ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
(CGL Mains 2017)
1. Fear of pain.
Options:
1) Mysophobia
2) Algophobia
3) Acrophobia
4) Homophobia
Correct Answer: Algophobia
2.200 th anniversary.
Options:
1) Quadriennial
2) Bicentennial
3) Quinquennial
4) Bimillennial
Correct Answer: Bicentennial
3.A short story with a moral.
Options:
1) Wobble
2) Parable
3) Scrabble
4) Affable
Correct Answer: Parable
4.Dress with medals, ribbons worn at official ceremony.
Options:
1) Penicillia
2) Penetralia
3) Regalia
4) Basophilia
Correct Answer: Regalia
5.Extreme or indefinite to be adequately described.
Options:
1) Ostensible
2) Indescribable
3) Impressionable
4) Conceivable
Correct Answer: Indescribable
6.The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
Options:
1) Abolishment
2) Disenfranchisement
3) Abandonment
4) Abatement
Correct Answer: Disenfranchisement
7.Assembly or parliament in which no party has got clear majority.
Options:
1) Clung
2) Hung
3) Pung
4) Dung
Correct Answer: Hung
8.Belonging to middle class.
Options:
1) Chamois
2) Turquois
3) Bourgeois
4) Envious
Correct Answer: Bourgeois
9.A formal expression of praise for someone who has died.
Options:
1) Orology
2) Eulogy
3) Cytology
4) Misology
Correct Answer: Eulogy
10.One who dies without will.
Options:
1) Abdicate
2) Intestate
3) Fortunate
4) Desperate
Correct Answer: Intestate
11.Systematic study of election trends.
Options:
1) Archaeology
2) Psephology
3) Entomology
4) Eschatology
Correct Answer: Psephology
12.A statement which is accepted as true without proof.
Options:
1) Elegy
2) Axiom
3) Agenda
4) Almanac
Correct Answer: Axiom
13.Killer of prophet
Options:
1) Mariticide
2) Vaticide
3) patricide
4) Sororicide
Correct Answer: Vaticide
14.A person who preserves skin of animals
Options:
1) Biloquist
2) Philologist
3) Taxidermist
4) Oculist
Correct Answer: Taxidermist
15.A government by the military class
Options:
1) Kratocracy
2) Pantisocracy
3) Stratocracy
4) Mobocracy
Correct Answer: Stratocracy
16.Obsession for wine
Options:
1) Ethnomania
2) Oenomania
3) Egomania
4) Idolomania
Correct Answer: Oenomania
17.A person’s last performance
Options:
1) Prognosis
2) Elegy
3) Memoir
4) Swan song
Correct Answer: Swan song
18.Eating mud
Options:
1) Equivorous
2) Limivorous
3) Calcivorous
4) Fructivorous
Correct Answer: Limivorous
19.Kiling of birds
Options:
1) Herbicide
2) Avicide
3) Vulpicide
4) Matricide
Correct Answer: Avicide
20.Love for dogs
Options:
1) Paedophilia
2) Sinophile
3) Canophilia
4) Zoophilia
Correct Answer: Canophilia
21.Lack of civic-mindedness or of patriotism
Options:
1) Iconomachy
2) Incivism
3) Shag
4) Clergy
Correct Answer: Incivism
Candidate Answer: Clergy
22.Study of snakes
Options:
1) Philology
2) Phrenology
3) Ophilogy
4) Upology
Correct Answer: Ophilogy
23.Preferring or attracted to sunlight
Options:
1) Lithophilous
2) Heliophilous
3) Topophilia
4) Homophile
Correct Answer: Heliophilous
Candidate Answer: Topophilia
24.Mutual discourse
Options:
1) Soliloquy
2) Obloquy
3) Colloquy
4) Eloquence
Correct Answer: Colloquy
25.Insatiable greed for riches
Options:
1) Avarice
2) Actuary
3) Antiquary
4) Apostate
Correct Answer: Avarice
26.Like a weak old woman
Options:
1) Amazon
2) Acetic
3) Anile
4) Archer
Correct Answer: Anile
27.To renounce one’s faith or religion
Options:
1) Fantasy
2) Euphrasy
3) Apostasy
4) Epistasy
Correct Answer: Apostasy
28.Vexation for humiliation of disappointment
Options:
1) Linen
2) Adrenalin
3) Chagrin
4) Porcelain
Correct Answer: Chagrin
29.Situated on bank
Options:
1) Dorsal
2) Tussal
3) Versal
4) Basal
Correct Answer: Dorsal
30.A girl with brown hair
Options:
1) Damsel
2) Lassie
3) Brunette
4) Mademoiselle
Correct Answer: Brunette
31.Mountain climbing
Options:
1) Alienisms
2) Alpinism
3) Albinism
4) Algorism
Correct Answer: Alpinism
32.Combustibles – flammable
Options:
1) Allative
2) Conflagrant
3) Agglomerative
4) Calmative
Correct Answer: Conflagrant
33.A science of race, culture and human development
Options:
1) Tannery
2) Eugenics
3) Volley
4) Treak
Correct Answer: Eugenics
34.Medicine that causes vomiting
Options:
1) Valise
2) Satire
3) Pyre
4) Emetic
Correct Answer: Emetic
35.Delusion of suffering from a disease
Options:
1) Lypemania
2) Nosomania
3) Naruomania
4) Phagomania
Correct Answer: Nosomania
36.A person employed to drive a private or hired car.
Options:
1) Amateur
2) Chauffeur
3) Connoisseur
4) Provocateur
Correct Answer: Chauffeur
37.Costing nothing.
Options:
1) Fortis
2) Glottis
3) Gratis
4) Abatis
Correct Answer: Gratis
38.Any new participant in some activity.
Options:
1) Neophyte
2) Holophyte
3) Mesophyte
4) Epiphyte
Correct Answer: Neophyte
39.A person who lives by himself.
Options:
1) Bemuse
2) Recluse
3) Applause
4) Abstruse
Correct Answer: Recluse
40.Not allowing fluid to pass-through.
Options:
1) Envious
2) Impervious
3) Conscious
4) Nauseous
Correct Answer: Impervious
41.A place where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food.
Options:
1) Reservoir
2) Abattoir
3) Memoir
4) Peignoir
Correct Answer: Abattoir
42.One who runs away from justice.
Options:
1) Plaintive
2) Fugitive
3) Accretive
4) Adventives
Correct Answer: Fugitive
43.A slight fault that can be forgiven.
Options:
1) Venial
2) Bovial
3) Areial
4) Xenial
Correct Answer: Venial
44.A paradise with perfect bliss.
Options:
1) Epineurium
2) Elysium
3) Encomium
4) Eulogium
Correct Answer: Elysium
45.A story that expresses ideas through symbols.
Options:
1) Armoury
2) Allegory
3) Amatory
4) Aleatory
Correct Answer: Allegory
46.A period of interval between two regimes and governments.
Options:
1) Polygonum
2) Magnum
3) Interregnum
4) Presternum
Correct Answer: Interregnum
47.A decision made by public voting.
Options:
1) Anthracite
2) Chalcocite
3) Plebiscite
4) Reincite
Correct Answer: Plebiscite
