ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION — SOLVED PRACTICE SET-5

1. One who knows everything
A) Omniscient B) Conscious
C) Intellectual D) Learned

2. Any morbid dread of water
A) Hydrofoil B) Hydrophobia
C) Hydraulic D) Hyacinth

3. A drug which makes one see things that are not really there
A) Aphrodisiac B) Steroid
C) Carcinogen D) Hallucinogen

4. Providing relief
A) Reissue B) Reprieve
C) Rejoinder D) Refuge

5. The philosophy of putting another’s welfare above one’s own
A) Agnosticism B) Polytheism
C) Altruism D) Iconoclasm

6. Shine with a bright but brief or irregular light
A) Whimper B) Flicker
C) Cower D) Mutter

7. The act of setting free from bondage of any kind
A) Emancipation B) Eradication
C) Indemnity D) Emigration

8. A disease that affects a large number of people in an area at the same time
A) Endemic B) Epidemic
C) Epidermis D) Endothermic

9. A thing no longer in use
A) Illusion B) Illegal
C) Obsolete D) Historic

10. A place where astronomical observations are made
A) Laboratory B) Observatory
C) Astrolibrary D) Astrophery

ANSWER KEY

Solution with explanation

2. Option ‘B’ (Hydrophobia). MORBID = having an unusual interest in death or unpleasant events; DREAD = डर. MORBID DREAD = मरने का डर

6. Option ‘B’ (Flicker). FLICKER = to shine with a light that is sometimes bright and sometimes weak; e.g.

I felt a cold draft and the candle started to flicker.

7. Option ‘A’ (Emancipation). BONDAGE = the state of being another person’s slave (= a person who is owned by them and has to work for them); e.g.

The slaves were kept in bondage until their death.

10. Option ‘B’ (Observatory). ASTRONOMY = the scientific study of the universe and of objects that exist naturally in space, such as the moon, the sun, planets, and stars

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