One Word Substitution - English Aptitude MCQ Questions and Answers

One word substitute is Anniversary.

Centenary: the hundredth anniversary of a significant event.
Jubilee: a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years of a reign or activity.
Anniversary: the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year.
Birthday: the anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and the giving of gifts.

One word substitute is Insular.

Fanatic: a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.
Patriotic: having or expressing devotion to and vigorous support for one's country.
Insular: ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.
Usurer: a person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

One word substitute is Interregnum.

Lapse: a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement.
Interregnum: a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.
Stasis: a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium.
Anachronism: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
Intermission: a pause or break.

One word substitute is Effeminate.

Loquacious: tending to talk a great deal; talkative.
Celibate: abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons.
Effeminate: (of a man) having characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly.
Epicurean: a person devoted to sensual enjoyment, especially that derived from fine food and drink.

One word substitute is Septuagenarian.

Nonagenarian: a person who is between 90 and 99 years old.
Centenarian: a person who is a hundred or more years old.
Octogenarian: a person who is between 80 and 89 years old.
Septuagenarian: a person who is between 70 and 79 years old.

One word substitute is Rabble.

Individual: single; separate.
Discrete: individually separate and distinct.
Rabble: a disorderly crowd; a mob.
Congregation: a group of people assembled for religious worship.

One word substitute is Colleague.

Enemy: a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
Colleague: a person with whom one works in a profession or business.
Assistant: a person who ranks below a senior person.
Contemporary: living or occurring at the same time.

One word substitute is Patrimony.

Alimony: a husband's (or wife's) provision for a spouse after separation or divorce; maintenance.
Patrimony: property inherited from one's father or male ancestor.
Legacy: an amount of money or property left to someone in a will.
Inheritance: a thing that is inherited.

One word substitute is Imposter.

Imposter: a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain.
Liar: a person who tells lies.
Rogue: a dishonest or unprincipled man.
Magician: a person with magical powers.

One word substitute is Clinophobia.

Clinophobia: the fear of beds or going to bed.
Ballistophobia: Fear of missiles or bullets.
Xenophobia: dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
Stenophobia: the fear of narrow spaces.