SSC One Word Substitution Test
- Someone who scientifically studies the birds.
(a) earthologist
(b) orthopeadic
(c) orthodondist
(d) ornithologist
Answer: (d) ornithologist
- Something which is imagined to be real but actually does not exist.
(a) figment
(b) insight
(c) mirage
(d) shadow
Answer: (a) figment
- Someone having many skills.
(a) versatile
(b) projectile
(c) cyclostyle
(d) anglophile
Answer: (a) versatile
- To officially take private property away to seize.
(a) offer
(b) confiscate
(c) annex
(d) hijack
Answer: (b) confiscate
- A former student of a school, college or university
(a) Alumnus
(b) Genius
(c) Scholar
(d) Learner
Answer: (a) Alumnus
- A building in which aircraft are housed
(a) Hangar
(b) Granary
(c) Dockyard
(d) Garage
Answer: (a) Hangar
- A short story based on your personal experience
(a) Parable
(b) Legend
(c) Anecdote
(d) Fable
Answer: (c) Anecdote
- A poem of fourteen lines.
(a) Ballad
(b) Psalm
(c) Sonnet
(d) Carol
Answer: (c) A sonnet is a short rhyming poem with 64 lines. The original sonnet form was invented in the 63/64th century by Dante and an Italian philosopher named Francisco Petrarch. The form remained largely unknown until it was found and developed by writers such as Shakespeare. Sonnets use iambic meter in each line and use line-ending rhymes.
- Incapable of error.
(a) Erroneous
(b) Incorrigible
(c) Unbeatable
(d) Infallible
Answer: (d) “Fallible” means capable of making mistakes – or, easier to remember – capable of failing Infallible means exactly the opposite – incapable of failing.
- One who believes everything he or she hears.
(a) Credulous
(b) Credible
(c) Creditable
(d) Credential
Answer: (a) A credulous person is one who is willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence.
- An allowance made to a wife by her husband, when they are legally separated.
(a) Alimony
(b) Parsimony
(c) Matrimony
(d) Honorarium
Answer: (a) Alimony is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to his or her spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.
- Wild imagination.
(a) Whim
(b) Fantasy
(c) Fancy
(d) Memory
Answer: (b) Fantasy is the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.
- An act or notion to look back in the past
(a) Retrospective
(b) Postnatal
(c) Retrogressive
(d) Primitive
Answer: (a) Retrospective
- Medicine to counteract the effect of a poison
(a) Emetic
(b) Antidote
(c) Anti-venom
(d) Antiseptic
Answer: (b) Antidote
- A collection of poems
(a) Pathology
(b) Anthology
(c) Oncology
(d) Pedology
Answer: (b) Anthology
- One who studies mankind
(a) Anthropologist
(b) Physicist
(c) Pathologist
(d) Philanthropist
Answer: (a) Anthropologist
- An opinion contrary to popular belief
(a) Paradox
(b) Orthodoxy
(c) Hearsay
(d) Heresy
Answer: (d) Heresy
- One who offers his service of his own free will
(a) Worker
(b) Slave
(c) Volunteer
(d) Servant
Answer: (a) A volunteer is a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise and undertake a task.
- One who is always doubting
(a) Sceptic
(b) Deist
(c) Rationalist
(d) Positivist
Answer: (a) Scepticism means a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.
- A collection of slaves
(a) Coffle
(b) Crew
(c) Company
(d) Cortege
Answer: (a) Coffle means a line of slaves / animals fastened or driven along together.