ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION PRACTICE
50 One Word Substitution Practice Set. From Previous Years’ SSC CGL-CHSL Exam.
- Question of
A disease which is spread by direct contact
- Contagious
- infectious
- epidemic
- endemic
- Question of
Spoken or done without prepration
- verbose
- extempore
- amateur
- verbatim
- Question of
Stealing of ideas or writings of someone else
- scepticism
- mesmerism
- plagiarism
- autism
- Question of
A word that reads the same backwards or forwards
- acrostic
- homophone
- acronym
- palindrome
- Question of
Fear of fire
- arsonphobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- arrhenphobia
- Question of
A person who deserves all praises
- detestable
- lovable
- despicable
- laudable
- Question of
Killing of birds
- herbicide
- avicide
- vulpicide
- matricide
- Question of
To write under a different name
- anonymous
- biography
- pseudonym
- masquerade
- Question of
The study of rocks
- pedagogy
- petrology
- philology
- physiognomy
- Question of
The cultivation of grapevines
- pisiculture
- horticulture
- viticulture
- sericulture
- Question of
poem in short stanzas narrating a popular story
- ballet
- epic
- ballad
- sonnet
- Question of
A person who looks after horses at an inn
- matron
- chandler
- effeminate
- ostler
- Question of
Fear of snakes
- ophiodiophobia
- acrophobia
- xenophobia
- claustrophobia
- Question of
Person believing in free will
- guardian
- tyrant
- humanitarian
- libertarian
- Question of
Medical study of skin and its diseases
- orthopaedics
- dermatology
- endocrinology
- gynaecology
- Question of
A new word coined by an author
- novelty
- innovation
- neologism
- inception
- Question of
lifeless objects
- amateur
- inanimate
- alien
- amnesty
- Question of
The keeper of a museum
- compere
- curator
- commissioner
- conservator
- Question of
Someone who believes that people can not change the way events will happen
- prophet
- fatalist
- fanatic
- seer
- Question of
That which can not be easily read
- illegible
- impregnable
- invulnerable
- incomprehensible
- Question of
A small room in a big house,hotel,ship etc. where glasses, dishes, spoons, foods etc. are kept
- pantry
- mezzanine
- portico
- scabbard
- Question of
A shady place under trees
- debonair
- bower
- gourmand
- fugitive
- Question of
A list of passengers and luggage
- waybill
- wagon
- wirepuller
- whist
- Question of
A word or practice that has gone out of use
- obsolete
- absolute
- outdated
- old-fashioned
- Question of
Study of caves
- seismology
- topology
- numismatics
- speleology
- Question of
Fear of telling lies
- mythophobia
- monophobia
- gamophobia
- gnosiophobia
- Question of
A person who deliberately sets fire to a building
- arsonist
- extortionist
- hijacker
- assassin
- Question of
Speech or piece of writing praising somebody
- eulogy
- philology
- etymology
- angiology
- Question of
Someone who is designated to hear both sides of a dispute and make a judgement
- counsellor
- arbitrator
- magistrate
- manager
- Question of
The scientific study of teeth
- odontology
- ornithology
- orthoepy
- petrology
- Question of
Fear of ghosts
- phasmophobia
- xenophobia
- pharmacophobia
- pathophobia
- Question of
Murder of one’s brother
- foeticide
- fratricide
- filicide
- homicide
- Question of
A drug or other substance that produces sleep
- depressant
- narcotic
- antiseptic
- soporific
- Question of
The ceremony of crowning a sovereign
- felicitation
- promotion
- coronation
- installation
- Question of
A person who lives alone and avoids other people
- chaperon
- recluse
- antisocial
- matron
- Question of
A person especially a young one with exceptional abilities
- intellectual
- genius
- prodigy
- mastermind
- Question of
Mania for talking
- logomania
- theomania
- promania
- plutomania
- Question of
Government by old people
- gerontocracy
- kakistocracy
- plutocracy
- oligarchy
- Question of
Seat on elephant’s back
- abattoir
- byre
- kennel
- howdah
- Question of
A geometrical figure with eight sides
- polygon
- hexagon
- octagon
- pentagon
- Question of
A person who consumes human flesh
- savage
- captor
- cannibal
- carnivore
- Question of
A short story based on your personal experience
- legend
- fable
- parable
- anecdote
- Question of
A drug which makes one see things that are not really there
- steroid
- aphrodisiac
- hallucinogen
- carcinogen
- Question of
One who eats too much
- overweight
- glutton
- obese
- corpulent
- Question of
The art of cleaning and preserving animal skins
- etymology
- taxonomy
- dermatology
- taxidermy
- Question of
Words written on a tombstone written in the memory of a person who has died
- prologue
- epilogue
- stela
- epitaph
- Question of
An arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurence
- chronometry
- charter
- chronology
- calender
- Question of
Head of monks in an abbey
- padre
- dean
- abbot
- deacon
- Question of
Fear of going to the doctors
- latrophobia
- dentophobia
- lalophobia
- sciaphobia
- Question of
A person who writes decoratively
- calligrapher
- cartographer
- choreographer
- collier