English One Word Substitution : All SSC Exams Previous Years Objective Solved Questions Set 6

Q.1:- Chief of a group of workmen ?

1. Chieftain
2. Engineer
3. Foreman
4. Middleman

Q.2:- Act of making things like new again ?

1. Innovate
2. Renovate
3. Motivate
4. Activate

Q.3:- Killing one’s sister ?

1. Regicide
2. Fratricide
3. Matricide
4. Sororicide

Q.4:- Animals without a backbone ?

1. Marsupials
2. Mammals
3. Vertebrate
4. Invertebrates

Q.5:- Emission of light or heat from a central point ?

1. Rays
2. Refraction
3. Reflection
4. Radiation

Q.6:- No longer a child, but not yet an adult ?

1. Youngster
2. Adolescent
3. Juvenile
4. Yokel

Q.7:- Experts who scientifically study insects ?

1. Gerontologists
2. Pathologists
3. Entomologists
4. Ornithologists

Q.8:- The act of killing a king ?

1. Regicide
2. Regalcide
3. Genocide
4. Homicide

Q.9:- Person who eats too much ?

1. Cannibal
2. Glutton
3. Obese
4. Carnivorous

Q.10:- The philosophy of putting another’s welfare above one’ own ?

1. Agnosticism
2. Polytheism
3. Altruism
4. Iconoclasm

Q.11:- Proposition made as a basis for reasoning without the assumption of its truth ?

1. Hypertext
2. Hypocrisy
3. Hyperbole
4. Hypothesis

Q.12:- That which cannot be believed ?

1. Awesome
2. Incredible
3. Credible
4. Ineffective

Q.13:- The schedule of travel ?

1. Itinerary
2. Time-Table
3. Travel Book
4. Guide Book

Q.14:- Imposed a restriction on ?

1. Constipated
2. Conserved
3. Constrained
4. Construed

Q.15:- A fourteen line poem ?

1. Sonnet
2. Lyric
3. Ballad
4. Ode

Q.16:- To secure a boat by attaching it to an anchor ?

1. Moor
2. Moot
3. Morose
4. Moose

Q.17:- A fear of closed / dark place ?

1. Xenophobia
2. Acrophobia
3. Claustrophobia
4. Pyrophobia

Q.18:- To free a person by a verdict of ‘Not Guilty’ ?

1. Acquaint
2. Acquit
3. Acquiesce
4. Acquire

Q.19:- Wildly unreasonable, illogical or ridiculous ?

1. Abject
2. Adept
3. Arid
4. Absurd

Q.20:- Fear of telling lies ?

1. Mythophobia
2. Legendary
3. Lyophobia
4. Oratory

Q.21:- One who is neither intelligent nor dull ?

1. Ordinary
2. Average
3. Fair
4. Mediocre

Q.22:- A woman whose husband is dead ?

1. Divorce
2. Fiancee
3. Widower
4. Widow

Q.23:- Walking in sleep ?

1. Obsession
2. Hallucination
3. Somnambulism
4. Somniloquism

Q.24:- Strange in appearance ?

1. Bizarre
2. Rustic
3. Geriatric
4. Decrepit

Q.25:- A vivacious and lively experience is said to be ?

1. Scintillating
2. Soothing
3. Scenic
4. Synthetic