One word substitution MCQ

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Q.1 A song sung at a burial

a) Dirge
b) Ballad
c) Hymn
d) Sonnet
Q.2 Something that cannot be heard
a) inaudible
b) audible
c) irrevocable
d) infallible
Q.3 A period of ten years
a) Millennium
b) Century
c) Fortnight
d) Decade
Q.4 One who leaves his own country to settle in another
a) Foreigner
b) Tourist
c) Native
d) Emigrant
Q.5 Open refusal to obey orders
a) Compliance
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 b) Obedience
c) Defiance
d) Adherence
Q.6 Moral that govern one’s behavior
a) Intuition
b) Attitude
c) Psychology
d) Ethics
Q.7 One who loads and unloads ships
a) Captain
b) Rustic
c) Spinster
d) Stevedore
Q.8 A sudden rush of a large number of frightened people
or animals.
a) Scapegoat
b) Stampede
c) Lunacy
d) Recluse
Q.9 One who preoccupied with his own interests.
a) Egoist
b) Pessimist
c) Optimist
d) Atheist
Q.10 A geometrical figure with eight sides
a) Octagon
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 b) Pentagon
c) Heptagon
d) Hexagon
Q.11 Bark is worse than his bite
a) Threat is worse than the action taken
b) Temper cannot be controlled
c) Ferocious scolding hurt more than his action
d) Anger is always justified
Q.12 An action or event that happens before another
important one and forms an introduction to it.
a) Foreword
b) Predecessor
c) Prefix
d) Prelude
Q.13 A computer printout sent out by a bank regarding
debits and credits in your account.
a) Bank draft
b) Statement
c) Over draft
d) Payee
Q.14 A drug which makes one see things that are not really
there.
a) Aphrodisiac
b) Steroid
c) Carcinogen
d) Hallucinogen

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Q.15 Providing relief
a) Reissue
b) Reprieve
c) Rejoinder
d) Refuge
Q.16 The philosophy of putting another’s welfare above
one’s own.
a) Agnosticism
b) Polytheism
c) Altruism
d) Iconoclasm
Q.17 Proposition made as a basis for reasoning without the
assumption of its truth
a) Hypertext
b) Hypocrisy
c) Hyperbole
d) Hypothesis
Q.18 Indifference to pleasure and pain
a) Perseverance
b) Tolerance
c) Stoicism
d) Radicalism
Q.19 No longer a child, but not yet an adult
a) Youngster
b) Adolescent
c) Juvenile

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 d) Yokel
Q.20 A record of one’s own life written by oneself
a) History
b) Biography
c) Bibliography
d) Autobiography
Q.21 Belong to the same period
a) Comrades
b) Contemporaries
c) Compromises
d) Renegades
Q.22 One who listens secretly to private conversation
a) Eavesdropper
b) Encroacher
c) Eaves bearer
d) Listener
Q.23 Stick with a thick end used in a mortar for pounding
a) Thistle
b) Stifle
c) Scepter
d) Pestle
Q.24 An act when people vote in order to make a decision
about a particular subject or policy rather than voting for a
person
a) Election
b) Exit-poll
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 c) By-election
d) Referendum
Q.25 A self governing country or region
a) Autonomy
b) Anarchy
c) Democracy
d) Monarchy
Answers
1 a 6 d 11 a 16 c 21 b
2 a 7 d 12 d 17 d 22 a
3 d 8 b 13 b 18 c 23 d
4 d 9 a 14 d 19 b 24 d
5 c 10 a 15 b 20 d 25 a