others as a principle of action- A. philanthropy
- B. altruism
- C. nepotism
- D. Cynicism
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Answer: B. altruism
The correct one word is altruism.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Person who claims to have great love for and understanding of what is beautiful in nature, art etc.- A. aesthete
- B. artist
- C. connoisseur
- D. Critic
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Answer: A. aesthete
The correct one word is aesthete.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
A disease which spreads by contact- A. contagious
- B. contiguous
- C. Infectious
- D. contextual
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Answer: A. contagious
The correct one word is contagious.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
An animal story with a moral- A. Fable
- B. anecdote
- C. tale
- D. parable
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Answer: A. Fable
The correct one word is Fable.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
To change shape, nature or substance of- A. remodel
- B. Modulate
- C. transmute
- D. substitute
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Answer: C. transmute
The correct one word is transmute.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Person who believes that God is every thing and everything is God- A. Agnostic
- B. theist
- C. pantechnicon
- D. pantheist
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Answer: D. pantheist
The correct one word is pantheist.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Person who pilots or travels in a balloon, airship or other aircraft- A. aerobat
- B. Aeronaut
- C. astronaut
- D. acrobat
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Answer: B. Aeronaut
The correct one word is Aeronaut.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
witty, clever retort- A. platitude
- B. repartee
- C. invective
- D. Sarcasm
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Answer: B. repartee
The correct one word is repartee.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Word different in meaning but similar in sound- A. synonym
- B. Homonym
- C. antonym
- D. acronym
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Answer: B. Homonym
The correct one word is Homonym.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Simplest and smallest form of plant life, present in air, water and soil; essential to life but may cause disease- A. amoeba
- B. Virus
- C. toxin
- D. bacteria
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Answer: D. bacteria
The correct one word is bacteria.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
A girl or woman who flirts, that is, tries to attract people and make advances in love simply to satisfy her vanity- A. concubine
- B. spinster
- C. coquette
- D. Prostitute
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Answer: C. coquette
The correct one word is coquette.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
A person who regards the whole world as his country- A. cosmopolitan
- B. metropolitan
- C. Patriot
- D. nationalist
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Answer: A. cosmopolitan
The correct one word is cosmopolitan.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
Relationship by blood or birth- A. affiliation
- B. Parentage
- C. nepotism
- D. consanguinity
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Answer: D. consanguinity
The correct one word is consanguinity.
- Choose the one word that can substitute the given phrase or sentence:
A story in which ideas are symbolised as people- A. parable
- B. fable
- C. Allegory
- D. legend
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Answer: C. Allegory
The correct one word is Allegory.