Dear Students, English section of all SSC Exams is very challenging. You need to mug up all the grammar rules, vocabulary and practice a lot of mock tests to score maximum marks. Today, in this English quiz we are providing questions based on Spellings, one word substitutions. Attempt this quiz, learn better and be prepared for the SSC CGL 2017 Exam.
Directions (1-3): There are four different words out of which one is correctly spelled. Find the correctly spelled word.
Q1.
(a) Scholership
(b) Partnarship
(c) Entrepreneurship
Q2.
(a) Passimism
(b) Optemism
(c) Consumerism
(d) Communlism
Q3.
(a) Announcment
(b) Committment
(c) Commencement
(d) Estableshment
Directions (4-15): Out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.
Q4. Giving of special favor to one’s kith and kin
(a) Favoritism
(b) Solecism
(c) Pantheism
(d) Nepotism
Q5. One who collects and studies coins
(a) Philatelist
(b) Nuncio
(c) Bibliophile
(d) Numismatist
Q6. Words or lines written on the tomb of a person
(a) Epitaph
(b) Anecdote
(c) Calligraphy
(d) Cenotaph
Q7. Study of the origin and history of words
(a) Etymology
(b) Epistemology
(c) Morphology
(d) Dictionary
Q8. The practice of eating human flesh
(a) Solipsism
(b) Narcissism
(c) Cannibalism
(d) Mysticism
Q9. Someone who works only for personal profit
(a) Materialistic
(b) Mercenary
(c) Greedy
(d) Mercantile
Q10. A heavy unnatural slumber
(a) Nostalgia
(b) Stupor
(c) Insomnia
(d) Common
Q11. A deep dislike of foreigners
(a) Acrophobia
(b) Xenophobia
(c) Claustrophobia
(d) Hydrophobia
Q12. That cannot be overcome
(a) Irrevocable
(b) Irreparable
(c) Invulnerable
(d) Insurmountable
Q13. To walk slowly, wasting time
(a) Stab
(b) Strike
(c) Dawdle
(d) Plough
Q14. One who is appointed to deal with complaints made by common people against banks, companies, etc.
(a) Jurist
(b) Arbiter
(c) Ombudsman
(d) Magistrate
Q15. The profession of writing dictionaries
(a) Typography
(b) Biography
(c) Cartography
(d) Lexicography
