ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION
      8               ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION
    Directions (1-10) : In these ques-          Directions (11-20) : Out of the      21. Give and receive mutually
tions, out of the four alternatives        four alternatives, choose the one             (1) present
choose the one which can be substi-        which can be substituted for the              (2) reciprocate
tuted for the given words/sentence.        given words/sentence.
                                                                                         (3) compromise
              (SSC Section Officer (Audit)              (SSC Section Officer (Audit)
                                                                 Exam. 09.09.2001)       (4) approve
                            Exam. 1997)
   1. A person with a long experience        11. Succession of rulers belonging      22. One who can think about the
      of any occupation                          to one family.                          future with imagination and
                                                 (1) dynasty     (2) lineage             wisdom.
      (1) veteran
                                                 (3) ancestry    (4) progeny             (1) dreamer (2) seer
      (2) genius
                                             12. To cut something into two               (3) idealist     (4) visionary
      (3) seasoned                               pieces.                             23. A doctor who treats children
      (4) ambidexterous                          (1) severe      (2) sever
                                                                                         (1) paediatrician
   2. Words written on a tomb                    (3) sewer       (4) sow
                                                                                         (2) pedagogue
      (1) epithet     (2) epigraph           13. Flat metal or Porcelain plate
                                                 fixed on a wall as an ornament          (3) pedestrian
      (3) Soliloquy (4) epitaph
                                                 or memorial.                            (4) paedophile
   3. Stealthily done                            (1) tabloid     (2) poster          24. One who studies election trends
      (1) devious                                (3) board       (4) plaque              by means of opinion polls.
      (2) nefarious                          14. Act of deceiving somebody in            (1) entomologist
      (3) surreptitious                          order to make money.                    (2) psephologist
      (4) villainous                             (1) fraud       (2) robbery             (3) demagogue
   4. Something no longer in use                 (3) pickpocket (4) theft
                                                                                         (4) eugenist
                                             15. A short poem or speech
      (1) desolate (2) absolute                                                      25. One who believes in offering
                                                 addressed to the spectators
      (3) obsolete (4) primitive                 after the conclusion of a drama.        equal opportunities to women in
   5. One not concerned with right or            (1) prologue (2) dialogue               all spheres.
      wrong                                      (3) epilogue (4) monologue              (1) male chauvinist
      (1) moral       (2) amoral             16. Capable of being understood in          (2) feminist
      (3) immoral (4) immortal                   either of two or more possible          (3) fatalist
                                                 senses, and therefore not               (4) futurist
   6. A person who opposes war or
                                                 definite.
      use of military force                                                          26. Killing of a child
                                                 (1) amphibious(2) ambiguous
      (1) fascist     (2) pacifist                                                       (1) homicide (2) genocide
                                                 (3) amorphous (4) confusing
      (3) narcissist (4) fatalist            17. A person who is unable to pay           (3) infanticide (4) suicide
   7. Severely abusive writing in                his debts.                          27. The art of good eating
      journals                                   (1) solvent     (2) banker              (1) gastronomy
      (1) imaginary (2) speculative              (3) insolvent (4) lender                (2) astronomy
      (3) scurrilous (4) sarcastic           18. Anything which is no longer in          (3) vegetarianism
                                                 use.                                    (4) gourmet
   8. Call upon God or any other                 (1) obscure     (2) obsolete
      power (like law) etc. for help or                                              28. One who is indifferent to
                                                 (3) pristine    (4) lapsed              pleasure or pain.
      protection
                                             19. A person coming to a foreign            (1) stoic        (2) stylist
      (1) invocation (2) involution              land to settle there.
      (3) inundation (4) revocation              (1) immigrant (2) emigrant              (3) cynic        (4) psychic
   9. Fear of being enclosed in a small          (3) tourist     (4) settler         29. Lasting only for a moment
      closed space                           20. Something capable of being              (1) momentous
      (1) agoraphobia                            done.                                   (2) momentary
      (2) claustrophobia                         (1) probable (2) feasible               (3) trivial
      (3) xenophobia                             (3) tenable     (4) explicable          (4) petty
                                                Directio ns (21-30) : In the
      (4) paranoia                                                                   30. To seize control of a vehicle in
                                           following questions, out o f four
  10. One who has become dependent                                                       order to force it to go to a new
                                           alternatives choose the one which can
      on something or drugs is                                                           destination,        or demand
                                           be substituted for the given words/
                                                                                         something.
      (1) adamant (2) edict                sentence.
                                                        (SSC Section Officer (Audit)     (1) attack       (2) contract
      (3) addict      (4) derelict
                                                                 Exam. 16.11.2003)       (3) hijack       (4) detour
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