One Word Substitution -3

One-word Substitution Questions

Q1. Open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning.

(a) trite

(b) opposite

(c) exceptional

(d) ambiguous

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Answer- Ambiguous means having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally.

Q2. Become apparent through the appearance of symptoms.

(a) manifest

(b) distinct

(c) vague

(d) divulged

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Answer- Manifest means clear or obvious to the eye or mind.

Q3. Based on random choice or personal whim

(a) auxiliary

(b) arbitrary

(c) allegory

(d) ambulatory

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Answer- Arbitrary: based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

Q4. The recently dead person in question

(a) obliviate

(b) deceased

(c) euthanized

(d) reposed

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Answer- Euthanized: put an animal to death humanely.

Q5. Liquids forming a homogenous mixture when added together

(a) irascible

(b) crucible

(c) miscible

(d) risible

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Answer- Miscible: forming a homogeneous mixture when added together

Q6. To delay or prevent someone or something by obstructing them

(a) to perturb

(b) to impede

(c) to irk

(d) to faze

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Answer- impede: delay or prevent

Q7. To treat with cruelty or violence

(a) wrong

(b) abuse

(c) pervert

(d) fault

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Answer- abuse: cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal.

Q8. To pilfer or steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way.

(a) to loot

(b) to filch

(c) to rip off

(d) to plunder

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Answer- filch means to steal or take surreptitiously in small amounts; pilfer

Q9. To have a strong emotional effect on.

(a) to smother

(b) to yield

(c) to overwhelm

(d) to forfeit

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Answer- overwhelm: to have a strong emotional effect on.

Q10. A substance that has no therapeutic effect, is used as a control in testing new drugs.

(a) sedentary

(b) placebo

(c) lax

(d) torpid

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Answer- placebo: A placebo is a substance or treatment with no active therapeutic effect

Q11. Feeling or showing deep and solemn respect.

(a) pious

(b) reverent

(c) humble

(d) devout

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Answer- devout: having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment.

Q12. Disgusting and an unpleasant smell.

(a) oops

(b) ouch

(c) darn

(d) rancid

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Answer- rancid: smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale.

Q13.A period of time during which a person that might have a disease is kept away from other people so that the disease cannot spread

(a) solitude

(b) seclusion

(c) quarantine

(d) desolate

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Answer- quarantine: a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to the infectious or contagious disease are placed.

Q14. To move hurriedly with short quick steps

(a) to scurry

(b) to skim

(c) to whirl

(d) to zip

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Answer- Scurry: move hurriedly with short quick steps.

Q15. A person who is not accepted by a social group, especially because he or she is not liked, respected, or trusted

(a) fugitive

(b) vagrant

(c) pariah

(d) tramp

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Answer- pariah

Q16. Having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger

(a) volatile

(b) wild

(c) reckless

(d) giddy

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Answer- giddy

Q17. A rich source of something

(a) antecedent

(b) lode

(c) node

(d) provenience

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Answer- lode: a rich source of something.

Q18. To treat with cruelty or violence

(a) wrong

(b) abuse

(c) pervert

(d) fault

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Answer- abuse: cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal.

Q19. Relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld

(a) douse (b) execrable

(c) Elysium (d) infernal

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Answer- infernal: relating to or characteristic of hell or the underworld.

Q20. To allay the sorrow or grief

(a) to lament

(b) to console

(c) distress

(d) solace

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Answer- Console: to comfort someone at a time of grief or disappointment.