One Word Substitution Quiz 18By Kirti One Word Substitution Quiz 18- Choose the best one out of the four alternatives which can be substituted for the given group of words/sentence- Please enter your email: 1. A study of sounds is known as Linguistics Phonetics Stylistics Semantics 2. Fear from darkness Hypophobia Lygophobia Lophophobia Pterophobia 3. Rule by the nobles Bureaucracy Theocracy Mobocracy Aristocracy 4. An oath or swear word. Explain Drill Speak Expletive 5. A person who tells anecdotes in a skilful and amusing way. Telltalk Raconteur Anecdote Skillful 6. A larger supply than is necessary Abundant Scarcity Glut Hide 7. Capable of being understood in either of two or more Possible senses, and therefore not definite Amorphous Confusing Ambiguous Amphibious 8. Animals who live in herds Gregarious Social Carnivorous Sociable 9. To reduce to nothing Cull Null Annul Lull 10. A form of colour blindness. Pragmatism Nepotism Monotheism Daltonism 11. One who regards the whole world as his country Spartan Stalwart Cosmopolitan Alien 12. Meat from pigs Pork Punter Flesh Sunder 13. A broad road bordered with trees Avenue Fa�Ade Boudoir Boulevard 14. Cross or walk in the street or road unlawfully Stroll Stride Jaywalk Holster 15. Rule by mob Aristocracy Theocracy Bureaucracy Mobocracy 16. feeding on fruit Herbivorous Frugivorous Carnivorous Omnivorous 17. Fear from rivers Ranophobia Phonphobia Potamophobia Heliophobia 18. A Person who is unable to pay his debts Banker Lender Solvent Insolvent 19. Disbelief in gods Monotheism Daltonism Atheism Pragmatism 20. Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic Eaves Epic Estuary Empirical Loading …