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One Word Substitute
Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who translates spoken language orally”.
A. ambidextrous
B. obsolescent
C. interpreter
D. bankrupt
Correct Answer: C
“interpreter” means a person who translates spoken language orally.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who knows and uses several languages”.
A. solitary
B. insolvent
C. obsolete
D. polyglot
Correct Answer: D
“polyglot” means a person who knows and uses several languages.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person skilled in or studying languages”.
A. debtor
B. gregarious
C. linguist
D. legitimate
Correct Answer: C
“linguist” means a person skilled in or studying languages.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a person who compiles dictionaries”.
A. lexicographer
B. creditor
C. diurnal
D. lawful
Correct Answer: A
“lexicographer” means a person who compiles dictionaries.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a list of books or sources used in a work”.
A. nocturnal
B. beneficiary
C. illegal
D. bibliography
Correct Answer: D
“bibliography” means a list of books or sources used in a work.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “one who loves and collects books”.
A. arboreal
B. illicit
C. bibliophile
D. benefactor
Correct Answer: C
“bibliophile” means one who loves and collects books.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “an introductory section of a literary work”.
A. aquatic
B. heir
C. inaccessible
D. prologue
Correct Answer: D
“prologue” means an introductory section of a literary work.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a concluding section added to a literary work”.
A. epilogue
B. heiress
C. herbivore
D. incomprehensible
Correct Answer: A
“epilogue” means a concluding section added to a literary work.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “words written in memory of a dead person, usually on a tomb”.
A. descendant
B. carnivore
C. indispensable
D. epitaph
Correct Answer: D
“epitaph” means words written in memory of a dead person, usually on a tomb.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a document written by hand or an author's original text”.
A. indestructible
B. ancestor
C. manuscript
D. omnivore
Correct Answer: C
“manuscript” means a document written by hand or an author's original text.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a daily personal record of events”.
A. diary
B. indelible
C. vegetarian
D. successor
Correct Answer: A
“diary” means a daily personal record of events.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a personal account of remembered experiences”.
A. memoir
B. teetotaller
C. predecessor
D. invulnerable
Correct Answer: A
“memoir” means a personal account of remembered experiences.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “the story of a person's life written by another person”.
A. glutton
B. biography
C. invincible
D. eyewitness
Correct Answer: B
“biography” means the story of a person's life written by another person.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “the story of a person's life written by that person”.
A. witness
B. autobiography
C. gourmet
D. infallible
Correct Answer: B
“autobiography” means the story of a person's life written by that person.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a fictitious name used by an author”.
A. pseudonym
B. inevitable
C. connoisseur
D. spectator
Correct Answer: A
“pseudonym” means a fictitious name used by an author.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “having an unknown or unstated name”.
A. audience
B. expert
C. avoidable
D. anonymous
Correct Answer: D
“anonymous” means having an unknown or unstated name.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “occurring or published after the author's death”.
A. posthumous
B. professional
C. crew
D. incurable
Correct Answer: A
“posthumous” means occurring or published after the author's death.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a child whose parents are dead”.
A. amateur
B. passenger
C. orphan
D. curable
Correct Answer: C
“orphan” means a child whose parents are dead.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a woman whose spouse has died”.
A. novice
B. irreversible
C. commuter
D. widow
Correct Answer: D
“widow” means a woman whose spouse has died.
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Choose the one-word substitute for: “a man whose spouse has died”.
A. pedestrian
B. widower
C. veteran
D. reversible
Correct Answer: B
“widower” means a man whose spouse has died.