One Word Substitutes Practice Set 4

Directions: In the questions given below, four alternatives are given for a description. Click on the option which you think is the BEST SUBSTITUTE of the description.

SentenceAns

46. One who believes in offering equal opportunities to women in all spheres.

  1. male chauvinist
  2. feminist
  3. fatalist
  4. futurist

47. Killing of a child

  1. homicide
  2. genocide
  3. infanticide
  4. suicide

48. The art of eating good food

  1. gastronomy
  2. astronomy
  3. vegetarianism
  4. gourmet

49. One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain.

  1. stoic
  2. stylist
  3. cynic
  4. psychic

50. Lasting only for a moment

  1. momentous
  2. momentary
  3. trivial
  4. petty

51. Habit of walking in sleep

  1. Ventriloquism
  2. Somniloquism
  3. Somnambulism
  4. Fatalism

52. To decorate (prepared food or drink) with small colorful or savory items

  1. Furnish
  2. Cherish
  3. Tarnish
  4. Garnish

53. A place where government/public records are kept

  1. Archive
  2. Museum
  3. Shelf
  4. Cellar

54. One who has the ability to project his voice so that it seems to come from another source

  1. Funambulist
  2. Ventriloquist
  3. Plagiarist
  4. Soliloquist


SentenceAns

55. Too much official formality

  1. Bureaucracy
  2. Red-Tapism
  3. Nepotism
  4. Formalism

56. One who destroys images or attacks popular beliefs

  1. Imagist
  2. Misanthropist
  3. Iconoclast
  4. Masochist

57. Dry weather with no rainfall

  1. Draught
  2. Draft
  3. Drought
  4. Desert

58. A sly look that is lustful

  1. Leer
  2. Lore
  3. Lark
  4. Littoral

59. A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal for his religion.

  1. Clergy
  2. Heretic
  3. Fanatic
  4. Terrorist

60. Deep in thought

  1. Meditation
  2. Pensive
  3. Pesky
  4. Purloin

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