1. A building for storing threshed grain
a) Hangar
b) Dockyard
c) Store
d) Granary
Explanation: One word substitute is Granary.
2. Policeman riding on motorcycles as guards to a VIP
a) Outriders
b) Servants
c) Commandos
d) Attendants
Explanation: One word substitute is Outriders
3. One who is determined to exact full vengeance for wrongs done to him
a) Virulent
b) Vindictive
c) Usurer
d) Vindicator
Explanation: One word substitute is Vindictive.
4. Murder of a king
a) Infanticide
b) Matricide
c) Genocide
d) Regicide
Explanation: One word substitute is Regicide.
5. An expression of mild disapproval
a) Warning
b) Denigration
c) Impertinence
d) Reproof
Explanation: One word substitute is Reproof.
6. The part of government which is concerned with making of rules
a) Court
b) Tribunal
c) Bar
d) Legislature
Explanation: One word substitute is Legislature.
7. One who believes that all things and events in life are predetermined is a
a) Fatalist
b) Puritan
c) Egoist
d) Tyrant
Explanation: One word substitute is Fatalist.
8. Something that relates to everyone in the world
a) General
b) Common
c) Usual
d) Universal
Explanation: One word substitute is Universal.
9. To walk with slow or regular Steps is to
a) Limp
b) Stride
c) Pace
d) Advance
Explanation: One word substitute is Pace.
10. A style full of words
a) Verbose
b) Pedantic
c) Rhetorical
d) Abundant
Explanation: One word substitute is Verbose.
11. A person not sure of the existence of god
a) Cynic
b) Agnostic
c) Atheist
d) Theist
Explanation: One word substitution is Agnostic.
12. A paper written by hand
a) Handicraft
b) Manuscript
c) Handiwork
d) Thesis
Explanation: One word substitution is Manuscript.
13. The act of violating the sanctity of the church is
a) Blasphemy
b) Heresy
c) Sacrilege
d) Veneration
Explanation: One word substitution is Sacrilege.
14. Something that can be heard
a) Auditory
b) Audio-visual
c) Audible
d) Audition
Explanation: One word substitution is Audible.
15. A name adopted by an author in his writings
a) Nickname
b) Pseudonym
c) Nomenclature
d) Title
Explanation: One word substitution is Pseudonym.
16. One absorbed in his own thoughts and feelings rather than in things outside
a) Scholar
b) Recluse
c) Introvert
d) Intellectual
Explanation: One word substitute is Introvert.
17. One who dabbles in fine arts for the love of it and not for monetary gains
a) Connoisseur
b) Amateur
c) Professional
d) Dilettante
Explanation: One word substitute is Amateur.
18. A school boy who cuts classes frequently is a
a) Defeatist
b) Sycophant
c) Truant
d) Martinet
Explanation: One word substitute is Truant.
19. Ready to believe
a) Credulous
b) Credible
c) Creditable
d) Incredible
Explanation: One word substitute is Credulous.
20. Medical study of skin and its diseases
a) Dermatology
b) Endocrinology
c) Gynecologist
d) Orthopaedics
Explanation: One word substitute is Dermatology.
21. Study of birds
a) Orology
b) Optology
c) Ophthalmology
d) Ornithology
Explanation: One word substitute is Ornithology.
22. A place that provides refuge
a) Asylum
b) Sanatorium
c) Shelter
d) Orphanage
Explanation: One word substitute is Asylum.
23. A child born after death of his father
a) Posthumous
b) Orphan
c) Bastard
d) Progenitor
Explanation: One word substitute is Posthumous.
24. The absence of law and order
a) Rebellion
b) Anarchy
c) Mutiny
d) Revolt
Explanation: One word substitute is Anarchy.
25. A place where bees are kept in called
a) An apiary
b) A mole
c) A hive
d) A sanctuary
Explanation: One word substitute is An apiary.
26. A place where monks live as a secluded community
a) Cathedral
b) Diocese
c) Convent
d) Monastery
Explanation: One word substitute is Monastery.
27. Incapable of being seen through
a) Ductile
b) Opaque
c) Obsolete
d) Potable
Explanation: One word substitute is Opaque.
28. One who does not care for literature or art
a) Primitive
b) Illiterate
c) Philistine
d) Barbarian
Explanation: One word substitute is Philistine.
29. A large sleeping-room with many beds
a) Bedroom
b) Dormitory
c) Hostel
d) Basement
Explanation: One word substitute is Dormitory.
30. Continuing fight between parties, families, clans, etc.
a) Enmity
b) Feud
c) Quarrel
d) Skirmish
Explanation: One word substitute is Feud.
31. One who is in charge of museum
a) Curator
b) Supervisor
c) Caretaker
d) Warden
Explanation: One word substitute is Curator.
32. A government by the nobles
a) Aristocracy
b) Democracy
c) Autocracy
d) Bureaucracy
Explanation: One word substitute is Aristocracy.
33. One who is honourably discharged from service
a) Retired
b) Emeritus
c) Relieved
d) Emancipated
Explanation: One word substitute is Emeritus.
34. Present opposing arguments or evidence
a) Criticise
b) Criticise
c) Reprimand
d) Rebut
Explanation: One word substitute is Rebut.
35. The policy of extending a country's empire and influence
a) Communism
b) Internationalism
c) Capitalism
d) Imperialism
Explanation: One word substitute is Imperialism
36. That which cannot be seen
a) Insensible
b) Intangible
c) Invisible
d) Unseen
Explanation: One word substitution is Invisible.
37. To slap with a flat object
a) Chop
b) Hew
c) Gnaw
d) Swat
Explanation: One word substitution is Swat.
38. Habitually silent or talking little
a) Servile
b) Unequivocal
c) Taciturn
d) Synoptic
Explanation: One word substitution is Taciturn.
39. One who cannot be corrected
a) Incurable
b) Incorrigible
c) Hardened
d) Invulnerable
Explanation: One word substitution is Incorrigible.
40. Be the embodiment or perfect example of
a) Characterise
b) Idol
c) Personify
d) Signify
Explanation: One word substitution is Personify.
41. A disease of mind causing an uncontrollable desire to steal
a) Schizophrenia
b) Claustrophobia
c) Kleptomania
d) Megalomania
Explanation: One word substitute is Kleptomania.
42. One who sacrifices his life for a cause
a) Patriot
b) Martyr
c) Revolutionary
d) Soldier
Explanation: One word substitute is Martyr.
43. A person who brings goods illegally into the country
a) Importer
b) Exporter
c) Fraud
d) Smuggler
Explanation: One word substitute is Smuggler.
44. To take secretly in small quantities
a) Robbery
b) Pilferage
c) Theft
d) Defalcation
Explanation: One word substitute is Pilferage.
45. To accustom oneself to a foreign climate
a) Adapt
b) Adopt
c) Accustom
d) Acclimatise
Explanation: One word substitute is Acclimatise.
46. A person who tries to deceive people by claiming to be able to do wonderful things
a) Trickster
b) Imposter
c) Magician
d) Mountebank
Explanation: One word substitute is Trickster.
47. A dramatic performance
a) Mask
b) Mosque
c) Masque
d) Mascot
Explanation: One word substitute is Masque.
48. One who does not marry, especially as a religious obligation
a) Bachelor
b) Celibate
c) Virgin
d) Recluse
Explanation: One word substitute is Celibate.
49. That which is perceptible by touch is
a) Contagious
b) Contingent
c) Tenacious
d) Tangible
Explanation: One word substitute is Tangible.
50. Very pleasing to eat
a) Appetising
b) Palatable
c) Tantalising
d) Sumptuous
Explanation: One word substitute is Palatable.
51. A lady's umbrella is:
a) Parasol
b) Granary
c) Epitaph
d) Aviary
Explanation: The one word substitution is Parasol.
52. Story of old time gods or heroes is:
a) Lyric
b) Epic
c) Legend
d) Romance
Explanation: The one word substitution is Legend.
53. A sad song:
a) Ditty
b) Knell
c) Dirge
d) Lay
Explanation: The one word substitution is Dirge
54. One who believes in the power of fate:
a) Fatalist
b) Optimist
c) Pessimist
d) Parsimonious
Explanation: The one word substitution is Fatalist.
55. A person who loves everybody:
a) Cosmopolitan
b) Fratricide
c) Altruistic
d) Aristocrat
Explanation: One word substitute is Altruistic.
56. Use of force or threats to get someone to agree to something:
a) Coercion
b) Conviction
c) Confession
d) Cajolement
Explanation: The one word substitution is Coercion.
57. Animal that feeds on plants:
a) Carnivorous
b) Herbivorous
c) Insectivorous
d) Graminivorous
Explanation: The one word substitution is Herbivorous.
58. Group of stars:
a) Orbit
b) Constellation
c) Solar system
d) Comet
Explanation: The one word substitution is Constellation.
59. Lasting only for a very short time:
a) Transparent
b) Temporal
c) Temporary
d) Temperate
Explanation: The one word substitution is Temporary.
60. To examine one's own thoughts and feelings
a) Meditation
b) Retrospection
c) Reflection
d) Introspection
Explanation: The one word substitution is Introspection.
61. A person who knows many foreign languages
a) Linguist
b) Grammarian
c) Polyglot
d) Bilingual
Explanation: One word substitution is Linguist.
62. One who has little faith in human sincerity and goodness
a) Egoist
b) Fatalist
c) Stoic
d) Cynic
Explanation: One word substitution is Cynic.
63. One who possesses many talents
a) Versatile
b) Nubile
c) Exceptional
d) Gifted
Explanation: One word substitution is Versatile.
64. Words inscribed on tomb
a) Epitome
b) Epistle
c) Epilogue
d) Epitaph
Explanation: One word substitution is Epitaph.
65. One who eats everything
a) Omnivorous
b) Omniscient
c) Irresistible
d) Insolvent
Explanation: One word substitution is Omnivorous.
66. One who cannot easily pleased:
a) Cosmopolitan
b) Frightening
c) Fastidious
d) Feminist
Explanation: The one word substitution is Fastidious.
67. The murder of Brother:
a) Homicide
b) Regicide
c) Fratricide
d) Suicide
Explanation: The one word substitution is Fratricide
68. A person who is indifferent to pains and pleasure of life:
a) Stoic
b) Sadist
c) Psychiatrist
d) Aristocrat
Explanation: The one word substitution is Stoic.
69. 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
Explanation: The one word substitution is Soliloquy.
70. A disease which spreads by contact:
a) Incurable
b) Infectious
c) Contagious
d) Fatal
Explanation: The one word substitution is Contagious.
71. A person who renounces the world and practices self-discipline in order to attain salvation:
a) Sceptic
b) Ascetic
c) Devotee
d) Antiquarian
Explanation: One word substitution is Ascetic.
72. One who abandons his religious faith:
a) Apostate
b) Prostate
c) Profane
d) Agnostic
Explanation: One word-Substitution is Apostate.
73. A hater of knowledge and learning:
a) Bibliophile
b) Philologist
c) Misogynist
d) Misologist
Explanation: One word-substitution is Misologist
74. Commencement of words with the same letter:
a) Pun
b) Alliteration
c) Transferred epithet
d) Oxymoron
Explanation: The one word-substitution is Alliteration.
75. Person who does not believe in the existence of God:
a) Theist
b) Heretic
c) Atheist
d) Fanatic
Explanation: The one word substitution is Atheist.
76. One who has good taste for food:
a) Gourmet
b) Curator
c) Parasite
d) Stoic
Explanation: The one word substitution is Gourmet.
77. One who knows two languages:
a) Bigot
b) Bigamy
c) Bilingual
d) Brittle
Explanation: The one word substitution is Bilingual.
78. Government by the representatives of the people:
a) Autocracy
b) Democracy
c) Socialism
d) Anarchy
Explanation: The one word substitution is Democracy.
79. A disease that spreads over a large area:
a) Academic
b) Epidemic
c) Incorrigible
d) Invincible
Explanation: The one word substitution is Epidemic.
80. That which can never be believed:
a) Irrevocable
b) Inevitable
c) Incredible
d) Irritable
Explanation: The one word substitution is Incredible.
81. That which cannot be avoided:
a) Inevitable
b) Irreparable
c) Incomparable
d) Indisputable
Explanation: The one word substitution is Inevitable.
82. One who able to use the right and left hands equally well:
a) Sinister
b) Ambidextrous
c) Ambivalent
d) Amateur
Explanation: The one word substitution is Ambidextrous.
83. Government by rich:
a) Oligarchy
b) Aristocracy
c) Pantisocracy
d) Plutocracy
Explanation: The one word substitution is Plutocracy.
84. An independent person or body officially appointed to settle a dispute:
a) Arbiter
b) Mediator
c) Agent provocateur
d) Arbitrator
Explanation: The one word substitution is Arbitrator.
85. Murder of man:
a) Regicide
b) Fratricide
c) Homicide
d) Genocide
Explanation: The one word substitution is Homicide.
86. A remedy for all diseases
a) Stoic
b) Marvel
c) Panacea
d) Recompense
Explanation: One word substitution is Panacea.
87. One who is fond of fighting
a) Bellicose
b) Aggressive
c) Belligerent
d) Militant
Explanation: One word substitution is Bellicose.
88. A small shop that sells fashionable clothes, cosmetics, etc.
a) Store
b) Stall
c) Boutique
d) Booth
Explanation: One word substitution is Boutique.
89. That which cannot be read
a) Negligible
b) Illegible
c) Ineligible
d) Incorrigible
Explanation: One word substitution is Illegible
90. In a state of tension or anxiety or suspense
a) Off balance
b) Depressed
c) Diffused
d) On tenterhooks
Explanation: One word substitution is On tenterhooks
91. A man who rarely speaks the truth:
a) Crook
b) Liar
c) Scoundrel
d) Hypocrite
Explanation: The one word substitution is Liar.
92. A remedy for all diseases:
a) Narcotics
b) Antiseptic
c) Panacea
d) Lyric
Explanation: The one word substitution is Panacea.
93. International destruction of racial groups:
a) Matricide
b) Regicide
c) Genocide
d) Homicide
Explanation: One word substitution is Genocide.
94. Custom of having many wives:
a) Misogamy
b) Bigamy
c) Polygamy
d) Monogamy
Explanation: The one word substitution is Polygamy.
95. A pioneer of a reform movement:
a) Apostle
b) Apothecary
c) Apotheosis
d) Renegade
Explanation: The one word substitution is Apostle.
96. State in which the few govern the many
a) Monarchy
b) Oligarchy
c) Plutocracy
d) Autocracy
Explanation: One word substitution is Oligarchy
97. A style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge
a) Pedantic
b) Verbose
c) Pompous
d) Ornate
Explanation: One word substitution is Pedantic.
98. List of the business or subjects to be considered at a meeting
a) Schedule
b) Timetable
c) Agenda
d) Plan
Explanation: One word substitution is Agenda.
99. Leave or remove from a place considered dangerous
a) Evade
b) Evacuate
c) Avoid
d) Exterminate
Explanation: One word substitution is Evacuate
100. A person pretending to be somebody he is not
a) Magician
b) Rogue
c) Liar
d) Impostor
Explanation: One word substitution is Impostor