1. Government by a single person:
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(a) Monarchy
(b) Autocracy
(c) Plutocracy
(d) Aristocracy
2. Practice of a married woman having extra marital relationship:
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(a) Polygamy
(b) Puberty
(c) Lechery
(d) Adultery
3. A workman who fits and repairs pipes
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(a) Mechanic
(b) Blacksmith
(c) Plumber
(d) Technocrat
4.Part of the church in which bells hang :
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(a) Minaret
(b) Chapel
(c) Belfry
(d) Spire
5. Custom of having many wives :
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(a) Monogamy
(b) Bigamy
(c) Polygamy
(d) Matrimony
6. A person who does not believe in any
religion :
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(a) Philatelist
(b) Rationalist
(c) Atheist
(d) Pagan
7. Bringing about gentle and painless death from incurable disease :
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(a) Suicide
(b) Euphoria
(c) Gallows
(d) Euthanasia
8. A man of lax moral :
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(a) Ruffian
(b) Licentious
(c) Pirate
(d) Vagabond
9. A small enclosure for cattle, sheep, poultry etc.:
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(a) Cellar
(b) Sty
(c) Pen
(d) Lair
10. To cause troops etc. to spread out in readiness for battle :
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(a) Align
(b) Collocate
(c) Deploy
(d) Disperse
11. One who forcibly seizes control of a bus or an aircraft:
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(a) Pirate
(b) Swindler
(c) Hijacker
(d) Pilferer
12. The act of killing one's wife :
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(a) Genocide
(b) Uxoricide
(c) Canicide
(d) Avicide
13. Music sung or played at night below a
person's window :
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(a) Serenade
(b) Sonnet
(c) Lyric
(d) Primo
14. A government by the nobles :
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(a) Democracy
(b) Bureaucracy
(C) Autocracy
(d) Aristocracy
15. Anything written in a letter after it is signed :
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(a) Posterity
(b) Postdiction
(c) Postscript
(d) Corrigendum
16. Strong and settled dislike between two persons :
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(a) Apathy
(b) Hatred
(c) Antipathy
(d) Animosity
17. A person who has no money to pay off his debts :
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(a) Debtor
(b) Pauper
(c) Beggar
(d) Insolvent
18. An entertainer who performs difficult
physical actions :
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(a) Clown
(b) Gymnast
(c) Magician
(d) Acrobat
21. The policy of extending a country's empire and influence :
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(a) Imperialism
(b) Capitalism
(c) Internationalism
(d) Communism
22. To examine one's own thoughts and
feelings :
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(a) Meditation
(b) Retrospection
(c) Reflection
(d) Introspection
23. A short, usually amusing, story about some real person or event.
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(a) Anecdote
(b) Antidote
(c) Tale
(d) Allegory
24. Woman who offers the use of her body for sexual intercourse to any one who will pay for this:
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(a) Voluptuary
(b) Cuckold
(c) Prostitute
(d) Concubine
25. Life history of a person written by another :
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(a) Autobiography
(b) Biography
(c) Bibliography
(d) Memoir
26. A person who is more interested in himself rather than anything that is going on around him :
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(a) Egoist
(b) Extrovert
(c) Introvert
(d) Eccentric.
27. A story that can hardly be believed :
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(a) Fictitious
(b) Imaginary
(c) Concocted
(d) Incredible
28. Something which can be taken for granted :
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(a) Doctrine
(b) Maxim
(c) Tenet
(d) Postulate
29. A sea abounding in islands :
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(a) Strait
(b) Archipelago
(c) Ocean
(d) Gulf
30. One who resides in a country of which he is not a citizen:
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(a) Alien
(d) Prodigal
(c) Foreigner
(b) Native
