One Word Substitution Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The one word is Pilgrim.

A pilgrim is a person who journeys to a sacred place, such as a shrine or holy city, for religious reasons; the journey itself is a pilgrimage.

A traveller is anyone who travels, for any purpose. Itinerant describes someone who moves from place to place, often for work, like an itinerant preacher or trader, with no sacred destination implied. A voyager makes a long journey, especially by sea or into space. Only pilgrim carries the religious purpose the sentence describes.

Answer: B

The one word is Pedestrian.

A pedestrian is a person walking, especially along a road, rather than travelling in a vehicle; hence pedestrian crossings and pedestrian zones.

Wanderlust is a strong desire to travel, a feeling rather than a person. A toddler is a young child just learning to walk; the word is about age, not about walking instead of riding. A somnambulist is a sleepwalker, from Latin somnus (sleep) and ambulare (to walk).

Answer: A

The compulsion to tell lies is mythomania.

Mythomania (Greek mythos, story, and mania) is an abnormal tendency to lie or exaggerate, also called pathological lying.

Megalomania is an obsession with power or delusions of greatness. Monomania is obsessive preoccupation with a single thing, and satyromania is excessive sexual desire in a man. None of them refers to lying.

Answer: B

A person who is not experienced in a job or situation is a novice.

A novice is a beginner, someone new to an activity. (The paper's wording, 'A person we is not experience', means 'a person who is not experienced'.)

A highbrow is a person of intellectual or refined tastes, and an arbitrator is someone appointed to settle a dispute. Inevitable is an adjective meaning certain to happen and is not a word for a person at all.

Answer: B

Such a person is called a Genealogist.

Genealogy (from the Greek genea, family or descent) is the study of family lines and lineage, and a genealogist traces ancestors and descendants and draws family trees.

A graphologist studies handwriting to infer character. A limerick is a humorous five-line poem, not a person at all. A histologist studies the microscopic structure of tissues. None of them traces the descent of families.

Answer: C

The science is called Etymology.

Etymology studies the origin of words and how their forms and meanings have developed over time; for example, salary goes back to the Latin salarium, connected with salt.

Tautology is needless repetition of the same idea in different words. Lithology is the study of the physical character of rocks. Phonology is the study of the sound system of a language. None of them deals with the history of words.

Answer: D

Such a person is a Monomaniac.

The prefix mono- means one, so a monomaniac is obsessed with one particular thing or idea to the exclusion of everything else.

A pyromaniac has an uncontrollable urge to set fires. An egomaniac is obsessively absorbed in himself. 'Psychomaniac' is not a standard word for any fixed preoccupation. Only monomaniac describes thinking of one thing only.

Answer: C

It is dotage.

Dotage is the feebleness of mind that comes with great age, from the verb to dote. Senility is the physical and mental decline of age without the implication of foolishness, and superannuation is retirement on a pension.

Answer: B

It is archaeology.

Archaeology studies past societies through their material remains. Anthropology studies humankind generally, ethnology compares peoples and cultures, and history works from written records.

Answer: B

It is intellectual.

An intellectual is a person of developed reasoning power and learning. An expert knows one field deeply, a snob affects superiority, and a literate person can merely read and write.