Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam will be held from 1st August 2017 to 20 August 2017. You need to practice a lot in order to achieve 40+ marks in the English Section. We are providing quizzes which include sentence improvement, error detection, idioms, one-word substitution, reading comprehension, vocabulary related questions etc. we have also provided study notes on English for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. Practice all these questions, if any doubt, post your queries in the comment section, we will answer surely. Today in this quiz we have included previous years One word Substitutions English Questions.
Directions (1-15): In these questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.
Q1. One who writes dictionaries.
(a) Interpreter
(b) Lexicographer
(c) Philologist
(d) Composer
(a) Amphibious
(b) Ambiguous
(c) Ambidextrous
(d) Ambivert
Q3. Murder of one’s father
(a) Matricide
(b) Patriarchal
(c) Slaughter
(d) Patricide
Q4. Someone who hates mankind
(a) Skeptic
(b) Misogynist
(c) Misanthrope
(d) Questioner
Q5. Pertaining to tasting
(a) Auditory
(b) Olfactory
(c) Sensory
(d) Gustatory
Q6. Study of statistics of population and births, deaths, diseases, etc.
(a) Century
(b) counting
(c) Headcount
(d) Demography
Q7. A type of mental illness in which one desires to steal
(a) Hypomania
(b) Hydrophobic
(c) Kleptomania
(d) Klebsiella
Q8. Someone who is fluent in many languages
(a) Polymers
(b) Polygyny
(c) Polygenetic
(d) Polyglot
Q9. Someone who collects and studies coins and medals
(a) Philatelic
(b) Bibliophile
(c) Numismatist
(d) Nuristan
Q10. Someone who studies the skin and diseases related to skin
(a) Cardiologist
(b) Endocrinologist
(c) Dermatologist
(d) Orthopedist
Q11. Words inscribed on a tomb
(a) Cenotaph
(b) Epitaph
(c) Epithet
(d) Epilogue
Q12. Large number of insects, birds etc. moving about
(a) Crowd
(b) Group
(c) Pack
(d) Swarm
Q13. A person who readily believes others
(a) Sensible
(b) Credulous
(c) Sensitive
(d) Credible
Q14. Dry weather with no rainfall
(a) Sunrise
(b) Dessert
(c) Drought
(d) Autumn
Q15. Unrelated to the subject
(a) Irrelevant
(b) Super giant
(c) Specific
(d) General
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