One Word Substitution Questions and Answers Part-3

1. A person who knows many foreign languages
a) Linguist
b) Grammarian
c) Polyglot
d) Bilingual

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Linguist.

2. One who has little faith in human sincerity and goodness
a) Egoist
b) Fatalist
c) Stoic
d) Cynic

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is Cynic.

3. One who possesses many talents
a) Versatile
b) Nubile
c) Exceptional
d) Gifted

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Versatile.

4. Words inscribed on tomb
a) Epitome
b) Epistle
c) Epilogue
d) Epitaph

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is Epitaph.

5. One who eats everything
a) Omnivorous
b) Omniscient
c) Irresistible
d) Insolvent

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Omnivorous.

6. One who cannot easily pleased:
a) Cosmopolitan
b) Frightening
c) Fastidious
d) Feminist

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Fastidious.

7. The murder of Brother:
a) Homicide
b) Regicide
c) Fratricide
d) Suicide

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Fratricide

8. A person who is indifferent to pains and pleasure of life:
a) Stoic
b) Sadist
c) Psychiatrist
d) Aristocrat

Answer: a
Explanation: The one word substitution is Stoic.

9. An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play:
a) Sinecure
b) Soliloquy
c) Pessimist
d) Philanthropist

Answer: b
Explanation: The one word substitution is Soliloquy.

10. A disease which spreads by contact:
a) Incurable
b) Infectious
c) Contagious
d) Fatal

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Contagious.

11. A person who renounces the world and practices self-discipline in order to attain salvation:
a) Sceptic
b) Ascetic
c) Devotee
d) Antiquarian

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitution is Ascetic.

12. One who abandons his religious faith:
a) Apostate
b) Prostate
c) Profane
d) Agnostic

Answer: a
Explanation: One word-Substitution is Apostate.

13. A hater of knowledge and learning:
a) Bibliophile
b) Philologist
c) Misogynist
d) Misologist

Answer: d
Explanation: One word-substitution is Misologist

14. Commencement of words with the same letter:
a) Pun
b) Alliteration
c) Transferred epithet
d) Oxymoron

Answer: b
Explanation: The one word-substitution is Alliteration.

15. Person who does not believe in the existence of God:
a) Theist
b) Heretic
c) Atheist
d) Fanatic

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Atheist.

16. One who has good taste for food:
a) Gourmet
b) Curator
c) Parasite
d) Stoic

Answer: a
Explanation: The one word substitution is Gourmet.

17. One who knows two languages:
a) Bigot
b) Bigamy
c) Bilingual
d) Brittle

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Bilingual.

18. Government by the representatives of the people:
a) Autocracy
b) Democracy
c) Socialism
d) Anarchy

Answer: b
Explanation: The one word substitution is Democracy.

19. A disease that spreads over a large area:
a) Academic
b) Epidemic
c) Incorrigible
d) Invincible

Answer: b
Explanation: The one word substitution is Epidemic.

20. That which can never be believed:
a) Irrevocable
b) Inevitable
c) Incredible
d) Irritable

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Incredible.

21. That which cannot be avoided:
a) Inevitable
b) Irreparable
c) Incomparable
d) Indisputable

Answer: a
Explanation: The one word substitution is Inevitable.

22. One who able to use the right and left hands equally well:
a) Sinister
b) Ambidextrous
c) Ambivalent
d) Amateur

Answer: b
Explanation: The one word substitution is Ambidextrous.

23. Government by rich:
a) Oligarchy
b) Aristocracy
c) Pantisocracy
d) Plutocracy

Answer: d
Explanation: The one word substitution is Plutocracy.

24. An independent person or body officially appointed to settle a dispute:
a) Arbiter
b) Mediator
c) Agent provocateur
d) Arbitrator

Answer: d
Explanation: The one word substitution is Arbitrator.

25. Murder of man:
a) Regicide
b) Fratricide
c) Homicide
d) Genocide

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Homicide.

26. A remedy for all diseases
a) Stoic
b) Marvel
c) Panacea
d) Recompense

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Panacea.

27. One who is fond of fighting
a) Bellicose
b) Aggressive
c) Belligerent
d) Militant

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Bellicose.

28. A small shop that sells fashionable clothes, cosmetics, etc.
a) Store
b) Stall
c) Boutique
d) Booth

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Boutique.

29. That which cannot be read
a) Negligible
b) Illegible
c) Ineligible
d) Incorrigible

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitution is Illegible

30. In a state of tension or anxiety or suspense
a) Off balance
b) Depressed
c) Diffused
d) On tenterhooks

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is On tenterhooks