SSC One Word Substitution Test

61. A cluster of flowers on a branch

(a) bouquet

(b) inflorescence

(c) wreath

(d) incandescence

 

62. A person who believes that only selfishness motivates human

actions

(a) agnostic

(b) cynic

(c) sceptic

(d) misogynist

 

63. A highly skilled musician

(a) artiste

(b) virtuoso

(c) performer

(d) diva

 

64. A method of boiling briefly to cook food slightly

(a) steam

(b) bake

(c) saute

(d) parboil

 

65. The group, especially in the arts, regarded as being the most

experimental

(a) avant-garde

(b) iconoclast

(c) revolutionary

(d) nerd

 

66. One who helps people by giving them money or other aid

(a) benefactor

(b) beneficiary

(c) tycoon

(d) patriot

 

67. A person who believes he is always ill

(a) maverick

(b) metaphysics

(c) neophyte

(d) hypochondriac

 

68. One who assails traditional beliefs

(a) critic

(b) atheist

(c) anthropologist

(d) iconoclast

 

69. A person who chooses to live in a foreign country

(a) traveler

(b) explorer

(c) immigrant

(d) refugee

 

70. An official inquiry into the cause of an unnatural death

(a) inquest

(b) investigation

(c) post-mortem

(d) instigation

 

71. A massive moving entity

(a) miasma

(b) juggernaut

(c) jamboree

(d) typhoon

 

72. A happening that cannot be altered

(a) invincible

(b) fate

(c) fait-accompli

(d) congruence

 

73. A person with good artistic taste

(a) gourmet

(b) gourmand

(c) connoisseur

(d) judge

 

74. A flirting woman

(a) virago

(b) shrew

(c) martinet

(d) coquette

 

75. Forcefully enlisting private property for military use

(a) occupation

(b) commandeering

(c) trespass

(d) encroachment

 

76. A block of individual apartments

(a) flats

(b) congruence

(c) architecture

(d) condominium

 

77. A contraption used during French Revolution for beheading people

(a) guinea

(b) gabardine

(c) guillotine

(d) icicle

 

78. An imaginary but a perfect society

(a) idealism

(b) cornucopia

(c) utopia

(d) plethora

 

79. Genocide based on race or religion

(a) apartheid

(b) segregation

(c) animism

(d) pogrom

 

80. Theft of someone else’s writings

(a) facsimile

(b) plagiarism

(c) forgery

(d) parody

 

81. A gentle breeze

(a) south wind

(b) squall

(c) draft

(d) zephyr

 

82. Next month

(a) ultimo

(b) instant

(c) praximo

(d) pronto

 

83. Fire works display for amusement

(a) glitter

(b) crackers

(c) pyrotechnics

(d) sparklers

 

84. Interesting narrator of stories

(a) novelist

(b) broadcaster

(c) raconteur

(d) orator

 

85. Exact and methodical thinking

(a) non sequitur

(b) ratiocination

(c) rationalism

(d) psychiatry