Word Substitution (Page 2)

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Q. A person who sells fruits and vegetables –

(a) a green grocer
(b) a vegetarian
(c) a hawker
(d) a vegetable man

Answer

a green grocer.


Q. A person who studies the formation of the earth –

(a) meteorologist
(b) anthropologist
(c) geologist
(d) seismologist

Answer

geologist.


Q. A person who studies the atmosphere, weather and weather forecasting is known as –

(a) sinologist
(b) radiologist
(c) meteorologist
(d) hydrologist
(e) psychologist

Answer

meteorologist.


Q. A person in charge of museum is a –

(a) Librarian
(b) Janitor
(c) Palmist
(d) Curator

Answer

Curator.


Q. A person who has lived in and knows about many different parts of the world is a –

(a) philanthropist
(b) cosmopolitan
(c) tourist
(d) urbanite

Answer

cosmopolitan. Person who regard the whole world as his country.


Q. A person who helps you break the law –

(a) Spy
(b) Collaborator
(c) Ally
(d) Accomplice

Answer

Accomplice.


Q. He was very fond of his wife, so his friends called him –

(a) hen-pecked
(b) unmanly
(c) effeminate
(d) social

Answer

hen-pecked.


Q. One who believed that all things and events in life are predetermined –

(a) Egoist
(b) Puritan
(c) Tyrant
(d) Fatalist
(e) None of these

Answer

Fatalist.


Q. One who pretends illness to escape duty.

(a) Truant
(b) Malingerer
(c) Hypocrite
(d) Concubine

Answer

Malingerer.


Q. One whose attitude is: ‘eat, drink and be merry’

(a) Epicurean
(b) Cynic
(c) Materialistic
(d) Stoic

Answer

Epicurean.


Q. One who rarely speak the truth –

(a) Scoundrel
(b) Liar
(c) Crook
(d) Hypocrite

Answer

Liar.


Q. Person who is indifferent to both pleasure and pain –

(a) Saint
(b) Ascetic
(c) Stoic
(d) Hermit

Answer

Stoic.


Q. An atheist is a person who –

(a) believes in God
(b) hats God
(c) loves God
(d) does not believe in God

Answer

does not believe in God.


Q. Talking disrespectfully of sacred things is called –

(a) blasphemy
(b) hereby
(c) atheism
(d) apostasy

Answer

blasphemy. Lack of respect to God and religion.


Q. He believes in one God. He is a –

(a) Theist
(b) Theologist
(c) Pantheist
(d) Monotheist

Answer

Monotheist.


Q. A religious discourse –

(a) Preach
(b) Stanza
(c) Sanctorum
(d) Sermon

Answer

Sermon.


Q. One who is a specialist in heart and its diseases is called –

(a) a pharmacologist
(b) a neurologist
(c) a cardiologist
(d) an ophthalmologist

Answer

a cardiologist.


Q. One who studies and treats the diseases of the eye is –

(a) an orthodontist
(b) a neurologist
(c) an radiologist
(d) an ophthalmologist

Answer

an ophthalmologist.


Q. A person who treats mental illness is called –

(a) a psychiatrist
(b) a psychologist
(c) a therapist
(d) a psychoanalyst

Answer

a psychiatrist.


Q. Which one means ‘unlimited power’?

(a) omnipresent
(b) omniscient
(c) omnipotent
(d) omnibus

Answer

omnipotent.


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