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MCQ on One Word Substitution


A person who talks in sleep is known as:

  • Somniloquist
  • Insomnist
  • Bourgeois
  • ventriloquist
  • Correct Option: A  [ Somniloquist ]

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A post with little work but high salary

  • Director
  • Trustee
  • Sinecure
  • Ombudsman
  • Correct Option: C  [ Sinecure ]

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To take secretly in small quantities

  • Robbery
  • Pilferage
  • Theft
  • Defalcation
  • Correct Option: B  [ Pilferage ]

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A fourteen-lined poem is called a

  • Sonnet
  • Epilogue
  • Composition
  • Lyric
  • Correct Option: A  [ Sonnet ]

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One who does not know reading or writing

  • Illegible
  • Illiterate
  • Ignorant
  • Uneducated
  • Correct Option: B  [ Illiterate ]

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The act of killing one's own father:

  • Parricide
  • Patricide
  • Fratricide
  • Parasite
  • Correct Option: B  [ Patricide ]

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A person who has no money to pay his debt

  • Insolvent
  • Poor
  • Destitute
  • Pauper
  • Correct Option: A  [ Insolvent ]

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The specialist who handles problems in the human body related to bones is a / an

  • Orthodontist
  • Osteopath
  • podiatrist
  • Oncologist
  • Correct Option: B  [ Osteopath ]

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A person of outgoing nature is known as a/an

  • Stoic
  • Extrovert
  • Megalomaniac
  • Philanthropist
  • Correct Option: B  [ Extrovert ]

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A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses. ( one word substitution)

  • Isthmus
  • Isobel
  • Isohyets
  • Holography
  • Correct Option: C  [ Isthmus ]

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