English One-Word Substitution Practice Exercise - Set 2

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Friends, here is the set 2 of One-Word Substitution practice exercise of English. You can check set-1 from here. Think twice before choosing the correction answer as the options are bit tricky and confusing. Happy Reading :)

Habitually silent or talking little

1. Seville
2. Unequivocal
3. Taciturn
4. Synoptic
5. None of the above

A religious discourse

1. Preach
2. Stanza
3. Sanctorum
4. Sermon
5. None of the above

A place that provides refuge

1. Sanatorium
2. Asylum
3. Shelter
4. orphanage
5. None of the above

Detailed plan of a journey

1. Travelogue
2. Travel kit
3. Schedule
4. Itinerary
5. None of the above

A person who insists on something

1. Disciplinarian
2. Sticker
3. Instantaneous
4. Boaster
5. None of the above

A large dark grey cloud that brings rain or snow

1. Blizzard
2. Nimbus
3. Hail
4. Fog
5. None of the above

A large pillar made from one stone

1. Monolith
2. Monument
3. Statue
4. Bulwark
5. None of the above

A situation that exists at a particular time without any changes being made to it

1. Status quo
2. laissez-faire
3. Stagnation
4. Corrigendum
5. None of the above

Official misconduct

1. Maleficence
2. Malfeasance
3. Maltreatment
4. Maladministration
5. None of the above

One who has a compulsive desire to steal

1. Pilferer
2. Poacher
3. Plagiarist
4. Kleptomaniac
5. None of the above

A person who renounces the world and practices self-discipline in order to attain salvation

1. Antiquarian
2. Ascetic
3. Sceptic
4. Devotee
5. None of the above

A person who does not believe in the existence of god

1. Theist
2. heretic
3. Atheist
4. Fanatic
5. None of the above

A government by the nobles

1. Aristocracy
2. Democracy
3. Autocracy
4. Bureaucracy
5. None of the above

Teetotaler means

1. One who abstains from theft
2. One who abstains from meat
3. One who abstains from taking wine
4. One who abstains from taking malice
5. None of the above

The part of a government which is concerned with making of rules

1. Court
2. Tribunal
3. Bar
4. Legislature
5. None of the above

Policemen riding on motorcycles as guards to a VIP

1. Outriders
2. Servants
3. Commandos
4. Attendants
5. None of the above

To steal secretly in small quantities

1. Robbery
2. Pilferage
3. Theft
4. Defalcation
5. None of the above

A person who tries to deceive people by claiming to be able to do wonderful things

1. Trickster
2. Imposter
3. Magician
4. Montebank
5. None of the above

One who does not marry, especially as a religious obligation

1. Bachelor
2. Celibae
3. Virgin
4. Recluse
5. None of the above

A place for sick, people who need long periods of treatment or rest

1. Clinic
2. Hospital
3. Sanatorium
4. Asylum
5. None of the above

Bhavya Vasudevan

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