One Word Substitution Quiz For SSC CHSL

Directions (1-15): Out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence in the question.

Q1. An emolument over and above fixed salary.
(a) Stowaway
(b) Perquisite
(c) Destitute
(d) Bottleneck

Q2. No longer in existence or use.
(a) Sabotage
(b) Obsolete
(c) Plagiarist
(d) Symbiosis

Q3. A list of passengers and luggage.
(a) Usurer
(b) Pedant
(c) Waybill
(d) Parvenu

Q4. To officially take private property to seize.
(a) Sinecure
(b) Mercenary
(c) Monopoly
(d) Confiscate

Q5. A particular method of working
(a) Modus Operandi
(b) Samaritan
(c) Improvident
(d) Parboil

Q6. Accidental good fortune
(a) Altruist
(b) Fluke
(c) Expurgate
(d) Propensity

Q7. Providing relief
(a) Erudition
(b) Reprieve
(c) Obituary
(d) Novice

Q8. A person’s particular habit.
(a) Idiosyncrasy
(b) Pestle
(c) Flicker
(d) Stoic

Q9. Head of monks in an abbey.
(a) Padre
(b) Dean
(c) Abbot
(d) Deacon

Q10. Act of mercy killing.
(a) Suicide
(b) Euthanasia
(c) Immolation
(d) Asphyxiation

Q11. A small village or group of houses.
(a) Laxative
(b) Hamlet
(c) Mosaic
(d) Proselyte

Q12. A fourteen-line poem.
(a) Sonnet
(b) Lyric
(c) Ballad
(d) Ode

Q13. Showing a dislike of anything improper.
(a) Adjudge
(b) Prim
(c) Dodge
(d) Slack

Q14. The ceremony of crowning a sovereign.
(a) Coronation
(b) Whiz
(c) Regime
(d) Seizure

Q15. Customs and habits of a particular group.
(a) Mores
(b) Mendicant
(c) Reveille
(d) Seer

SOLUTIONS

S1. .(b)

S2. (b)

S3. (c)

S4. (d)

S5. (a)

S6. (b)

S7. (b)

S8. (a)

S9. (c)

S10. (b)

S11. (b)

S12. (a)

S13. (b)

S14. (a)

S15. (a)