In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
More than enough in amount or capacity.
Answer: B
It is ample.
Ample means more than enough, from the Latin amplus. Derisory means so small as to be laughable, and inadequate is its opposite.
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An office for which no salary is paid.
Answer: C
It is honorary.
An honorary office is held for the honour rather than for pay. Gratis means free of charge to the recipient, which is the other side of the transaction.
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One who comes to settle in a country.
Answer: C
It is an immigrant.
An immigrant comes into a country to settle; an emigrant leaves one. The same person is both, depending on which country is speaking - in from immigrant, out from emigrant.
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A place where dead bodies are buried.
Answer: C
It is a cemetery.
A cemetery is a burial ground, from the Greek koimeterion, a sleeping place. A crypt is a vault under a church, a catacomb an underground gallery of tombs and a sepulchre a single tomb.
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The yearly return of a date.
Answer: C
It is an anniversary.
An anniversary is the yearly return of a date, from the Latin annus and vertere, to turn. A birthday is one particular kind of anniversary.
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The cessation of warfare before the signing of a treaty.
Answer: A
It is an armistice.
An armistice is a formal agreement to stop fighting while terms are negotiated, from the Latin arma and sistere, to stop. A truce and a ceasefire may be local or temporary; an armistice ends the fighting of a war.
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A broad road bordered with trees.
Answer: C
It is a boulevard.
A boulevard is a broad tree-lined road, from the Dutch bolwerk, a rampart - the wide streets of Paris were laid out where the old walls had stood. An avenue is a road lined with trees but need not be broad.
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A hundred year old man.
Answer: D
It is a centenarian.
A centenarian is a hundred years old or more. A centurion commanded a hundred men in the Roman army, and a century is the period itself.
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A substance in the blood that tends to neutralise harmful matter.
Answer: D
It is an antibody.
An antibody is a protein made by the immune system to neutralise a specific foreign substance. An antidote counters a poison, an antiseptic prevents infection on a surface, and an antibiotic kills bacteria.
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A man who is skilled in horsemanship.
Answer: B
It is an equestrian.
An equestrian is skilled in horsemanship, from the Latin equus. A jockey rides in races, a cavalryman is a mounted soldier, and a cavalier was a horseman of the seventeenth century.
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