In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.
The act of not allowing yourself to have something that you want.
Answer: B
It is abnegation.
Abnegation is the denial of one's own wishes, from the Latin abnegare, to refuse. Abstention is refraining from an act, especially from voting, and renunciation is giving up a claim one already has.
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Feeling embarrassed and ashamed because of something that you have done.
Answer: A
It is abashed.
Abashed means embarrassed and ashamed. Humiliated implies being brought low by another, and dismayed is loss of courage; unabashed is the opposite, and is the form in which the word is most often met.
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Someone who is willing to take risks or to do something shocking.
Answer: D
It is audacious.
Audacious means boldly daring, sometimes to the point of shocking, from the Latin audere, to dare. Bodacious is American slang meaning remarkable or excellent, and does not carry the sense of risk.
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A person who has promised to marry somebody.
Answer: C
It is betrothed.
Betrothed means bound by a promise of marriage, from the Middle English for pledging one's truth. Affianced and engaged carry the same sense, but betrothed is the word the definition asks for; a fiance is the person, not the state.
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The scientific study of diet and healthy eating.
Answer: A
It is dietetics.
Dietetics is the science of diet and nutrition. A dietician is the practitioner, so the question's ending in -ics marks the study rather than the person.
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To use special chemicals, smoke or gas to destroy the harmful insects or bacteria in a place.
Answer: C
It is fumigate.
To fumigate is to disinfect a place with fumes, from the Latin fumus, smoke. To disinfect and to sterilise are done by other means, and to decontaminate is to remove pollutants generally.
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It’s a state in which a person worries all the time about their health and believes that they are ill.
Answer: A
Hypochondriasis, also known as hypochondria, health anxiety or illness anxiety disorder, refers to worry about having a serious illness. This debilitating condition is the result of an inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind despite the absence of an actual medical condition.
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The habit of crying or complaining continuously in a way that is annoying.
Answer: B
It is grizzle.
To grizzle is to whine and complain fretfully, chiefly of children. To snivel is to weep with sniffing, to whine is to complain in a querulous tone and to crib is to copy or to grumble.
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To understand something completely using your feelings rather than considering the facts.
Answer: A
It is grok.
To grok is to understand something intuitively and completely. Robert Heinlein coined it in Stranger in a Strange Land in 1961, where it is Martian for to drink.
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A period of time between two events during which something different happens.
Answer: D
It is an interlude.
An interlude is a period between two events during which something different happens, from the Latin for played between - originally a short piece performed between the acts of a play. An interval is simply a gap.
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