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One Word Substitute
Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person from whom one is descended”.
A. pharmacist
B. ancestor
C. omniscient
D. rhetorician
Correct Answer: B
“ancestor” means a person from whom one is descended.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who follows another in a position”.
A. orator
B. century
C. successor
D. dentist
Correct Answer: C
“successor” means one who follows another in a position.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who held a position before another”.
A. translator
B. veterinarian
C. decade
D. predecessor
Correct Answer: D
“predecessor” means one who held a position before another.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who personally sees an event happen”.
A. fortnight
B. eyewitness
C. interpreter
D. psychiatrist
Correct Answer: B
“eyewitness” means one who personally sees an event happen.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who sees an event and can testify about it”.
A. polyglot
B. witness
C. ophthalmologist
D. millennium
Correct Answer: B
“witness” means one who sees an event and can testify about it.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who watches an event”.
A. cardiologist
B. linguist
C. bicentenary
D. spectator
Correct Answer: D
“spectator” means a person who watches an event.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “people gathered to watch or listen to a performance”.
A. centennial
B. dermatologist
C. lexicographer
D. audience
Correct Answer: D
“audience” means people gathered to watch or listen to a performance.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “people who operate a ship, aircraft, or vehicle”.
A. paediatrician
B. bibliography
C. triennial
D. crew
Correct Answer: D
“crew” means people who operate a ship, aircraft, or vehicle.
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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.