Word Substitution

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Important Job Exam Questions

Q. A Bangladeshi living in Canada is a/an –

(a) foreigner
(b) alien
(c) expatriate
(d) patriot
(e) traitor

Answer

expatriate.


Q. A person who leaves his or her country to settle in another country –

(a) Emigrant
(b) Immigrant
(c) Foreigner
(d) Traveler

Answer

Emigrant.


Q. A person who has come to live permanently in a country from his own is called –

(a) an immigrant
(b) an emigrant
(c) a foreigner
(d) a traveler

Answer

an immigrant.


Q. One who resides in a country of which he is not a citizen –

(a) Native
(b) Foreigner
(c) Prodigal
(d) None of these

Answer

Foreigner.


Q. One who converts hide into leather is a/an –

(a) tanner
(b) usurer
(c) plumber
(d) janitor

Answer

tanner.


Q. One who walks on foot.

(a) traveler
(b) pedestrian
(c) rider
(d) omnipotent

Answer

pedestrian.


Q. One who mends shoes is a –

(a) carpenter
(b) butcher
(c) cobbler
(d) potter

Answer

cobbler.


Q. A person who sells flowers –

(a) flowerist
(b) florist
(c) gardener
(d) hawker

Answer

florist.


Q. One who is the hater of women is a/an-

(a) somnambulist
(b) imposter
(c) misogynist
(d) pilgrim

Answer

misogynist.


Q. Philanthropist means –

(a) a person of charity
(b) a person of wide views
(c) an expert
(d) a man of wisdom

Answer

a person of charity.


Q. Misanthropist means –

(a) One who flirts with ladies
(b) One who believe that God is everything
(c) A hater of mankind
(d) A person of narrow views

Answer

A hater of mankind.


Q. A sadist is –

(a) a person sad by nature
(b) something that makes one sad
(c) one addicted to drinking
(d) one who gets pleasure from hurting others

Answer

one who gets pleasure from hurting others.


Q. A man pretending to be somebody he is not –

(a) Magician
(b) Rogue
(c) Liar
(d) Imposter

Answer

Imposter.


Q. The word ‘somnambulist’ means –

(a) a sleep walker
(b) a daydreamer
(c) an optimist
(d) a night dreamer

Answer

a sleep walker.


Q. A person unable to pay his debts –

(a) destitute
(b) solvent
(c) miser
(d) bankrupt

Answer

bankrupt.


Q. A cartographer is a person who draws –

(a) graphs
(b) carts
(c) maps
(d) cartoons

Answer

maps.


Q. The word ‘teetotaler’ means –

(a) Person who abstains completely from alcoholic liquor
(b) Person who likes drinking wine
(c) Person who hates drinking wine
(d) Person who is heavily drunk

Answer

Person who abstains completely from alcoholic liquor.


Q. A person who knows many foreign languages is called –

(a) a multi-lingual
(b) bilingual
(c) polyglot
(d) monolingual

Answer

polyglot.


Q. A person who is skilled in foreign languages –

(a) Rhetorician
(b) Linguist
(c) Linguistic
(d) Prosodist

Answer

Linguist.


Q. One who compiles dictionary –

(a) Calligrapher
(b) Editor
(c) Compiler
(d) Lexicographer

Answer

Lexicographer.


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