One Word Substitution Questions and Answers





1. A building for storing threshed grain
a) Hangar
b) Dockyard
c) Store
d) Granary

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Granary.


2. Policeman riding on motorcycles as guards to a VIP
a) Outriders
b) Servants
c) Commandos
d) Attendants

Answer: a
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

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Vindictive.

4. Murder of a king
a) Infanticide
b) Matricide
c) Genocide
d) Regicide

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Regicide.

5. An expression of mild disapproval
a) Warning
b) Denigration
c) Impertinence
d) Reproof

Answer: d
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

Answer: d
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

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Fatalist.

8. Something that relates to everyone in the world
a) General
b) Common
c) Usual
d) Universal

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Universal.

9. To walk with slow or regular Steps is to
a) Limp
b) Stride
c) Pace
d) Advance

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitute is Pace.

10. A style full of words
a) Verbose
b) Pedantic
c) Rhetorical
d) Abundant

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Verbose.

11. A person not sure of the existence of god
a) Cynic
b) Agnostic
c) Atheist
d) Theist

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitution is Agnostic.

12. A paper written by hand
a) Handicraft
b) Manuscript
c) Handiwork
d) Thesis

Answer: b
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

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Sacrilege.

14. Something that can be heard
a) Auditory
b) Audio-visual
c) Audible
d) Audition

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Audible.

15. A name adopted by an author in his writings
a) Nickname
b) Pseudonym
c) Nomenclature
d) Title

Answer: b
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

Answer: c
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

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Amateur.

18. A school boy who cuts classes frequently is a
a) Defeatist
b) Sycophant
c) Truant
d) Martinet

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitute is Truant.

19. Ready to believe
a) Credulous
b) Credible
c) Creditable
d) Incredible

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Credulous.

20. Medical study of skin and its diseases
a) Dermatology
b) Endocrinology
c) Gynecologist
d) Orthopaedics

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Dermatology.

21. Study of birds
a) Orology
b) Optology
c) Ophthalmology
d) Ornithology

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Ornithology.

22. A place that provides refuge
a) Asylum
b) Sanatorium
c) Shelter
d) Orphanage

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Asylum.

23. A child born after death of his father
a) Posthumous
b) Orphan
c) Bastard
d) Progenitor

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Posthumous.

24. The absence of law and order
a) Rebellion
b) Anarchy
c) Mutiny
d) Revolt

Answer: b
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

Answer: a
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

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Monastery.

27. Incapable of being seen through
a) Ductile
b) Opaque
c) Obsolete
d) Potable

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Opaque.

28. One who does not care for literature or art
a) Primitive
b) Illiterate
c) Philistine
d) Barbarian

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitute is Philistine.

29. A large sleeping-room with many beds
a) Bedroom
b) Dormitory
c) Hostel
d) Basement

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Dormitory.

30. Continuing fight between parties, families, clans, etc.
a) Enmity
b) Feud
c) Quarrel
d) Skirmish

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Feud.

31. One who is in charge of museum
a) Curator
b) Supervisor
c) Caretaker
d) Warden

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Curator.

32. A government by the nobles
a) Aristocracy
b) Democracy
c) Autocracy
d) Bureaucracy

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Aristocracy.

33. One who is honourably discharged from service
a) Retired
b) Emeritus
c) Relieved
d) Emancipated

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Emeritus.

34. Present opposing arguments or evidence
a) Criticise
b) Criticise
c) Reprimand
d) Rebut

Answer: d
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

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Imperialism

36. That which cannot be seen
a) Insensible
b) Intangible
c) Invisible
d) Unseen

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Invisible.

37. To slap with a flat object
a) Chop
b) Hew
c) Gnaw
d) Swat

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is Swat.

38. Habitually silent or talking little
a) Servile
b) Unequivocal
c) Taciturn
d) Synoptic

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Taciturn.

39. One who cannot be corrected
a) Incurable
b) Incorrigible
c) Hardened
d) Invulnerable

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitution is Incorrigible.

40. Be the embodiment or perfect example of
a) Characterise
b) Idol
c) Personify
d) Signify

Answer: c
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

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitute is Kleptomania.

42. One who sacrifices his life for a cause
a) Patriot
b) Martyr
c) Revolutionary
d) Soldier

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Martyr.

43. A person who brings goods illegally into the country
a) Importer
b) Exporter
c) Fraud
d) Smuggler

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Smuggler.

44. To take secretly in small quantities
a) Robbery
b) Pilferage
c) Theft
d) Defalcation

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Pilferage.

45. To accustom oneself to a foreign climate
a) Adapt
b) Adopt
c) Accustom
d) Acclimatise

Answer: d
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

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitute is Trickster.

47. A dramatic performance
a) Mask
b) Mosque
c) Masque
d) Mascot

Answer: c
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

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Celibate.

49. That which is perceptible by touch is
a) Contagious
b) Contingent
c) Tenacious
d) Tangible

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitute is Tangible.

50. Very pleasing to eat
a) Appetising
b) Palatable
c) Tantalising
d) Sumptuous

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitute is Palatable.

51. A lady's umbrella is:
a) Parasol
b) Granary
c) Epitaph
d) Aviary

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

52. Story of old time gods or heroes is:
a) Lyric
b) Epic
c) Legend
d) Romance

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

53. A sad song:
a) Ditty
b) Knell
c) Dirge
d) Lay

Answer: c
Explanation: The one word substitution is Dirge

54. One who believes in the power of fate:
a) Fatalist
b) Optimist
c) Pessimist
d) Parsimonious

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

55. A person who loves everybody:
a) Cosmopolitan
b) Fratricide
c) Altruistic
d) Aristocrat

Answer: c
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

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

57. Animal that feeds on plants:
a) Carnivorous
b) Herbivorous
c) Insectivorous
d) Graminivorous

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

58. Group of stars:
a) Orbit
b) Constellation
c) Solar system
d) Comet

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

59. Lasting only for a very short time:
a) Transparent
b) Temporal
c) Temporary
d) Temperate

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

60. To examine one's own thoughts and feelings
a) Meditation
b) Retrospection
c) Reflection
d) Introspection

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

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

Answer: a
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

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is Cynic.

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

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Versatile.

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

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is Epitaph.

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

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Omnivorous.

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

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

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

Answer: c
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

Answer: a
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

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

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

Answer: c
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

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitution is Ascetic.

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

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

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

Answer: d
Explanation: One word-substitution is Misologist

74. 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.

75. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

79. 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.

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

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

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

Answer: a
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

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

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

Answer: d
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

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

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

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

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

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Panacea.

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

Answer: a
Explanation: One word substitution is Bellicose.

88. 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.

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

Answer: b
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

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is On tenterhooks

91. A man who rarely speaks the truth:
a) Crook
b) Liar
c) Scoundrel
d) Hypocrite

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

92. A remedy for all diseases:
a) Narcotics
b) Antiseptic
c) Panacea
d) Lyric

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

93. International destruction of racial groups:
a) Matricide
b) Regicide
c) Genocide
d) Homicide

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Genocide.

94. Custom of having many wives:
a) Misogamy
b) Bigamy
c) Polygamy
d) Monogamy

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

95. A pioneer of a reform movement:
a) Apostle
b) Apothecary
c) Apotheosis
d) Renegade

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

96. State in which the few govern the many
a) Monarchy
b) Oligarchy
c) Plutocracy
d) Autocracy

Answer: b
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

Answer: a
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

Answer: c
Explanation: One word substitution is Agenda.

99. Leave or remove from a place considered dangerous
a) Evade
b) Evacuate
c) Avoid
d) Exterminate

Answer: b
Explanation: One word substitution is Evacuate

100. A person pretending to be somebody he is not
a) Magician
b) Rogue
c) Liar
d) Impostor

Answer: d
Explanation: One word substitution is Impostor