One Word Substitution Part – 10

1. Work extremely hard. [SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Toil
(b) Troop
(c) slam
(d) spew

Correct Answer: (a) Toil

Solution:Toil

2. The action of examining with care or reading carefully [SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Persuade
(b) Perverse
(c) Perusal
(d) Persiflage

Correct Answer: (c) Perusal

Solution:Perusal - the action of examining with care or reading carefully
Persuade - to make somebody do something by giving him/her good reasons
Perverse - liking to behave in a way that is not acceptable or reasonable
Persiflage -light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

3. At the party, Rohan was pretending to be what he is not to influence the investors for his company's shares. [SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Canter
(b) Autocrat
(c) Hypocrite
(d) Goody

Correct Answer: (c) Hypocrite

Solution:Hypocrite - pretending to be what he is not

Canter - to run fairly fast but not very fast

Autocrat - a ruler. who has complete power

Goody - a good person in a film, book, etc.

4. Raman had always been attracted to the scientific study of sound and decided to take up a course in sound engineering to pursue his dream career. [SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Evening)]

(a) Acoustics
(b) Agronomy
(c) Alchemy
(d) Aesthetics

Correct Answer: (a) Acoustics

Solution:Acoustics - to the scientific study of sound
Agronomy - a branch of agriculture dealing with field-crop production and soil management.
Alchemy - a form of chemistry in the Middle Ages that involved trying to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold
Aesthetics - the study of beauty, especially in art

5. A person who leaves his/her own country to live in another country permanently [SSC CHSL 02/06/2022 (Evening)]

(a) Vagabond
(b) Mercenary
(c) Emigrant
(d) Immigrant

Correct Answer: (c) Emigrant

Solution:Emigrant - a person who leaves his/her own country to live in another country permanently
Vagabond - a person without a home or a job who keeps traveling from one place to another
Mercenary - interested only in making money
Immigrant - a person who has come into a foreign country to live there permanently

6. Lasting for a very short period of time [SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Permanent
(c) Pungent
(b) Ceaseless
(d) Ephemeral

Correct Answer: (d) Ephemeral

Solution:Ephemeral - lasting for a very short period of time
Permanent - lasting for a long time or forever
Ceaseless - continuing for a long time without stopping
Pungent - very strong

7. Strong taste or liking for something [SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Insolvent
(c) Ebullient
(b) Parole
(d) Penchant

Correct Answer: (d) Penchant

Solution:Penchant - strong taste or liking for something
Insolvent - not having enough money to pay what you owe
Parole - permission that is given to a prisoner to leave prison
early on the condition that he/she behaves well
Ebullient - full of confidence and energy

8. To renovate or improve [SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Afternoon)]

(a) Relocate
(b) Revamp
(c) Resume
(d) Revalue

Correct Answer: (b) Revamp

Solution:Revamp - to renovate or improve
Relocate - move to a new place and establish one's home or business there.
Resume - to begin again or continue after a pause or interruption
Revalue- assess the value of something again.

9. Take and use the thoughts, inventions, etc. of another person as one's own. [SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Copyright
(b) Compose
(c) Produce
(d) Plagiarise

Correct Answer: (d) Plagiarise

Solution:Plagiarise - Take and use the thoughts, inventions, etc. of another
person as one's own.

10. Easily provoked [SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Morning)]

(a) Invincible
(b) Irascible
(c) Iridescent
(d) Irrational

Correct Answer: (b) Irascible

Solution:Irascible - Easily angered
Invincible - Too powerful to be defeated.
Iridescent - showing luminous colors that seem to change when
seen from different angles.
Irrational - Not logical Option b is the most appropriate answer.