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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.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who is unselfishly concerned for others”.
A. misogynist
B. bankrupt
C. altruist
D. incurable
Correct Answer: C
“altruist” means one who is unselfishly concerned for others.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who is chiefly concerned with one's own interests”.
A. curable
B. insolvent
C. egoist
D. misanthrope
Correct Answer: C
“egoist” means one who is chiefly concerned with one's own interests.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who talks excessively about oneself”.
A. egotist
B. philanthropist
C. debtor
D. irreversible
Correct Answer: A
“egotist” means one who talks excessively about oneself.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person excessively anxious about having illness”.
A. hypochondriac
B. reversible
C. numismatist
D. creditor
Correct Answer: A
“hypochondriac” means a person excessively anxious about having illness.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person with a compulsive desire to set fires”.
A. pyromaniac
B. immovable
C. beneficiary
D. philatelist
Correct Answer: A
“pyromaniac” means a person with a compulsive desire to set fires.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person with an uncontrollable urge to steal”.
A. benefactor
B. archivist
C. movable
D. kleptomaniac
Correct Answer: D
“kleptomaniac” means a person with an uncontrollable urge to steal.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who regularly cannot sleep”.
A. curator
B. portable
C. heir
D. insomniac
Correct Answer: D
“insomniac” means a person who regularly cannot sleep.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who walks while asleep”.
A. potable
B. choreographer
C. heiress
D. somnambulist
Correct Answer: D
“somnambulist” means a person who walks while asleep.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “using the left hand more skilfully than the right”.
A. descendant
B. left-handed
C. calligrapher
D. inedible
Correct Answer: B
“left-handed” means using the left hand more skilfully than the right.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “able to use both hands equally well”.
A. edible
B. ancestor
C. cartographer
D. ambidextrous
Correct Answer: D
“ambidextrous” means able to use both hands equally well.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “living or acting alone”.
A. economist
B. solitary
C. illegible
D. successor
Correct Answer: B
“solitary” means living or acting alone.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “fond of company or living in groups”.
A. legible
B. sociologist
C. predecessor
D. gregarious
Correct Answer: D
“gregarious” means fond of company or living in groups.