Previous Year Questions : SSC CHSL
English section is an integral part of SSC Exams.This is also a section that is feared by most of the candidates.Though the sheer number of concepts and rules may seem intimidating at first, with discipline and the right approach, it is not difficult to master these concepts and their application to questions. SSC CPO Exam is to be held from the month of June where English Language Section holds 50 questions containing 5 questions from each topic according to new SSC CPO Pattern . Also SSC CHSL Exam has already started from 4 March and will be held until 28 March 2018 and the provided English questions are important for the same as well.
You need to gird up your loins to score maximum marks.Today, in this English quiz we are providing 15 Important One Word Substitution Questions. To make you learn vocabulary effectively is the motive behind the provided quiz. Attempt this quiz and prepare yourself flawlessly. We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.
Directions: (1-15) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
Q1. Excessive desire to stay in bed
(a) Melomania
(b) Clinomania
(c) Dinomania
(d) Melanomania
Q2. To send someone back to his or her own country
(a) Extirpate
(b) Repatriate
(c) Expropriate
(d) Exile
Q3. Make something less severe
(a) Aggravation
(b) Mediation
(c) Palliation
(d) Reduction
Q4. One who does or studies without seriousness.
(a) Dilettante
(b) Diligent
(c) Deliberate
(d) Distracted
Q5. A labourer involved in loading and uploading ships.
(a) Somnambulist
(b) Sinophobe
(c) Stevedore
(d) Septuagenarian
Q6. The study of election.
(a) Arachnology
(b) Philately
(c) Philanthropy
(d) Psephology
Q7. One who has an exaggerated feeling of being important.
(a) Narcissist
(b) Enthuse
(c) Pessimist
(d) Tout
Q8. To take someone somewhere suddenly and quickly.
(a) Rush
(b) Whisk
(c) Fly
(d) Flit
Q9. To make atonement for one’s sins
(a) Expiate
(b) Renounce
(c) Remonstrate
(d) Recant
Q10. Severely abusive writing in journals.
(a) Scurrilous
(b) Occidental
(c) Panjandrum
(d) Spoonerism
Q11. A jocular person who is full of amusing anecdotes
(a) Wag
(b) Hedonist
(c) Dyke
(d) Xeroxing
Q12. Not to be considered serious
(a) Draper
(b) Derisory
(c) Harridan
(d) Heifer
Q13. Country under the protection of a more powerful country.
(a) Protectorate
(b) Scrimmage
(c) Scurry
(d) Hireling
Q14. Take great pleasure
(a) Stevedore
(b) Revel
(c) Subpoena
(d) Rattle
Q15. Serious effects followed by sudden event
(a) Reverberation
(b) Abatement
(c) Sissy
(d) Prescient
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