One Word Substitution CUET English

In each of the following questions, choose the alternative which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

Question: A tank where fish or water plants are kept
(a) Apiary
(b) Aviary
(c) Nursery
(d) Aquarium

Answer: d

Question: Yearly celebration of a date or an event
(a) Birthday
(b) Anniversary
(c) Jubilee
(d) Centenary

Answer: b

Question: Custom of having many wives
(a) Bigamy
(b) Monogamy
(c) Polygamy
(d) Matrimony

Answer: c

Question: Customs of having several husbands at the same time
(a) Polyandry
(b) Polyglot
(c) Polysexual
(d) Polygamy

Answer: a

Question: One who knows many languages
(a) Polygamy
(b) Popular
(c) Panacea
(d) Polyglot

Answer: d

Question: A remedy for all diseases
(a) Recoil
(b) Panacea
(c) Marvel
(d) Treatment

Answer: b

Question: An examination of dead body
(a) Ante-mortem
(b) Autopsy
(c) Morgue
(d) Cremation

Answer: b

Question: A supporter of the cause of women
(a) Feminist
(b) Colleague
(c) Extempore
(d) Womanish

Answer: a

Question: A man having no hair on the scalp
(a) Hoary
(b) Naked
(c) Gaudy
(d) Bald

Answer: d

Question: A building where dead bodies are kept
(a) Aviary
(b) Hospital
(c) Zoo
(d) Mortuary

Answer: d

Question: The violation of profaning of sacred things
(a) Solemn
(b) Sinecure
(c) Posthumous
(d) Sacrilege

Answer: d

Question: A place where birds are kept
(a) Apiary
(b) Aviary
(c) Nursery
(d) Extempore

Answer: b

Question: Killings one’s brother
(a) Suicide
(b) Fratricide
(c) Patricide
(d) Matricide

Answer: b

Question: One who is not easily pleased by anything
(a) Maiden
(b) Pessimist
(c) Vulnerable
(d) Fastidious

Answer: d

Question: A group of three persons sharing power
(a) Triology
(b) Tetralogy
(c) Triumvirate
(d) Tripode

Answer: c

Question: A person who regards the whole world as his country
(a) Cosmopolitan
(b) Nationalist
(c) Patriot
(d) Metropolitan

Answer: a

Question: Of unknown authorship
(a) Anonymous
(b) Unanimous
(c) Amiguous
(d) Extempore

Answer: a

Question: A person who rules without consulting the opinion of others
(a) Democrat
(b) Autocrat
(c) Bureaucrat
(d) Fanatic

Answer: b

Question: One who is well versed in the science of female ailments
(a) Cardiologist
(b) Surgeon
(c) Gynecologist
(d) Sergeant

Answer: c

Question: One who eats everything
(a) Omnipotent
(b) Insolvent
(c) Irresistible
(d) Omnivorous

Answer: d

Question: An elderly unmarried woman
(a) Spinster
(b) Vandal
(c) Bachelor
(d) Adult

Answer: a

Question: A man who wastes his money on luxury
(a) Extempore
(b) Extravagant
(c) Nymph
(d) Surge

Answer: b

Question: To induce to have sexual intercourse
(a) Incite
(b) Seduce
(c) Lax
(d) Entice

Answer: b

Question: Incapable of being seen through
(a) Invisible
(b) Obsolete
(c) Opaque
(d) Transparent

Answer: c

Question: One who sacrifices his life for a cause
(a) Patriot
(b) Martyr
(c) Soldier
(d) Revolutionary

Answer: b

Question: A person coming to a foreign land to settle
(a) Immigrant
(b) Visitor
(c) Tourist
(d) Emigrant

Answer: a

Question: Murder of a king
(a) Homicide
(b) Matricide
(c) Patricide
(d) Regicide

Answer: d

Question: An associate in a office or institution
(a) Companion
(b) Ally
(c) Colleague
(d) Accomplice

Answer: c

Question: An official numbering of the population
(a) Censor
(b) Counting
(c) Census
(d) Demography

Answer: c

Question: A name assumed by a writer or a false name
(a) Lie
(b) Portable
(c) Anonymous
(d) Pseudonym

Answer: d

Question: One who believes in fate
(a) Atheist
(b) Philanthropist
(c) Fatalist
(d) Amateur

Answer: c

Question: List of headings of the business to be transacted at a meeting
(a) Schedule
(b) Agenda
(c) Proceedings
(d) Excerpts

Answer: b

Question: A government run by a dictator
(a) Democracy
(b) Autocracy
(c) Oligarchy
(d) Theocracy

Answer: b

Question: An office or post with no work but high pay
(a) Honorary
(b) Sinecure
(c) Gratis
(d) Ex-officio

Answer: b

Question: Person who believes that God is everything and everything is God
(a) Agnostic
(b) Theist
(c) Pantheist
(d) Pantechnicon

Answer: c

Question: Relationship by blood or birth
(a) Parentage
(b) Affiliation
(c) Consanguinity
(d) Nepotism

Answer: c

Question: Walking in sleep
(a) Somniloquism
(b) Somnambulism
(c) Obsession
(d) Hallucination

Answer: b

Question: A person who kills somebody especially for political reason
(a) Criminal
(b) Murderer
(c) Assassin
(d) Hangman

Answer: c

Question: Study of mankind
(a) Pathology
(b) Physiology
(c) Philology
(d) Anthropology

Answer: d

Question: Through which light cannot pass
(a) Dull
(b) Dark
(c) Obscure
(d) Opaque

Answer: d

Question: A person not sure of the existence of God
(a) Theist
(b) Atheist
(c) Agnostic
(d) Cynic

Answer: c

Question: One who deserts his religion
(a) Deserter
(b) Turn-coat
(c) Fanatic
(d) Apostate

Answer: d

Question: One who uses fear as a weapon of power
(a) Terrorist
(b) Militant
(c) Extremist
(d) Anarchist

Answer: a

Question: Place where birds are kept
(a) Zoo
(b) Apiary
(c) Armoury
(d) Aviary

Answer: d

Question: A man of odd habits
(a) Eccentric
(b) Cynical
(c) Introvert
(d) Moody

Answer: a

Out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

Question: One who can not be corrected
(a) Incorrigible
(b) Ineligible
(c) Indolent
(d) Indefatigable

Answer: a

Question: Put side by side
(a) Impose
(b) Juxtapose
(c) Depose
(d) Propose

Answer: b

Question: Chief or Commander of army
(a) Major
(b) Lieutenant
(c) Colonel
(d) General

Answer: d

Question: One who pays rent to the landlord.
(a) Termagant
(b) Trojan
(c) Tenant
(d) Payee

Answer: c

Question: Two pieces of bread spread with butter or any other food.
(a) Sand dune
(b) Loaves
(c) Bun
(d) Sandwich

Answer: d

Question: Without change of tone or pitch.
(a) Monotone
(b) One tone
(c) Single tone
(d) First tone

Answer: a

Question: A place where treasures of art, curios are preserved or exhibited.
(a) Museum
(b) Stable
(c) Library
(d) Studio

Answer: a

Question: Associated with God or religion
(a) Humbly
(b) Holy
(c) Virtuous
(d) Godly

Answer: b

Question: Work for which one does not take salary or payment.
(a) Remunerated
(b) Charge-sheet
(c) Complementary
(d) Honorary

Answer: d

Question: No longer in use
(a) Absolute
(b) Obsolete
(c) Contemporary
(d) Remote

Answer: b