Test: SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: One Word Substitution (2023-18) - 2 - SSC CGL MCQ

Spokesperson - one who speaks for others.
Orator - a public speaker, especially one who is uent or skilled.
Verbose - one who uses or expresses in more words than are needed.
Talkative - one who is fond of talking,

Crowd - a group of people
Herd - a large number of animals that live and feed together
Flock - a group of sheep or birds
Brood - all the young birds that belong to one mothe

Mundane - lacking interest or excitement
Despot - a ruler with great power, especially one who uses it in a cruel way
Hostile - having very strong feelings against somebody/something
Miserly - marked by grasping meanness and penuriousness

Apartheid - policy of racial discrimination
Non-alignment - lack of alliance or aliation with other nations or groups, especially politically
Diplomacy - the activity of managing relations between different countries
Commonwealth - an organization whose members are the United Kingdom and some other countries that were once a part of the British Empire.

Innite - having no boundaries or limits
Enormous- very big or very great
Tremendous- very large or great
Colossal- extremely large

Somniloquy - the act or habit of talking in one’s sleep
Soliloquy - the act of speaking thoughts aloud in this way
Monologue - a long speech by one person, for example in a play
Prologue - a piece of writing or a speech that introduces a play, poem, etc.

Cypher - a secret or disguised way of writing
Emblem - an object or symbol that represents something
Symbol - a sign, object, etc. which represents something
Puzzle - something that is dicult to understand or explain

Brood - a family of young birds
Kids - a child or young person
Offspring - the young of an animal
Litter - pieces of paper, rubbish, etc. that are left in a public place

Conglomerate - a corporation made up of a number of different companies that operate in diversied fields
Correlation - a measure of the extent to which two variables are related.
Agreement - the state of agreeing with somebody/something
Association - joining or working with another person or group

Post-mortem - an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death
Analysis - careful examination of something
Homicide - the illegal killing of one person by another
Suicide - the act or an instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally.

Apartment- A set of rooms forming one residence in a building.
Bungalow- a house that is all in one level, without stairs.
Suite - a room, especially in a hotel.
Villa - a house that people usually live in during the holidays.

Radiologist - A doctor specialised in diagnosing diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques like X-Ray.
Pathologist - A medical healthcare provider which helps in diagnosing diseases through pathology lab technology.
Cardiologist - A doctor specialised in diagnosing diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques like X-Ray. Dermatologist - A doctor specialised in treating diseases related to skin.

Trivial - Something of little value or importance.
Cardinal - a priest at a high level in a church, a very important person.
Scanty - less than sucient, lacking in amount.
Fundamental - Base from which everything else develops.

Glacier - A slowly moving mass or river of ice.
Typhoon - A mature tropical cyclone that occurs in the northern hemisphere.
Blizzard - Heavy snowstorm accompanied with strong winds.
Avalanche - a large amount of snow that slides down quickly from a mountain.

Humus - The organic component of soil which is formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant materials.
Silt - sand or soil that collects on the sides of a river.
Alluvium - sand or soil that is left by rivers.

Potable - Safe to drink.
Edible - Safe to eat.
Feasible - something which is possible or achievable.
Delectable - extremely good to taste or smell.

Herd - A group of cattle.
Pride - a group of lions.
Flock - a group of animals, birds or sheep.
Litter - pieces of paper, that are left in a public place

Abdication - Act of giving up the throne.
Admiration - a feeling of liking and respecting somebody/something very much.
Adulation - extreme admiration.
Addiction - a condition in which a person nds themselves unable to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior.

Deance - Open refusal to obey orders.
Compliance - the state or fact of according with or meeting rules or standards.
Adherence - attachment or commitment to a person, cause, or belief.
Obedience - compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority.

Stevedore - One who loads and unloads ships.
Spinster - an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.
Captain - the person in command of a ship.
Rustic - relating to the countryside; rural.

Egoist - One who is preoccupied with his own interests.
Pessimist - a person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.
Atheist - a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.
Optimist - a person who tends to be hopeful and condent about the future or the success of something.

A long and aggressive.
speech - Harangue
Prologue-a separate introductory section.
Eloquent - Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.
Discussion - a conversation or debate about a specic topic.

Ambivalent - Having two opposing feelings at the same time.
Contemporary - living or occurring at the same time.
Coinciding - occur at the same time.
Equivalent - equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.

Draw - A game in which neither party wins.
Flop - fall, move, or hang in a loose and ungainly way.

Nursery - a place where young plants and trees are grown for sale or for planting elsewhere.
Aviary - a large cage, building , or enclosure for keeping birds in.
Yard - a great length of something.

Parasite - Person or animal living on another.
Heir - a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.
Successor - a person or thing that succeeds another.
Pupil - a person who is taught by another, especially a school child or student in relation to a teacher.

Diligent - hard working
Dilatory - slow to act.
Indulgent - having or indicating a readiness or over-readiness to be generous to or lenient with someone.
Indigent - poor; needy.

serendipity serenity - the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
misadventure - death caused by a person accidentally while performing a legal act without negligence or intent to harm.  fortitude - courage in pain or adversity.

interminable - endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically).
laconic - using very few words. interim - the intervening time.
concise - brief but comprehensive.

insidious - proceeding in a gradual way and secretly intending to cause harm
benevolent -well meaning and kindly.
malevolent - having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
solvent - able to dissolve other substances