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One Word Substitute
Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person travelling in a vehicle but not driving it”.
A. biennial
B. passenger
C. bibliophile
D. surgeon
Correct Answer: B
“passenger” means a person travelling in a vehicle but not driving it.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who regularly travels between home and workplace”.
A. physician
B. annual
C. commuter
D. prologue
Correct Answer: C
“commuter” means one who regularly travels between home and workplace.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person travelling on foot”.
A. contemporary
B. invalid
C. pedestrian
D. epilogue
Correct Answer: C
“pedestrian” means a person travelling on foot.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “travelling from place to place, especially for work”.
A. epitaph
B. archaic
C. itinerant
D. convalescent
Correct Answer: C
“itinerant” means travelling from place to place, especially for work.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person without a settled home or regular work”.
A. vagrant
B. manuscript
C. adolescent
D. obsolescent
Correct Answer: A
“vagrant” means a person without a settled home or regular work.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who moves from place to place without a permanent home”.
A. diary
B. nomad
C. obsolete
D. infant
Correct Answer: B
“nomad” means one who moves from place to place without a permanent home.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one living outside one's native country”.
A. centenarian
B. expatriate
C. memoir
D. legitimate
Correct Answer: B
“expatriate” means one living outside one's native country.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one forced to leave a country because of danger or persecution”.
A. biography
B. lawful
C. nonagenarian
D. refugee
Correct Answer: D
“refugee” means one forced to leave a country because of danger or persecution.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who comes to a country to settle there”.
A. immigrant
B. autobiography
C. octogenarian
D. illegal
Correct Answer: A
“immigrant” means one who comes to a country to settle there.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who leaves one's country to settle elsewhere”.
A. emigrant
B. pseudonym
C. minor
D. illicit
Correct Answer: A
“emigrant” means one who leaves one's country to settle elsewhere.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person living alone for religious or personal reasons”.
A. ward
B. hermit
C. anonymous
D. inaccessible
Correct Answer: B
“hermit” means a person living alone for religious or personal reasons.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who lives in seclusion”.
A. posthumous
B. guardian
C. incomprehensible
D. recluse
Correct Answer: D
“recluse” means a person who lives in seclusion.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who attacks cherished beliefs or established institutions”.
A. indispensable
B. orphan
C. iconoclast
D. custodian
Correct Answer: C
“iconoclast” means one who attacks cherished beliefs or established institutions.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who habitually doubts accepted claims”.
A. indestructible
B. widow
C. notary
D. skeptic
Correct Answer: D
“skeptic” means one who habitually doubts accepted claims.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who believes people are mainly motivated by self-interest”.
A. indelible
B. cynic
C. mediator
D. widower
Correct Answer: B
“cynic” means one who believes people are mainly motivated by self-interest.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who endures pain or hardship without complaint”.
A. arbitrator
B. spinster
C. invulnerable
D. stoic
Correct Answer: D
“stoic” means one who endures pain or hardship without complaint.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “believing that events are predetermined and unavoidable”.
A. invincible
B. bachelor
C. juror
D. fatalistic
Correct Answer: D
“fatalistic” means believing that events are predetermined and unavoidable.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who opposes war and violence”.
A. infallible
B. pacifist
C. litigant
D. polygamist
Correct Answer: B
“pacifist” means one who opposes war and violence.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one with excessive or prejudiced loyalty to a group or cause”.
A. monogamist
B. inevitable
C. defendant
D. chauvinist
Correct Answer: D
“chauvinist” means one with excessive or prejudiced loyalty to a group or cause.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one with excessive and unquestioning enthusiasm”.
A. misogamist
B. fanatic
C. plaintiff
D. avoidable
Correct Answer: B
“fanatic” means one with excessive and unquestioning enthusiasm.