SSC English Questions– One Word substitutions set -3

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In the following questions, out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

1. Belonging to the same time.
   A. Amateur
   B. Contemporary
   C. deadpan
   D. remark
   

   Answer

   B. Contemporary
   
   
2. The state of being unmarried.
   A. Celibacy
   B. exotic
   C. monogamy
   D. samba
   

   Answer

   A. Celibacy
   
   
3. Something that is extremely unpleasant.
   A. Copious
   B. porous
   C. odious
   D. extraneous
   

   Answer

   C. odious
   
   
4. To make something shorter.
   A. Slight
   B. aplenty
   C. salver
   D. truncate
   

   Answer

   D. truncate
   
   
5. The firing of several guns during a battle or as part of a ceremony.
   A. scarce
   B. salve
   C. salvo
   D. plexus
   

   Answer

   C. salvo
   
   
6. Killing of a human being specially by another.
   A. Sororicide
   B. Homicide
   C. patricide
   D. Matricide
   

   Answer

   B. Homicide
   
   
7. A person who is bad in spellings.
   A. Cacographist
   B. Almanac
   C. Calligraphist
   D. Ambidextrous
   

   Answer

   A. Cacographist
   
   
8. That cannot be Seized.
   A. Epitaph
   B. Aristocracy
   C. Expose
   D. Impregnable
   

   Answer

   D. Impregnable
   
   
9. A polite word for something shocking.
   A. statuesque
   B. aphorism
   C. Euphemism
   D. pleonasm
   

   Answer

   C. Euphemism
   
   
10. The use of more words than are needed to express an idea.
    A. vapid
    B. plectrum
    C. Pleonasm
    D. plosive
    

    Answer

    C. Pleonasm