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ONE-WORD
SUBSTITUTION

3. That which makes it difficult to recognise

introduction the presence or real nature of somebody or

Subsutution is also a variant of vocabulary test. In this

something
(a) cover (b) camouflage
test, you are required to use one word for a sentence or
pretence (d) mask
2 part of a sentence. There are certain specific words
Here the answer is (b), camaouflage, because
that stand for a group of words or indicate a place, a
this word stands for the whole sentence.
Situaion or state of mind.
4. A place where animals are kept.

EXAMPLES (a) zoo (b) aviary

(c)museum (d)sanctuary
that he would bear a hand in my Here the answer is (a), zoo because a place
1 I was sure new
where the animals are kept is known as a zoo.
enterprise
2interfere (b) join 5. A place where gambling is practised.
Cassist (d) rejoice a) hotel (b) casino
Here the answer is (c), assist. Assist stands for (c restaurant (d) theatre
ne group of words, bear a hand. The answer is (b), casino
2 I cleared off all mny debts with the large mony 6. A house where an Eskimo lives.
pad o me on retirement. (a) dower (b) igloo
agoldenhandshake (c) mint (d) hamlet
tgod mine Here the answer is (b), igloo
lon's 7. One who is unable to pay one's debt.
dwindfall (a) bankrupt (b) borrower
he answer is (a), golden handshake. This expression
(c) loanee d) obliged
stards fror the underlined words.
 Examinations
A.252 | Objective English for Competitive believes in God:
because this word
4. One who theist
The answer is (a), bankrupt, knows everything:
indicates the economic
situation of the man 5. One who omniscient
6. One who is present
Concerned.

of a region.
everywhere: omnipresent
8. The plants and vegetation
(a) fauna (b) fora 7. One who is
all powerful: omnipotent
c a n n o t read
and
(c) landscape (d) climate 8. One who
this word indicates write: iliterate
The answer is (b), fora, as

9. One who acts against

the vegetation of the concerned
area.

relhgion:
heretc
9. The period between two reigns.
one's
(b) gap 10. One who offers
(a) interregnum Volunteer
services:
(c)anachronism (d) stasis
unable to
The answer is (a), interregnum,
because this word 11. One who is
indicates the political situation of a country
payoff one's debt: bankrupt
12. One who loves
mankind: philanthropist
10. One who hates mankind.
(a) misanthrope (b) philanthropist 13. Love for mankind philanthropy
(c) lover (d) hater
14. One who hates
mankind: misanthrope
because this
The answer is (a), misanthrope, 15. One who is out to destroy
state of mind
word indicates the mentioned anarchist
the government:
11. One who believes in God. 16. One who eats human
(a) atheist (b) theist cannibal
flesh:
)moral1 (d) immoral fesh: carnivorous
17. One who lives on
The answer is (b), theist.
18. One who lives at the
12. A man who hates marriage. same time: contemporary
(a) polyandrist (b) bigot 19. One who is more than a
misogamist d) widower centenenan
hundred years old:
The answer is (c), misogamist.
20. One who is eighty years
In fact, substitution plays a great role in achieving
old: octogenarian
brevity of speech and writing. In this age of jet-set
in 21. One for whom the world
competition, one has to communicate ettectively
minimum time and space. Thus this art helps you adjust is a home cosmopolitan
to the contemporary situation. You can master it by the 22. One who is indifferent to
usual process of learning it and commiting it to memory Stoic
pain and pleasure:
by constant use and rigorous practice. A command in the 23. One who champions the
art of substitution will help you immensely in sentence feminist
cause of women:
completion as well.
24. One who is given to
pleasures of the flesh: epicure
Some Substitutes 25. One that lives on others: parasite

26. One who is

1. One who looks at the sympathetic
to mankind: humanitarian

bright side of things: optimist

27. One who walks on foot: pedestrian
2. One who looks at the dark
28. One who studies
side of things: pessimist things
of the past:t antiquarian
3. One who does not believe
in God: atheist 29. One who is gifted with
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52. One who
0. One who does not drink pretends to be
what he is not:
hypocrite
teetotaller 53. One who imitates the
who is new to a
31. One voice and gestures of
protession:
novice another: Mimic
who is a habitual
32. One 54. A
drunkard:
professional rider in
Sot toper horse races:
jockey
who settles in
33. One 55. A place with gambling
another country: tables:
immigrant Casino
34. One who knows many
56. A number of
sheep: flock
languages polygot 57. A number of sailors
35. One who carves in working on a ship: crew
stones:
sculptor 58. A collection of flags: bunting
36. One who cuts precious
stones:
lapidist 59. A number of
ships: fleet
lapidary) 60. A cluster of houses in a
37. One who deals in cattle:
drover village: hamlet
38. One who cures eye
61. A number of stars
diseases: oculist grouped together: constellation
39. One who sells sweets 62. The house of an Eskimo:
and pastries: igloo
confectioner 63. The house of an Arab: dowar
40. One who collects postage 64. A factory for
stamps: philatelist manufacturing beer:
41. One who mends shoes: brewery
cobbler 65. A place for the collection
42. One who loads and of dried plants: herbarium
unloads ships: stevedore 66. A building for lodging
43. One who
compiles a dictionary: lexicographer of soldiers: barrack
44. One who walks in one's 67. A place where money is coined:
somnam mint
sleep: bulist 68. A place where orphans
45. One who talks in one's are housed:
orphanage
sleep: somniloquist 69. An institution for
46. One who has reforming young offenders:
an reformatory
irresistible tendency to 70. A place for improving
steal: kleptomaniac one's health: resort
47. One who
breaks images 71. A case in which the sword is kept: sheath
church omaments: iconoclast
72. A substance that destroys germs:
48. One who antiseptic
retires from 73. A medicine which
Kiety to live a solitary life: recluse

49. One who

produces insensitivity: anaesthetic
has special skill 74. A medicine to counteract
7 udging art, music, etc.: connoisseur
poison: antidote
, One who is devoted to the
75. An instrument for
plecasures f cating and drinking: cpicure listening to the activities
1. One who is
given of the heart and lungs:
Snsual
o the
voluptuary
stethoscope
pleasures of body:
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Objective English for Competitive
A.254 | 104. Government by
immune
Free from intection: departments of state:
76.
77. A cure for all diseases panacca
Government of, for and
bureaucracy
105.
78. A place where dead
bodies are kept mortuary: 1ortuary
by the people:
democracy
106. The right of self

79. A placc where dead

ccmctery
government:
autonomy
bodies are interred: between two
107. The period
80. A place where dead reigns: interregnum
bodies are kept for 108. A council of clergymen: synod
1morguc
dentitication: which
at
109. The ceremony
81. An examination of a
postmortem
a man becomes a priest: ordination
dead body: 110. Violating religious things:
posthumous sacrlege
82. Occurring after death: devoted
111. One intolerantly
on a tomb: epitaph
83. An inscription to a particular creed: bigot
84. The dead body of an
carcassS 112. A man who has more

animal:
than o n e wife at a time: polygamist
chromatics
85. The science of colours:
113. A woman who has
more

86. The science of the than o n e husband at a

structure of human body: anatomy time: polyandrist
87. The art of effective 114. A hater of women: misogynist
elocution
speaking: 115. One who is vowed to

anthropology unmarried life: celibate

88. The study of mankind:
whose wife is dead: widower
89. The study of the human 116. A man

mind: psychology whose husband is dead:

widow
117. A woman

90. The study of physical life: biology be married:

betrothed
118. Engaged to
91. The study of plants: botany
119. An instrument for
92. The study of animals: oology recording the revolutions
gyroscope
rocks and of the carth:
93. The study of
soils:
geology 120. An instrument for
ammeter

94. The study of birds: ornithology measuring electric current:

contraband

95. The study of mountains: oralogy 121. Smuggled goods:

espionage
6. The study of languages: philology 122. The act of spying:
7. The study of stars: astronomny 123. A knife fixed on the end
bayonet
of a gun:
9%The study of the origin cavalry

asd histry of words: etymology 124. Soldiers on horses:

infantry

9. The study of arncient 125. Soldiers on foot:

writing paleography 126. A book of accounts ledger
40. The art of beautiful credit:
showing debit and
hatdwriing calligraphy 127. A book containing
61. The art f preerving skin tazidermy information on all the e n c y c l o p e d i a

142. nernnent br; the niiliry: aristocracy branches of knowledge autobio-

03. (nernment bry a few ligarchy 128. A record of one's life

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written by oneself
8raphy 154. Animals that suckle their
record of one's life mammals
129. A young:
written by somebody else: biography 155. A speech made withouat
130. A
speech by the preparation: extempore
dramatist at the beginning
156. A decision on which all1
of a play:
prologue agree: unanimous
the
131. A speech by 157. A writer who steals ideas
dramatist at the end of
from another: plagiarist
the play: epilogue 158. One that lives on others:
of mourning: parasite
132. A poem elegy 159. A medicine that loosens
in wall
133. A hollow space
a
the bowels: laxative
for a statue:
niche
160. A speech made to oneselt:
pay off one's
soliloquy
134. Unable to
161. The place where clothes
debt: insolvent
are kept: wardrobe
135. Language that has been
very much used: 162. A person's last utterance: Swan song
hackneyed 163. Asking everyone for an
136. Correct spelling:
137. A place where ancient
orthography opinion: referendum

works are kept: 164. Separation from other

musuem
people to avoid infection: quarantine
138. A very private room: sanctumn
165. An imaginary ideal: utopia
sanctorum
166. A thing kept in memory of
139. A place where mad men lunatic an event: souvenit
are kept: asylum
167. That which can be heard: audible
140. A war of religion: crusade
168. That which cannot be
141. A lover of books:
bibliophile heard: inaudible
142. Animals that live in water: acquatic 169. That which can be read:
143. A written declaration
legible
170. That which cannot be read
made on an oath: affidavit illegible
171. Liable to catch fire easily: inflammable
144. A bunch of flowers:
bouquet 172. That which can be eaten:
145. A child born of unlawful edible
173. That which can be carried: portable
marriage: bastard
146. A game 174. Incapable of being
or battle where
corrected:
no party wins: draw incorrigible
147. A 175. Commonplace remarks: platitudes
person's first speech: maiden
speech 176. Belief of God in Nature pantheism
148.
Killing man:
a homicide 177. The green colouring
149. matter in the leaves of
Killing one's king regicide plants: chlorophyll
150. 178. The animals of a certain
Killing one's mother: matricide

151. region: fauna

Killing one's father: patricide
179. The plants and vegetation
152.
Killing one's brother: fratricide of a region: flora
153. Killing oneself:
suicide 180. Incapable of being burnt: incombustible
181. An instrument for seeing
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A.258 Objective English for Competitive some inportant questions

direct vote of
journey for given by a
261. A short 1aun
pleasurc:
scene
278. Thec
the people:
presentation
to the pietiscin
262. A swiftly changing kaleidoscope bill
of a proposcd
or pattern:
people vote:
by
26.3. A lightly
constructed open
for decision

of a person
reterendu
booth gcnerally used as a 279. A portrait
kiosk with only
the outline of
neusstand:

264. That cannot be pacified:

implacable the profile:
or tending to
ilhouene
280. Causing
265. A w r i t t e n attack using
humour to provoke
cause sleep:
of
Soponifhr
lampoon on
account

contempt: 281. Retired

with pension:
super.
266. A false w r i t t e n statement
age, usually annuated
to damage a person's
libel
282. A substitute:
surrogate
surveil.
repute: 283. A close
watch kept over someone:
vellance
or sentencc in n a m e : titular
267. A phrase 284. Existing only
that is comical or
description
nonsensical because the 285. A short literary
marked by delicacy: 1gnette
speaker used a wrong
monk lives:
word that sounded 286. A place where
a monaster
malapropism
something like a right word:
instruction from an Practice Set
268. An
electorate to its represen-
mandate

tative:
Direction: Out of the given alternatives, choose
of substituted for the given
269. A full-size model
a
the one which can be
human
complete or partial words or sentence.
mannequin
figure: in God.
270. Personal reminiscences
I. One who believes
(b) theist
memoir (a) agnostic
in a
narratuve form:
(d) secularist
modus (c) devotee
271. The m a n n e r
of operating
operandi dead.
or proceeding: 2. One whose wife is
(b) widow
journey: odyssey (a) widower
272. A long wandering (d) celibate
c) divorcee
decree
273. An authoritatuve
ordinance
or law of the government: 3. A place good for the sick.
(b) sanitorium
(a) resort
274. A person having authority
toinquire into grievances ) hospital (d) asylum
of citizens against public man.
authoritics:
ombudsman 4. Government by o n e
(b) monarchy
(a) anarchy
275. A peech r wriing (d) democracy
or a
(c) autocracy
ptaiting 2 person
panegyric 5. One who walks in one's sleep.
hung (b) somnambulist

276. A bner, pecially une who (a) dreamer

urlawfuliy takes the position ()neomatic (d) ignorant
own.

fa wife n a husband: paramour break

6. A person suffering from nervous

277. An ezpressirni f the (a) eccentric (b) neurotic

puar will conerning (d) mongrel

()lunatic