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ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION Posterity b. postdiction 1. To examine one’s thoughts and feelings. c. postscript d. corrigendum a. Meditation b. retrospection 16. Strong and settled dislike between two persons...

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION Posterity b. postdiction 1. To examine one’s thoughts and feelings. c. postscript d. corrigendum a. Meditation b. retrospection 16. Strong and settled dislike between two persons c. reflection d. introspection Apathy b. hatred 2. A short, usually amusing, story about some real c. antipathy d. animosity person or event 17. A person who has no money to pay of his debts a. Anecdote b. antidote a. Debtor b. pauper c. tale d. allegory c. beggar d. insolvent 3. Woman who offers the use of her body for sexual 18. An entertainer who performs difficult physical intercourse to any one who will pay for this actions a. Voluptuary b. cuckold a. Clown b. gymnast c. magician d. acrobat c. prostitute d. concubine 19. A small house with all rooms on one floor 4. Life history of a person written by another a. Bungalow b. cottage c. flat d. castle a. Autobiography b. biography 20. A song embodying religious and sacred emotions c. bibliography d. memoir a. Lyric b. ode c. hymn d. ballad 5. Custom of having many wives 21. The policy of extending a country’s empire and a. Monogamy b. bigamy influence c. polygamy d. matrimony a. Imperialism b. capitalism 6. A person who does not believe in any religion c. internationalism d. communism a. Philatelist b. rationalist 22. Government by a single person c. atheist d. pagan a. Monarchy b. autocracy 7. Bringing about gentle and painless death from c. plutocracy d. aristocracy incurable disease 23. Practice of a married woman having extra marital a. Suicide b. euphoria relationship c. gallows d. euthanasia a. Polygamy b. puberty c. lechery d. adultery 8. A man of lax moral 24. A workman who fits and repairs pipes a. Ruffian b. licentious a. Mechanic b. blacksmith c. pirate d. vagabond c. plumber d. technocrat 9. A small enclosure for cattle, sheep, poultry etc 25. Part of a church in which bells hang a. Cellar b. sty a. Minaret b. chapel c. belfry d. spire c. pen d. lair 26. Mania for Talking 10. To cause troops etc. to spread out in readiness for a. Logomania b. pyromania battle c. 1ibliomania d. kleptomania a. Align b. collocate 27. The custom of having more than one husband at c. deploy d. disperse the same time 11. One who forcibly seizes control of a bus or an a. Polygamy b. polyandry aircraft c. debauchery d. bigamy a. Pirate b. swindler 28. An extremely deep crack or opening in the c. hijacker d. pilferer ground 12. The act of killing one’s wife a. Chasm b. aperture c. ditch d. pit a. Genocide b. uxoricide 29. The study of ancient societies c. canicide d. avicide a. History b. anthropology 13. Music sung or played at night below a person’s c. ethnology d. archaeology window 30. The foolish belief that one is God a. Serenade b. sonnet a. Blasphemy b. theocracy c. lyric d. primo c. paranoia d. theomania 14. A government by the nobles 31. List of heading of the business to be transacted at a. Democracy b. bureaucracy a meeting c. autocracy d. aristocracy a. Schedule b. agenda c. proceeding d. excerpts 15. Anything written in a letter after it is signed 1|Page 32. A process involving too much official formality 51. An office or post with no work but high pay a. Nepotism b. diplomacy a. Honorary b. sinecure c. gratis d. ex-officio c. red-tapism d. bureaucracy 52. One who is well-versed in any subject; a critical 33. Person who brings an action at law judge of any art, particularly fine arts a. Plaintiff b. litigant c. deponent d. defendant a. Veteran b. philistine 34. The short remaining end of a cigarette c. dilettante d. connoisseur a. Stump b. stub c. rag d. scrap 53. Person who is indifferent to both pleasure and 35. The place where public, government or historical pain records are kept a. Saintb. ascetic c. stoic d. hermit a. Coffer b. pantry c. scullery d. archives 54. A person who is against the standards of ordinary 36. A post without remuneration society especially in dressing a. Voluntary b. sinecure c. honorary d. involuntary a. Joker b. hippy c. scapegoat d. butt 37. Large scale departure of people 55. Murder of a brother a. Migration b. emigration c. immigration d. exodus a. Patricide b. regicide c. homicide d. fratricide 38. Lottery in which an article is assigned by lot to 56. Mania for stealing articles one of those buying tickets a. Logomania b. nymphomania a. Auction b. raffle c. auditd. d. transit c. kleptomania d. hypomania 39. To send an unwanted person out of the country 57. Mental weariness for want of occupation a. Exclude b. ostracise c. deport d. expatriate A. Fatigue b. ennui c. languor d. debility 40. Voluntarily giving up throne by king in favour of 58. One who loves all and sundry his son a. Optimist b. humanist c. altrui d. philanthropist a. Abdication b. resurrection 59. Mania for travel c. accession d. renunciation a. Dromomania b. pyromania 41. Child bereaved of one or both the parents c. bibliomania d. logomania a. Desolate b. destitute c. legacy d. property 60. A person living permanently in a certain place 42. Gift left by will a. Native b. resident c. domicile d. subject a. Alimony b. parsimony c. legacy d. property 61. Paying back injury with injury 43. A government run by a dictator a. Vendetta b. repression a. Democracy b. autocracy c. subjugation d. reprisal c. oligarchy d. theocracy 62. Acutely affected by external impressions 44. One who always runs away from danger a. Ingenious b. impressionable a. Escapist b. timid c. coward d. shirker c. credulous d. sensitive 45. A poem written on the death of someone loved 63. To slap with a flat object and lost a. Hew b. swat c. chop d. gnaw a. Ode b. epic c. sonnet d. elegy 64. An assembly of hearers 46. One who despises persons of lower social a. Audience b. crowd position c. congregation d. assemblage a. Prim b. snobc. prig d. aristocrat 65. As associate in an office of institution 47. Gradual recovery from illness a. Companion b. ally c. colleague d. accomplice a. Hysteria b. amnesia 66. One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by c. superannuation d. convalescence entreaties 48. One who is determined to exact full vengeance a. Inexorable b. infallible for wrongs done to him. c. Impregnable d. inexplicable a. Vindicator b. usurer c. vindictive d. 67. Regard for others as a principle of action virulent a. Cynicism b. nepotism 49. A person who believes that pleasure is the chief c. philanthropy d. altruism good 68. Person who claims to have great love for and a. Stoic b. hedonist c. epicure d. sensual understanding of what is beautiful in nature, art etc. 50. Commencement of words with the same letter a. Critic b. aesthete a. Rhyme b. alliteration c. pun d. oxymoron c. connoisseur d. artist 2|Page 69. A disease which spreads by contact a. Horticulture b. bonsai a. Infectious b. contagious c. universal d. immeasurable c. contiguous d. contextual 86. Walking in sleep 70. An animal story with a moral a. Somniloquism b. somnambulism a. Fable b. tale c. anecdote d. parable c. obsession d. hallucination 71. To change shape, nature or substance of 87. One who cannot die a. Modulate b. substitute a. Stable b. immortal c. remodel d. transmute c. perpetual d. perennial 72. Person who believes that God is every thing and 88. A formal written charge against a person for everything is God some crime or offence a. Agnostic b. theist a. Accusation b. indictment c. pantheist d. pantechnicon c. allegation d. acrimony 73. Person who pilots or travels in a balloon, airship 89. Language difficult to understand because of bad or other aircraft form a. Aeronaut b. astronaut c. aerobat d. acrobat Rhetoric b. jargon 74. witty, clever retort c. pedantic d. verbatim a. Sarcasm b. repartee c. platitude d. invective 90. Belief or opinion contrary to what is generally 75. Word different in meaning but similar in sound accepted a. Homonym b. synonym c. acronym d. antonym Unbelief b. superstition 76. Simplest and smallest form of plant life, present c. non conformity d. heresy in air, water and soil; essential to life but may cause 91. A person obsessed with exclusively one idea or disease subject a. Virus b. amoeba a. Crazy b. kleptomaniac c. bacteria d. toxin c. monomaniac d. nymphomaniac 77. A girl or woman who flirts, that is, tries to attract 92. A child of unusual or remarkable talent people and make advances in love simply to satisfy a. Scholar b. diligent c. freakd. prodigy her vanity 93. A disease which ends in death a. Prostitute b. coquette c. spinster d. concubine a. Contagious b. lethal c. fatal d. deadly 78. A person who regards the whole world as his 94. A person who kills somebody especially for country political reasons a. Patriot b. nationalist a. Criminal b. murderer c. assassin d. hangman c. cosmopolitan d. metropolitan 95. One who loves mankind 79. Relationship by blood or birth a. Anthropologist b. philanthropist a. Parentage b. affiliation c. seismologist d. optometrist c. consanguinity d. nepotism 96. A small piece of potato 80. A story in which ideas are symbolised as people a. Chunk b. chip c. scrap d. bit a. Allegory b. fable c. legend d. parable 97. A child who stays away from school without any 81. The cessation of warfare before a treaty is signed good reason a. Affidavit b. agreement c. armistice d. amnesty a. Vagabond b. delinquent 82. A person who makes love without serious c. schizophrenic d. truant intentions 98. A common place remark a. Consort b. philanderer c. romeo d. goon a. Dialogue b. platitude 83. Opposed to great or sudden change c. epigram d. statement a. Static b. revolutionary 99. Line at which the earth or sea and sky seem to c. conservative d. evolutionary meet 84. Having no beginning or end to its existence a. Horizon b. zenith c. fringe d. plinth a. Eternal b. obscure 100. A person who rules without consulting the c. universal d. immeasurable opinion of others 85. The art of cutting trees and bushes into a. Democrat b. bureaucrat ornamental shapes c. autocrat d. fanatic 3|Page 101. Study of mankind a. Forest b. stable c. lair d. sanctuary a. Pathology b. physiology 120. A person who looks on the bright side of things c. philology d. anthropology a. Sycophant b. optimist c. cynic d. pessimist 102. Intentional destruction of racial groups 121. One who lends money at high rate of interest a. Homicide b. genocide c. fratricide d. regicide a. Solvent b. uxorious c. usurer d. shylock 103. One who is interested in the welfare of women 122. One who cuts precious stones a. Feminine b. feminist a. Philatelist b. drover c. lapidist d. oculist c. effeminate d. flamboyant 123. Government by the Gods 104. Study of statistics of births, deaths, diseases to a. Plutocracy b. theocracy show the state of community c. thearchy d. pantisocracy a. Geography b. anthropology 124. A person not sure of the existence of God c. topography d. demography a. Theist b. atheist c. agnostic d. cynic 105. Through which light cannot pass 125. One who compiles dictionary a. Dull b. dark c. obscure d. opaque a. Calligrapher b. editor 106. A sudden rush of wind c. lexicographer d. compiler a. Gale b. typhoon c. gust d. storm 126. Which can be easily believed 107. One who take delight in excessive cruelty a. Credulous b. creditable a. Anarchist b. sophist c. sadist d. nihilist c. trustworthy d. credible 108. An unexpected stroke of good luck 127. Woman trained to help other women in child a. Fortune b. windfall birth c. boon d. breakthrough a. Virgin b. midwife c. matron d. nurse 109. A person who helps you break the law 128. A person with full discretionary powers to act a. Spy b. collaborator on behalf of a country c. ally d. accomplice a. Ambassador b. emissary 110. Not conforming to ordinary rules of behaviour c. plenipotentiary d. envoy a. Lunatic b. absurd c. eccentric d. maniacal 129. Design made by putting together coloured 111. Stealing from the writings of others. pieces of glass or stones a. Copying b. reframing a. Oleograph b. mosaic c. tracery d. relief c. reproducing d. plagiarism 130. To deprive a thing of its holy character 112. Short descriptive poem of picturesque scene or a. Sacrilege b. blasphemy incident c. consecrate d. desecrate a. Malady b. sonnet c. idyll d. charade 131. A man with prejudiced views against religion 113. A man who starves body for the good of soul a. Orthodox b. bigot c. fanatic d. profane a. Monk b. ascetic c. saint d. spiritualist 132. The school or college in which one has been 114. A person who is reserved in talks educated a. Reticent b. silent a. Matinee b. alumni c. Alma mater d. calvin c. mendicant d. garrulous 133. One who deserts his religion 115. A short stay at a place a. Deserter b. turn-coat a. Halt b. interlude c. fanatic d. apostate c. intermission d. sojourn 134. Medicine which lessens pain 116. A raised place on which offerings to a god are a. Balm b. Panacea made c. Anodyne d. Antibiotic a. Mound b. chapel c. altar d. archives 135. A woman whose husband is died 117. To talk much without coming to the point a. Virgin b. spinster c. wedlock d. widow a. Verbosity b. garrulousness 136. To take one to task c. loquacity d. circumlocution a. Disgrace b. handle c. entreat d. rebuke 118. Constant effort to achieve something 137. One who uses fear as a weapon of power. a. Perseverance b. attempt a. Terrorist b. militant c. enthusiasm d. vigour c. extremist d. anarchist 119. A place where a wild animal lives 4|Page 138. A small piece of wood C. Androphobia D. Cellophobia a. Splinter b. crumb c. scrap d. chip 156. Fear of depths : 139. Mania for setting fires A. Altophobia B. Acrophobia a. Pyromania b. kleptomania C. Bathophobia D. Aerophobia c. logomania d. nymphomania 157 Fear of males : 140. A pioneer of a reform movement A. Androphobia B. Catrophobia a. Renegade b. apostle C. Geraphobia D. Gynaephobia c. apotheosis d. apothecary 158. Fear of public/place open : 141. Wicked to a high degree A. Altophobia B. Claustrophobia a. Cruel b. hateful c. heinous d. abominable C. Acrophobia D. Agoraphobia 142. The original inhabitants of a country 159. Fear of dogs : a. Aborigines b. citizens c. natives d. primitive A. Algophobia B. Entomophobia 143. Dungeon entered by trapdoor C. Cynophobia D. Demonomania a. Cellar b. ditch c. vault d. oubliette 160. Fear of time : 144. One desirous of getting money A. Ergophobia B. Genophobia a. Avaricious b. voracious C. Chronophobia D. geraphobia c. garrulous d. greedy 161. Fear of books : 145. Place where birds are kept A. Bibliophobia B. Chronophobia a. Zoo b. apiary c. armoury d. aviary C. Cacophobia D. Catrophobia 146. A person with a beautiful and elegant 162. Extreme fear about beauty : handwriting A. Anorexia B. Androphobia a. Calligrapher b. collier C. Cellophobia D. Gynaephobia c. choreographer d. cartographer 163. Fear of doctors : 147. A person who is always dissatisfied A. Algophobia B. Cacophobia a. Heretic b. felon c. malcontent d. surrogate C. Androphobia D. catrophobia 148. Loss of power to move in any or every part of 164. Fear of ugliness : the body A. Algophobia B. Cacophobia a. Rheumatism b. paralysis C. Catrophobia D. Androphobia c. eczema d. leprosy 165. Fear of insects : 149. One who does not care of literature or art A. Cynophobia B. Cacophobia a. Barbarian b. philistine C. Haemetophobia D. Entomophobia c. illiterate d. primitive 166. Delusion of being under evil spirits : 150. A group of three novels or plays, each complete A. Cacophobia B. Algophobia in itself C. Demonomania D. Phasmophobia a. Triplet b. triumvir c. trilogy d. trivet 167. Morbid compulsion to drink : 151. Fear of high places : A. Dipsophobia B. Dipsomania A. Aerophobia B. Claustrophobia C. Hydrophobia D. Anorexia C. Agoraphobia D. Acrophobia 168. Fear of thirst : 152. Fear of air : A. Dipsomania B. Hydrophobia A. Anemophobia B. Aerophobia C. Haemetophobia D. Dipsophobia C. Altophobia D.Bathophobia 169. Fear of being confined to small place : 153. Fear of pain : A. Claustrophobia B. geraphobia A. Androphobia B. Algophobia C. Acrophobia D. Aerophobia C. Catrophobia D. Cacophobia 170. Fear of knowledge : 154. Fear of altitude A. Biblophobia B. Ergophobia A. Altophobia B. hydrophobia C. Gnosiophobia D. Graphophobia C. Claustrophobia D. Agoraphobia 171. Fear of old age : 155. Fear of getting fat makes young girls stop eating A. Demonomania B. Androphobia resulting in harmful effect : C. Lipophobia D. Geraphobia A. Gynaephobia B. Anorexia 5|Page  (a) tangible (b) trouble 172. Fear of child birth : (c) trickster (d) gullible A. Chronophobia B. Genophobia 190. A place where birds are kept C. Maieusiophobia D. Thanatophobia (a) aquarium (b) aviary (c) sanctuary (d) apiary 173. Fear of marriage : 191. A gathering at a religious place A. Gamophobia B. Gynophobia (a) congregation (b) spectators C. Anorexia D. Cellophobia (c) mob (d) audience 174. Fear of work : 192. Art of working with metals A. Chronophobia B. Logophobia (a) meteorite (b) metaphysics C. Ergophobia D. Peniaphobia (c) metallurgy (d) metalloid 175. Strange in appearance 193. One who compiles a dictionary (a) bizarre (b) rustic (a) lexicographer (b) cartographer (c) geriatric (d) decrepit (c) bibliographer (d) lapidist 176. The study of election. 194. A person who worships only one God (a) archeology (b) philately (a) polytheist (b) monotheist (c) philanthropy (d) psephology (c) philogynist (d) theist 177. Enigmatic person 195. Causing annoyance or resentment (a) unique (b) unstable (c) stable (d) unknowable (a) Congenial (b) Galling (c) Amiable (d) Mellow 178. A group of islands 196. Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of (a) islet(b) archipelago (c) reef (d) atoll resources 179. Sudden involuntary muscular contraction. (a) Profligate (b) Churlish (c) Harpy (d) Hoarder (a) sprain (b) spasm (c) spam (d) span 197. Wrap or cover for warmth 180. To renounce one’s throne (a) Encourage (b) Muffle (c) Divulge (d) Expose (a) abdicate (b) arrogate (c) abstain (d) abrogate 198. Keen interest or enthusiasm 181. Make something less severe. (a) Lassitude (b) Lethargy (a) aggravation (b) mediation (c) Avidity (d) Soporific (c) palliation (d) reduction 199. Criticize unfairly 182. Lively or high-spirited (a) Complimentary (b) Obeisance (a) depression (b) grave (c) Denigrate (d) Accolade (c) vivacious (d) discouraged 200. The occurrence and development of events by 183. One who does or studies without seriousness. chance in a happy or beneficial way (a) dilettante (b) diligent (a) Debacle (b) Affliction (c) deliberate (d) distracted (c) Infelicity (d) Serendipity 184. Not clear 201. Open rebellion of soldiers and sailors against (a) stupidity (b) obscure lawful authority (c) clarity (d) intensity A. Revolt B. Revolution C. Anarchy D. Mutiny 185. A person who helps another to commit a crime 202. A formal speech, especially one given on a (a) colleague (b) accomplice ceremonial occasion (c) assistant (d) supporter (a) Oration (b) Reticent 186. A legal agreement that allows someone to use a (c) Bashful (d) Taciturn building or land for a period of time, usually is return 203. Regard with great respect for rent (a) Insolence (b) Venerate (a) assurance (b) deal (c) lease (d) bond (c) Flippancy (d) Coarseness 187. The act of killing one’s own brother 204. Kill someone by covering their nose and mouth (a) homicide (b) suicide so that they suffocate (c) patricide (d) fratricide a. Bulwark b. Foster c. Sentinel d. Smother 188. Rules governing socially acceptable behaviour 205. That which cannot be heard. (a) politeness (b) formality a. invisible b. inaudible c. hidden d. slight (c) behavior (d) etiquette 206. Incapable of being corrected. 189. A person who is easily deceived or tricked a. inviolable b. incredible c. incorrigible d. impossible 6|Page 207. One who does not tire easily. (c) amphibian (d) gregarious a. indelible b. indefatigable 224. Someone not fit to be chosen c. inflatable d. indestructible (a) illegible (b) non-eligible 208. Incapable of being read (c) uneligible (d) ineligible a. vague b. eligible c. unseen d. illegible 225. One who deals in furs. 209. Too unimportant to consider (a) tanner (b) furrier (c) lapidist (d) drover a. diminutive b. trivial 226. With no particular order or plan. c. nothing d. noticeable (a) hazard (b) hazardous 210. That which can be drawn into a thin wire. (c) hopeless (d) haphazard a. brittle b. ductile c. flexible d. smooth 227. The point at which something is complete or 211. Impossible to satisfy finalized a. contented b. satisfiable (a) consummation (b) final (c) uncomplete (d) end c. satisfactory d. insatiable 228. Occurring, operating, or done at the same time 212. Liable to break easily (a) simultaneous (b) right a. bent b. brittle c. thin d. soft (c) timebound (d) temporary 213. An instrument for measuring the atmospheric 229. The complete control of trade in particular pressure goods or type of goods a. thermometer b. altometer (a) monopoly (b) sharing c. barometer d. ammeter (c) scattering (d) distribution 214. The part of a country’s government responsible 230. Using or expressed in more words than are for its legal system.’ needed. a. judiciary b. legislature (a) verbose (b) concise c. police d. executive (c) succinct (d) lengthy 215. One who sells articles at public sales 231. A woman whose husband is died and who has (a) Auctioneer (b) Tolerance not married again (c) Stoicism (d) Reticence (a) celibate (b) bachelor 216. An act of misappropriation of money (c) single (d) widow (a) debasement (b) misconduct 232. A man whose wife is died and who has not (c) corruption (d) embezzlement married again 217. The first public performance of a musical or (a) widower (b) celibate (c) widow (d) married theatrical work or the first showing of a film 233. Impossible to understand (a) premiere (b) preview (a) comprehensible (b) unintelligible (c) opener (d) Debut (c) exonerate (d) intelligible 218. Rules governing socially acceptable behaviour. 234. Change ordinary metals into gold (a) behaviour (b) etiquette (a) alchemy (b) auctioneer (c) formality (d) politeness (c) agent (d) master 219. A person who is easily deceived or tricked. 235. A person or thing that has the same name as (a) Gullible (b) tangible another. (c) trouble (d) trickster (a) namesake (b) stroll 220. Submission to all that happens as inevitable. (c) metaphor (d) emblem (a) fatalism (b) Superstition 236. A place in a large institution for the care of (c) pragmatism (d) Pessimism those who are ill 221. A legal agreement that allows someone to use a (a) house (b) university building or land for a period of time, usually for rent. (c) college (d) infirmary (a) assurance (b) deal (c) bond (d) lease 237. A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly 222. A person who worships only one God. down a mountainside (a) Philogymist (b) theist (a) flux (b) waterfall (c) Monotheist (d) Polytheist (c) avalanche (d) flood 223. Animals living in water (a) mammals (b) aquatic 7|Page 238. A person whose trade is cutting up and selling 253. Prohibited by law or treaty from being imported meat in a shop on exported: (a) butcher (b) assassin (a) contraband (b) smuggled (c) murderer (d) moaner (c) counterfeit (d) forged 239. Linked together 254. Intentional destruction of racial groups: (a)connect (b) concatenate (a) regicide (b) genocide (c) joint (d) assemble (c) homicide (d) fratricide 240. Exclusive right to publish a book 255. A person in vehicle or on horseback escorting (a) copyright (b) dominate another vehicle: (c) control (d) exonerate (a) navigator (b) escort 241. Gradual increase in force - volume - loudness. (c) outrider (d) security (a) elevation (b) crescendo 256. Not allowing the passage of light: (c) pinnacle (d) surge (a) oblique (b) opaque (c) optique (d) opulent 242. A broad channel formed by joining of the sea 257. Science regarding principles of classification: and river water (a) taxidermy (b) taxonomy (a) hinterland (b) connect (c) estuary (d) dyke (c) toxicology (d) classicology 243. Used or suitable for growing crops 258. A person who can make himself/herself at (a) useful (b) furrow (c) suitable (d) arable home in any country: 244. An area where wild birds or animals protected (a) cosmetician (b) cosmopolitan and encouraged to breed (c) cosmocrat (d) cosmesis (a) sanctuary (b) asylum 259. Science of heredity: (c) shrine (d) temple (a) hereditary (b) genetics 245. Dealing with injuries and diseases of the bones (c) genesis (d) inheritance or muscles 260. Arrangement in order of occurrence: (a) orthopaedics (b) orthodox (a) timely (b) chronological (c) phonology (d) etymology (c) chronic (d) temporal 246. A group of people assembled for religious 261. Occurring at night: worship (a) nightly (b) dark (c) nocturnal (d) neurotic (a) congregation (b) throng 262. Determine the nature of the disease: (c) collection (d) mob (a) investigate (b) determine 247. A person who destroys property by fire (c) diagnose (d) detect (a) criminal (b) maverick 263. A guide-post pointing out the way for a place: (c) pacifist (d) arsonist (a) lastpost (b) finger-post 248. Conferred as an honor (c) lamp-post (d) checkpost (a) sinecure (b) honorary 264. Belief that god is in everything and that (c) reward (d) vulnerable everything is god: 249. Willing to consider or accept new suggestions (a) atheism (b) pantheism and ideas (c) scepticism (d) animism (a) deny (b) receptive 265. A picture of a person or a thing drawn in such a (c) comprehensive (d) useful highly exaggerated manner as to cause laughter 250. An area where wild birds or animals protected (a) cartoon (b) cacography and encouraged to breed (c) cartography (d) caricature (a) sanctuary (b) asylum (c) temple (d) shrine 266. The state of being miserable bereft of all 251. One who walks in sleep: possessions: (a) dreamer (b) somnambulist (a) dependent (b) complacent (c) noematic (d) ignorant (c) destitute (d) omnipresent 252. A speech made without preparation: 267. That which cannot be called back: (a) prepared (b) debate (a) irresponsible (b) irrevocable (c) extempore (d) elocution (c) irredeemable (d) incalculable 8|Page 268. An abandoned child of unknown parents who is 284. The Mahabharata is a long poem based on a found by somebody: noble theme (a) foundling (b) siblings (c) urchin (d) orphan (a) story (b) narration 269. Parts of a country behind the coast or a river (c) epic (d) summary bank: 285. A frog lives both on land as well as in water (a) swamps (b) marshes (a) amphibian (b) aquatic (c) hinterland (d) isthmuses (c) ambidextrous (d) animate 270. A written statement about someone’s character, 286. One who possesses many talents: usually provided by an employer: (a) versatile (b) exceptional (a) testimonial (b) memorandum (c) gifted (d) talented (c) certificate (d) licence 287. A very accurate form of clock: 271. One who makes an official examination of (a) voltmeter (b) chronometer accounts: (c) galvanometer (d) calorimeter (a) auditor (b) accountant 288. A place where money is coined: (c) clerk (d) official (a) lit (b) archive (c) press (d) mint 272. A list of passengers and luggage: 289. A series of lectures or lessons: (a) waybill (b) wagon (c) wire puller (d) whist (a) course (b) syllabus 273. A person who makes love without serious (c) catalogue (d) panel intention: 290. A false name adopted by an author for writing: (a) consort (b) philanderer (c) romeo (d) goon (a) nickname (b) pseudonym 274. Avoiding wastage: (c) nomenclature (d) title (a) economic (b) economical 291. That which has a double meaning: (c) minimal (d) optimational (a) doubtless (b) uncertain 275. Sole right to make and sell some invention: (c) controversial (d) ambiguous (a) franchise (b) authorize 292. Incapable of making errors: (c) dealership (d) patent (a) infallible (b) incorrigible 276. The scientific study of living organisms: (c) impervious (d) inexplicable (a) biochemistry (b) organic chemistry 293. Governed by a sense of duty: (c) zoology (d) biology (a) conscious (b) sensible 277. One who lives for more than a hundred years: (c) intelligent (d) conscientious (a) saint (b) mereologist 294. The depository where state records and (c) demagogue (d) centenarian documents are preserved: 278. One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain: (a) museum (b) library (a) stoic (b) anarchist (c) emporium (d) archive (c) mystic (d) hysteric 295. That which is no longer fashionable or in use: 279. Person who files a suit (a) unused (b) ancient (c) obsolete (d) old (a) suitor (b) plaintiff (c) accuser (d) charger 296. Murder of a king: 280. Take great pleasure (a) homicide (b) fratricide (a) satisfied (b) uphold (c) overhaul (d) revel (c) regicide (d) parricide 281. The practise of having many wives 297. A place where birds are kept: (a) calligraphy (b) polygamy (a) aviary (b) house (c) aquarium (d) apiary (c) polyandry (d) bigamy 298. Expressions no longer in current use: 282. A person who abstains completely from (a) artistic (b) archaic alcoholic drink (c) ancient (d) modern (a) derelict (b) subjunctive 299. A talk between two persons: (c) incriminatory (d) teetotaller (a) prologue (b) monologue 283. A strong dislike: (c) dialogue (d) speech (a) entreaty (b) animosity 300. A person who can not be corrected: (c) malice (d) reciprocity (a) illegible (b) impossible (c) incorrigible (d) invulnerable 9|Page 301. Enter a country as an enemy: (c) stupendous (d) appalling (a) defeat (b) spy 319. One who criticizes popular beliefs which he (c) invade (d) overcome thinks is mistaken or unwise: 302. Plants of a region: (a) philistine (b) iconoclast (a) fauna (b) flora (c) nursery (d) forest (c) imposter (d) cannibal 303. A person who devotes his/her life for the 320. Detaining and confining someone: welfare of other: (a) Interruption (b) interrogation (a) martyr (b) altruist (c) interment (d) internment (c) hermit (d) volunteer 321. An underhand device resorted to in order to 304. A person who attends to the diseases of the eye justify misconduct: is an: (a) subterfuge (b) manoeuvre (a) optician (b) oculist (c) stratagem (d) complicity (c) optimist (d) obstetrician 322. Science of the races of mankind: 305. Written law of a legislative body: (a) genealogy (b) Epistemology (a) statue (b) statute (c) stature (d) static (c) ethnology (d) sociology 306. A person who shows off his learning: 323. A person who loves wealth and spends as little (a) researcher (b) pedant money as possible: (c) educationist (d) exhibitor (a) curmudgeon (b) money-grabber 307. The study of worms and insects: (c) scrimp (d) miser (a) paleontology (b) taxidermy 324. State of anxiety or dismay causing mental (c) entomology (d) ornithology confusion: 308. One who lends money at a very high interest: (a) constriction (b) consternation (a) banker (b) usurer (c) concentration (d) contraction (c) imposter (d) former 325. A person who is fluent in two languages: 309. Incapable of being approached: (a) versatile (b) expert (a) inaccessible (b) inadmissible (c) bilingual (d) knowledgeable (c) irresistible (d) illegal 326. One who eats human flesh: 310. One who takes care of a building: (a) Maneater (b) cannibal (c) beast (d) savage (a) janitor (b) manager 327. The quality of being politely firm and (c) warden (d) beadle demanding: 311. One who looks at the bright side of things: (a) assertive (b) bossy (c) aggressive (d) lardy (a) pessimist (b) pacifist 328. One who finds it easy to produce new and (c) optimist (d) humanist original ideas and things: 312. A list of dishes: (a) hospitable (b) bright (a) cuisine (b) dessert (c) buffet (d) menu (c) impulsive (d) creative 313. One who believes in fate: 329. Done with good judgement (a) believer (b) fatalist (c) agnostic (d) sceptic (a) enviable (b) judicial 314. Smugy self-satisfied: (c) eminent (d) judicious (a) responsive (b) complacent 330. Impossible to decipher ,make out or read: (c) jovial (d) witty (a) illegible (b) ambiguous 315. A person who makes a scientific study of birds: (c) eligible (d) intelligible (a) Ornithologist (b) orthodontist 331. Careful not to harm or inconvenience others: (c) anesthetist (d) astrophysicist (a) obstinate (b) rash 316. Having to do with artistic beauty: (c) humble (d) considerate (a) aesthetic (b) excellence 332. The place where public, government or (c) artful (d) creative historical records are kept: 317. A person who lives by himself: (a) coffer (b) pantry (a) bachelor (b) recluse (c) spinster (d) priest (c) archives (d) scullery 318. Impossible to describe (a) miraculous (b) ineffable 10 | P a g e 333. Theft of another person’s writings or ideas and (a) entrepreneur (b) amateur passing them off as one’s own: (c) libertine (d) novice (a) plagiarism (b) burglary 350. Wild and noisy disorder (c) piracy (d) pilferage (a) revolution (b) pandemonium 334. The study of insects: (c) stir (d) agitation (a) anthropology (b) zoology 351. A person who is solely motivated by money or (c) etymology (d) entomology personal gain: 335. List of issues to be discussed at a meeting: (a) charlatan (b) mercenary (a) schedule (b) agenda (c) merchant (d) money-lender (c) time-table (d) plan 352. Something that is beyond the power of nature: 336. Speed of an object in one direction: (a) supernatural (b) magical (a) pace (b) tempo (c) extraordinary (d) unnatural (c) velodrome (d) velocity 353. Description of a disagreeable thing by an 337. A word or practice that has gone out of use: agreeable name: (a) absolute (b) outdated (a) eulogy (b) epithet (c) old-fashioned (d) obsolete (c) epigram (d) euphemism 338. Favouritism granted in politics or business to 354. Walk in a proud and confident way: relatives: (a) lope (b) swagger (a) nepotism (b) hedonism (c) sprint (d) canter (c) redtapism (d) monotheism 355. The part of a stage in front of the curtain; 339. A person who collects coins: (a) podium (b) proscenium (a) numismatist (b) philatelist (c) amphitheatre (d) arena (c) coin collector (d) ornithologist 356. A policy that segregates people on the basis of 340. A supplement to a will: race: (a) adjunct (b) effusion (c) codicil (d) furlough (a) chauvinism (b) theism 341. Estimation of a thing’s worth: (c) apartheid (d) partisan (a) goodness (b) appraisal (c) beliefs (d) pay 357. Something which lasts forever: 342. To free completely from blame: (a) Eternal (b) youthful (a) clear (b) exonerate (c) release (d) let go (c) mortal (d) infallible 343. A person who works for an employer for a fixed 358. The schedule of travel: period of time in order to learn the particular skill (a) itinerary (b) time-table needed in their job: (c) travelbook (d) guidebook (a) worker (b) employee 359. Poem in short stanzas narrating a popular story: (c) apprentice (d) laborer (a) ballet (b) epic 344. Soldiers who fight on horseback: (c) ballad (d) sonnet (a) infantry (b) artillery 360. Design made by putting together coloured (c) cavalry (d) armoured pieces of glass or stones: 345. One who speaks for other: (a) tracery (b) mosaic (a) spokesman (b) leader (c) relief (d) oleograph (c) supporter (d) naming 361. A shopkeeper who sells fresh and green 346. A man who doesn’t know how to read or write: vegetables: (a) uneducated (b) illiterate (a) shopkeeper (b) vendor (c) ignorant (d) oblivious (c) greengrocer (d) butcher 347. Rebellion against lawful authority: 362. That which can be easily consumed by fire: (a) mutiny (b) coup (a) inexhaustible (b) incombustible (c) revolution (d) dissidence (c) invincible (d) inflammable 348. To run away with a lover 363. A place of shelter for ships: (a) deceive (b) cheat (c) escape (d) elope (a) port (b) harbour 349. One who does something not professionally but (c) barrack (d) helipad for pleasure: 11 | P a g e 364. An expert in the scientific study of birds: 380. O. Henry is the pen name used by William (a) astrologer (b) keeper Sydney Porter: (c) zoologist (d) ornithologist (a) synonym (b) antonym 365. One who believes that events are decided by (c) acronym (d) pseudonym fate: 381. A person who collects postage stamps: (a) numerologist (b) fatalist (a) philologist (b) phonologist (c) egoist (d) atheist (c) philatelist (d) phrenologist 366. Like an ape or a monkey: 382. A person who has had one or more limbs cut (a) Arboreal (b) feline off: (c) Avian (d) simian (a) amputee (b) truncation 367. Having a common centre: (c) dissemination (d) curtailment (a) concentric (b) circular 383. A building for housing curios: (c) eccentric (d) chronic (a) asylum (b) museum 368. A place where foodgrains are stored: (c) auditorium (d) sanatorium (a) granary (b) museum 384. A person who knows or can speak many (c) aviary (d) grocery languages: 369. A place where dead bodies are buried : (a) bibliophile (b) bigot (a) museum (b) cemetery (c) polyglot (d) misologist (c) crematory (d) park 385. Incapable of being corrected: 370. Medicine given to counteract poison: (a) insolent (b) incongruous a) antibiotic (b) antiseptic (c) incorrigible (d) insensitive (c) antidote (d) antifungal 386. A place where dead bodies are kept for medical 371. One who hates marriage: examination (a) misanthrope (b) misogamist (a) crematorium (b) mortuary (c) misogynist (d) polygamist (c) hospital (d) cemetery 372. Thawing snow: 387. A child who stays away from school without (a) sludge (b) slush (c) slosh (d) slash leave: 373. One who specializes in the mathematics of (a) truant (b) rebel insurance (c) bully (d) deserter (a) A statistician (b) an actuary 388. That which cannot be believed (c) an agent (d) an insurant (a) infallible (b) incredible 374. Violation of the sanctity of the church: (c) inaudible (d) ineffable (a) infringement (b) irreverence 389. Very delicate and beautiful: (c) sacrilege (d) transgression (a) exquisite (b) requisite 375. Of one mind or opinion: (c) exemplary (d) resplendent (a) voluntary (b) referendum 390. Witty, ready replies : (c) homogenous (d) unanimous (a) repartees (b) rhetorics 376. Notice of death, especially in a newspaper: (c) puns (d) refrains (a) condolence (b) obituary 391. A solution for all: (c) obesity (d) funeral (a) panacea (b) treatment 377. Persons working together in the same institute: (c) cure (d) well-being (a) colleagues (b) staff 392. A book containing various branches of (c) contemporary (d) brethren knowledge arranged in alphabetical order: 378. One who does not believe in god: (a) encyclopaedia (b) dictionary (a) polytheist (b) atheist (c) thesaurus (d) atlas (c) theist (d) monotheist 393. A person who believes in the total abolition of 379. There was a peaceful settlement of the matter war: between the two parties: (a) bellicose (b) pacifist (a) friendship (b) solidarity (c) flautist (d) fatalist (c) compromise (d) understanding 12 | P a g e 394. A military or political group that rules a country (a) illegible (b) illiterate after taking power by force (c) irrevocable (d) illegal (a) junta (b) burglary 409. He is a person who always looks at the dark side (c) piracy (d) pilferage of things: 395. A constantly changing pattern or sequence of (a) optimist (b) pacifist elements (c) pessimist (d) opportunist (a) anthropology (b) gyroscope 410. A speech delivered for the first time: (c) etymology (d) kaleidoscope (a) impromptu speech (b) maiden speech 396. A published false statement that is damaging to (c) primary speech (d) harangue a person's reputation; a written defamation 411. A gigantic statue: (a) schedule (b) libel (c) time-table (d) plan (a) colossus (b) agree 397. A dummy used to display clothes in a shop (c) kirk (d) decline window 412. A disorderly crowd of people: (a) pace (b) tempo (a) spectators (b) pedestrians (c) velodrome (d) mannequin (c) lunatics (d) mob 398. A public speech or published text in praise of 413. Specify as part of an agreement: someone or something (a) charge (b) agree (c) stipulate (d) decline (a) coffer (b) pantry (c) panegyric (d) scullery 414. A hall or building equipped for physical exercise: 399. A raised place on which offerings to God are (a) gymnastics (b) court made: (c) play-station (d) gymnasium (a) mound (b) chapel (c) altar (d) archive 415. Changing in shape, appearance etc: 400. Undue favour shown by a person in power to his (a) rotation (b) alteration friends and relatives: (c) motion (d) transformation (a) criticism (b) despotism 416. A book or paper written in hand: (c) nepotism (d) witticism (a) edition (b) thesis 401. An area controlled by a foreign ruler: (c) manuscript (d) scripture (a) province (b) state 417. A speech delivered by a prophet or saint from a (c) colony (d) dominion pulpit: 402. A person who lives for pleasure: (a) lecture (b) debate (a) hedonist (b) materialist (c) dialogue (d) sermon (c) atheist (d) philanthropist 418. A person who offers services without any 403. Loss of memory: return: (a) dementia (b) oblivion (a) activist (b) contractor (c) nostalgia (d) amnesia (c) seer (d) volunteer 404. A drawing of the outline of an object; filled in 419. One who is bad in spelling with some uniform color (a) compositor (b) stoker (a) banker (b) silhouette (c) cacographist (d) shipwright (c) imposter (d) former 420. A person or animal having both male and 405. A substitute, especially a person deputizing for female sex organs or other sexual characteristics another in a specific role or office (a) hermaphrodite (b) derivative (a) surrogate (b) inadmissible (c) inferential (d) suggestive (c) irresistible (d) illegal 421. A person who manages the financial affairs of a 406. A brief evocative description, account, or college or school episode (a) bursar (b) philanthropy (a)vignette (b) warden (c) benevolence (d) turnstile (c) beadle (d) short 422. An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque 407. One who knows everything: period or situation (a) omniscient (b) omnipresent (a) idyll (b) sinecure (c) omnipotent (d) ominous (c) perquisite (d) prerogatives 408. That which cannot be read easily: 13 | P a g e 423. Spoil (something which is valued or respected) (a) blonde (b) philogynist (a) Flora (b) museum (c) brunette (d) dotard (c) zoo (d) desecrate 440. There was a big applause when he delivered his 424. Not easily pleased by anything: speech for the first time: (a) medieval (b) precarious (a) introductory speech (b) maiden speech (c) fastidious (d) maiden (c) concluding speech (d) initial speech 425. To die without having made a will: 441. Large number of insects, birds etc. Moving (a) intestate (b) insolvent about: (c) intaglio (d) inveterate (a) crowd (b) group (c) pack (d) swarm 426. One who enjoys inflicting pain on himself 442. A person who readily believes others (a) egoist (b) sadist (a) sensible (b) credulous (c) masochist (d) nihilist (c) sensitive (d) credible 427. Murder of a brother: 443. Dry weather with no rainfall: (a) regicide (b) homicide (a) summer (b) desert (c) fratricide (d) patricide (c) drought (d) general 428. More like a woman than a man in manners and 444. Unrelated to the subject; habits: (a) irrelevant (b) superficial (a) womanish (b) delicate (c) specific (d) general (c) unmanly (d) effeminate 445. A state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility 429. Handwriting which is difficult or impossible to (a) transgression (b) translation read: (c) stupor (d) transmigration (a) illegible (b) illogical 446. Something which is not in harmony (c) unintelligible (d) eligible (a) smooth (b) quiet 430. To play the part of, and function as some other (c) cacophonous (d) noisy person: 447. A list of books: (a) impersonate (b) act (c) imitate (d) pretend (a) anthology (b) glossary 431. Liable to be easily broken: (c) catalogue (d) index (a) weak (b) brittle (c) thin (d) hard 448. Man with womanly habits and manners 432. One who is out to destroy the Government: (a) bovine (b) suave (c) effeminate (d) gay (a) anarchist (b) villain 449. Something unusual or strange, having peculiar (c) criminal (d) enemy notions: 433. One who loves all mankind: (a) dramatic (b) reasonable (a) philologist (b) philosopher (c) whimsical (d) aggressive (c) philanthropist (d) philatelist 450. A study of word and the way words develop: 434. A person who cannot make a mistake: (a) Etymology (b) phonology (a) inexplicable (b) inevitable (c) phraseology (d) phonography (c) indispensable (d) infallible 451. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers 435. One who eats human flesh: (a) inn (b) coup (a) carnivore (b) herbivore (c) revolution (d) dissidence (c) glutton (d) cannibal 452. Soldier who fight on horseback : 436. An office with a salary but no work: (a) infantry (b) artillery (a) honorary (b) sinecure (c) cavalry (d) armored (c) insolvent (d) sinuous 453. One who speaks for other: 437. The study or collection of coins: (a) spokesman (b) leader (a) nymphomania (b) numismatics (c) supporter (d) naming (c) numerology (d) numeric 454. A short moral story (often with animal 438. One who hates women; characters) (a) misogynist (b) misanthrope (a) uneducated (b) fable (c) feminist (d) effeminate (c) ignorant (d) oblivious 439. A woman with dark brown hair: 14 | P a g e 455. A person who thinks only about himself 'and 470. To be biased against: not about others 'needs: (a) partial (b) objective (a) egocentric (b) egomaniacal (c) prejudiced (d) predestined (c) egoistic (d) egotistic 471. Motion of Head, Hands etc, As a mode of 456. Something that cannot be explained: expression indicating attitude. (a) inexplicable (b) unthinkable (a) gesture (b) grin (c) impregnable (d) mysterious (c) gestation (d) grimace 457. A written declaration made on oath in the 472. Bitter and violent attack in words: presence of a magistrate: (a) diaspora (b) criticism (a) document (b) affidavit (c) diadem (d) diatribe (c) dossier (d) voucher 473. Treatment by means of exercise and massage: 458. A raised place on which offering to a God are (a) chemotherapy (b) hydrotherapy made: (c) physiotherapy (d) psychotherapy (a) mound (b) rostrum (c) church (d) altar 474. The abandonment of one’s country or cause: 459. One who journeys from place to place: (a) defection (b) disloyalty (a) quack (b) cannibal (c) desertion (d) migration (c) itinerant (d) courier 475. A place where birds are kept: 460. A government by officials: (a) aquarium (b) den (a) oligarchy (b) aristocracy (c) aviary (d) sanctuary (c) plutocracy (d) bureaucracy 476. A method which never fails 461. One who walks in sleep: (a) unflinching (b) irreparable (a) somniloquist (b) egoist (c) irremediable (d) infallible (c) somnambulist (d) altruist 477. Something which cannot be believed: 462. Commencement of adjacent word with same (a) inevitable (b) ineffable letter: (c) incredible (d) ineluctable (a) pun (b) alliteration 478. Body of a human being or animal embalmed for (c) transferred epithet (d) oxymoron burial: 463. A specialist who tests eyesight: (a) corpse (b) mummy (a) optician (b) ophthalmologist (c) morgue (d) mortuary (c) ichthyologist (d) neurologist 479. Of very bad morals, characterised by 464. A wall built to prevent the sea or a river from debasement or degeneration: flooding an area: (a) desultory (b) dilapidated (a) dam (b) mound (c) depraved (d) dilatory (c) dyke (d) embankment 480. The production of raw silk: 465. Ability to go on inspite of difficulties: (a) pisciculture (b) horticulture (a) delirious (b) desirous (c) sericulture (d) urine culture (c) perseverance (d) pervasive 481. Politicians are notorious for doing undue favour 466. A number of ships, vehicles etc. Travelling to their relatives: together under escort; (a) dualism (b) polarity (a) retinue (b) feel (c) pluralism (d) nepotism (c) posse (d) convoy 482. A person who readily believes others: 467. An instrument for measuring wind pressure: (a) sensitive (b) sensible (a) manometer (b) micrometer (c) credible (d) credulous (c) temperature (d) anemometer 483. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style 468.To destroy completely intended to impress: (a) annihilate (b) rehabilitate (a) verbalization (b) rhetoric (c) incapacitate (d) dislocate (c) oratory (d) public-speaking 469. To die in water or any other liquid because one is unable to breathe: (a) sink (b) drown (c) flounder (d) founder 15 | P a g e 484. The political leader has an evil reputation. He is (a) trot (b) canter (c) plod (d) saunter not trusted: 499. One who copies from other writers: (a) is magnanimous (b) is dubious (a) copy-writer (b) copyright (c) is notorious (d) is malicious (c) plagiarist (d) epicure 485. The conference takes place once in three years: 500. Excessive similarity or resemblance with (a) treennial (b) thriennial anything or anyone: (c) tetraennial (d) triennial (a) affinity (b) ambiguity 486. An apartment building in which each apartment (c) affirmation (d) affliction is owned separately by the people living in it, but 501. To scold or rebuke somebody also containing shared areas: (a) chicanery (b) chide (c) caress (d) carnage (a) condominium (b) multiplex 502. A round or cylindrical container used for storing (c) duplex (d) caravan things such as food, chemicals or rolls of film: 487. A group of three powerful people: (a) tankard (b) canister (c) vessel (d) casket (a) trio (b) tritium 503. A place of permanent residence: (c) trivet (d) triumvirate (a) abode (b) dormitory 488. Operation of the body after death: (c) domicile (d) apartment (a) post-mortem (b) obituary 504. That cannot be altered or withdrawn: (c) homage (d) mortuary (a) irrevocable (b) irretrievable 489. The Bedouin Arabs are people of no fixed abode (c) irrefutable (d) irresistible (a) vagabonds (b) travellers 505. Money paid to employees on retirement: (c) barbarians (d) nomads (a) gratuity (b) gift (c) pension (d) arrears 490. The secretary’s proposal was adopted with the 506. A place where clothes are kept: full agreement of all the members: (a) closet (b) drawer (a) equivocally (b) vehemently (c) wardrobe (d) cupboard (c) ambitiously (d) unanimously 507. An instrument for measuring the force of the 491. That which makes it difficult to recognize the wind: presence or real nature of something: (a) manometer (b) micrometer (a) infallible (b) image (c) telescope (d) anemometer (c) camouflage (d) transparent 508. To given one’s authority to another: 492. Code of diplomatic etiquette and precedence (a) authorization (b) powerful (a) protocol (b) hierarchy (c) attorney (d) delegate (c) formality (d) statesmanship 509. A herd or flock of animals being driven in a body 493. Travel regularly between two or more places 1. Crowd 2. Cluster 3. Throng 4. Drove (a) dexterous (b) shuttle 510. A group of three novels or plays, each complete (c) gifted (d) exception in itself 494. Twist and turn with quick writhing movements 1. Triplet 2. Triumvir 3. Trivet 4. Trilogy (a) recluse (b) hedonist 511. A self-governing country or region (c) wriggle (d) maniac 1. Anarchy 2. Autonomy 495. A person who rides horses in races as an 3. Democracy 4. Monarchy occupation: 512. A place where coins, medals or tokens are made (a) equestrian (b) horseman 1. Casting 2. Mill 3. Mint 4. Workshop (c) horse-racer (d) maniac 513. A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft 496. A widely accepted rule of conduct or general 1. Anchor 2. Choreographer truth briefly expressed: 3. Astronaut 4. Chauffeur (a) maxim (b) tenet 514. One who does not take any alcoholic drink (c) syllogism (d) doctrine 1. Teetotaller 2. Astrologer 497. A secret message written in code: 3. Perfectionist 4. Vegetarian (a) anagram (b) telegram 515. A large building with an extensive floor area, (c) phonogram (d) cryptogram typically for housing aircraft 498. Walk in a slow relaxed way: 1. Barn 2. Airport 3. Shed 4. Hangar 16 | P a g e 516. A person who listens to someone’s private 1. Heaven 2. Utopia 3. Dreamland 4. Paradise conversation without them knowing 532. A dynamic campaign for political, social or 1. Eavesdropper 2. Infiltrator religious change 3. Secret agent 4. Spy 1. Mutiny 2. Conflict 3. Crusade 4. War 517. A large bedroom for a number of people in a 533. An arrangement of flowers that is usually given school or institution. as a present. 1. Hostel 2. Creche 3. Assembly 4. Dormitory 1. Basket 2. Bracket 3. Bouquet 4. Boutique 518. A group of people, typically with vehicles or 534. One who does not believe in the existence of animals, travelling together. God. 1. Caravan 2. Troop 3. Circus 4. Gang 1. Atheist 2. Cynic 3. Anarchist 4. Egotist 519. A place in a large institution, for the care of 535. One who supervises in an examination hall those who are ill 1. Inspector 2. Manager 1. Hostel 2. Infirmary 3. Hangar 4. Dormitory 3. Invigilator 4. Verifier 520. A group of stars 536. A person preoccupied with an unrealistically 1. Congregation 2. Astronomy optimistic approach to life 3. Planets 4. Constellation 1. Practical 2. Pragmatic 521. Having no boundaries or limits 3. Rational 4. Quixotic 1. Enormous 2. Tremendous 537. A group of people, typically with vehicles or 3. Infinite 4. Colossal animals travelling together 522. One who studies the occult meanings of 1. Cargo 2. Caravan 3. Battery 4. Cache numbers and their supposed influence on human 538. A person appointed by two parties to solve a life dispute 1. Astronomer 2. Astrologer 1. Anarchist 2. Auditor 3. Atheist 4. Arbitrator 3. Numerologist 4. Prophet 539. The state of being subject to death 523. A sentimental longing for a period in the past 1. Deadly 2. Immortality 1. Memory 2. Emotion 3. Craving 4. Nostalgia 3. Mortality 4. Morbidity 524. A large cage, building, or enclosure to keep birds 540. A musical composition made up of a series of 1. Aviary 2. Aquarium 3. Arena 4. Zoo songs or short pieces 525. Soft, inner part of a nut or fruit-stone 1. Medley 2. Orchestra 3. Lyric 4. Band 1. Bean 2. Pulp 3. Caramel 4. Kernel 541. A secret or disguised way of writing 526. A news article that reports the recent death of a 1. Emblem 2. Cypher 3. Symbol 4. Puzzle person 542. A person who entertains people by doing 1. Review 2. Editorial difficult feats 3. Mortuary 4. Obituary 1. Acrobat 2. Cosmonaut 527. Something that is to your advantage but 3. Astronaut 4. Performer comedian happened by chance 543. An incongruous or chaotic mixture 1. Occidental 2. Purposeful 1. Harmony 2. Discord 3. Cacophony 4. Melody 3. Deliberate 4. Fortuitous 544. A family of young birds 528. To throw an event into confusion or disorder 1. Kids 2. Brood 3. Offspring 4. Litter 1. Disrupt 2. Detonate 3. Erupt 4. Explode 545. A short rest or sleep taken after lunch 529. A person who thinks that bad things are more 1. Leisure 2. Slumber 3. Siesta 4. Doze likely to happen or who emphasises the bad part of a 546. A corporation made up of a number of different situation companies that operate in diversified fields 1. Complainer 2. Misanthropist 1. Conglomerate 2. Correlation 3. Optimist 4. Pessimist 3. Agreement 4. Association 530. The act or habit of talking in one's sleep 547. An examination of a dead body to determine 1. Somniloquy 2. Soliloquy the cause of death 3. Monologue 4. Prologue 1. Analysis 2. Homicide 531. An imaginary ideal society free of poverty and 3. Post-mortem 4. Suicide suffering 17 | P a g e 548. A person who presents a radio/television 564. Feeling annoyed at the sight of unfair programme treatement 1. Comedian 2. Choreographer (1) indifferent (2) indisposed 3. Anchor 4. Actor (3) Indignant (4) Indigent 549. A person employed to drive a private or hired 565. Artistic, musical or dramatic interpretation. car (1) Rendition (2) Report 1. Pilot 2. Chauffeur 3. Captain 4. Escort (3) Imitation (4) Reparation 550. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or 566. Showing a dislike of anything Improper. writing (1) Strict (2) Crude (3) Prim (4) Rude 1. Rhetoric 2. Archaic 567. A planned route or journey 3. Poetry 4. Bombastic (1) Iterate (2) itinerary (3) Itinerant (4) isolate 551. One who is in charge of museum 568. Speech of great importance and gravity A) Supervisor B) Caretaker (1) maiden (2) momentous C) Warden D) Curator (3) monumental (4) momentary 552. A style full of words 569. Act of injuring another’s reputation by A) Pedantic B) Verbose any slanderous communication. C) Rhetorical D) Abundant (1) Defamation (2) Orchestration 553. Imposed a restriction on (3) Aberration (4) Misrepresentation A) Constrained B) Strained 570. A story in which animals or objects speak and C) Abstained D) Contained give wholesome moral lesson. 554. An organism which lives in or on another (1) Legend (2) Fable organism (3) Parable (4) Allegory A) Parasite B) Host 571. To free someone from all blames C) Puerile D) Sororicide (1) Consolidate (2) Fling 555. The first model of a new device (3) Forbid (4) Exonerate A) Prototype B) Sculpture 572. A person who deliberately sets fire to a building C) Sample D) Photograph (1) Arsonist (2) Extortionist 556. A relationship between people or organisations (3) Hijacker (4) Assassin that depend on each other equally 573. One who makes an official examination of A) Symbiosis B) Beam accounts C) Erudition D) Adduction (1) Auditor (2) Registrar 557. A small house with all rooms on one floor (3) Creditor (4) Chartered Accountant A) Bungalow B) Cottage C) Flat D) Igloo 574. The burial of a corpse 558. A short poem or speech addressed to the (1) Internment (2) Interment spectators after the conclusion of drama (3) Interrogate (4) Interpose A) Ode B) Epilogue C) Hymn D) Ballad 575. One who is too careless to plan for the future. 559. Something that is difficult to believe (1) imprudent (2) impractical A) Fictitious B) Imaginary (3) impotent (4) improvident C) Paradigm D) Incredible 576. To die without making a will. 560. A fixed orbit in space in relation to earth (1) Inure (2) Inane A) Geo-stationary B) Geo-centric (3) Intestate (4) Indigent C) Geo-synchronous D) Polar 577. Make pale by excluding light. 561. A vivacious and lively experience is said to be (1) Foliate (2) Percolate (1) scintillating (2) soothing (3) Procreate (4) Etiolate (3) scenic (4) synthetic 578. The branch of medical science which deals with 562. To secure a boat by attaching it to an anchor the problems of the old (1) moor (2) moot (3) morose (4) moose (1) oncology (2) obstetrics 563. Unwelcome aspect of a situation (3) paediatrics (4) geriatrics (1) flippant (2) flip side (3) flip-flop (4) flintlock 18 | P a g e 579. A child secretly changed for another in infancy 594. A person with a long experience of any (1) nipper (2) changeling occupation. (3) tiddler (4) tyke (1) veteran (2) genius 580. Put side by side (3) seasoned (4) ambidextrous (1) Juxtapose (2) Impose 595. Stealthily done. (3) Propose (4) Depose (1) devious (2) nefarious 581. Too willing to obey other people (3) surreptitious (4) villainous (1) sublimate (2) subjugate 596. Something no longer in use. (3) subaltern (4) subservient (1) desolate (2) absolute 582. A person who is very selective, disgusted easily, (3) obsolete (4) primitive and is hard to please. 597. Severely abusive writing in journals. (1) fastidious (2) ambiguous (1) imaginary (2) speculative (3) selector (4) misanthrope (3) scurrilous (4) sarcastic 583. Rub or wipe out 598. Call upon God or any other power (like law) etc. (1) efface (2) plunder for help or protection. (3) terminate (4) remove (1) invocation (2) involution 584. A statement in which you say the same thing (3) inundation (4) revocation twice in different words 599. To cut something into two pieces. (1) temerity (2) tarragon (1) severe (2) sever (3) sewer (4) sow (3) tautology (4) repetition 600. Flat metal or Porcelain plate fixed on a wall as 585. A person who has had one or more limbs an ornament or memorial. removed (1) tabloid (2) poster (1) amputee (2) handicap (3) board (4) plaque (3) limber (4) fatalist 601. A person who is always dissatisfied 586. A cinema show held in the afternoon. (a) heresy (b) malcontent (1) Entertainment (2) Play (c) felon (d) surrogate (3) Premiere (4) Matinee 602. A speech delivered without previous 587. A handsome man preparation (1) Adonis (2) Tycoon (a) Soliloquy (b) Extempore (3) Debonair (4) Cavalier (c) Rhetoric (d) Expression 588. Intentional damage to arrest production 603. One who has narrow and prejudiced religious (1) Nemesis (2) Sangfroid views (3) Sabotage (4) Modus operandi (a) religious (b) fanatic 589. Introductory part or lines to a discourse or play (c) bigot (d) god-fearing (1) Prologue (2) Blurb 604. Loss of memory (3) Monologue (4) Epilogue (a) Ambrosia (b) Amnesia 590. Art of working with metals. (c) Insomnia (d) Forgetting (1) Meteorite (2) Metaphysics 605. To struggle helplessly (3) Metallurgy (4) Metalloid (a) Flounder (b) Founder 591. A person who helps another to commit a crime. (c) Fumble (d) Finger (1) Colleague (2) Accomplice 606. To confirm with the help of evidence (3) Assistant (4) Supporter (a) corroborate (b) implicate 592. An act of misappropriation of money (c) designate (d) extricate (1) Embezzlement (2) Misconduct 607. The time between midnight and noon (3) Debasement (4) Corruption (a) Afternoon (b) Antipodes 593. An emolument over and above fixed income or (c) Ante – meridian (d) Antenatal salary 608. One who is a dabbler in arts,science or (a) Honorarium (b) Sinecure literature: (c) Perquisite (d) Prerogative (a) Dilettante (b) Aesthete (c) Maestro (d) Connoisseur 19 | P a g e 609. To look at someone in an angry or threatening 625. One who helps a person in need way (a) veteran (b) collaborator (a) Glower (b) Gnaw (c) samaritan (d) mercenary (c) Gnash (d) Grind 626. An established principle of practical wisdom 610. A post with little work but high salary (a) Marxism (b) Maxim (a) Director (b) Trustee (c) Neologism (d) Platonism (c) Sinecure (d) Ombudsman 627. A general pardon of offenders 611. Avoiding wastage (a) parley (b) amnesty (a) economic (b) economical (c) parole (d) acquittal (c) minimal (d) optimum 628. The art of preserving skin of animals, birds and 612. Science of the races of mankind fish (a) Genealogy (b) Etiology (a) taxonomy (b) philology (c) Ethnology (d) Sociology (c) taxidermy (d) seismology 613. Impossible to describe 629. Very dramatic (a) Miraculous (b) Ineffable (a) hypocritic (b) hirsute (c) Stupendous (d) Appalling (c) hoary (d) histrionic 614. An emolument over and above fixed income or 630. The art of making fireworks salary (a) chromatics (b) pyrotechnics (a) Honorarium (b) Sinecure (c) numismatics (d) cosmetics (c) Perquisite (d) Prerogative 631. A short journey for pleasure 615. Failing to discharge one’s duty (a) tour (b) wanderlust (a) Debacle (b) Dereliction (c) itinerary (d) jaunt (c) Determination (d) Deterrent 632. A title or a term of respect 616. A long journey especially by sea (a) token (b) honorary (a) flight (b) voyage (c) honorific (d) whip (c) odyssey (d) safari 633. Bitter and violent attack in words 617. Person who is rough and ill mannered (a) vindictive (b) diadem (a) cajole (b) boorish (c) diaspora (d) diatribe (c) sycophant (d) debonair 634. One who lives alone and avoids others 618. An unconventional style of living (a) recluse (b) saint (a) matinee (b) abysmal (c) alien (d) hermit (c) bohemian (d) dilettante 635. Stealthily done 619. One who is brilliant performer of music on stage (a) notorious (b) nefarious (a) vibrant (b) virtuoso (c) surreptitious (d) villainous (c) verbatim (d) verso 636. A person who opposes war or use of military 620. A verse letter force (a) epistle (b) testament (a) fascist (b) pacifist (c) erudite (d) epitaph (c) narcissist (d) fatalist 621. Shaking movement of the ground 637. Physical features of an area (a) Shiver (b) Vibrate (a) Geography (b) sociology (c) Tremor (d) Oscillate (c) contour (d) topography 622. A hater of knowledge and learning 638. Scientific study of fungi (a) Bibliophile (b) Philologist (a) mycology (b) botany (c) Misogynist. (d) Misologist (c) Entomology (d) Odontology 623. A place where fruit trees are grown 639. A place where everything is perfect (a) orchard (b) farm (a) heaven (b) platoon (c) plantation (d) garden (c) cosmos (d) utopia 624. A fictitious name used by an author 640. A person who is pure and clean (a) pseudonym (b) homonym (a) immaculate (b) neat (c) alibi (d) anonymous (c) clean (d) irrevocable 20 | P a g e 641. An underhand device resorted to inorder to 657. Excessive concern about one’s health justify misconduct [A] welfare [B] hypochondriac (a) Subterfuge (b) Stratagem [C] anxiety [D] critical (c) Complicity (d) Manoeuvre 658. An unclaimed letter 642. A person who is always dissatisfied [A] dead letter [B] dispensary (a) heresy (b) felon [C] gullible [D] ignorant (c) malcontent (d) surrogate 659. The art practised b