One word substitutes - MCQs with answers - Part I
Choose the correct one word to replace the given sentence1. Allowance due to a wife by her divorced husband: a. Pocket money
b. Alimony
c. Livelihood
d. Sustenance
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b. Alimony
Example: They cannot reach any agreement about the amount of the alimony.
a. Antipodes
b. Poles
c. Antipole
d. Reverse
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a. Antipodes
Example: Spain and New Zealand are antipodes.
a. Abuse
b. Blasphemy
c. Indignity
d. Profanity
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b. Blasphemy
Example: Differing from any popular belief was considered blasphemous during the ancient Classical civilizations.
a. Claustrophobia
b. Depression
c. Schizophrenia
d. Neurosis
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a. Claustrophobia
Example: You can experience claustrophobia in a room with no ventilation.
a. Crowd
b. Gathering
c. Gallery
d. Audience
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d. Audience
Example: The audience gave a loud applaud to her singing.
a. Condescending
b. Bathos
c. Comedown
d. Anticlimax
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b. Bathos
Example: There is nothing in the drama but excess, self-indulgence and bathos.
a. Investor
b. Financier
c. Capitalist
d. Banker
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c. Capitalist
Example: A capitalist market economy is not an equal society.
a. Wordiness
b. Circumlocution
c. Verbosity
d. Euphemism
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b. Circumlocution
Example: It was a circumlocution to make the sentence modest and avoid the use of "I" which might have seemed arrogant.
a. Gypsy
b. Bohemian
c. Free-bird
d. Rebel
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b. Bohemian
Example: Their bohemian life-style would challenge the dull conformity of everyday life under capitalism.
a. Bigot
b. Maniac
c. Chauvinist
d. Fiend
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a. Bigot
Example: Her mother often accused her of sounding like a racist bigot.
