Competitive Exams : English Language - One Word (Set 3)

Question 1

1. Despite his immense wealth, Harrison was a person who was excessively fond of luxury and sensuous pleasure, which eventually led to his financial ruin. Which word best substitutes the underlined phrase?

A) Sybarite

B) Gourmet

C) Somnambulist

D) Altruist

Answer

Correct Answer: A

Sybarite is the correct term for someone who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury.

Question 2

2. A person who believes that highly complex systems or ideas can be completely explained by analyzing their simplest, most basic components is known as a:

A) Solipsist

B) Reductionist

C) Determinist

D) Nihilist

Answer

Correct Answer: B

Reductionist is the correct term for someone who analyzes complex systems by reducing them to their simplest components.

Question 3

3. The diplomat's speech was characterized by the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive. What is the single word for this practice?

A) Circumlocution

B) Tautology

C) Pleonasm

D) Verbiage

Answer

Correct Answer: A

Circumlocution is the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea, especially to evade a direct answer.

Question 4

4. A person who has an obsessive, intense, and single-minded preoccupation with one subject or idea is called a:

Question 5

5. The branch of medicine concerned with the determination of appropriate doses of medicines or drugs is called:

A) Posology

B) Pharmacology

C) Toxicology

D) Pharmacognosy

Answer

Correct Answer: A

Posology is the branch of medicine or pharmacology that deals specifically with the dosage of drugs.

Question 6

6. The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature, is known as:

A) Anthropomorphism

B) Pathetic fallacy

C) Zoomorphism

D) Prosopopoeia

Answer

Correct Answer: B

Pathetic fallacy is the literary term specifically for attributing human emotions to inanimate nature.

Question 7

7. A form of government or social system in which power is held by the wealthy class, who use their influence to maintain privilege and control, is called:

A) Plutocracy

B) Oligarchy

C) Kakistocracy

D) Aristocracy

Answer

Correct Answer: A

Question 8

8. The act of renouncing a belief, cause, or claim under oath or solemn pressure is known as:

A) Abjuration

B) Adjuration

C) Abnegation

D) Abdication

Answer

Correct Answer: A

Abjuration is the formal and solemn renunciation of a belief, opinion, or claim under oath.

Question 9

9. An extreme, irrational, and persistent fear of being in open, crowded, or public places from which escape might be difficult is called:

A) Claustrophobia

B) Agoraphobia

C) Acrophobia

D) Xenophobia

Answer

Correct Answer: B

Agoraphobia is the anxiety disorder characterized by a fear of open, public, or crowded spaces.

Question 10

10. The doctrine or belief that there is no supreme deity, but that the universe itself is identical with divinity, encompassing all things, is called:

A) Pantheism

B) Deism

C) Agnosticism

D) Polytheism

Answer

Correct Answer: A

Pantheism is the philosophical or religious belief that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe.

Accepted Answer

Correct Answer: B

Competitive Exams : English Language - One Word (Set 3)