One Word Substitutes Practice Set 1

Directions: In the questions given below, four alternatives are given for a description. Click on the option which you think is the BEST SUBSTITUTE of the description.

Sentence	Ans
1. A four-wheeled carriage for a baby, pushed by a person on foot. Pram Spam Buggie Cart
2. To cut something into two pieces. severe sever sewer sow
3. A bicycle for two or more people. barrow toboggan tricycle tandem
4. Act of deceiving somebody in order to make money. fraud robbery pickpocket theft
5. A word which reads the same when read forward or backwards abbreviation anagram palindrome homonym
6. Capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses and therefore not definite amphibious ambiguous amorphous confusing
7. A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another palindrome acronym anagram hologram
8. Anything which is no longer in use obscure obsolete pristine lapsed
9. A person coming to a foreign land to settle there. immigrant emigrant tourist settler

Sentence	Ans
10. A thrown object or a weapon capable of returning to thrower. missile boomerang harpoon catapult
11. One who goes to settle in another country Immigrant Alien Citizen Emigrant
12. Strong concentrated black coffee made under steam pressure Instant Filter Espresso Coke
13. Belonging to all parts of the world - Versatile Universal Cosmopolitan Secular
14. One who walks on ropes Funambulist Upholsterer Acrobat Aviator
15. The study of the origin and history of words Linguistics Etymology Verbose Anthology

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