One Word Substitution - English Aptitude MCQ Questions and Answers

One word substitute is Granary.

Cellar: a room below ground level in a house, often used for storing wine or coal.
Store: a quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed.
Godown: (in eastern Asia, especially India) a warehouse.
Granary: a storehouse for threshed grain.

One word substitute is Teetotaller.

Puritan: a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Samaritan: a charitable or helpful person
Pedant: a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
Teetotaller: a person who never drinks alcohol.

One word substitute is Dandy.

Snob: a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and looks down on those regarded as socially inferior.
Duffer: an incompetent or stupid person
Dandy: a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable.
Licentious: promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

One word substitute is Blasphemy.

Atheism: disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.
Nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
Blasphemy: the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.
Agnosticism: the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

One word substitute is Brigand.

Dacoit: (in India or Burma (Myanmar)) a member of a band of armed robbers.
Brigand: a member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains.
Thief: a person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or threat of violence.
Pirate: a person who attacks and robs ships at sea.

One word substitute is Legitimate.

Liable: responsible by law; legally answerable.
Eligible: having the right to do or obtain something; satisfying the appropriate conditions.
Legalised: make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law.
Legitimate: conforming to the law or to rules.

One word substitute is Nostalgia.

Hysteria: exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement.
Megalomania: obsession with the exercise of power.
Nostalgia: a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.
Logomania: pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking.

One word substitute is Eccentric.

Eccentric: (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.
Cynical: believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
Introvert: a shy, reticent person.
Moody: (of a person) given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness.

One word substitute is Typography.

Calligraphy: decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering.
Typography: the style and appearance of printed matter.
Topography: the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
Cryptography: the art of writing or solving codes.

One word substitute is Hijacker.

Pirate: a person who attacks and robs ships at sea.
Malefactor: a person who commits a crime or some other wrong.
Hijacker: a person who steals goods by seizing them in transit.
Philanderer: a man who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships with women; a womanizer.