Free One Word Substitution MCQs with Answers
173 One Word Substitution MCQs from English, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.
One-word substitution replaces a descriptive phrase with a single precise word, such as a person who cannot read or a place where aircraft are kept. Questions test vocabulary for people, actions, qualities, places and systems, along with distinctions between near-synonyms and correct spelling.
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- A. esplande
- B. espadrille
- C. estrangement
- D. espionage
Explanation: Espionage is the practice of secretly obtaining information through spies, especially during war.
Correct answer: espionage- A. interruption
- B. interrogation
- C. internment
- D. intermittent
Explanation: Internment means the detention and confinement of a person, especially during wartime or for political reasons.
Correct answer: internment- A. philanderer
- B. volunteer
- C. mercenary
- D. missionary
Explanation: A volunteer offers service willingly without expecting payment. A mercenary also offers service for money, while a missionary is…
Correct answer: volunteer- A. casino
- B. beach
- C. resort
- D. museum
Explanation: A resort is a place visited by many people for holidays or recreation. A beach may be part of a resort, but it is not necessarily a…
Correct answer: resort- A. relinquish
- B. renounce
- C. abdicate
- D. resign
Explanation: To abdicate is to give up the throne or sovereign power, as a monarch may do.
Correct answer: abdicate- A. profanity
- B. sedition
- C. sacrilege
- D. slander
Explanation: Sacrilege is the violation or profanation of something regarded as holy or sacred.
Correct answer: sacrilege- A. concurrent
- B. contemporary
- C. coincident
- D. concomitant
Explanation: Contemporary means existing or living at the same time as another person or event.
Correct answer: contemporary- A. obstetrics
- B. pediatrics
- C. calisthenics
- D. geriatrics
Explanation: Geriatrics is the branch of medicine concerned with the health and care of older people.
Correct answer: geriatrics- A. snobbery
- B. courtship
- C. estrangement
- D. polyphony
Explanation: Courtship is the period in which two people develop a romantic relationship before marriage.
Correct answer: courtship110. That never fails is?
- A. irrelevant
- B. infallible
- C. indelible
- D. inaudible
Explanation: Infallible means incapable of failing or making a mistake. Indelible means impossible to erase, and inaudible means impossible to hear.
Correct answer: infallible- A. harangue
- B. hyperbole
- C. idiosyncrasy
- D. elegy
Explanation: An idiosyncrasy is a distinctive, unusual, or eccentric personal trait.
Correct answer: idiosyncrasy- A. nomadic
- B. elite
- C. zealot
- D. swashbuckler
Explanation: A zealot is a person fanatically devoted to a belief and therefore often dogmatic in expressing it.
Correct answer: zealot- A. fleet
- B. hamlet
- C. monument
- D. constellation
Explanation: A hamlet is a small settlement or cluster of houses, usually smaller than a village.
Correct answer: hamlet- A. punctilious
- B. obtuse
- C. absurd
- D. abstruse
Explanation: Abstruse means difficult to understand because it is complex or obscure.
Correct answer: abstruse- A. agnostic
- B. Iconoc
- C. belligerent
- D. anarchist
Explanation: An anarchist advocates the absence of a governing authority and rejects the idea of imposed government.
Correct answer: anarchist- A. eligible
- B. legitimate
- C. legalised
- D. liable
Explanation: Liable means legally responsible or legally answerable, often for a debt, offence, or consequence.
Correct answer: liable- A. soliloquy
- B. indispensable
- C. sinecure
- D. indelible
Explanation: Indispensable describes something absolutely necessary, so it is bound to be done or required.
Correct answer: indispensable- A. handwritten
- B. manuscript
- C. proof
- D. amnesty
Explanation: A manuscript is a piece of writing prepared by hand, although the word can also refer to an author's original text before publication.
Correct answer: manuscript- A. Verbose
- B. Ambivalent
- C. Epigraph
- D. Ambiguous
Explanation: An ambiguous statement can be understood in two or more ways, including through a double meaning.
Correct answer: Ambiguous- A. sacrilege
- B. rent
- C. bunting
- D. remuneration
Explanation: Remuneration is payment or reward for work or services. Rent is paid for the use of property, while sacrilege means misuse of something…
Correct answer: remuneration