ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION – Set 5
Directions: In each of the following questions, choose the most suitable “one Word” for the given expressions.
- Paying back injury with injury
(a) Vendetta
(b) Repression
(c) Subjugation
(d) Reprisal
Ans:- (d) Reprisal
- Acutely affected by external impressions
(a) Ingenious
(b) Impressionable
(c) Credulous
(d) Sensitive
Ans:- (d) Sensitive
- To slap with a flat object
(a) Hew
(b) Swat
(c) Chop
(d) Gnaw
Ans:- (b) Swat
- An assembly of hearers
(a) Audience
(b) Crowd
(c) Congregation
(d) Assemblage
Ans:- (a) Audience
- An associate in an office or institution
(a) Companion
(b) Ally
(c) Colleague
(d) Accomplice
- One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by entre be moved by entreaties
(1) Inexorable
(2) Infallible
(3) Impregnable
(4) Inexplicable
Ans:- (1) Inexorable
- Regard for others as a principle of action
(1) Cynicism
(2) Nepotism
(3) Philanthropy
(4) Altruism
Ans:- (4) Altruism
- Person who claims to have great love for and understanding of what is beautiful in nature, art etc.
(1) Critic
(2) Aesthete
(3) Connoisseur
(4) Artist
Ans:- (2) Aesthete
- A disease which spreads by contact
(1) Infectious
(2) Contagious
(3) Contiguous
(4) Contextual
Ans: – (2) Contagious
- An animal story with a moral
(1) Fable
(2) Tale
(3) Anecdote
(4) Parable
Ans:- (1) Fable
