ENGLISH QUIZ (ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)

1.    One who is well-versed in any subject a critical judge of any art, particularly fine arts?
(a) Veteran
(b) Philistine
(c) Dilettante
(d) Connoisseur

2.    A person who is against the standards of ordinary society especially in dressing
(a) Joker
(b) Hippy
(c) Scapegoat
(d) Butt

3.    Mania for stealing articles
(a) Logo mania
(b) Nymphomania
(c) Kleptomania
(d) Hypomania

4.    One who loves all and sundry
(a) Optimist
(b) Humanist
(c) Altruist
(d) Philanthropist

5.    A person living permanently in a certain place
(a) Native
(b) Resident
(c) Domicile
(d) Subject

6.    Acutely affected by external impressions
(a) Ingenious
(b) Impressionable
(c) Credulous
(d) Sensitive

7.    An assembly of hearers
(a) Audience
(b) Crowd
(c) Congregation
(d) Assemblage

8.    One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by entreaties
(a) Inexorable
(b) Infallible
(c) Impregnable
(d) Inexplicable

9.    Person who claims to have great love for and understanding of what is beautiful
in nature, art etc.
(a) Critic
(b) Aesthete
(c) Connoisseur
(d) Artist

10.  An animal story with a moral
(a) Fable
(b) Tale
(c) Anecdote
(d) Parable

11.  Person who believes in the existance of God
(a)Opaque
(b) Theist
(c) Ominiscient
(d) Atheist

12.  Witty, clever retort
(a) Sarcasm
(b) Repartee
(c) Platitude
(d) Invective

13.  Simplest and smallest form of plant life, present in air, Water and soil; essential to
Life but may cause disease
(a) Virus
(b) Amoeba
(c) Bacteria
(d) Toxin

14.  A person who regards the whole world as his country
(a) Patriot
(b) Nationalist
(C) Cosmopolitan
(d) Metropolitan

15.  A story in which ideas are symbolized as people
(a) Allegory
(b) Fable
(c) Legend
(d) Parable

ANSWER-

1	d	11	b
2	b	12	b
3	c	13	c
4	d	14	c
5	c	15	a
6	d
7	a
8	a
9	b
10	a