One Word Substitutions Practice Set-3

1. An area where wild birds or animals protected and encouraged
   to breed
   (a) sanctuary (b) asylum
   (c) temple (d) shrine
   
2. One who walks in sleep:
   (a) dremer (b) somnambulist
   (c) neomatic (d) ignorant
   
3. An instrument for measuring the force of the wind:
   (a) manometer (b) micrometer
   (c) telescope (d) anemometer
   
4. A speech made without preparation:
   (a) prepared (b) debate
   (c) extempore (d) elocution
   
5. Prohibited by law or treaty from being imported on exported:
   (a) contraband (b) smuggled
   (c) counterfeit (d) forged
   
6. Intentional destruction of racial groups:
   (a) regicide (b) genocide
   (c) homicid (d) fratricide
   
7. A person in vehicle or on horseback escorting another vehicle:
   (a) navigator (b) escort
   (c) outrider (d) security
   
8. Not allowing the passage of light:
   (a) oblique (b) opaque
   (c) optique (d) opulant
   
9. Science regarding principles of classification:
   (a) taxidermy (b) taxonomy
   (c) toxicology (d) classicology
   
10. A person who can make himself/herself at home in any country:
    (a) cosmetician (b) cosmopolitan
    (c) cosmocrat (d) cosmesis
    
11. Science of heredity:
    (a) hereditary (b) genetics
    (c) genesis (d) inheritance
    
12. Arrangement in order of occurrence:
    (a) timely (b) chronological
    (c) chronic (d) temporal
    
13. Occuring at night:
    (a) nightly (b) dark
    (c) nocturnal (d) neurotic
    
14. Determine the nature of the disease:
    (a) investigate (b) determine
    (c) diagnose (d) detect
    
15. A guide-post pointing out the way for a place:
    (a) lastpost (b) finger-post
    (c) lamp-post (d) checkpost
    
16. Belief that god is in everything and that everything is god:
    (a) atheism (b) pantheism
    (c) scepticism (d) animism
    
17. A picture of a person or a thing drawn in such a highly exaggerated
    manner as to cause laughter
    (a) cartoon (b) cacography
    (c) cartography (d) caricature
    
18. The state of being miserable bereft of all possessions:
    (a) dependant (b) complacent
    (c) destitute (d) omnipresent
    
19. That which cannot be called back:
    (a) irresponsible (b) irrevocable
    (c) irredeemable (d) incalculable
    
20. An abandoned child of unknown parents who is found by somebody:
    (a) foundling (b) siblings
    (c) urchin (d) orphan

Answers:

1 (a) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (a)
6 (b) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (b)
11 (b) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (b)
16 (b) 17. (d) 18. (c) 19. (b) 20. (a)